Session: The Weather Damage Modification Program (85th AMS Annual Meeting)

Wednesday, 12 January 2005: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM

Organizer: Andrew Detwiler, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

Papers:

1:30 PM

7.1

The Weather Damage Modification Program

Steven M. Hunter, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Denver, CO; and J. Medina and D. A. Matthews

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (207.0 kB)

1:45 PM

7.2

Preliminary Results from a Randomized Winter Propane Seeding Experiment in Utah

James A. Heimbach Jr., UNCA, Springvale, ME; and A. B. Super

Recorded presentation

2:00 PM

7.3

An Overview of Results from the Nevada Weather Damage Modification Program

Arlen W. Huggins, DRI, Reno, NV; and D. Koracin, D. P. Boyle, and M. Xiao

Recorded presentation

2:15 PM

7.4

North Dakota Research Foci under the Weather Damage Modification Program

Darin W. Langerud, North Dakota Atmospheric Resource Board, Bismarck, ND; and C. A. Grainger, P. Kucera, E. Wise, A. Detwiler, R. D. Farley, F. J. Kopp, M. R. Hjelmfelt, P. L. Smith, and P. W. Mielke

Recorded presentation

2:30 PM

7.5

Numerical Simulations of Snowpack Augmentation for Drought Mitigation Studies in the Colorado Rocky Mountains

Curtis L. Hartzell, Project Consultant for the Colorado Water Conservation Board, Denver, CO; and J. Busto, W. R. Cotton, R. McAnelly, G. Carrió, and L. Hjermstad

Recorded presentation

2:45 PM

7.6

Overview of Research and Field Observation Activities in Texas and Oklahoma

Kenneth Howard, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and N. Kuhnert

Recorded presentation

3:00 PM

7.7

The Southern Plains Experiment in Cloud seeding of Thunderstorms for Rain Augmentation (SPECTRA) Project: The Study and Validation of Rain-Enhancement Strategies for the Mitigation of Drought in the Southern U. S. Great Plains Region

Duncan Axisa, SOAR program, Plains, TX; and G. Bomar and W. L. Woodley

3:15 PM

7.8