Comments on the Special Issue of Communications in Statistics (Volume A8, Number 10) Concerned with Weather Modification Experiments.

Abstract

As stated by the Editors of the Special Issue, it was compiled with reference to two of my statements: (1) that much of the current weather modification literature is slanted and unreliable, and (2) that progress in the building of a reliable weather modification technology requires an interdisciplinary study of as many completed cloud seeding experiments as possible. The material published in the Special Issue related to two completed experiments, the Tasmania and the Israeli experiments. It is shown that a realistic appraisal of a completed experiment requires a prolonged effort, including an examination of quite a few relevant publications and, on occasion, some numerical work on published raw data. It appears that an interdisciplinary reanalysis of the Tasmania experiment can contribute to the development of a reliable cloud seeding technology. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1979
Accession Number
ADA083628

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  • Jerzy Neyman

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  • University of California, Berkeley

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  • Air Platforms

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  • Cloud Physics
  • Clouds
  • Diurnal Variations
  • Experimental Data
  • Experimental Design
  • Gages
  • Industrial Research
  • Meteorology
  • Military Research
  • Precipitation
  • Rainfall
  • Statistics
  • Task Forces
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Weather Modification
  • Wind
  • Wind Direction

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