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 34 Participants at the International Symposium on Antarctic Meteorology held in the building of the Royal Society Melbourne 1825 February, 1959. Left to right front row: Hogan, Gray, Wadati, L. J. Dwyer, Miss Phillips, Van Mieghem. Zimmerman, Brann, Hopper. Second row: Loewe, Kerr, Dzerdeevski. Hannan, Karelsky, Ball, Langford, Priestley, Debenham, Arnold. Third row: Pound, Radok, Gibbs, Lamb. Fourth row: Shaw, Robin, Panwrini, Rubin, Phillpot, Langlo, MacDowell, Wilcock. Back row: Clarke, Treloar, Gabites, McRae, Wilson, Mackey, Hannay, Simmers, Thompson, Taljaard.
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