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<br />be evaluated. using data from the Colorado River Basin Pilot Project. The <br />testing will shOw the seed/no-seed ratios expected from the criteria. will <br />also indicat~ how frequently each set of criteria is satisfied, and how <br />frequently both sets are satisfied simultaneously. Rawinsonde data from <br />Tuscon and Winslow. Arizona, will be used to estimate the seeding potential <br />during winter and winter-spring periods. Eight years of data, including two <br />below-normal. three normal. and three above-normal seasons will be processed. <br />On the basis of these results, recommendations will be made on the development <br />and design of an operational program. <br /> <br />THE FUTURE <br /> <br />The Oklahoma. Texas. Utah, and Arizona State programs will be completed <br />during 1982. and individual final reports will be issued. The Colorado <br />program and the Texas drought assessment study will be completed in 1983. An <br />interim progress report will be issued early in 1983, covering progress <br />through FY82. A comprehensive final report of the Southwest Drought Research <br />Program will be prepared by the Bureau of Reclamation and issued by the end <br />of September 1983. The suggestion was made that reports on specific topics <br />be prepared and submitted for publication in the appropriate professional <br />journals. Several participants asked that mailing lists be distributed so <br />interested parties could obtain copies of all publications. The partici- <br />pants expressed strong interest in another meeting of this type. probably in <br />the lat. summer or .arly fall of 1982, <br /> <br />19 <br />