A Closer Look at Wind

Abstract

Agriculture is fundamentally a technique of converting a natural ecosystem through environmental control, in a broad sense, into a farmland ecosystem for food production. Though related to this technique, my major field, environmental control in agricultural engineering, covers some aspects of agricultural physics. Because of this, I was involved in research projects that did not have a direct link to crops, such as “Raindrop Energy and Soil Erosion,” “Heat Balance of Paddy Fields and Methods of Increasing Water Temperature,” “Causes of Airflow over Mountains,” and “Environmental Control of Greenhouses.” However, in 1960, 15 years after I started treading the path of agricultural science, a consecutive shift in thinking occurred to me during my stay at the Physics Department at Rothamsted Experiment Station in England.