CloudSeeding: Cloud Seeding Experiment (Winter Only)

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Description

Rainfall amounts from a cloud seeding experiment (winter only)

Format

A data frame with 28 observations on the following 7 variables.

Seeded	Treatment coded as S=seeded or U=unseeded
Season	All in Winter
TE	Rainfall in East (treatment)
TW	Rainfall in West (treatment
NC	Rainfall in North (control)
SC	Rainfall in South (control)
NWC	Rainfall in Northwest (control)

Details

Researchers were interested in whether seeded clouds would produce more rainfall. An experiment was conducted in Tasmania between 1964 and 1971 and rainfall amounts were measured in inches per rainfall period. The researchers measured the amount of rainfall in two target areas: East (TE) and West (TW). They also measured the amount of rainfall in three control locations. Clouds were coded as being either seeded (treatment) or unseeded (control). This is a subset (only Winter months) of the larger CloudSeeding2 dataset. All rainfall amounts are in inches.

Source

Data were accessed from the website www.statsci.org/data/oz/cloudtas.html. This is the web home of the Australasian Data and Story Library (OzDASL).

References

A.J. Miller, D.E. Shaw, L.G. Veitch, and E.J. Smith, (1979) "Analyzing the results of a cloud-seeding experiment in Tasmania" in Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods, A8 (10), pp. 1017-1047.

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