WMOD00588

• Project Name: Programme Al Ghait - Morocco Winter Snowpack Augmentation Project
• Title: A Cooperative Project Between the Kingdom of Morocco and the United States - Final Report
• Prepared For: US Agency for International Development
• Date: 9/1/1989
• Country: United States, Morocco
• Weather Modification - Doc Type: Report

CONTENTS - Continued

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4. Contributions by the United States Government . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
4.1 Financial .................................................. 55
4.2 Program management ......................................... 58
4.3 Personnel and services provided directly by Reclamation ............... 59
4.3.1 Te-ehnical personnel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
4.3.2 Procurement specialists and logistical support personnel . . . . . . . . . 60
4.3.3 Foreign activities spe-eialists .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
4.4 Personnel and services provided under contract ...................... 61
4 ~ Technical assistance and te-ehnology transfer ........................ 62
4.6 Equipment and facilities ....................................... 63
4.6.1 General summary ..................................... 63
4.6.2 Radar system and remote transmission communications equipment. 65
4.6.3 Satellite ground re-eeiving station and color enhancement
microcomputer system ................................ 66
4.6.4 Rawinsonde systems ................................... 66
4.6.5 Cloud physics aircraft system and VLF-Omega navigation

system ............................................ 67

4.6.6 Microcomputer systems for data archival, quality control,
and analysis ........................................ 67
4.6.7 Automatic weather station ....... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
4.6.8 Radio communications system ............................ 68
4.6.9 Power stabilization systems and converters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
4.6.10 Facilities provided for training ........................... 68

5. Institutional development and infrastructure ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
5.1 ~1anagement structure and organization. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
5.1.1 Direction de la Meteorologie Nationale (DMN) ... . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
5.1.2 Forces Royales Air (FRA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
5.1.3 National Steering Committee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
5.2 Interactions between Programme AI Ghait and other ministries and

agenCIes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

5.3 Personnel management and organizational structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
5.3.1 Personnel training and development of human resources ........ 75
5.4 Improved national meteorological analysis and forecasting capabilities ..... 75
5.5 Equipment and facilities ....................................... 76
5.6 Training and educational infrastructure ............................ 77
5.7 Political and economic structure ................................. 77

6. Technology transfer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
6.1 Long-term training ............................. _ . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
6.2 Short-term training ........................................... 80
6.2.1 Electronics technicians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
6.2.2 Meteorologists and operations dire-etors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

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