WMOD00486

• Title: Microphysical Effects of Wintertime Cloud Seeding with Silver Iodide Over the Rocky Mountains - Part III
• Date: 10/10/1988
• Weather Modification - Doc Type: Report

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JOURNAL OF APPLIED METEOROLOGY

VOLUME 27

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FIG. 9. Mean IPes and estimated precipitation rates within 5 km upwind of the Snow Lab by crystal habit and size for
seeded and nonseeded periods during the first airborne seeding experiment.