Laserfiche WebLink
<br />00253:1 <br /> <br />To accomplish these goals, the Office of Atmospheric Resources <br />Management has conducted and contracted for research directed toward <br />three primary objectives: <br /> <br />. To confirm the physical basis for cloud seeding in the principal <br />weather situations, convective and orographic; <br /> <br />. To achieve effective systems of opportunity recognition and <br />treatment; and <br /> <br />. To safeguard against adverse atmospheric, environmental, .and <br />social effects. <br /> <br />During the 4-1/4 years spanned by this report, research policy has <br />been directed more specifically to a coordinated attack on technolog- <br />ical problems basic to the application of weather modification to <br />water resources management. The consequence is that the principal <br />activities have focused on the design of two main research projects: <br />the HIPLEX (High Plains Cooperative Program) for summer convective <br />rain stimulation in the High Plains, and the SCPP (Sierra Cooperative <br />Pi lot Project) for wi nter orographic snowpack augmentation. As the <br />period ended, a third activity, the Colorado River Basin Program, was <br />in an early planning stage as a result of a congressional directive <br />i nit i at i ng thi s i nves tigat ion. <br /> <br />Other activities included analysis of the CRBPP (Colorado River Basin <br />Pilot Project) upon conclusion of its 5-year field program in 1974, <br />an array of in-house studies, programs affording limited technical <br />support to state weather modification programs highly compatible with <br />Skywater objectives and methods, and technical support to states that <br />received emergency drought-relief funds from Congress for weather <br />modi fi cat i on. <br /> <br />Progress in confirming the physical basis of modifying summer convec- <br />tive and winter orographic storms involves interlocking contributions <br />from theoretical work, laboratory experiments, and field tests, with <br />each providing insights and stimulation to the other. These pursuits <br />yield understanding that provides criteria for recognizing opportuni- <br />ties to achieve desired seeding effects. And, in testing the <br />, <br />evolving recognition system, knowledge gained is fed back to those <br />studying the physical processes. <br /> <br />The policy of including a broad representation of the academic and <br />private sector scientific communities and state and local governments <br />in the planning and assessment of Skywater research continued during <br />the reporting period. Two national Skywater Conferences and a HIPLEX <br /> <br />1-2 <br />