ASSESSMENT OF SOVIET TEXTBOOK 'MICROCLIMATE AND LOCAL CLIMATE' BY S A SAPOZHNIKOVA

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000500490018-6
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• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 1, 1999
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: May 3, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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IF~FORNBATI~FN RePORT
SuBUECT Assessment of Boviet Textbook "Microclirmte and
T/ocal Clla:ate" by B A 8apozhnikovu
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1. hTho book ~Micronllmato and Local Clirsate9 by 8 A Bapozhaikova is xritton
alawet,purely S'rom tho climatologtoal-agrioultural point of viex. From
tluo rloxpolnt the book is xe11 xrit~be.n, xell org+snlzod and demonstratob
a high order of saieatlfic competonce in this _*1c1Q. Wo xere eepecis.:ly
struck by 'Chb groat moos of obaorvational data conta+ned in the book.
[I'hexe 1s ev:tdantly far greater P~viet Interest aad activity in this field
thaw there 1s 1n America or in the xostorn xorid.
2. "Thora is 1lttle doubt 1n our minds that thei work roportod is the text So
directed almost exclusively to ngricultural opplieation. We do note,
hoxover, referonce to national dofonse as ~ stimulus for somo mlcrocllnn-to
work on p 19 of tho translation. We would also like to point out that
the author, in general, oitos xith precisions the locality where obsorvations
were mado. Tq some portions of the toxt, hoxover, the locution and source
of ob?orvations aro givon in vary general terms such ns the steppe zone
of tho Uc36R' (p 121) an4 ~n the foiloxing 34 pagos. Tho observational
sitos oP the wind profiloe data nitod in Oheptor 6 (pp 135-156) seem
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especially vague. We do not knew whether this covers up lack of data, or
whether. the data xas accumulated during i'ield expeditions to remote localities,
or xhether the vagueness is deliberate and due ?bo security.
3? ^F;om the instrumental point ~a view, the book indicates that the Boviet
practicing microcllmatologist encounters severe difficulties in electrical
temperature measurements, ands in fact, does not use them. ThE author
does paint out that electrical temperature measurements are used in the
more baelc research Phases of study. The author cites a study by A A
S;cvortsov (p 133) whleh indicates dominant periods of 0.64 - 0.86 seconds
in microtemperature oscillations. If this remark is based upon accurate
obseiPratlonsl data, :t indicates that the basic research scientist can,
when,beceeeary, makes recort, and analyse high frequency microtemperatt-e
fluctuations i-t a manner comparabL: to ours. (:uch high Frequency
oscillations can be made by eleci.i?ical means only).
~+. "The book is written from the practical empirical point of view and therefore -
little can be Bald about theoretical development in this field. Again~,xe
ere Impressed xith the vast me.se of data an3 evident experience in tak,'ing
such data. The energy with which the data is used in such problems as'
.optimum Forest or tree line strips is commendable.^
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