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DOI	10.2172/10115504
报告编号	FASAC-TAR--94005182
来源ID	OSTI_ID: 10115504
	Climate research in the former Soviet Union. FASAC: Foreign Applied Sciences Assessment Center technical assessment report
	Ellingson, R.G.; Baer, F.; Ellsaesser, H.W.; Harshvardhan; Hoffert, M.I.; Randall, D.A.
英文摘要	This report assesses the state of the art in several areas of climate research in the former Soviet Union. This assessment was performed by a group of six internationally recognized US experts in related fields. The areas chosen for review are: large-scale circulation processes in the atmosphere and oceans; atmospheric radiative processes; cloud formation processes; climate effects of natural atmospheric disturbances; and the carbon cycle, paleoclimates, and general circulation model validation. The study found an active research community in each of the above areas. Overall, the quality of climate research in the former Soviet Union is mixed, although the best Soviet work is as good as the best corresponding work in the West. The best Soviet efforts have principally been in theoretical studies or data analysis. However, an apparent lack of access to modern computing facilities has severely hampered the Soviet research. Most of the issues considered in the Soviet literature are known, and have been discussed in the Western literature, although some extraordinary research in paleoclimatology was noted. Little unusual and exceptionally creative material was found in the other areas during the study period (1985 through 1992). Scientists in the former Soviet Union have closely followed the Western literature and technology. Given their strengths in theoretical and analytical methods, as well as their possession of simplified versions of detailed computer models being used in the West, researchers in the former Soviet Union have the potential to make significant contributions if supercomputers, workstations, and software become available. However, given the current state of the economy in the former Soviet Union, it is not clear that the computer gap will be bridged in the foreseeable future.
出版年	1993
报告类型	Technical Report
语种	英语
国家	美国
来源学科分类	54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES ; 99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS//MATHEMATICS, COMPUTING, AND INFORMATION SCIENCE ; CLIMATE MODELS ; GREENHOUSE EFFECT ; INFORMATION VALIDATION ; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS ; PALEOCLIMATOLOGY ; CARBON CYCLE ; CLOUD COVER ; AIR-WATER INTERACTIONS ; USSR ; ENERGY BALANCE 540120 ; 990200 ; CHEMICALS MONITORING AND TRANSPORT ; MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTERS
URL	http://www.osti.gov/scitech/servlets/purl/10115504
资源类型	科技报告
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/265255
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Ellingson, R.G.,Baer, F.,Ellsaesser, H.W.,et al. Climate research in the former Soviet Union. FASAC: Foreign Applied Sciences Assessment Center technical assessment report,1993.