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Title: Climate research in the former Soviet Union. FASAC: Foreign Applied Sciences Assessment Center technical assessment report

Abstract

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 literaturemore » 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.« less

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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Science Applications International Corp., McLean, VA (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
10115504
Report Number(s):
FASAC-TAR-94005182
ON: TI94005182
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: Sep 1993
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
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

Citation Formats

Ellingson, R G, Baer, F, Ellsaesser, H W, Harshvardhan,, Hoffert, M I, and Randall, D A. Climate research in the former Soviet Union. FASAC: Foreign Applied Sciences Assessment Center technical assessment report. United States: N. p., 1993. Web. doi:10.2172/10115504.
Ellingson, R G, Baer, F, Ellsaesser, H W, Harshvardhan,, Hoffert, M I, & Randall, D A. Climate research in the former Soviet Union. FASAC: Foreign Applied Sciences Assessment Center technical assessment report. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/10115504
Ellingson, R G, Baer, F, Ellsaesser, H W, Harshvardhan,, Hoffert, M I, and Randall, D A. 1993. "Climate research in the former Soviet Union. FASAC: Foreign Applied Sciences Assessment Center technical assessment report". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/10115504. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/10115504.
@article{osti_10115504,
title = {Climate research in the former Soviet Union. FASAC: Foreign Applied Sciences Assessment Center technical assessment report},
author = {Ellingson, R G and Baer, F and Ellsaesser, H W and Harshvardhan, and Hoffert, M I and Randall, D A},
abstractNote = {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.},
doi = {10.2172/10115504},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/10115504}, journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 1993},
month = {Wed Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 1993}
}