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<br />I <br /> <br />MR. SCHLEUSENER: <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />.L;),j;) <br /> <br />the energy that was given to any particular <br />indicator at any particular time and also <br />when a farmer mails in a report from that <br />we can get an estimate of how much energy <br />is formed at that particular time. This <br />thing is the order of magnitude type rela- <br />tionship. Let's say if you have the energy <br />number of days, from zero to ten, that <br />means ten foot power per square foot, then <br />you have very little crop damage generally. <br />Then from ten to fifty we start getting <br />moderate damage, fifty to a hundred or so <br />he is getting in trouble and over, about a <br />hundred or so he hasn't anything left at <br />all. <br /> <br />So this gives us a pretty good order <br />of magnitude of how hard the storm hit, and <br />we feel this is a much better thing to use <br />than what we used in present day analysis <br />which is just hail days." <br /> <br />"The purpose then is to compare the re- <br />lations between precipitation received and <br />hail energy received for the seeded case, <br />the non-seeded case and the partially seeded <br />case and hope that we can find some differ- <br />ences that result because of the seeding <br />treatment. This, I think, summarizes the <br />type of results that we think we could get <br />out of this. In other words, the delimita- <br />tion of differences from normal and a de- <br />limitation of the departures from the usual <br />relations of precipitation and hail energy. <br /> <br />You will notice that I did not tell <br />you and I did not want to tell you that we <br />can give you a statement that hail has been <br />reduced 5% and precipitation increased 5% <br />unless the one in twenty chance occurred. <br />It is highly unlikely that in a one season <br />program this type of result can be obtained <br />with complete confidence. That may sound <br />a little bit discouraging and in a sense <br />it is, because this type of thing really <br />should have a randomized treatment program <br />extending over several years. But we do <br />think that we can get some indications out <br />of this in one season's time and I'd like <br />to elaborate on that a little bit to tell <br />you some of the indications that we think <br />we have seen so far out there this summer <br />since the 15th of May. <br />