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SCOPE OF STANDARD

This book, Standard Practice for the Design, Conduct, and Evaluation of Operational Precipitation Enhancement Projects, is intended to provide water resource managers and others with the standard approach for designing, operating, and evaluating precipitation enhancement projects. They typically need to make a decision on the use of cloud seeding to augment available water supplies. ASCE Manual of Practice 81 (Keyes et al. 2006, 2016) contains the information and, in some respects, insights gathered during the course of many design and operational trials of the standard practice for designing, conducting, and evaluating operational precipitation enhancement projects. Mandatory definitions used in this standard appear in Appendix B. Note that Appendix B may also include other definitions that might not be mandatory.