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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Synoptic Analysis, Prognosis and Forecasting (continued)
My next move was to join a long overnight queue of young people seeking to buy one of the newly advertised Myer prefabricated homes. I was lucky enough to be near the head of the queue when the estate agent's office in the city of Melbourne opened at 9 am and was able to purchase one of the limited number of houses.Audrey and I visited an orchard in Blackburn which was being subdivided to form a new housing estate. We purchased two adjoining building blocks full of pear trees for the princely sum of one hundred and fifty pounds.
The position of OIC of the CAO had become vacant when Ralph Holmes transferred to the position of Inspector (Aviation) and I was promoted to the position of senior meteorologist in July 1947. I survived a number of appeals by colleagues who had joined the Bureau before me.
I left Australia with H. N. Warren in July 1947, attended the conferences in Toronto and Washington and returned to Melbourne in October of that year. The story of these and other conferences is told in the next chapter.
In my absence Audrey, despite having two small daughters to care for and being pregnant, had supervised the erection of the prefabricated house. With the help of her aunts, who had travelled from Sydney to assist, she had moved into the house. I was full of admiration for her efforts. She was aware that the experience I had gained at the conferences could help my career, and that our family would benefit from any increase in salary which might result. I was extremely grateful for her help and understanding.
On my return from the conferences in Toronto and Washington late in 1947 I was full of ideas for upgrading the program of the CAO and was able to secure approval for additional staff and a change of title of the Office to Central Analysis and Weather Development Section (CAWDS). The staff increase included the creation of a position of research and development meteorologist through which the meteorologists on shift work could be rotated. Although the occupant of this development position remained for only two weeks it gave the meteorologists on shift work time to investigate the methods of analysis and prognosis we were using or other matters in which they were interested. The staff increase also enabled us to extend our program of analysis and prognosis.
Organisations in Australian Science at Work - Central Analysis Office (CAO)
People in Bright Sparcs - Warren, Herbert Norman
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