Welcoming address on behalf of the American Geophysical Union / Helmut Weickmann -- Welcoming address on behalf of the National Science Foundation / Earl G Droessler -- Welcoming address on behalf of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution / Paul Fye -- Problems and methods of rainfall investigation address of the Honorary Chairman of the Conference / Tor Bergeron -- Morphology of precipitation clouds and cloud systems / Joanne Malkus -- Synoptic and planetary scale phenomena leading to the formation and recurrence of precipitation / Jerome Namias -- Cloud distributions over the tropical oceans in relation to large-scale flow patterns / Joanne S Malkus, Claude Ronne -- Structure of connective storms / Tetsuya Fujita -- Energetics and the creation of a self-sustaining local storm / C E Anderson -- On the dynamical prediction of large-scale condensation by numerical methods / Joseph Smagorinsky -- Orographic-convective precipitation as revealed by radar / Bernice Ackerman -- Microstructure of storms as described by quantitative radar data / Pauline M Austin -- Plume formation in thunderstorms / Walter Hitschfeld -- The structure of minute precipitation / Johannes Grunow -- The productiveness of fog precipitation in relation to the cloud droplet spectrum / Johannes Grunow -- Horizontal distribution of snow crystals during the snowfall / Ukichiro Nakaya, Keiji Higuchi -- Snow crystal analysis as a method of indirect aerology / Johannes Grunow -- Structure of snowfall revealed by geographic distribution of snow crystals / Choji Magono -- Operation and results of 'Project Pluvius' / Tor Bergeron -- Efficiency of natural rain / Raymond Wexler -- The aerosol spectrometer and its application to nuclear condensation studies / A Goetz, O Preining -- Differences in coalescence tendencies in computed condensation cloud droplet spectra / W A Mordy -- Computations of the growth of cloud drops by condensation using an electronic digital computer / M Neiburger, C W Chien -- The relation between cloud droplet spectra and the spectrum of cloud nuclei / P Squires, S Twomey -- A statistical study of cloud droplet growth by condensation / Claes Rooth -- The nucleation and growth of ice crystals / B J Mason -- The influence of climate and weather elements on the activity of natural freezing nuclei / Hans-Walter Georgii -- Recent observations of freezing nuclei variations at ground level / Dwight B Kline -- Studies on the effect of chemisorbed impurities on heterogeneous nucleation / Seymour J Birstein -- Some observations of chloride-sulfate relationships in the atmosphere and in precipitation / James P Lodge -- Preliminary results on the aggregation of ice crystals / R E Hallgren, C L Hosler -- Growth by accretion in the ice phase / R H Douglas -- Frequency distributions of precipitation / Oskar Essenwanger -- Some aspects of the optics of the rainbow and the physics of rain / E Volz Friedrich -- A possible effect of lightning discharge on precipitation formation process / Bernard Vonnegut, Charles B Moore -- Estimates of raindrop collection efficiencies in electrified clouds / G B Moore, B Vonnegut -- The mechanism of hail formation / Raymund Sänger -- Design and operation of the Swiss hail tunnel / Roland List -- Growth and structure of graupel and hailstones / Roland List -- Hailstorm structure viewed from 32,000 feet / Robert M Cunningham -- Severe hailstorms are associated with very strong winds between 6,000 and 12,000 meters / H Dessens -- Morphology of thunderstorms and hailstorms as affected by vertical wind shear / Chester W Newton -- Analysis of hailstorms in the Denver Network, 1949-1958 / W Boynton Beckwith -- Some behavior patterns of New England hailstorms / Ralph J Donaldson, Albert C Chmela, Charles Reeve Shackford -- Hail studies in Illinois relating to cloud physics / G E Stout, R H Blackmer, K E Wilk -- Future research in weather modification / Howard T Orville -- The Swiss randomized hail suppression project in the Tessin / Raymund Sänger -- A project for a formation of cumulonimbus by artificial convection / Henri Dessens -- Physics of precipitation in winter storllls at Santa Barbara, California / Clement J Todd -- Artificial nucleation of orographic cumulus clouds / Louis J Battan, A Richaed Kassander -- Cloud seeding in the American Tropics / Wallace E Howell -- Artificial precipitation potential during dry periods in Illinois / Richard G Semonin -- Appendix.

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