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Note: СОДЕРЖАНИЕ = Soderžanie = Contents: Предисловие = Predislovie = Foreword. - Метеорология = Meteorologija = Meteorology. - Метеорологические наблюдения = Meteorologičeskie nabljudenija = Meteorological observations. - Таблицы = Tablicy = Tables. - Актинометрия = Aktinometrija = Actinometry. - Актинометрические наблюдения = Aktinometričeskie nabljudenija = Actinometric observations. - Некоторые результаты наблюдений = Nekotorye rezul'taty nabljudenij = Some results of observations. - Таблицы = Tablicy = Tables. - , In kyrillischer Schrift

Note: Contents: Translator's preface. - Author's preface. - PART 1 SOME TOPICS FROM THE THEORY OF RANDOM FIELDS AND TURBULENCE THEORY. - Introductory remarks. - 1. Methods for statistical description of continuous random fields. - 1.1 Stationary random functions. - 1.2 Random functions with stationary increments. - 1.3 Homogeneous and isotropic random fields. - 1.4 Locally homogeneous and isotropic random fields. - 2. The microstructure of turbulent flow. - Introductory remarks. - 2.1 Onset and development of turbulence. - 2.2 Structure functions of the velocity field in developed turbulent flow. - 2.3 Spectrum of the velocity field in turbulent flow. - 3. Microstructure of the concentration of a conservative passive additive in a turbulent flow. - 3.1 Turbulent mixing of conservative passive additives. - 3.2 Structure functions and spectral functions of the field of a conservative passive additive in a turbulent flow. - 3.3 Locally isotropic turbulence with smoothly varying mean characteristics. - 3.4 Microstructure of the refractive index in a turbulent flow. - PART 2 SCATTERING OF ELECTROMAGNETIC AND ACOUSTIC WAVES IN THE TURBULENT ATMOSPHERE. - 4. Scattering of electromagnetic waves in the turbulent atmosphere. - Introductory remarks. - 4.1 Solution of Maxwell's equations. - 4.2 The mean intensity of scattering. - 4.3 Scattering by inhomogeneous turbulence. - 4.4 Analysis of various scattering theories. - 4.5 Evaluation of the size of refractive index fluctuations from data on the scattering of radio waves in the troposphere. - 5. The scattering of sound waves in a locally isotropic turbulent flow. - PART 3 PARAMETER FLUCTUATIONS OF ELECTROMAGNETIC AND ACOUSTIC WAVES PROPAGATING IN A TURBULENT ATMOSPHERE. - Introductory remarks. - 6. Solution of the problem of amplitude and phase fluctuations of a plane monochromatic wave by using the equations of geometrical optics. - 6.1 Derivation and solution of the equations of geometrical optics. - 6.2 The structure function and the spectrum of the phase fluctuations of the wave. - 6.3 Solution of the equations of geometrical optics by using spectral expansions. - 6.4 Amplitude and phase fluctuations of a wave propagating in a locally isotropic turbulent flow. - 6.5 A consequence of the low of conservation of energy. - 6.6 Amplitude and phase fluctuations of sound waves. - 6.7 Limits of applicability of geometrical optics. - 7. Calculation of amplitude and phase fluctuations of a plane monochromatic wave from the wave equation using the methods of "small" and "smooth" perturbations. - 7.1 Solution of the wave equation by the method of small perturbations. - 7.2 The equations of the method of smooth perturbations. - 7.3 Solution of the equations of the method of "smooth" perturbations by using spectral expansions. - 7.4 Qualitative analysis of the solutions. - 7.5 Amplitude and phase fluctuations of a wave propagating in a locally isotropic turbulent medium. - 7.6 Relation between amplitude and phase fluctuations and wave scattering. - 8. Parameter fluctuations of a wave propagating in a turbulent medium with smoothly varying characteristics. - 9. Amplitude fluctuations of a spherical wave. - PART 4 EXPERIMENTAL DATA ON PARAMETER FLUCTUATIONS OF LIGHT AND SOUND WAVES PROPAGATING IN THE ATMOSPHERE. - 10. Empirical data on fluctuations of temperature and wind velocity in the layer of the atmosphere near the earth and in the lower troposphere. - 11. Experimental data on the amplitude and phase fluctuations of sound waves propagating in the layer of the atmosphere near the earth. - 12. Experimental investigation of the scintillation of terrestrial light. - Introductory remarks. - 12.1 The probability distribution function of the fluctuations of light intensity. - 12.2 Dependence of the amount of scintillation on the distance and on the meteorological conditions. - 12.3 The correlation function of the fluctuations of light intensity in the plane perpendicular to the ray. - 12.4 Frequency spectra of the fluctuations of the logarithm of the light intensity (theory). - 12.5 Frequency spectrum of fluctuations of light intensity (experimental results). - 13. Twinkling and quivering of stellar images in telescopes. - Appendix. - Notes and remarks. - References.