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CONTENTS <br />Page <br />Executive Summary vi <br />1. Introduction I <br />1.1 General Discussion 1 <br />1.2 Program General Plan 2 <br />2. Scientific Basis 5 <br />2.1 Previous Studies 5 <br />2.2 Cloud Seeding Basics 6 <br />3. Program Design Phase <br />8 <br />3.1 Background <br />8 <br />3.2 Design Phase Components <br />9 <br />3.3 Cloud Modeling Studies <br />10 <br />3.4 Cloud Seeding Hypotheses <br />10 <br />3.5 Field Instrumentation <br />12 <br />3.6 Field Studies <br />12 <br />3.7 Automated Cloud Seeding Operations <br />14 <br />3.8 Design Phase Costs <br />14 <br />3.9 Field Equipment Costs <br />18 <br />3.10 Seeding Suspension Criteria <br />18 <br />3.11 Extended Area Effects <br />18 <br />4. Operational Cloud Seeding Phase 20 <br />4.1 General Features 20 <br />4.2 Operational Seeding Protocol 20 <br />4.3 Seeding Operations and Data Collection 21 <br />4.4 Estimation of Operational Seeding Costs 21 <br />4.5 Estimate of Operational Seeding Benefits 25 <br />4.5.1 Cloud seedability parameter estimated from model simulations 29 <br />5. Compliance with Environmental Regulation 30 <br />6. Project Time Schedule 32 <br />E \v <br />