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
Index
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International Antarctic Analysis Centre (continued)
Item 204 in Weather News No 31 of February 1959 reports that the IAAC commenced operation on a preliminary basis on 2 February 1959 in premises at 468 Lonsdale Street with Henry Phillpot as Leader and a staff of up to 10 female assistants. Although staffed and accommodated by the Bureau, the operation of the IAAC, as an international activity, was under the surveillance of the Joint Working Party.Invitations had been extended to Argentina, Belgium, Chile, France, Japan, Norway, New Zealand and South Africa, UK, US and USSR to second meteorologists to work at the Centre. Item 238 of Weather News No 36 of July 1959 reports that Tom Gray, former head of the Little America International Antarctic Weather Central, had joined IAAC, and provides background of his meteorological career.
In Weather News No 42 of January 1960, Item 286 gives a summary of progress in establishing the IAAC. Keith Morley had left IAAC to join the Bureau Training School in August, being replaced by Lieutenant Commander J. Timbs, a meteorologist from the Royal Australian Navy. Thus at this time staff consisted of Henry Phillpot, Tom Gray and Timbs, plus female assistants who plotted charts.
The analysis program consisted of 700, 500 and 300 mb constant pressure charts south of 60°S at 00 and 12 GMT and MSL, 700, 500 and 300 mb charts northward to about 30°S. It is interesting to note that the program did not include charts for MSL south of 60°S because that area is mainly occupied by Antarctic ice and some exposed mountain ranges extending to considerable elevations. A MSL chart in that area would have no meaning and even the level of the 700 mb (10 000 feet) chart intersected with the largely ice bound continent.
People in Bright Sparcs - Dwyer, Leonard Joseph; Phillpot, Henry Robert
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