MICROMETEOROLOGY AND SCIENTISTS WORKING ON ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 21, 2003
• Sequence Number: 135
• Publication Date: October 30, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
SUBJECT Mi=roraotecrology and. Scientists Working on
Atmospheric Turbulence
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1. Micromete,rology is concerned witi-, the variations iu wind velocity, temperature, ate,
in the lowest layer of air for two quite different reasons.
2. First, since these variations are so iurge (i.e, the temperature of a dry soil
surface may differ by 4C)oor 50? i' i?rofn the temperature five feet above it), they
ere in themselves quite iutportat:t, especia ly to agriculture.
3. Second, the spread of heat, water vapor, smoke or atmospheric contaminants depends
upon these same variations in wind velocity and temperature.
4. It is only the work done in this second category which is applicable to CW, and
fortunately the t,-.L can easily be separated, since the measurements required must
be far more accurate in the second-case. r'or example, the measurements made by
Ramdas,lof India, are quite satisfactory-for agriculture, (his interest), but
practically valueless to CW.
5. In the 1J5511, suck: agricu.Lturu?.11y directed work is quite naturally a rather important
part of. the total work in tdeteorolog , as can be seen from the fact that about 7596
of the scientific articles on meteorology f'rou, the USSR have a micrometeorologicel
slant, Ias compared with less than 2` *' for the rest oi' the irorld. The USSR probably
leads the rest of the world in this field, according to several scientists of
Western Europe. Such agricultural work in the USSR and its subjugated'vaseals*is
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o. On the other hand, the work applicable to C'd requires much more expensive instru-
mentation, and must, be carried on by scientists well trained in fluid mechanics
or aerodynamics as well as meteorology. The fact that the only known "Laboratory
of ktmoapheric Turbulence" in the world is part of the Geophysics Institute of
the Soviet Academy of Sciences would indicate that not only do the Soviets
consider thin an important matter, but that they may be considerably ahead of
the Western world in such matters.
(a) Alekssnder Kosiba's article, published in 1951, on "Vertical Climatic
Differences in the Lowest Strata of the Atmosphere" based on micro.
meteorological measurements at the Institute of Meteorology and
Climatology of the University of Warsaw;
(b) Is. I. Feldttaa'a article "On the Influence of Forests on the Formation
of Local Weather in the Taiga of European USSR, and;
(c } A. 1-1. Shulgi.n's article "On the Problem of the Amnl i_ozatLoo of 3v13.
Climate in Altai".
7. Indeed, the appearance of E 1.1 Dobryshman's "On Transformation Processes over
tdicrorelief" (Glavnoe Uravl.ene'a Gidraueteorologicheskoi Slunby, In1'ormateionziyt
Sbornik 1:42-46, 1951) indicates that scientists of the USSR are already trying
to describe the combination of the effects of variations of turbulent exchaugo
in the vertical and variations in tha horizontal on a sound theoretical basis,
a logical and needed step which we in the US are scarcely reaxrfor.
Scientists working on atmospheric turbulence can be divided into two groups,
those whose work is related directly to the transport of any atmospheric property
(contaminants included, although not described in the literature) and those whose
background is near enough to allow them to work in this field, but not appsrently
so oriented at -resent.
incomplete list of the first group should Include:
Perhaps the most important at the Soviet Laboratory
of Atmospheric Turbulence (Set Microstructure of
Turbulent Flow, Priklanaya Matematika i Mekhaaicka,
Vol. 15, 1951, and numerous paperb or last 10 yoars)?
D L Lail:hts.an - A very good nnn, wrote "Physics of the Layer of Air
Near the Ground", in 1949, a book US scientists
should translate.
S A Sapuzhuikova - Another very good man. He wrote "Microelimate an4
Local Climate", in 1950.
S L Baatamov
Author of "Questions of Turbulence Theory nad Strueturo
of Wind with Application to the Problem of AirplatLo
Vibrations"
Author of"'Artificial Climate Laboratories" 1950 --
Specific investigations on snow drifting and te3gpor.
atures and evaporation f;.= the soil are outlined.
V A Cbruchev - Author of "Role and Significance of Dust in Mature",
1951.
Author of "Calculation of the Heat Balance of the
Fed Sea" - 1950.
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