An Independent Replication of the Climax Wintertime Orographic Cloud Seeding Experiment

Abstract

An orographic cloud seeding experiment conducted in the vicinity of Climax, Colo., has been continued for five additional wintertime periods from 1965?70. A comparison of this new independent information is made with previously discussed wintertime operations of the experiment from 1960?65. As a whole, agreement between these independent data sets is good. In particular, the agreement in temperature and wind partitions is consistent with a previously reported model which describes seeding effects under various physically defined conditions. These comparisons have been made using pooled groups of precipitation sensors having similar elevations and locations.