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<br />CONTENTS - Continued
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<br />1.6 Ground-based seeding experiments .......",............"........ 18
<br />1.6.1 Conceptual model of seeding winter orographic clouds ............. 18
<br />1.6.2 General approaches. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
<br />1.6.3 Temperature limitation to AgI effectiveness .......,..,.......... 18
<br />1.6.4 Ground-seeding considerations .............,................. 19
<br />1.6.5 Aircraft sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
<br />1.6,6 Ground sampling. . . . , . . . . . . . . , . . . . . . , . . , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
<br />1.6.7 Future modifications to ground-based seeding. . . . , . . . . . . . . , . . . . . . 21
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<br />1.7 Aircraft seeding experiments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
<br />1.7.1 General approaches. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , . . , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
<br />1.7.2 Seeding agents. . . . . . . . . . . , . . , . . . , . . . . . . . , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
<br />1.7.3 Experiments with an AgI plume. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , . . . . . . , . . . . . . 23
<br />1.7.4 Considerations involved with releasing AgI seedlines . . , . , . . . . . . . . . . 24
<br />1.7.5 Experiments with AgI seedlines . . . . . . . . , , , . . . . . . , . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
<br />1.7.6 Seeding aircraft observations ......,...,..................... 27
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<br />1.8 Additional physical experiments ................................" 27
<br />1.8.1 Convective cloud seeding potential ............................ 27
<br />1.8.2 Convective cloud sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . , . . . . , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
<br />1.8.3 Climatological studies ....................,................. 28
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<br />1.9 Seeding affected precipitation amounts and area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
<br />1.9.1 Introduction...........,.............,................,... 29
<br />1.9.2 Target area along-the-wind dimension: aircraft seeding ........,... 29
<br />1.9.3 Target area across-the-wind dimension: aircraft seeding . , . , . . . . . . . . 30
<br />1.9.4 Target area dimensions for ground-based seeding .....,........... 31
<br />1.9.5 Precipitation amounts and rates due to seeding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
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<br />1.10 Experimental coordination and organization ......................... 34
<br />1.10.1 General considerations ..................................... 34
<br />1.10.2 Forecasts and scheduling ...............,..........,......... 34
<br />1.10.3 Project crews and aircraft ..............,............,....... 35
<br />1.10.4 Project organization . . . . . , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , . . . . 36
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<br />2. Analysis procedures ...........................................,...... 39
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<br />2.1 Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , . . . . . . . 39
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<br />2.2 General characteristics of storms observed ........................., 42
<br />2.2.1 Storm description and classification ...............,............ 42
<br />2.2.2 Precipitation modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
<br />2.2.3 Airflow modeling ... . . , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
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