1971 Operational Report for METROMEX

Changnon, Stanley A., Jr.

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Title

1971 Operational Report for METROMEX

Author(s)

Changnon, Stanley A., Jr.

Issue Date

1971

Keyword(s)

• weather modification
• urban environment
• metropolitan meteoro-experiment

Abstract

Scientists from the Argonne National Laboratory, University of Chicago, Illinois State Water Survey, and University of Wyoming have begun a cooperative scientific program to study the inadvertent modification of weather by the urban-industrial complex at St. Louis. Emphasis is on the study of urban-related alterations in precipitation processes and quantitative changes in surface pre-cipitation. Consideration of the available climatological data, available resources, and the location of the research groups resulted in the choice of the St. Louis area as the site of the field project of METROMEX (which stands for METROpolitan Meteoro-EXperiment). The field project is the major effort of METROMEX, but it also involves laboratory and atmospheric modeling projects. The first field operations and data collection for METROMEX occurred in June-August 1971.

Publisher

Illinois State Water Survey

Series/Report Name or Number

ISWS Contract Report CR 126

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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