WMOD00592

• Project Name: Project Skywater
• Title: Project Skywater - Final Environmental Statement - Volume I
• Date: 1/1/1977
• Weather Modification - Doc Type: Report

CONTEXTS - Continued

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1.6.3.2.. Seeding of summertime convective
clouds with silver iodide ........... 1-51
1.6.3.3. Seeding of sun~ertime convective
clouds with hygroscopic nuclei ...... 1-51

1. 7.

Water needs and their relationship
to weather modification ......................
Project Skywater as a factor in future
widespread and prolonged application
of precipitation nanagement ..................
Environmental monitoring .......................

1. 8.

1.9.

1.9.1.
1.9.2.

Ecosystem monitoring .......................
Si 1 ver monitoring ..........................

1.10.
1.11.

Current programs other than field work .........
Interrelationships with other programs

and jurisdictions .............................................

CHAPTER 2. DESC~IPTION OF TIlE E~VIRO~~E~T

1-53

1-55
1-59

1-59
1-60

1-60

1-61

2 .. In t roduc t i on ............................................................................... 2-1

2.1.

Climate ..............................................................................

2.1.1.
2.1.2.
2.1.3.
2.1.4.
2.1.5.

~fedi terranean ............................................................

Teoperate oceanic ..........................
Temperate continental ......................

Humid subtropical ....................................................

Dry ................................................................................

2.1.5.1.
2.1.5.2.

Dry steppe
Dry desert

.... ......... .... ...... .....

.......... ....... .... .........

2.1.6.
2.1.7.

Highland ......................................................................

Ground water ..............................................................

2.2.

Topography ..........................................................

2.2.1.
2.2.2.

The plains .................................

The mountains ..............................

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2-1

2-1
2-5
2-6
2-7
2-8

2-8
2-10

2-11
2-12

2-12

2-12
2-19