摘要: The advances in diagnostic techniques and basic studies concerning the Earth'satmosphere made under the auspices of AFOSR are described in this report. Highlights of the investigations are the following: (a) the development and ex... 展开 The advances in diagnostic techniques and basic studies concerning the Earth'satmosphere made under the auspices of AFOSR are described in this report. Highlights of the investigations are the following: (a) the development and exploitation of a new field of atmospheric investigations using molecular species as passive tracers of the motion and temperature of the mesosphere. This new development is the first method devised to measure simultaneously the winds and temperatures of this poorly understood region of the atmosphere. (b) The attainment of a working, stable, rugged, monolithic electrooptic solid-state cavity whose spacing can be arbitrarily and precisely manipulated by applied electric field. This breakthrough in interference optics provides the opportunity 收起