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<br />C. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THE PROJECT WILL OPERATE. <br /> <br />Major tasks of the project associated with cloud seeding <br />activities will be three fold. The first objective will be <br />to test and evaluate two prototype radio controlled, ground <br />based seeding generators that are being developed for the <br />CRADP under a separate contract. Initial testing will be <br />performed at the Montrose Skywater office facility and most <br />of these tests will be conducted under "non-storm" conditions <br />although some cloudiness may be present at times during the <br />testing. Later testing will be conducted atop the Grand Mesa. <br />AgI-Acetone seeding solutions will be used. <br /> <br />The second objective will be to conduct aerial and ground <br />based seeding for the purpose of making transport and diffusion <br />studies to determine seeding plume trajectories. These will <br />also be conducted under "non-storm" conditions with typically <br />non-precipitating middle or high cloudiness present. Both <br />aerial and ground based seeding will be utilized but it is <br />expected that the majority of the seeding will be from the <br />ground. Seeding material will be released from either the <br />aircraft or a ground generator and the plume will be tracked <br />from the air by use of an NCAR ice nucleus counter. There <br />is not expected to be any seeding effect with either the generator <br />testing or the transport and diffusion plume tracking activities. <br /> <br />The third objective will be to conduct limited aerial <br />and ground based physical experiments to determine the effects <br />of seeding under "storm" conditions, although ideally most <br />of these seeding episodes will be initiated under conditions <br />with a relatively shallow non-precipitating low orographic <br />cloud deck over the Grand Mesa. Major storms where heavy <br /> <br />2 <br />