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
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Achievements of the Warren Years (continued)
At the time of its formation in 1908 the total permanent staff of the Bureau was 34, which by 1930 had increased to 77. When Warren joined the Bureau in 1937 staff numbered about 150 and by 1940 had increased to over 200. After the formation of the RAAF Meteorological Service in April 1941 most of the existing Bureau staff joined the Service and by the end of the war in 1945 enlistments of men and women who served in uniform in the RAAF Meteorological Service would have totalled about 1000. From an initial strength of about 250 in 1941 the strength of the RAAF Meteorological Service increased to more than 800 during the later years of the war.As Director of Meteorology after the war Warren was in charge of the re-establishment of the Bureau. Under his direction the Bureau was reorganised to meet the urgent needs of civil aviation, the general public and various Government and private organisations having special requirements for a wide range of meteorological services.
After demobilisation from the RAAF Meteorological Service in 1945–46 and the return of many to other peacetime occupations the total staff in the Bureau would have been about 450. The urgent recruiting campaign which followed raised the staff strength at the time of Warren's death in August 1950 to about 650.
Warren's achievements in the period from 1938 to 1950 were many. A vigorous staff training program, the initiation of a cadet meteorologist program, the creation of a vigorous Instrument Section, the acquisition of 15 ex-navy radar sets which were used to equip a wind-finding and weather watching network in the 1950s were all accomplished while organising and administering a large specialised arm of the military services. The Bureau which emerged after the war was vastly different from the organisation which Warren was asked to reorganise in 1938.
One of the most outstanding of Warren's achievements was his involvement of the Bureau in international meteorology, the subject of the next chapter.
People in Bright Sparcs - Warren, Herbert Norman
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