Kniga posvyashchena aktual'noy teme izucheniya slozhnykh aerodinamicheskikh protsessov, protekayushchikh v gornykh ushchel'yakh. Redkaya set' aerologicheskikh nablyudeniy, ogranichennye vozmozhnosti ee uvelicheniya iz-za slozhnosti rel'efa dazhe vo vremya spetsial'nykh ekspeditsiy, maloe kolichestvo odnovremennykh nablyudeniy s navetrennoy i podvetrennoy storon gornykh khrebtov, zatrudnyayut vyyavlenie kinematiki i dinamiki protsessov v atmosfere, chto uvelichivaet rol' matematicheskogo modelirovaniya etikh protsessov. Proanalizirovany vozmozhnye uproshcheniya iskhodnykh trekhmernykh gidrodinamicheskikh uravneniy, opisyvayushchikh atmosfernye protsessy v gornom ushchel'e. Pri pomoshchi otnositel'no prostykh dvumernykh matematicheskikh modeley issledovany nekotorye rezhimy techeniya i rasprostraneniya zagryaznyayushchikh veshchestv kak v model'nykh gornykh ushchel'yakh, tak i v ushchel'yakh Kavkazskogo khrebta, raspolozhennykh na territorii Severnoy Osetii.