War History of the Australian Meteorological Service
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: D.Met.S.—Australia's Wartime Weather Service
Chapter 2: The Weather Factor in Warfare
Chapter 3: Met in the Retreat
Chapter 4: Met in the Advance
Chapter 5: Meteorology in Aviation
Chapter 6: Central Forecasting Services
Chapter 7: Met With the Army
Chapter 8: Research and Personnel Training
Radiosonde Personnel
Chemical Warfare Experiments
Training of Outside Personnel
Miscellaneous Training and Lectures
Civil Air Lines' Trainees
Compilation of Notes and Manuals
Meteorological and Climatic Reports
Coastal and Seaward Areas
Enemy Occupied Areas
Training Statistics
Chapter 9: Instrumental Development and Maintenance
Chapter 10: Scientific Developments in the RAAF Meteorological Service
Chapter 11: Divisional Bureaux and Their Work
Appendix 1: List of Reports Provided by D.Met.S. for Advances Operational Planning and Other Purposes
Appendix 2: List of Service Personnel RAAF Meteorological Service
Appendix 3: List of Civilian Personnel Who Worked Together with Service Personnel of the RAAF Meteorological Service
Appendix 4: List of Locations at which RAAF Meteorological Service Personnel Served
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Coastal and Seaward Areas (continued)
Attention was given firstly to the tropical regions, so that in July 1942 Part 1, "The Bismarck Archipelago", appeared; followed by: "The Pacific Ocean from the Equator to the Tropic of Capricorn between Longitude 155 degrees and 170 degrees East", "The Coral Sea west from Longitude 155 East, including the coast of Papua and the Queensland coast from Cape York to Rockhampton", "Northern Australian waters, including the north coast of Australia from its intersection with Longitude 120 degrees East to Cape York, and the seas northward to approximately Latitude 10 degrees South, including parts of the Timor and Arafura Seas and the Gulf of Carpentaria", "The eastern part of the Netherlands East Indies and the surrounding seas (0 degrees South to 10 degrees South, 120 degrees to 141 degrees East)", "The Eastern Part of the Indian Ocean (13 degrees to 28 degrees South, 95 degrees to 120 degrees East), including the coast of Western Australia from Condon to a point between Hamelin Pool and Geraldton", "The Pacific Ocean between the Tropic of Capricorn and Latitude 32 degrees South, west of Longitude 170 degrees East, including the Australian coast from Rockhampton to Port Macquarie", "The South-West Tasman Sea (32 degrees to 46 degrees South, 146 degrees to 160 degrees East), including the Australian coast from Port Macquarie to Wilsons Promontory, and the eastern part of Tasmania", "Southern waters north from Latitude 46 degrees South, between Longitudes 135 degrees and 140 degrees East, including the west coast of Tasmania and the coast of Australia from Port Lincoln to Wilsons Promontory", "Southern waters north from Latitude 46 degrees South, between Longitudes 122 degrees and 135 degrees East, including the coast of Australia from Esperance to Port Lincoln" and, finally, "The south-eastern part of the Indian Ocean (28 degrees to 46 degrees South, 80 degrees to 122 degrees East), including the coast of Western Australia from Esperance to Geraldton".This work was not completed until December 1944, involving as it did a great deal of research, so that less attention was possible to Volume Three. Considerable progress, however, was made in the third volume, of which the first series (a discussion of charts of a selected synoptic situation) was completed in June 1944.
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