The development and testing of a new method to evaluate the operational cloud-seeding programs in Texas

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 249-263

  Woodley, William L ^a   Rosenfeld, Daniel ^b  

^a Woodley Weather Consultants   (United States)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; AQUIFERS; CONTAMINATION; GROUNDWATER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; NATURAL CONVECTION; PROBABILITY; RAIN; STATISTICAL TESTS; TRACKING RADAR;

FLOATING-TARGET ANALYSIS; SEEDING EFFICACY;

CLOUD SEEDING;

CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CLOUD SEEDING;

NORTH AMERICA; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 1842865109     PISSN: 08948763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0450(2004)043<0249:TDATOA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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