Monin, Andrey Sergeevich

Born in the family of associate professor of the Moscow Pedagogical Institute.

In 1938 he entered and in 1943 graduated from the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Moscow University .

Member of World War II . After being drafted into the Red Army, he was sent to courses of military weather forecasters at the Higher Hydrometeorological Institute of the Red Army. The commander of the front weather station, a junior lieutenant , served in units of the 3rd Baltic Front , and went from Pskov to Riga ^[1] .

In May 1945 he was seconded to the Central Institute of Forecasts of the Red Army, in January 1946 he was demobilized, transferred to work at the Central Institute of Forecasts, a researcher.

In 1946 he entered the graduate school of the Institute of Mathematics of Moscow State University to the supervisor of studies A. N. Kolmogorov .

In 1949 he defended his thesis on the theory of atmospheric turbulence ^[2] . In 1951 he moved to the Geophysical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, to the Department of Atmospheric Physics, which in 1955 was transformed into the Institute of Atmospheric Physics , a senior researcher, department head, and scientific consultant.

In 1956 he defended his thesis for the degree of Doctor of Physics and Mathematics in the theory of turbulent diffusion ^[3] , professor (1963). Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1972) in the Department of Oceanology, Atmospheric Physics and Geography (Oceanology). ^[four]

Since 1965, at the Institute of Oceanology of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR and the Russian Academy of Sciences , director of the Institute (1965-1987), since 1987 - head of the laboratory of synoptic processes.

In 2000, he was elected an academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences .

A.S. Monin died on September 22, 2007 . He was buried at the Troekurovsky cemetery in Moscow ^[5] .

In 1958, he wrote and sent a note to the Secretariat of the CPSU Central Committee, in which he sharply criticized the upcoming elections of members of the USSR Academy of Sciences in the Department of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, expressed a negative and very subjective opinion about a number of fellow scientists and urged the CPSU Central Committee to decisively intervene in the course preparations for elections to the USSR Academy of Sciences ^[6] .

In 1992, he signed the “ Warning to Humanity ” ^[7] .

The area of ​​scientific interests is geophysical hydrodynamics . He is the author of fundamental works on weather forecasting, climate theory, numerical modeling of the atmosphere and ocean, problems of ocean hydrodynamics (turbulence, microstructure, surface and internal waves, synoptic vortices , meanders , rings, general ocean circulation), and theories of the Earth's bowels evolution. Organizer of experimental ocean research. He also organized work in the USSR on numerical modeling of the atmosphere of the Earth and Venus .

Created a scientific school on geophysical hydrodynamics.

Foreign member of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA (1976), foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1973), honorary doctor of the University of Gothenburg.

• Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1975, 1981 ^[8] ),
• Order of the October Revolution (1971),
• Order of the Patriotic War II degree (1985),
• Order of Friendship (1999) ^[9]
• twelve medals, including "For Military Merit", "For the Defense of Moscow".
• USSR State Prize in Science (1980)
• A. A. Fridman Prize of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1993)
• Prize to them. Yu. M. Shokalsky (1986)

The author of 45 books, including the famous Statistical Hydromechanics and more than 500 scientific articles. The monograph Statistical Hydromechanics, written jointly with A. M. Yaglom (2 volumes, 1965, 1967 - supplemented and translated into English in 1971, 1975 and reprinted in 2007, translated and published in the 70s Japanese), deservedly considered encyclopedic on this topic.

• Statistical Hydromechanics, parts 1–2, M., 1965–67 (jointly with A. M. Yaglom );
• Monin A. S. Weather Forecast as a Problem of Physics . - M .: Nauka , Main Edition of Physics and Mathematics, 1969. - 184 p. - 4200 copies.
• Monin A.S. Earth rotation and climate. - L .: Gidrometeoizdat , 1972. - 112 p.
• Monin A.S., Kamenkovich V.M., Cort V.G. Volatility of the World Ocean . - L .: Gidrometeoizdat , 1974.- 264 p.
• Monin A.S. History of the Earth / Otv. ed. S. S. Zilitinkevich . - L .: Gidrometeoizdat , 1977 .-- 228 p. - 10,000 copies.
• Monin A.S., Shishkov Yu.A. Climate history. - L .: Gidrometeoizdat , 1979.- 408 p. - 8800 copies.
• Monin A.S., Ozmidov R.V. Oceanic turbulence . - L .: Gidrometeoizdat , 1981. - 320 p.
• Monin A. S. Introduction to the theory of climate. - L .: Gidrometeoizdat , 1982.- 248 p.
• Kamenkovich V.M., Koshlyakov M.N., Monin A.S. Synoptic eddies in the ocean. - L .: Gidrometeoizdat , 1982.- 264 p.
• Monin A.S., Sorokhtin O. G. Prospects for the development of modern geology: Geological theory and minerals. - M .: Knowledge , 1983 .-- 48 p. - (Earth Sciences. 1983. No. 12: New in life, science and technology).
• Monin A.S., Krasitsky V.P. Phenomena on the surface of the ocean . - L .: Gidrometeoizdat , 1985 .-- 376 p.
• Monin A.S., Gordeev V.V. Amazonia / Otv. ed. S. M. Kashin; USSR Academy of Sciences, Institute of Oceanology P.P. Shirshova. - M .: Nauka , 1988 .-- 216 p. - ISBN 5-02-003331-6 .
• Monin A.S., Polubarinova-Kochina P.Ya. , Khlebnikov V.I. Cosmology. Hydrodynamics. Turbulence: A. A. Friedman and the development of his scientific heritage. - M .: Science , Ch. ed. Phys.-Math. lit., 1989 .-- 328 p. - ISBN 5-02-014204-2 .
• The limits of predictability (co-authored by Peterburg L.I., Ivanitsky G.R., Malinetskii G.G., Lisichkin V.A., Sadovsky M.A., Pisarenko V.F., Kravtsov Yu.A., Likhtman A. J., Gumilev L.N., Ermolaev V. Yu.) 1997.

• Krasnopolsky A. V. Domestic geographers (1917-1992): Bibliographic reference (in 3 volumes) / Ed. prof. S. B. Lavrov ; RAS, Russian Geographical Society . - SPb. : B.I., 1993 .-- T. 2 (L — X). - S. 101 .-- 456 p. - 1,000 copies.

• Profile of A.S. Monin on the website of the Institute of Oceanology
• Profile of A.S. Monin on the official website of the RAS