Atomic Physics
Atomic Physics
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作者：
L. Elton
该译文是许多俄罗斯有关大气中水分和水分输送的著作的权威摘要。重点是地理而不是地球物理，气候学而不是气象，并且主要致力于苏联领土。标题会让人期待对蒸发理论、大气水分总体循环以及凝结和降水的动力机制的讨论，但这些并没有出现，尽管俄罗斯在这些领域的一些贡献很突出。相比之下，人们的注意力集中在降水和大气湿度之间的统计关系以及局部蒸发对局部降水的贡献等问题上，随着对地球物理学的了解越多，这些问题似乎就不那么相关了。最有价值的一章也许是关于大气中的水分通量的章节，其中包括对美国和英国重要工作的参考。关于宏观湍流交换的章节也值得注意，因为介绍了奥布霍夫、莫宁和尤金的重要思想。总体而言，这本书没有太大的新颖性，但我们必须感谢作者进行了一项涉及近 300 条参考文献的调查，并感谢出版商提供了一份参考资料。即使它的兴趣主要是历史性的，它将在文学中找到永久的地位。随着国际水文十年的到来，许多新的工作者和新的国家进入该领域，这本关于俄罗斯工作的调查专着特别合适。 RC 萨克利夫
THIS translation is an authoritative digest of much Russian work on moisture and moisture transport in the atmosphere. The emphasis is geographical rather than geophysical, climatological rather than meteorological, and largely devoted to the territory of the USSR The title would lead one to expect a discussion of the theory of evaporation, of the general circulation of atmospheric moisture, and of the dynamical mechanisms for condensation and precipitation, but these do not appear although some Russian contributions in these fields are outstanding. Attention is by contrast directed to such questions as the statistical relationship between precipitation and atmospheric humidity and the contribution made by local evaporation to local precipitation-questions which seem to be less relevant the more the geophysics is understood. The most valuable chapter is perhaps that on moisture flux in the atmosphere, which includes reference to important work in America and Britain. The chapter on macro-turbulent exchange is also notable as introducing important ideas due to Obukhov, Monin and Yudin. On the whole, the book has no great novelty, but one mUilt be grateful to the authors for making a survey with almost 300 references, and to the publishers for providing a tra. nslation which will find a permanent place in the literature even if its interest is mainly historical. With the International Hydrological Decade upon us, and many new workers and new countries entering the field, this survey monograph of Russian work is particularly opportune. RC SUTCLIFFE