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<br />Participant <br /> <br />Table 3.1.-Texas HIPLEX participants <br /> <br />Principal contributions <br /> <br />Cooperating agencies: <br /> <br />Texas Department of Water Resources. <br />Marshall Space Flight Center, NASA. <br />National Center for Atmospheric <br />Research. <br />National Weather Service, NOAA. <br />Colorado River Municipal Water District. <br /> <br />Universities: <br /> <br />Texas A&M. <br /> <br />Texas Tech. <br /> <br />Wyoming. <br />North Dakota. <br />Colorado State. <br /> <br />Private corporations: <br /> <br />Meteorology Research, Inc. <br /> <br />North American Weather Consultants. <br />Colorado International, Inc. <br />Big Spring Aircraft. <br /> <br />Project management. <br />Rawinsonde equipment. <br />Loan of weather stations <br />1976-78 and 1980, aircraft 1980. <br />Forecasts, GOES - TAP. <br />Management of seeding program, <br />radar operations and rain gage <br />network. <br /> <br />Surface weather stations, <br />rawinsondes network. <br />Skywater radar operation 1980-81, <br />satellite imagery, analyses. <br />Cloud physics aircraft. <br />Radar data processing. <br />Satellite imagery. <br /> <br />M-33 radar operation 1975-78, <br />cloud physics aircraft 1978-79. <br />Analysis of 1976-78 radar data. <br />Lear jet 1978. <br />Cloud-base aircraft 1976-71. <br /> <br />Table 3.2.-Distribution of rainfall occurrences and rainfall <br />by radar-echo type <br /> <br />Category Occurrences Rainfall <br /> (percent) (percent) <br />Isolated cells. 90 0.1 <br />Small clusters. 4.3 <br />Large clusters. 10 27.5 <br />Nested clusters and lines. <1 67.9 <br /> <br />13 <br />