WMOD00407

• Contract/Permit #: 14-06-D-6467
• Project Name: Weather Modification Pilot Project
• Title: Weather Modification Pilot Project - Appendicies A Thru I
• Date: 2/1/1974
• Weather Modification - Doc Type: Report

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Statistical. Design and Evaluation Procedures

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1. Levels of Control and Lengths of Sampling Unit
2. Randomization.....
3. Statistical Techniques.
4. Data Collection. . . . .

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Weather Modification Economics

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1. Introduction
2. Objectives.
3. Procedures
4. Possible Effects of Precipitation Modification on Selected Watershed

Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

5. Snow Inconvenience Indices of the Red Mountain-Coalbank Hill Area.
a. Adjustment of cost indices. . . " . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
b. Assignment of proportion of costs for districts to Red Mountain-
Coalbank area . . . . . . . . . " . . .
C. Snow removal needs indices . . " . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
d. Snow removal needs versus cost indices . . . . . . . . . . . .
e. Application of snow inconvenience indices to control of weather

n10dification. . . . . . . . . . " . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Weather Modification Field Operations for. the Pilot Project . . . . . . . . . .

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1. Data Collection . . . . . . . . .
2. Seeding Equipment and Materials.
3. Targeting of Seeding Operations
4. Program Control . . . . . . .

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Summary of the First Phase of a Program to Formulate a Design for a Pilot
Program of Weather Modification Operations in the Colorado River Basin
(Summary of Interim Report, October, 1969)

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Introduction and Objectives of Pilot Project

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Physical and Experimental Basis for a Pilot Model Program of Weather
Modification in the Colorado River Basin ...............

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Pilot Project Area.

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Pilot Proj ect Evaluation

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Operational Procedures

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Economic Considerations.

Acknowledgments

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References .

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Appendix I -- j;ield Program (Suggested 1968-69 Winter Season for Pilot Program of
Weather Modification Operations Colorado River Basin,. August, 1968.

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Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . .
Objectives. . . . . . . . . . . . .
Se1ec tion of A rea for Pilot Project.
Field Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . .
Task No.1' Transportation and communication reconnaissance
Task No.2: Uppel' air reconnaissancp.
Task No. :{: Equipment comparison . . . .
Task No.4: Collection of basic data. . . .
Task No. .S: Cooperative program--Coop 4.

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