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<br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br /> <br />program plan. <br />The Water and Power Resources Service (WPRS) is presently <br />developing (through a privab: contractor) Automatic Environmental <br />Surface Observation Platforms (AESOP) that are solar powered. <br />Four of these AESOP units mic1ht be requested on a loan basis from <br />the WPRS to be installed nea:r representative generator sites <br />upwind of the primary area shown in Figure 8. If these sites are <br />installed, data from these AESOP sites could be received in near <br />real time by the seeding conltractor by accessing WPRS' s Cyber <br />comput system via a remote time-share terminal. The use of these <br />units on this program could be an excellent test of these AESOP <br />units in Colorado's winter environment. <br />Additional recording wind meteorological sites could be <br />installed at approximately ten generator sites throughout the <br />proposed ground network for 1:his program. These sites wO':lld <br />provide additional data by a phone call from the program's <br />meteorologists to the site operator. Also, these sites would <br />provide a continuous record of the meteorological parameters <br />near a seeding site for a later evaluation of the actual dif- <br />fusion characteristics durinq the selected weather event. <br /> <br />d. Data Processing and Storage - Data from the AESOP sites would <br />be stored automatically on magnetic tape by the WPRS computer <br />system. These data would then be available for subsequent use in <br />the evaluation of the seeding operations. An evaluation of the <br />quali ty and usefulness of thE~ AESOP data would be made by the <br />seeding contractor. <br />All atmospheric soundinsrs would be made and reduced by the <br />seeding contractor following procedures outlined in the Federal <br />Meteorological Handbook, Number 3, Radiosonde Observations. Data <br />could be processed and analY2:ed in real time using computer <br />programs available on WPRS's Cyber system. All data would be <br />quality checked by a professional meteorologist working for the <br />seeding contractor before being archived for permanent record on <br />magnetic tape. One special program requirement for a valid <br />sounding would be that data \lrere recorded at least to the 400 mb <br />level of the atmosphere. In all cases, efforts would be made to <br /> <br />-41- <br />