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<br />~ <br /> <br />IV OPERATIONAL SUMMARY - 1985 <br /> <br />The operations of the 1985 season have been graphically summarized in <br /> <br />Figures 4, 5, and 6; also, in Table 1. There is considerable information <br /> <br />packed into these figures and interpreting them shouldn't be too difficult. <br /> <br />EXAMPLE: June 10. On the bottom of Figure 4 are listed the dates of all <br /> <br />flight operations and/or hail damage claims. Where the straight, unbroken <br /> <br />line intersects the center of the black and white bar, that point corre- <br /> <br />lates to the left-hand scale. Here it shows there were 5 flights for June <br /> <br />10. The line with small triangles breaking it also reads along the left- <br /> <br />hand scale and shows approximately 17 total flight hours. The line with <br /> <br />the small circles breaking it reads on the left-hand scale and indicates <br /> <br />about 10 hours total seeding time for the day. At the top of each black <br /> <br />and white bar is printed either an "r", "h", or lie" for rain augmentation <br /> <br />flight(s), hail suppression, or a combination of the two. June 10 was a <br /> <br />day in which there were performed both hail suppression and rain augmentation <br /> <br />flights. <br /> <br />The black and white bars are scaled on the right-hand side. <br /> <br />However, when reading the white bar it is necessary to multiply the derived <br /> <br />number by a factor of 10. Hence, in our example there is approximately <br /> <br />3000 grams of silver iodide generated on this date. The black part of the <br /> <br />bar shows about 60 kilograms dry ice being dispensed. The bar graph at <br /> <br />the top of the figure shows the total number of crop hail damage claims <br /> <br />inside the target area for each date. It should be pointed out that the <br /> <br />claim damages were scrutinized and infreqeuntly found to have instances in <br /> <br /> <br />which,most likely, the reported date of damage was one day in error. The <br /> <br /> <br />scale for the claims damage reports changes by 10 for each division downward <br /> <br /> <br />~ntil 100 is reached, then each division changes by 100! It is hoped that <br /> <br />the reader's perspective on hail damage is improved. The June 10 example <br /> <br />shows about 300 claims reported (actual figures were 295). <br /> <br />In the various figures one usually sees some kind of flying done on <br /> <br />-16- <br />