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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The Victorian Divisional Office
Like Sydney, the Melbourne office had a history extending back to colonial days with Georg von Neumayer having been colonial Government Meteorologist from 1857 to 1863.There was no Divisional Office for Victoria before and during the war, with forecasts, warnings and other weather information supplied by the forecasting section of Central Office. Warren's reorganisation established a Deputy Director for Victoria in April 1947. John Hogan (1896–1970) acted for a brief period before Tommy Camm became Deputy Director in charge of the provision of public weather services for Victoria in July 1947.
Tommy had served with the AIF in France in World War I, where a war wound caused the loss of sight in one eye. He was a man of great dignity, with a military bearing. His principal assistant was Jack Johnston, a former schoolteacher who joined the RAAF Meteorological Service and remained with the Bureau after the war. Jack, like Keith Hannay and Jack Wiesner in Sydney, brought a fresh approach to forecasting.
People in Bright Sparcs - Hannay, Alexander Keith (Keith); Hogan, John; Johnston, John (Jack); Neumayer, Georg Balthazar; Warren, Herbert Norman
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