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 Dwyer—A 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 Tests—Mosaic G1 and G2
Atomic Weapons Tests—Buffalo 1, 2, 3 and 4
Atomic Weapons Tests—Operations Antler, 2 and 3
Atomic Weapons Tests—Minor 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, 1942–45
Endnotes
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Tropical Cyclones (continued)
Earlier chapters have described the efforts of Deputy Directors and their staffs in Divisional Offices in Brisbane and Perth in the Warren and Timcke years to detect and forecast the movement and intensity of tropical cyclones in the tropical seas bordering the western, northern and eastern coasts of the continent. A few ships' reports and observations from Cocos and Willis Islands, the islands of Indonesia, Papua and New Guinea, the Solomons and New Caledonia and a string of coastal stations including Geraldton, Port Hedland, Broome, Wyndham, Darwin, Groote Island, Karumba, Thursday Island, Cooktown, Cairns, Garbutt, Bowen, Mackay, Rockhampton and Eagle Farm were insufficient to detect every developing tropical cyclone likely to bring destruction to the towns and villages along that coastline. Most of the settlement was along the east coast of Queensland and it was there that political and local demand for improved cyclone warning was most evident.To assess the risk of damage by tropical cyclones in various parts of Australia it is necessary to examine every available record of their occurrence. The latest comprehensive survey of which I am aware is the meteorological summary of R. S. (Bob) Lourensz (1977) who catalogued the occurrence of tropical cyclones in the Australian region from July 1909 to June 1975.
Like droughts and floods, tropical cyclones make only occasional visits to any particular locality. This means that politicians, Government officials and the general public tend to look to the short-term future and overlook the ever-present risk that a flood, drought or tropical cyclone might occur in the near future.
People in Bright Sparcs - Dwyer, Leonard Joseph; Timcke, Edward Waldemar; Warren, Herbert Norman
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