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of a weak cold front and produced only light snowfall across the barrier network of precipitation gages. Although the amounts of supercooled water detected radiometrically varied considerably during the stonn, liquid water depths were consistently enhanced in the direction of the barrier. The spatial distribution of liquid water was observed to undergo a transition from a primarily orographic distribution to a more area-wide pattern immediately behind the front, and then became convective as the stonn dissipated. A new method of analysis applied to the scanning microwave radiometer measurement appears promising for relating liquid water concentrations with the local topography. It is suggested that the n~lf real-time availability of the measurements could lead to improvements in cloud seeding strategies. Sassen, K., 1985: High elevation polarization lidar observations of orographic liquid water in the Tushar Mountains, Utah, USA. Proceedings, 4th WMO Scientific Conference on Weather Modification, A Joint WMO/lAMAP Symposium, Honolulu, HI, August 12-14, 1985. World Meteorological Organization, Geneva, WMO(fD-No. 53,417-420. No abstract. Sassen, K., 1985: Supercooled liquid water in winter stonns: A preliminary climatology from remote sensing observations. Journal of Weather Modification, 17:30-35. Drawing from a remote sensing data base obtained from winter stonn research programs in Colorado and Utah, the occurrence of supercooled liquid water over mountain barriers is examined. Combined polarization lidar and dual-channel microwave radiometer data reveal that liquid water was nearly always present in the stonns studied. Moreover, the highest frequency of occurrence and liquid water amounts were most often associated with relatively warm cloud base temperatures and Ku-band radar reflectivity factors between 0 and -10 dBZ at die liquid cloud base position. A preliminary climatology of supercooled liquid water in southern Utah reveals a bimodal distribution of liquid cloud base heights, representing convective clouds (-3.0 kIn MSL) and generally prefrontal stratifonn clouds (-4.5 kIn MSL). Although the liquid water associated with the efficient natural generation of precipitation may not always be detected by any single probe, the conditions which could be expected to yield a favorable seeding response can be indentified through joint remote sensing observations. Sassen, K., 1983: Polarization lidar and other remote sensing measurements from the 1983 orographic cloud seeding program at Beaver, Utah. Final Report to Utah Division of Water Resources, subcontract under NOAA Cooperative Agreement NA82RAD050125. Department of Meteorology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, 51 pp. No abstract. Schaffner, L. W., J. E. Johnson, H. G. Vruegdenhil, and J. W. Enz, 1983: Economic effects of added growing season rainfall on North Dakota agriculture. Agricultural Economics Report No. 172, Agricultural Experiment Station, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota, 19 pp. No abstract. Scott, R. W., and R. R. Czys, 1992: Objective forecasting of some individual cloud characteristics in the 1989 lllinois cloud seeding experiment. Journal of Weather Modification, 24:1-12. A simple objective procedure used exploratively to forecast the occurrence, height, and coalescence activity of summertime convective clouds in Illinois during the cloud seeding trials of the 1989 Precipitation Augmentation for Crops Experiment is described. The method used the temperature of the 68