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The march of geophysics in these post‐IGY days is so rapid and significant that important news comes from every side. In the last issue, the review of the Helsinki General Assembly summarized scientific progress in geophysical science, emphasizing our enlarged vistas of solar and terrestrial relations and of the solid Earth. The present issue turns to progress and plans to make possible new opportunity for geophysical research in meteorology.The establishment of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, after three years of planning, represents a dramatic step forward to meet vital needs for the progress of meteorology as a global science. The new laboratory will rise on Table Mountain at Boulder, Colorado, in close proximity to the National Bureau of Standards and the University of Colorado. It is sponsored by the 14 universities that grant graduate degrees in meteorology in order to supplement their individual facilities for advanced and World‐wide meteorological research. The AGU congratulates the leaders of these universities and their Corporation, the University Corporation on Atmospheric Research, the National Science Foundation, the High Altitude Observatory, the State of Colorado, and especially Dr. Walter Orr Roberts, who will direct this new meteorological center, for their solutions of difficult organizational problems, that have laid the foundations for this vital enterprise. The United States will now have access to facilities that are comparable to the scale of the problems of global meteorology, built in close juxtaposition to our related university facilit

ISSN:0002-8606    

DOI:10.1029/TR042i001p00001

年代:1961

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‘Meteorology on the Move’ is the title of the fourth in a series of reports by the Committee on Atmospheric Sciences, formerly Committee in Meteorology, of the National Academy of Sciences‐National Research Council.1It carries forward an account of the activities of the Committee for the issuance of its first report in January 1958.The following are members of the Committee: Horace R. Byers (Vice‐Chairman), Henry G. Booker, Jule G. Charney, Hugh L. Dryden, Carl Eckart, Michael Ference, Jr., (Chairman after June 30, 1960), Paul E. Klopsteg (Chairman to June 30, 1960), Thomas F. Malone, Edward Teller, Fred L. Whipple, John R. Sievers (Executive Sec

ISSN:0002-8606    

DOI:10.1029/TR042i001p00003

年代:1961

数据来源: WILEY

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For years Hydrology enjoyed the position of being the largest Section in the American Geophysical Union, and we contributed something like 40 % of the scientific papers in theTransactions. It was a rather comfortable arrangement, because we were numerically dominant in a prestige organization.Starting in January of 1959 something strange started to happen. Our familiar gray publication got a new name and a yellow cover, and there were some articles about outer space. This was not objectionable, because outer space had become a very popular subject in the World, and we took a certain amount of pride in being associated with it. As the months went by it became a bit troublesome, because the publication became larger with almost each monthly issue, and it was becoming difficult to find items about hydrology. Some complaints came along later in the year, and these gave rise to a letter from the President of the Section. We were still getting as many papers dealing with hydrology as ever, he said, it was just that there was more of this new material.

ISSN:0002-8606    

DOI:10.1029/TR042i001p00005

年代:1961

数据来源: WILEY

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A capability for launching heavy payloads of scientific equipment to investigate other planets of our solar system can be anticipated within the next few years. It is to be expected that the first investigations of other planets will involve direct measurements of the atmospheres of these planets, even before scientific apparatus is landed on their surfaces. Such scientific studies, probably first of Mars and Venus, are important, not only to the investigation of the planets themselves, but may also be expected to contribute substantially to information concerning the origins of the solar system and of the Earth.For these reasons the Space Science Board of the National Academy of Sciences held a one‐day conference in June 1960 to (i) discuss the present state of knowledge of planetary atmospheres as known from ground‐based observations, (ii) consider the most important characteristics of planetary atmospheres about which additional information is needed and (iii) discuss, in a preliminary way, the experiments which should be undertaken to obtain the answers to questions raised in (

ISSN:0002-8606    

DOI:10.1029/TR042i001p00009

年代:1961

数据来源: WILEY

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J. H. Hodgson, (Ed.),The Mechanics of Faulting, with Special Reference to the Fault‐plane Work(A Symposium), Publications of the Dominion Observatory, Ottawa, Canada, vol. 20, No. 2, p. 251–418, 1959, $3.00.It is widely assumed that earthquakes are generated at faultlike structures within the crust. A rapidly growing group in geophysics has set out to determine the characters and orientations of these structures, and the forces responsible for them, based on observations made during earthquakes. The present volume gives some idea of this group's success. Although in essence an intradiscipline progress report, this collection of papers also emphasizes several aspects of the fault‐plane work of wide interest to tectonophysicists and structural geolo

ISSN:0002-8606    

DOI:10.1029/TR042i001p00039

年代:1961

数据来源: WILEY

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Alt, Franz L., (ed.),Advances in Computers, Vol. 1, Academic Press, New York, x + 316 pp., 1960, $10.00.Bennett, G. D., And E. P. Patten, Jr.,Borehole Geophysical Methods for Analyzing Specific Capacity of Multiaquifer Wells, U. S. Geol. Survey, Water Supply Paper 1536‐A, Government Printing Office, Washington, 25 pp., 1960, $0.1

ISSN:0002-8606    

DOI:10.1029/TR042i001p00045

年代:1961

数据来源: WILEY

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E. H. Vestine has called attention corrections to Table 2 of his paper,The Survey of the Geomagnetic Field in Space, in the March 1960 issue of theTransactions, page 18, listing spherical harmonic coefficients of the geomagnetic field for 1945.0 obtained by Fanselau and Kautzleben. The corrections are as follows: Column Line 1 4g for +77.40 read +77.44 5 13g for − 0.27 read + 0.56 6 13g for − 0.77 read − 0.27 7 8g for + 1.02 read + 1.03 7 13g for + 0.77 read − 0.77 7 lOh for + 0.61 read − 0.61 8 15h for − 0.48

ISSN:0002-8606    

DOI:10.1029/TR042i001p00055

年代:1961

数据来源: WILEY

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The meeting was called to order at 09h 30m in the Reading Room of the National Academy of Sciences, 2101 Constitution Avenue, Washington, D. C., by President Lloyd V. Berkner.

ISSN:0002-8606    

DOI:10.1029/TR042i001p00063

年代:1961

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Keith Bullen, Professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Sidney, New South Wales, has been named the Twenty‐Third William Bowie Medalist. The award will be made at the Forty‐Second Annual Meeting of AGU in Washington, D. C, in April.This notice is a reminder that the Forty‐Second Annual Meeting of AGU will be held in Washington, D. C , April 18–21 (inclusive), 1961. First technical papers will be presented in the morning of April 18, and the technical programs will continue through the afternoon of April 21. The ‘Smoker’ is scheduled for Wednesday evening April 19; the Award of the William Bowie Medal, and a banquet, are scheduled for Thursday evening, April 20. Please note that the meeting precedes the meetings of the National Academy of Sciences, which are scheduled for the fol

ISSN:0002-8606    

DOI:10.1029/TR042i001p00097

年代:1961

数据来源: WILEY

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The following is a summary of a paper by Harry Wexler, Director, Meteorological Research, U. S. Weather Bureau, presented at the Symposium on Space Research, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Nov. 28–Dec. 3, 1960.The history of meteorology has been punctuated by a number of developments, notable among which have been the persistent efforts of meteorologists to observe ever larger portions of the atmosphere—with the ultimate goal of observing all five billion million tons of it. In recent years there has been marked progress toward this g

ISSN:0002-8606    

DOI:10.1029/TR042i001p00099

年代:1961

数据来源: WILEY