Translation and Dissemination Via a Digital Archive/E-Book of the Writings of Heinz Kasemir on Atmospheric Electricity

通过数字档案/电子书翻译和传播 Heinz Kasemir 关于大气电的著作

• 批准号: 1138919
• 负责人: Colleen Matan
• 金额: $ 3.31万
• 依托单位: American Geophysical Union
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-08-01 至 2012-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1138919&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Translation; Dissemination; Via; Digital; Archive

This grant provides support for translation and electronic dissemination (via an American Geophysical Union-hosted publications website) of a group of 58 scientific papers and technical reports comprising over 1000 pages of text & illustrations authored by Dr. Heinz Kasemir, a noted German physicist who later emigrated to the U.S. where he worked within NOAA and was long engaged in fundamental studies of lightning physics. Among key findings represented in his body of work, which has until now not been readily accessible, around 1950 Dr. Kasemir advanced the notion that lighting develops as a bi-directional leader with zero net charge--a concept that was not fully appreciated in the broader community until many decades later. Kasemir's detailed and ground-breaking analysis of lightning channels, which established key relationships between electric fields and charge development in upward-directed leaders, are viewed as representing a heretofore missing link in proper understanding of the lightning process. This and other aspects of his work will be highlighted in an introduction and commentary on selected papers, which will serve to place this work in the context of modern lighting research.The Intellectual Merit of this activity derives from efforts to more comprehensively describe the physics of lightning channel development and propagation. Broader Impacts of this effort will come through the preservation and greatly improved access to a large body of scientific work in the area of atmospheric electricity research.

这项赠款为一组58篇科学论文和技术报告的翻译和电子传播（通过美国地球物理联盟主办的出版物网站）提供支持，其中包括海因茨·卡萨米尔博士撰写的1000多页文字插图，他是一位着名的德国物理学家，后来移民到美国，在NOAA工作，长期从事闪电物理学的基础研究。 在他的工作中所代表的关键发现中，直到现在还不容易获得，大约在1950年，Kasemir博士提出了照明作为零净电荷的双向领导者发展的概念-这一概念直到几十年后才在更广泛的社区中得到充分的理解。 Kasemir对闪电通道的详细和突破性的分析，建立了电场和向上引导的电荷发展之间的关键关系，被视为代表了迄今为止正确理解闪电过程中缺失的一环。 他的工作的这方面和其他方面将突出介绍和评论选定的文件，这将有助于把这项工作的背景下，现代照明research.The智力这项活动的优点来自努力更全面地描述闪电通道的发展和传播的物理。 这一努力的更广泛影响将通过保存和大大改善获得大气电研究领域的大量科学工作来实现。