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War History of the Australian Meteorological Service

Foreword

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1: D.Met.S.—Australia's Wartime Weather Service

Chapter 2: The Weather Factor in Warfare

Chapter 3: Met in the Retreat

Chapter 4: Met in the Advance

Chapter 5: Meteorology in Aviation

Chapter 6: Central Forecasting Services

Chapter 7: Met With the Army

Chapter 8: Research and Personnel Training

Chapter 9: Instrumental Development and Maintenance

Chapter 10: Scientific Developments in the RAAF Meteorological Service

Chapter 11: Divisional Bureaux and Their Work

Appendix 1: List of Reports Provided by D.Met.S. for Advances Operational Planning and Other Purposes
Solomon Islands
New Britain and New Guinea Regions
Netherlands East Indies, excluding Dutch New Guinea
Philippine Islands
Japan, with Japanese and Mandated Territories
Miscellaneous Reports
Investigations, Intelligence and Services

Appendix 2: List of Service Personnel RAAF Meteorological Service

Appendix 3: List of Civilian Personnel Who Worked Together with Service Personnel of the RAAF Meteorological Service

Appendix 4: List of Locations at which RAAF Meteorological Service Personnel Served


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Philippine Islands

  • Davao (Mindanao), with tables for March to December 1944 (March 1944);

  • Island of Mindanao (June 1944);

  • Information for RAAF Command meteorological section relating to weather conditions over the Philippines (June 1944);

  • Tables for Davao for January to June 1945 (June 1944);

  • Tables for Jolo Island and Tawitawi Island for July 1944 to December 1945 (June 1944);

  • Terrain studies of the Philippine group, for which purpose the islands were divided into ten sections; meteorological and climatological details being supplied for each, except for the island of Mindanao, which had been issued previously (commenced June 1944);

  • Tables for Baler and Infanta for September 1944 to September 1945 and time differences between Infanta and Atimonan (July 1944);

  • Tables for Legaspi Point (Tacloban) for September 1944 to September 1945 and the time difference between Tacloban and Masbate; Legaspi Point and Virac; Barceloneta and Celauag (July 1944);

  • Rainfall map of the Philippine Islands, showing annual isohyets for 1,000, 1,500, 2,000, 2,500, 3,000, 4,000mm. (approximately 40, 60, 80, 100, 120, 160 inches) and the regions of various rainfall types (July 1944);

  • Islands of Samar and Leyte (Area 1) (July 1944);

  • South-east Luzon (Area 2) (July 1944);

  • Western Luzon (Area 4) (August 1944);

  • Tables for Aparri and Santiago for September 1944 to September 1945 (August 1944);

  • Sulu Archipelago (Area 5) (August 1944);

  • Cagayan Valley (Mindanao) (September 1944);

  • Tabulated list of monthly and annual rainfalls for principal towns (September 1944);

  • North-east Luzon (Part of Area 6) (September 1944);

  • Lingayan Gulf, north-west Luzon (September 1944);

  • North-west Luzon (Part of Area 6) (September 1944);

  • Sibuyan Sea (October 1944);

  • Mindoro Island (Area 9) (October 1944);

  • Tables for Calapan and San Jose for October 1944 to December 1945;

  • Panay Island (Area 7) (October 1944);

  • Negros Island (Area 8) (October 1944);

  • Palawan Island (Area 10) (October 1944);

  • Tables for Cabanatuan, Iba, and Manila for December 1944 to December 1945 (October 1944);

  • Cebu and Bohol Island (October 1944);

  • Modification of the original scheme of division of the Philippine Archipelago into 10 areas was found necessary as the work proceeded, and, on completion, reports were grouped and edited for reproduction as a whole and distribution to RAAF meteorological sections (October 1944). The single report thus issued contained first a general discussion of conditions encountered over the whole archipelago, followed by detailed information of a local nature for which the whole area was divided into 14, as follows: Sulu Archipelago, Mindanao, Samar and Leyte, South-East Luzon, Central East Luzon, North-East Luzon, North-West Luzon, South-West Luzon, Mindoro, Sibuyan Sea, Panay, Negros, Cebu, and Bohol, Palawan Archipelago;

  • Sun and moon tables, from December 1944 to December 1945 for Capiz on Panay Island, Bacolod on Negros Island, Bantayan and Yagbilaran in the Cebu, Bohol area, with time differences for Camotes, Cebu and Siquijor; Vigan, in north-west Luzon and time difference for Laoag; Boac and Romblon in the Sibuyan Sea area and time difference for Masbate; Puerta Princesa and Culion in Palawan (November 1944);

  • Central Mindanao (December 1944);

  • Tables for Cotabato for 1945 and time differences between Cotabato and Kalaybalay (December 1944);

  • Tables for Jolotown, Sulu Archipelago for 1945 (December 1944);

  • Cuyo Islands, with tables for 1945 (December 1944);

  • Malabang (Mindanao) (June 1945);


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Haldane, T. 1997 'War History of the Australian Meteorological Service in the Royal Australian Air Force April 1941 to July 1946', Metarch Papers, No. 10 October 1997, Bureau of Meteorology

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