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<br /> <br />SNOWPACK, CLOUD-SEEDING, AND THE COLORADO RIVER <br /> <br />We are grateful to the NSF for the opportunity to bring <br />this story to the many interested and affected parties. The NSF <br />project monitors, Messers. Joseph F. Coates and Peter Wyckoff, <br />established high standards for this effort, but they unhesitatingly <br />met all requests for guidance and assistance in meeting them. <br /> <br />Contents <br /> <br />page v <br />xi <br />3 <br />4 <br />7 <br /> <br />Foreword <br />Acknowledgments <br /> <br />Here Comes Weather Modification <br />Doing Something About the Weather <br />WOSA is a Mixed Blessing <br /> <br />1 <br /> <br />10 <br />Ii <br />13 <br /> <br />HowWOSA Works <br />Cloud-Seeding <br />Proof that Cloud-Seeding Makes More Snow <br /> <br />2. <br /> <br />15 <br />15 <br />16 <br />17 <br /> <br />WOSA in the Upper Colorado River Basin <br />Storm Tracks and Weather Patterns <br />The Snowfall Expected from WOSA <br />Limiting Additional Snowfall <br />The Basin's Share of the Atmospheric <br />Moisture Supply <br /> <br />3 <br /> <br />18 <br /> <br />21 <br />21 <br />24 <br />27 <br />28 <br />32 <br /> <br />37 <br />37 <br /> <br />Snowpack, Runoff, and Streamflow <br />Areas Suitable for WOSA <br />From the Mountains to the River <br />Water Quality in the Southwest <br />The Cost of a Full-Scale WOSA Program <br />Controlling Avalanche and Flood Hazards <br /> <br />4. <br /> <br />Environmental Effects <br />Effects on Animal Life <br /> <br />5 <br /> <br />xiii <br /> <br />xii <br /> <br />n. <br /> <br />, <br />: I <br />I I <br />I I <br />I i <br />! I <br />"oj <br /><L.I <br />itll <br />rdl <br />I I <br />~i <br />~.Ii <br /> <br />1', <br /> <br />~i <br />~ <br />~ <br />,{~ <br />i! <br />~ <br />j <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />f; <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />r <br />I <br />f' <br />.~'... .. <br />..., <br /> <br />\ <br />I <br /> <br />. <br />