WMOD00317 ‎(2)‎

• Title: A Comparison of the Potential of Cloud Seeding to Enhance Mountain Snowpack in Colorado During Dry, Normal and Wet Winters
• Date: 1/1/1983
• State: CO
• Weather Modification - Doc Type: Report

It is
percent of
wettest for
Table 4.

easier to identify dry and wet winters when they are ranked by
long-term water content. These rankings, from driest to
each sub-region and the combined mountain-wide area, appear in

TABLE 4
Percent of long-term maximt.nn spring snowcourse water content
ranked from lowest to highest for mountainous sub-regions of
Colorado. *
Sub-Region
South North East Central West Central COmbined
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77 66 62 64 72
79 71 69 76 '17
82 79 76 91 83
83 t34 79 93 t35
84 85 81 93 87
91 100 94 96 96
92 104 98 98 103
97 110 100 99 105
118 118 102 100 110
123 120 104 107 110
128 123 126 119 114
136 124 134 127 127
150 127 143 148 141

*Winters are ranked independently for each sub-region.

The range and distribution of the percentages ranked in Table 4 vary
from one sub-region to another. Percentages generally range, however,
from a ~)w of 60 to t30 percent to a high of 125 to 150 percent. None of
the winters appears to have been extremely dry or wet. For comparison,
similar percentages computed for the extremely dry winters of 1976-77 and
1980-81 appear in Table 5. Interpolated rawinsonde data are not available
for these winters, however.

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