WMOD00508

• Title: Physical Response of Winter Orographic Clouds over the Sierra Nevada to Airborne Seeding Using Dry Ice or Silver Iodide
• Date: 4/4/1990
• Weather Modification - Doc Type: Report

APRIL 1990

DESHLER, REYNOLDS AND HUGGINS

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