WMOD00409

• Contract/Permit #: 1-07-81-V0175
• Title: State of Montana Activities in the High Plains Cooperative Program: 1981-1983
• Date: 6/30/1983
• State: MT
• Weather Modification - Doc Type: Report

LIST OF FIGURES

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1981 "PROBE" Field Preparation, Operation, and
Termination Schedule. . . . . . . . . . . . .

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2 "CCOPE/PROBE" Mesonet Station Power-,Down Data Form. .

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3 "ISCU" Calibration Form. . .

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4 "PROBE" Platform Removal Record .

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5 Partial Listing of "PROBE" Station Data Collection Status
for 20 June 1981 (Product From Program "MGTIMEF") .

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6 Typical Surface Analysis Contour Plot .

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Typical GAPF Plot . . . . .

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8 "PROBE" Mesonet Data Format Used for DNRC Analysis in Montana 27

9 Objective Analysis of 48 Hour Temperature Averages Used to
Find possible Temperature Biases. . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

lOa Reflectivities for Convective Complex 7 of 20 June 1982,
Julian Date 171-First Echo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

lOb Reflectivities for Convective Complex 7 of 20 June 1982, Julian
Date 171, Entire Complex. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 35

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10c Reflectivities for Convective Complex 7 of 20 June 1982, Julian
Date 171, Last Echo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

11 Rainfall Footprint for same Convective Complex Shown in

Fig. 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

12 Radar Tracks of Candidate Convective Complexes Which Started
and Died or Merged Within Area of Mesonet Coverage. . . . .. 42

13 Radar Tracks of Candidate Convective Complexes Which Started
Within the :Hesonet Then Passed out of the Area. . . . . . .. 43

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14 Radar Tracks of Candidate Convective Complexes Which Started
Outside the Mesonet, Then Died, or Merged Within. . . . . . .

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15 Radar Tracks of Candidate Convective Complexes Which Started
and Died Outside the Mesonet, and Passed Through. . . . . .. 45

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