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The Effect of Weather on Soviet Wheat Production

1980
Military Weather Calculations for the NATO Theater: Weather and Warplanes VIII

1980
Aircraft Icing During Low-Level Flights

1979
Some Predicted Climatic Effects of a Simulated Sahara Lake.

1974
Cloud-Free Line-of-Sight Calculations.

1972
An Experiment on the Sensitivity of A Global Circulation Model: Studies in Climate Dynamics for Environmental Security

1972
A Simple Model To Elucidate the Utility of Weather Forecasting in Military Operations: Weather and Warplanes III

1971
Climate Modification and National Security.

1970
Some Economic Aspects of Rain Stimulation.

1970
More Bight-Size Flow Patterns.

1969
Bight-Size Flow Patterns.

1968
Probabilistic dynamics of a global horizontal sounding system

1966
A re-examination of fallout models

1966
The Difference Between Weather Forecasters and Weather Advisors

1965
Some Economic Aspects of Weather Modification.

1965
Weather Information: Its Uses, Actual and Potential

1964
Review of U.S. Standard Atmosphere, 1962: Sponsored by The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, United States Air Force, and United States Weather Bureau

1963
A New Rational Approach to Weather-Control Research: Final Report

1962
Reply

1962
Statistical Determination of Error in Parachute-Derived Wind Velocities.

1961
The Utility of Weather Forecasts to the Raisin Industry

1961
Wind and temperature in the mesosphere.

1961
The accuracy of winds derived by the radar tracking of chaff at high altitudes.

1960
Dispersion in the upper atmosphere.

1957
A Catalog of Fallout Patterns

1956

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