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
Chapter 6: A Springboard for the Future
My Springboard
Proposal for More Staff
Efforts to Improve Scientific Status of the Bureau
Gibbs-Priestley-White Prospectus
Successes and Struggles with Ministers and Permanent Heads
Submission to Royal Commission on Government Administration
The Committee of Inquiry
Achievements 1962 to 1978
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 48 One of the first pictures received on 8 September 1977 by the Bureau's Medium Data Utilisation Station in Melbourne from the Japanese Geostationary Satellite launched on 14 July of that year and positioned in orbit 36 000 km above West Irian.
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Figure 49 George Rutherford, an outstanding contributor to Bureau achievements in training, research and the operation of the Melbourne World Meteorological Centre of the WMO World Weather Watch. George on left with Bureau colleagues on a fishing expedition in Bass Strait.
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