Research and Special Investigations (continued)

Particularly in the Dwyer years there were specific areas of Bureau activity requiring the development of new techniques to meet specific objectives such as the improvement of weather forecasts and warnings for the general public and specialist users such as those engaged in aviation, agriculture, regional development, industry, commerce, atomic weapons tests and many other similar areas.

Examination of publications and reports reveals the range of subjects researched. The 28 issues of the AMM published during the Dwyer years contain over 100 papers by Bureau staff including those by Harry Ashton on air conditioning, Allen Bath and Herbie Whittingham on tropical cyclones and synoptic analysis in the tropics, Harold Bond and Allan Brunt on floods, Reg Clarke on sea-breezes, Reg Clarke, J. C. Foley, Bill Gibbs and Neil McRae on upper air divergence and cyclogenesis. Bob Dingle, Keith Morley and Peter Shaw on Antarctic meteorology, Gwynne Wilson, Don Douglas and Herbie Whittingham on fire weather. Bill Gibbs and George Rutherford on meteorological satellites, Col Hounam on evaporation, Sima Karelsky on long-range forecasting, Ross Maine on numerical prediction, Bill Gibbs and Jack Langford on Southern Ocean meteorology, and Gerry O'Mahony on cloud seeding and on rainfall periodicity.

As reported in item 40 of issue No 8 of Weather News (March 1957) in 1954 I had obtained the approval of E. W. Timcke and J. C. Foley that we should have a system of project reports in which all research and investigations carried out in the various offices of the Bureau could be coordinated and promulgated. Progress with this system is recorded in annual summaries in Weather News Nos 37, 49, 61 and 73 in the month of August in the years 1959 to 1962. The summaries list the published reports of the various projects. In addition to the more than 100 articles published in the AMM during the Dwyer years the list contains 23 Working Papers, nine Project Reports, 24 papers prepared for internal conferences, 11 Meteorological Summaries, two Meteorological Studies and two Bulletins. The published form of these articles ranged from loose leaf roneoed reports to bound, printed publications. The papers covered a wide range of subjects with authors from various offices of the Bureau.

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