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<br />ACKNOWLEDGMENTS <br /> <br />Many people were involved in the data collection~ quality control <br />and data management aspects of the HIPLEX in west Texas sponsored by the <br />Bureau of Reclamation - Division of Atmospheric Resources Research and <br />the Texas Department of Water Resources (TDWR) Planning and Development <br />Division under Cooperative Agreement No. 19-06-0-7587. Sincere appre- <br />ciation goes to Dr. Herbert Grubb~ Mr. Robert Riggio and members of the <br />TDWR Weather and Climate section who managed the Texas HIPLEX program. <br />Many thanks go to Drs. Scoggins~ Huebner~ Driscoll and students at Texas <br />A&M University who collected and processed rawinsonde and radar data; <br />and Drs. Don Haragan~ Jerry Jurica~ and Colleen Leary and students at <br />Texas Tech University who collected rain gage~ satellite and radar data. <br />Mr. Owen Ivie~ General Manager of the Colorado River Municipal Water <br />District~ provided special support in the maintenance and collection of <br />rain gage data and provision of field site facilities and aircraft in <br />Big Spring~ Texas. <br /> <br />Special thanks go to the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center which <br />provided GMD and rawinsonde receivers; and to the National Weather <br />Service - Weather Service Forecast Office (NWS-WSPO) in Midland~ Texas~ <br />which permitted use of their facilities for special rawinsonde launches <br />and who provided personnel to collect soundings at Midland in 1979. <br /> <br />Sincere thanks go to Mr. Vincent J. Oliver~ who initially spurred <br />my interest in meteorological research from the vantage point of satellites <br /> <br />vi <br />