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<br />models. Thus, our measurements and numerical simulations of atmospheric water substance, <br />cloud system processes, and causes and impacts of changes in precipitation have been taken <br />to levels only fantasized a decade or two ago. The NOAA AMP has shared substantially in <br />this trend, and indeed set the pace for a significant part of it. Our accomplishments and <br />fundamental scientific understanding, pertinent to the NOAA AMP mission, have increased <br />accordingly, and dramatically, a tribute most of all to the small but diligent community of <br />participating scientists, and to the continuity of their financial support as mustered by their <br />managers in the participating States and administered through NOAA. Collaboration of <br />scientists with support from other Federal and State agencies occurred in many instances in <br />the NOAA AMP projects; those contributing scientists, their published results, and their <br />funding agencies are heartily acknowledged. <br /> <br />Ms. Karen Martin deserves very special recognition; she patiently and professionally <br />assembled this volume from my collage of tedious input, and the task and her effort were <br />indeed monumental. Merlin Williams is to be congratulated for creating the NOAA AMP; <br />he was its fIrst manager. William Woodley preceded me in the management role, and his <br />thrust helped to enhance the science in the program. I deeply appreciate the wisdom of <br />Vernon Derr, Robert Mahler, William Hooke, Steve Clifford, and Robert Kropfli of NOAA, <br />all of whom effectively steered me through diffIcult times and cheered with me in good times <br />during my tenure as program manager. And it is the principal investigators in the <br />participating states, Stanley Changnon, Joseph Warburton, Bruce Boe, Barry Saunders, <br />Dennis Sundie, Paul Summers, and Lynn Rose, and their staffs and consortiums of scientists <br />who have made me proud to put my name on this volume. <br /> <br />To date, more than 200 researchers have contributed by reporting their results in <br />some 400 publications. The knowledge we have gained and published is available to <br />whomever will accept it, as listed in these collected publication titles and abstracts from the <br />NOAA Federal/State Cooperative Program in Atmospheric Modification Research. <br /> <br />Dr. Roger F. Reinking <br />Director <br />Atmospheric ModifIcation Program <br />FY 1983-FY 1992 <br /> <br />4 <br />