Abstract
THE study of turbulence as an agency of direct numerical importance in meteorological phenomena had its beginning before the war in the investigations of Akerblom Hesselberg, G. I. Taylor, Barkow and W. Schmidt, and it is not surprising that it should have been developed independently on either side of the front during the war: on one hand by Taylor, L. F. Richardson, F. J. W. Whipple, D. Brunt, and H. Jeffreys, and on the other hand by W. Schmidt, F. M. Exner, and A. Defant. On both sides there has been the recognition of a common mathematical form of transmission upward or downward, through the agency of turbulence, of various elements with numerical coefficients that can be measured without entering into the details of the process by which the transmission is effected.
Die Zirkulation der Atmosphäre in den gemässigten Breiten der Erde. Grundzüge einer Theorie der Klimaschwankungen.
By A. Defant. Pp. 209–266. (Stockholm: Geografiska Annaler, 1921.)
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SHAW, N. Die Zirkulation der Atmosphäre in den gemassigten Breiten der Erde Grundzüge einer Theorie der Klimaschwankungen . Nature 109, 469–470 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/109469a0
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