Table of Contents
Memories of the Bureau, 1946 to 1962
Foreword
Terminology
Prologue
Preface
Chapter 1: The Warren Years, 1946 to 1950
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
Leonard Joseph DwyerA Complex Character
Reorganising the Bureau
Public Weather Services
Forecasts for the General Public
Importance of Radio Stations
The Advent of Television
Automatic Telephone Forecast Service
Beacons
Wording and Verification of Forecasts
Warnings
Services for Aviation
Atomic Weapons Tests
Atomic Weapons TestsMosaic G1 and G2
Atomic Weapons TestsBuffalo 1, 2, 3 and 4
Atomic Weapons TestsOperations Antler, 2 and 3
Atomic Weapons TestsMinor Trials
Instruments and Observations
Radiosondes
Radar/Radio Winds and Radar Weather Watch
Automatic Weather Stations
Sferics
Meteorological Satellites
Telecommunications
Tropical Cyclones
Bureau Conference on Tropical Cyclones
International Symposium on Tropical Cyclones, Brisbane
Hydrometeorology
Design of Water Storages, Etc
Flood Forecasting
Cloud Seeding
Reduction of Evaporation
Rain Seminar
Cloud Physics
Fire Weather
Research and Special Investigations
International Activities
The International Geophysical Year
The Antarctic and Southern Ocean
International Symposium on Antarctic Meteorology
International Antarctic Analysis Centre
ADP, EDP and Computers
Training
Publications
Management Conference
Services Conference
CSIRO and the Universities
Achievements of the Dwyer Years
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, 194245
Endnotes
Index
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Figure 29 TIROS series meteorological satellite. TIROS I was placed into orbit by USA 1 April 1960. Shaped like a pillbox it was about a metre in diameter, weighed 120 kg and orbited the earth every 90 minutes between latitudes 50 deg north and south.
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Figure 30 One of the many photos taken by meteorological satellite TIROS I, copies of which Harry Wexler, of the US Weather Bureau, sent by air mail to Melbourne enabling Bill Gibbs and George Rutherford to investigate their use for routine synoptic analysis, particularly over the Southern Ocean. Photo is frame 17, orbit 446, 0418 GMT 2 May 1960.
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