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The efficiency of hail suppression is studied for the operative, non-randomized system established in 1971 on a territory of a 256.000 ha and enlarged in the eighties to almost 970.000 ha (Fig. 1). The system was built with thea priori assumption that it is successful and so no special effort was made to collect the data necessary for the testing of its efficiency. However, some data are still at disposal for this purpose: the daily and five minutes interval precipitation data, the radar cloud variables data used as seeding criteria, the data on days with thunderstorms and with hail, and (not abundant) set of data on the damages in agriculture as collected by an insurance company. A statistical evaluation of these data on the significance of the eventual differences between target and control area and/or before and during the project period do not confirm the hypothesis that the system is successful at some acceptable significance level (90 or 95%). The conclusion that the efficiency of the hail suppression system could not be proved holds for the system as a whole: for the theoretical part and the operational one, with all the accompanying advantages and malfunctions.
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Rakovec, J., Gregorčič, B., Kranjc, A. et al. Some evaluations of hail suppression system efficiency in Slovenia, Yugoslavia. Theor Appl Climatol 41, 157–171 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00866439
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