Memories of the Bureau, 1946 to 1962
Foreword
Terminology
Prologue
Preface
Chapter 1: The Warren Years, 1946 to 1950
Warren the Man
Warren Joins the Bureau
Wartime Perceptions and Attitudes
Return to Civvy Street
Frosterley
People in the Bureau
Re-establishing and Reorganising the Bureau
Reorganisation of Central Office
The Position of Chief Scientific Officer
Post-War Reorganisation
The Haldane Story
Public Weather Services
The New South Wales Divisional Office
The Victorian Divisional Office
The Queensland Divisional Office
The South Australian Divisional Office
The Western Australian Divisional Office
The Tasmanian Divisional Office
Pre-war Services for Civil Aviation
Post-War Meteorological Service for Aviation
Indian Ocean Survey Flight
The Aviation Field Staff
Synoptic Analysis, Prognosis and Forecasting
Antarctic and Southern Ocean Meteorology
A Wider Scientific Horizon
Research, Development and Special Investigations
Analysts' Conference, April 1950
Instruments and Observations
Radiosondes
Radar Winds and Radar Weather Watch
Telecommunications
Climate and Statistics
Training
Publications
CSIRO
The Universities
Achievements of the Warren Years
Chapter 2: International Meteorology
Chapter 3: The Timcke Years, 1950 to 1955
Chapter 4: A Year at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Chapter 5: The Dwyer Years, 1955 to 1962
Chapter 6: A Springboard for the Future
Appendix 1: References
Appendix 2: Reports, Papers, Manuscripts
Appendix 3: Milestones
Appendix 4: Acknowledgements
Appendix 5: Summary by H. N. Warren of the Operation of the Meteorological Section of Allied Air Headquarters, Brisbane, 1942–45
Endnotes
Index
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Post-War Reorganisation
At this stage the Bureau had settled down into an ad hoc operation with Warren working hard on its re-establishment and reorganisation. Much could be said about his influence in persuading the Minister and Permanent Head of the Department of the Interior, the Public Service Board and the Treasury that he should be given the resources to develop the Bureau, but the results of his efforts will emerge as my story unfolds.Four people were central to those who helped Warren shape the Bureau's post-war structure. During the war Timcke had been Warren's deputy and played a prominent role in developing the post-war reorganisation.
Roy Hodgins had managed the administrative machinery of posting and promotion of the staff of the RAAF Meteorological Service and played a prominent part in winding-up that Service and assisting in interim arrangements for the return of the Bureau to Civvy Street. However Roy saw a brighter future elsewhere and joined the staff of the Public Service Board. I am told that Jimmy Roach, Chief Clerk, who did not join the RAAF Meteorological Service, was responsible, under Warren's general supervision, for the administration of the civilian staff during the war.
People in Bright Sparcs - Dwyer, Leonard Joseph; Timcke, Edward Waldemar; Warren, Herbert Norman
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