WMOD00532

• Title: The Rain Stimulation Campaign in Panama Summer 1983
• Date: 6/1/1984
• Weather Modification - Doc Type: Report

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Contents
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l. Executive Summary 1
2. The Water Crisis in Panama 3 AI
3. Operations for Rain Stimulation 5
4. Assessment 9
5. Conclusions 13
6. Recommendations 15
Appendixes
A. Agreement between the Instituto de
Recursos Hidraulicos y Electrificacion
and the Panama Canal Commission 17
B. Interagency Cooperative Agreement
between the Panama Canal Commission and
the U.S. Department of the Interior,
Bureau of Reclamation 19
C. Synopsis of Contract Between the Bureau
of Reclamation and the Colorado
International Corporation 21
D. Funding and Expenditures 22
Figures
l. Reservoir Impoundment Curves - 1983 4
2. Facility locations 6
3. Examples of 12-hourly rawinsonde 7
4. Example of development and motion of
showers over watersheds 8
5. Computer printouts 10
6. Comparis_on of 1983 summer-season number
of rainy days and rainfall per rainy
day with those of eleven past seasons 11
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