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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Publications (continued)
Of particular interest is the mention of monthly meetings of colloquia, and weekly CAWDS discussion groups. I remember the colloquia included Bill Priestley and other members of CSIR Section of Atmospheric Physics, Fritz Loewe and Uwe Radok of the Department of Meteorology at the University of Melbourne and of course a wide range of Bureau people.Colloquia discussions were centred on addresses by staff of the Bureau, CSIRO, Meteorological and other departments of the University of Melbourne, the Antarctic Division, various Victorian State Government Departments and others. Discussions were always lively.
The colloquia led to the formation of the Australian Branch of the Royal Meteorological Society in the late 1960s which was replaced by the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (AMOS) in the 1980s.
The weekly Friday afternoon CAWDS discussion groups were often attended by Bureau staff from other offices in the Melbourne area and were also lively affairs.
Some of these items in the loose leaf supplements were eventually incorporated in the Bureau's Australian Meteorological Magazine (AMM) and still later in the Bureau's house journal Weather News which was first produced in August 1956 and still continues as an important source of Bureau history.
Organisations in Australian Science at Work - Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society
People in Bright Sparcs - Loewe, Fritz; Priestley, Charles Henry Brian (Bill); Warren, Herbert Norman
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