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numerical modeling of the dynamics of atmospheric processes, the theory of
planetary and atmospheric circulation, and hydrodynamic long-range weather
forecasting. (GSE 30, p. 537.)
Mel'nikov, (Melnikov) Vladimir P., D GM. S. Born in 1940. Geologist. Specialist
in geocriology, geophysical methods of researching the earth’s crust. Corresponding
member of the Oceanography, Atmospheric Physics and Geography Department of
the AN SSSR from December 1987. He graduated from Moscow Geological
Prospecting Institute imeni Sergei Ordzhonikidze in 1962. He worked at there as an
engineering student, a participant in geological expeditions, a junior and senior
researcher. From 1970 to 1984, he worked at the Permafrost Institute in Yakutsk
where he was a senior researcher and headed (from 1984 to 1985) the Department of
engineering, geocriology and Deputy Director of the Geology and Geophysics
Institute of the Siberian Department. In 1985 he was named Director of Problems of
the North Institute in Tiumen--now called the Cryosphere of Earth Institute. He
heads the national committee on permafrost, and is a leading member of the Science
Coordination Council of the Soviet Union. In 1991, a new International research
Center for Northern Territories Development in Siberia was established that links
together the work of scientists of three Siberian Department Institutes: the Institute
of Cryoshpere of Earth in Tiumen, the Institute of Physico-Engineering Problems of
the North in Yakutsk, and the Institute of Philology in Akademgorodok-
Novosibirsk. As Director of the Institute of Cryosphere Earth, Mel’nikov will
collaborate with the Directors of the other two institutes in the development of this
new international research center. (LDA 89-11378.)
Mironov, Valerii L., D. PM. S. Born in 1938. Atmospheric physicist. He is a specialist
in the field of widespread electromagnetic waves in a heterogeneous environment.
Corresponding member since 1991. He is author and co-author of 126 scientific
works of which 9 were discoveries and six were extensive monographs--including
major works on the characteristics of radio waves. He graduated from the Tomsk
State University in 1961 and from 1961 to 1970, he was an aspirant and a senior researcher
at that university. From 1970 to 1980 and from 1982 to 1986 he was a
senior researchers, head of a laboratory, and Deputy Director of the Institute of
Atmospheric Optics of the Siberian Department of the AN SSSR. He was named a
professor in 1981 at the Tomsk State University, and from 1986 to 1990, he was a
professor, and held a chair while serving as rector of the Altai State University.
During this period he also collaborated with the Institute of Water and Ecological
Problems of the Siberian Department. He has been a member of the Scientific
Council on the problems on environmental surroundings of the Russian Academy of
Sciences Presidium. From 1986 to 1990, he organized research on monitoring the
environment and developed the collaborative effort between the Institute of Water
and Ecological Problems and the Altai University scientists. As a professor, he has
guided the work of one doctoral candidate and supervised the work of 12 aspirants
for the candidate degree. He has lectured in electrodynamics, molecular physics,
statistical methods in radio physics, and similar fields.
Monin, Andrei S., D. PM. S. Born in 1921 in Moscow. Russian oceanographer.
Corresponding member of the Oceanology, Atmospheric Physics, and Geography
Department of the Academy since 1972. He graduated from Moscow State
University in 1942 and worked at the Central Forecasting Institute from 1946 to
1951 and at the Institute of Atmospheric Physics of the AN SSSR from 1951 to
1965. In 1963, he began teaching at Moscow University as a professor. From 1965
to April 1988, he served as Director of the P. P. Shirshov Oceanology Institute in
Moscow which is the largest Russian research institute for the marine sciences.
Since 1977, he has been Chief of the Physics Division of the Institute, which is
subordinate to the academy's Oceanology, Atmospheric Physics, and Geography
department and was created in 1946. The institute was named for Shirshov in 1967.
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