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Administrative Affiliation: Main Administration of the Meteorological 
Services (1960) 
Selected Staff Members: 
I. G. Guterman 
L. A. Kozalkov 
A. N. Radchenko 
V. S. Samoylenko 
S. A. Sapozhnikova 
V. V. Sidel 'nikov 
F. N. Stel 'makh 
D. A. Tarasenko 
R. F. Usmanov 
P. A. Vorontsov 
Description: 
This institute studies the circulation of the atmosphere and analyzes 
atmospheric conditions over large territories. After being processed for 
forecasting purposes, weather data arrive at the Institute from hydrometeoro- 
logical observation stations throughout the Soviet Union. The Institute has 
a large computer center into which this weather data are regularly fed. 
Various studies have been performed by staff members at the Institute on 
statistical, mathematical, and computer problems associated with processing 
weather data into climatological information. The Institute has developed 
computer methods and techniques for evaluation of hydrometeorological obser- 
vations from ships. These ship-board observations have enabled the Institute 
to compile climatic and hydrologic atlases of the seas. An example of the 
detail of such atlases is a map of the temperature of the air in November 
for the Aral Sea. Other activities of the Institute include studies of wind 
and cloud characteristics in various Soviet regions, aerologic maps, thermal 
structure of arctic anticyclones, structure of the tropopause, and clima- 
tology of the upper atmosphere. The Institute publishes a Trudy. 
885 
Name: Scientific-Research Institute of Automobile Transportation 
(Nauchno-issledovatel'skiy institut avtomobil'nogo transporta--NIIAT) 
Address: Moscow, Dekabr’skaya ulitsa, 23 
Director: -- 
Deputy Director: -- 
Administrative Affiliation: -- 
Selected Staff Members: T. I. Avilov, Candidate 
