WMOD00576

• Title: Summary of Weather Modification Activities Reported in 1979
• Date: 7/1/1980
• Weather Modification - Doc Type: Report

APPENDIX c-3

INSTRUCTIONS FOR COMPLETING DAILY LOG FORM

DAILY LOG OF ACTIVITIES

This is a suggested form to be used in recording the information required to be kept by Section 908.8, Part
908 of Title 15, Code of Federal Regulations. Other logs may be used, providing they contain the information
required. A tabular form is provided on which to report a daily log of activities for each unit of weather
modification apparatus. The form is suitable for recording operation of individual items of ground or airborne
apparatus. In the spaces provided above the columns, write the designation of the weather modification
apparatus, coded to refer to the description required by Sections 908.8 (b) (1) and 908.8 (c). Part 908 of Title
15, Code of Federal Regulations, the month and year of daily record, the name of the operator, and the
!,!OAA file number. These or other logs containing the required information shall be retained for 5 years; they
are not to be sent to NOAA.

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Explanation of columns follows:

Col. (1)

State date of the weather modification activity.

Col. (2)

Give each aircraft position or location of each item of weather modification appa.ratus
during each modification mission. Maps may be used.

Col. (3)
and (4)

State local, time when modification activity began and ended. Use 24-hour dock time
(e.g., 0100 signifies 1 :00 A.M. and 2300 signifies 11 :00 P.M.). For intermittent
operations, the start and end of the total sequence are acceptable.

Col. (5)

Give duration of operation of each unit of weather modification apparatus, in hours and
minutes. (Col. 5 = Col, 4 - Col. 3).

Col. (6)

Describe type of modification agent used.

Co!. (7)

Give rate of dispersal of agent during the period of actual operation of weather
modification apparatus, by hour or other appropriate time period.

Col. (8)

Give total amount of modification agent used. If more than one agent was used, report
total for each type separately.

Col. (9), (10),
(11), (12) & (13)

Check once for each day on which modification activities were conducted, segregated by
each of the major purposes of the activities.

On the daily log sheet for the last day of each month, give monthly totals, for Columns (5), (8), (9), (10),
(11), (12), and (13).

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