"Foundational" Publications

• Extra-area (downwind) Effects of Winter Cloud Seeding, August 2009 
• Optimizing Cloud Seeding for Water and Energy in California, March 2006
• Feasibility of Snowpack Enhancement from Colorado Winter Mountain Clouds: Emphasis on Supercooled Liquid Water and Seeding with Silver Iodide and Propane - September 2005
• Potential Water Augmentation from Cloud Seeding in the Colorado River Basin, April 2006
• Evaluation of the Bridger Range Winter Cloud Seeding Experiment Using Control Gages, 1983
• Further Exploratory Analysis of the Bridger Range Winter Cloud Seeding Experiment, 1986
• Microphysical Effects of Wintertime Cloud Seeding with Silver Iodide over the Rocky Mountains. Part II: Observations over the Bridger Range, Montana, 1988.
• Randomized Propane Seeding Experiment, Wasatch Plateau, Utah, 2005 (shorter version)

Other Relevant Publications

The following "success stories" scientifically demonstrate the viability of winter cloud seeding, providing some of the "bedrock" of our guiding philosophy and mission.

• The Area of Maximum Effect Resulting from the Lake Almanor Randomized Cloud Seeding Experiment, 1969.

• Assessment of seeding effects in snowpack augmentation programs: Ice nucleation and scavenging of seeding aerosols, 1995.

• How the transport and dispersion of AgI aerosols may affect detectability of seeding effects by statistical methods, 1995.

• Summary of Studies that Document the Effectiveness of Cloud Seeding for Snowfall Augmentation, 2006.

• Another Wintertime Cloud Seeding Case Study with Strong Evidence of Seeding Effects, 2007.

• American Meteorological Society's Policy Statement on Planned & Inadvertent Weather Modification, 1998.

• World Meteorological Organization Statement on Weather Modification, 2001.

• American Society of Civil Engineers Policy Statement, 2006

• Weather Modification - Finding Common Ground, Bulletin American Meteorological Society, 2005.

• Western USA Weather and Water at a Glance

• Colorado Water Conservation Board Weather Modification Program

• Denver Water Cloud Seeding

• North American Interstate Weather Modification Council

• Weather Modification Association

• Weather Modification for Precipitation Augmentation and its
  Potential Usefulness to the Colorado River Basin States (white paper)

• Nevada State Cloud Seeding Program

• World Meteorological Organization Weather Modification Programme