Glimpse of the RAAF Meteorological Service
Preface
Foreword
Introduction
Chapter 1: Growing Up
Chapter 2: Port Moresby Before Pearl Harbour
Chapter 3: Port Moresby After Pearl Harbour
Chapter 4: Allied Air Force HQ and RAAF Command, Brisbane
Chapter 5: Japan Surrenders and We Are Demobilised
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
Appendix 1: References
Appendix 2: Milestones
1788
1822
1840
1841
1850
1853
1855
1857
1859
1863
1873
1879
1887
1894
1901
1903
1904
1908
1910
1914
1918
1916
1917
1919
1920
1921
1928
1932
1933
1934
1936
1937
1938
1939
1940–1944
1940
1941
Dec 1941–Jan 1942
1942
1943
1944
1944–1945
1945
1946
Appendix 3: Papers Published in Tropical Weather Research Bulletins
Appendix 4: Radiosonde Observations 1941–46
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This calendar of events was prepared by W. J. Gibbs to provide a background for his reminiscences of his time in the RAAF Meteorological Service from April 1941 to May 1946. The list includes relevant dates in his personal history, dates of significant events in the history of meteorology and aviation in Australia (with particular emphasis on the Royal Australian Air Force), dates of significant events in the war with the Japanese and other dates of general importance. Sources of information in this appendix are mainly from the list of references in Appendix 1.
1788
Jul: First astronomical and meteorological observatory established in Sydney by Lieutenant William Dawes, (ceased operation late in 1791).Meteorological observations made by various private people in the early 1800s.
1822
Governor Sir Thomas Brisbane builds astronomical and meteorological observatory at Parramatta where meteorological observations were made until the late 1820s. Observations were made at a variety of sites in NSW thereafter by various private persons.1840
Program of meteorological observations commenced at signal stations at Sydney's South Head, and at Port Philip and Port Macquarie which continued for some years.1841
Meteorological observations commenced in Van Diemens Land at Imperial Astronomical Observatory in Hobart and continued until 1848.1850
Inauguration of University of Sydney.1853
R. L. J. Ellery establishes primitive observatory at Williamstown, Victoria.1855
Charles Todd becomes Superintendent of Telegraphs and Government Astronomer and Meteorologist in Adelaide.1857
Von Neumayer establishes observatory on Flagstaff Hill, Melbourne.
People in Bright Sparcs - Brisbane, Thomas Makdougall; Dawes, William; Ellery, Robert Lewis John; Neumayer, Georg Balthazar; Todd, Charles
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