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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

Appendix 1: References

Appendix 2: Reports, Papers, Manuscripts
Authors
Interviews
Other Publications
Other Reports
Notes on Frosterley—No 2 Drummond Street, Carlton

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

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Appendix 2: Reports, Papers, Manuscripts

This Appendix supplements references listed in Appendix 1. It refers to scientific papers, reports and other papers and manuscripts (some unpublished), proceedings of conferences, seminars, working groups and other activities sponsored by the Bureau of Meteorology or other bodies. Although many of the papers were originated after 1962 all have relevance to the period 1946 to 1962. Copies of papers and reports held by W. J. Gibbs are indicated thus *.

Authors

  • Bath, A. T. and Gibbs, W. J. 1956. Synoptic analysis in the tropics. Australian Meteorological Magazine, no 12, 22-41.

  • *Brann, H. W. A. N. 1986. Notes on the work of the Instrument Section, Bureau of Meteorology. Unpublished.

  • *Cassidy, M. 1994. If I remember rightly: Max Cassidy looks back. Recently published—see Appendix 1.

  • Cornish, A. W. 1996. Memories of the Bureau of Meteorology 1929 to 1946. Metarch Papers, no 8. Bureau of Meteorology.

  • *Dwyer, L. J. 1961. Achievements in Meteorology in Australia, 1950–1961. Office Notice. Bureau of Meteorology, (signed on behalf of L. J. Dwyer by A. V. Atkins). 7 pp.

  • Fletcher, P. (Ed). 1996. Seventy-five years at Willis Island. Metarch Papers, no 9. Bureau of Meteorology.

  • Foley, J. C. 1956. 500 mb contour patterns associated with the occurrence of widespread rains in Australia. : Australian Meteorological Magazine, no 13, 1–18 (This was a revised version of his paper presented to the ANZAAS conference in Sydney in 1952).

  • Foley, J. C. 1957. Droughts in Australia; Review of records from earliest years of settlement to 1955. Bulletin No 43. Bureau of Meteorology.

  • Gardner, J. 1997. Stormy weather: a history of research in the Bureau of Meteorology. Metarch Papers, no 11. Bureau of Meteorology.

  • Gibbs, W. J. 1945. Recent developments in weather analysis in Australia. Australian Geographer, 5, 47–51.

  • *Gibbs, W. J. 1949. Cloud forecasting. The Australian Air Pilot, 1, 16–18.

  • Gibbs, W. J. 1949. A period of analysis for the Southern Ocean and its implication in southern hemisphere circulation. Weather Development and Research Bulletin, no 12, 5–42.

  • Gibbs, W. J. 1951. The Weather. Current Affairs Bulletin, 115–28.

  • Gibbs, W. J. 1952. Notes on the reduction of barometer readings. Australian Meteorological Magazine, no 1, 5–7.

  • *Gibbs, W. J. 1953. Forecasting for jet aircraft. Bureau of Meteorology internal report. 9 pp + 16 figs.

  • *Gibbs, W. J. 1954. Meteorological aspects of microwave propagation in Australia. Meteorological Study, no 1. Bureau of Meteorology. 14 pp + 9 figs.

  • Gibbs, W. J. 1955. 200 mb divergence associated with rapid and intense cyclogenesis 16–18 May, 1955. Australian Meteorological Magazine, no 11, 17–35.

  • Gibbs, W. J. 1958. Physical aspects of rainfall forecasting. (Paper presented to ANZAAS conference, Adelaide).

  • Gibbs, W. J. 1958. Some problems associated with the synoptic meteorology of the Southern Ocean and Antarctica. (Paper presented to the Special Committee for the International Geophysical Year (CSAGI), Moscow).

  • *Gibbs, W. J. 1958. The rain process. Conference on estimation of extreme precipitation, Melbourne, April 22–24, 1958, Bureau of Meteorology, 10–56.

  • *Gibbs, W. J. 1959. Jet streams over high southern latitudes. (Paper presented to an Antarctic symposium, Buenos Aires—proceedings unpublished). 10 pp + 16 figs.

  • Gibbs, W. J. 1959. Some problems of synoptic meteorology in the Antarctic. (Paper presented to the Special Committee for the International Geophysical Year (CSAGI), Moscow).

  • *Gibbs, W. J. 1959. Report on meeting of the Special Committee for the International Geophysical Year (CSAGI), Moscow.

  • Gibbs, W. J. 1959. Summaries of some papers presented to Conference of Special Committee for the International Geophysical Year (CSAGI), Moscow, 1958. Australian Meteorological Magazine, no 24, 65–70.

  • Gibbs, W. J. 1960. Notes on stratospheric circulations in the Australasian region. Australasian Meteorological Magazine, no 30, 55–56.

  • *Gibbs, W. J. 1960. Research in a National Meteorological Service. Appendix 4 to report of Bureau of Meteorology conference on management. 159–70.

  • Gibbs, W. J. 1962. Geography and Meteorology. (Presidential address by W. J. Gibbs to Section P (Geography and Oceanography) of ANZAAS). Australian Journal of Science. 25, 251–55.

  • *Gibbs, W. J. 1969. Scientists, practitioners and researchers. Address by W. J. Gibbs to a graduation ceremony, University of Melbourne, 1969.

  • Gibbs, W. J. 1972. Mathematics in Meteorology—Theory and Practice. (Presidential address by W. J. Gibbs to the Mathematical Sciences Section of the 44th ANZAAS Congress, Sydney, August 1972). AGPS, Canberra.

  • Gibbs, W. J. 1982. A perspective of Australian meteorology—1939–1978. Australian Meteorological Magazine, 30, 3–17. , 3–17.

  • Gibbs, W. J. 1986. Catalogue of items in 'Weather News'. Metarch Papers, no 1. Bureau of Meteorology.

  • Gibbs, W. J. 1995. A glimpse of the RAAF Meteorological Service. Metarch Papers, no 7. Bureau of Meteorology.

  • Gibbs, W. J. and Housell, W. K. 1961. Stratospheric winds over Australia. Working Paper 60/2612. Bureau of Meteorology. 6 pp + 16 figs.

  • Glendinning, C. 1996. The Bureau of Meteorology in Papua and New Guinea in the 1950s. Metarch Papers, no 8. Bureau of Meteorology.

  • Haldane, T. A. (Ed). 1997. War History of the Australian Meteorological Service in the Royal Australian Air Force, April 1941 to July 1946. Metarch Papers, no 10. Bureau of Meteorology.

  • Handcock, D. E. 1997. They only fade away. Weather News no 315. Bureau of Meteorology, 38–41.

  • Hannay, A. K. 1994. Some recollections of service in the Commonwealth Bureau of Meteorology and the RAAF Meteorological Service: Mascot and Rose Bay (1938 to 1940); Sojourn in the Far East (1942). Metarch Papers, no 6. Bureau of Meteorology.

  • Hogan, J. 1986. Notes prepared by J. Hogan (1896–1970). Metarch Papers, no 2. Bureau of Meteorology.

  • Joyce, J. 1993. The story of the RAAF Meteorological Service. Metarch Papers, no 5. Bureau of Meteorology.

  • Krichak, O. G. 1958. The special features of the atmospheric circulation over the Antarctic and their relationship with the processes over the southern hemisphere. (Paper presented to the Special Committee for the International Geophysical Year (CSAGI), Moscow).

  • Lillywhite, J. W. 1992. My early years in the Bureau of Meteorology: The formation of the Frosterley Club. Metarch Papers, no 4. Bureau of Meteorology.

  • Lourensz, R. S. 1977. Tropical cyclones in the Australian region, July 1909 to June 1975. AGPS, Canberra.

  • McRae, J. N. 1955. A case of cyclogenesis associated with an upper cut-off low. Australian Meteorological Magazine, no 11, 36–46.

  • *McRae, J. N. 1962. Report on meteorological aspects of loss of Viscount airliner VH-TVC. Report on Air Accident Investigations, Vol 2, App A12. Department of Civil Aviation.

  • McRae, J. N. and Phillpot, H. R. 1959. Some statistics relating to 300 and 200 mb winds and temperatures on the Sydney-Nandi air route. Australian Meteorological Magazine, no 25. 1-28.

  • Maine, R. 1966. Automatic numerical weather analysis for the Australian region. Meteorological Study, no 16. Bureau of Meteorology.

  • *Maine, R. 1970. Chronology of numerical experimentation and development in analysis and prognosis in the Bureau of Meteorology and Commonwealth Meteorological Research Centre 1956–1969. Unpublished.

  • *Nelson, L. 1937. Reminiscences of the Bureau of Meteorology 1916–1937. Unpublished.

  • Phillpot, H. R. 1997. Some observationally-identified meteorological features of East Antarctica. Meteorological Study, no 42. Bureau of Meteorology.

  • Priestley, C. H. B. 1982. Reminiscences of 30 years of meteorological research. Australian Meteorological Magazine, 30, 19–30.

  • Rutherford, G. T. 1961. Review of the application of satellites in meteorology. Australian Meteorological Magazine, no 34, 1–14.

  • Seaman, R. 1997. A comparison of some methods for reduction of pressure to sea level over Australia. Australian Meteorological Magazine, 46, 15–25.
  • Southern, R. L. 1985. A personal recollection of meteorological aspects of the British atomic weapons tests, Monte Bello Islands, Maralinga and subsequent minor trials. (A statement to the Australian Royal Commission, Perth, hearings, May 1985). 18 pp, four maps.

  • Spinks, D. and Haynes, I. 1986. The life of George Grant Bond, early Queensland weather forecaster. Metarch Papers, no 3. Bureau of Meteorology.

  • Stout, R. 1996. History of major meteorological installations in Australia from 1945 to 1981. Metarch Papers, no 8. Bureau of Meteorology.

  • Swan, K. 1996. Four years in the RAAF Meteorological Service. Metarch Papers, no 8. Bureau of Meteorology.

  • *Timcke, E. W. 31 October 1950. Letter to Secretary, Department of the Interior re vacancy in position of Director of Meteorology. 2 pp.

  • *Wallace, M. 1975. Memories of the Perth Office of the Bureau of Meteorology 1929–1975. Unpublished.

  • *Warren, H. N. 21 August 1945. Letter to Secretary, Department of Air (Copy to Department of the Interior) re vacancy in position of Director of Meteorology. 3 pp.

  • Wexler, H. 1958. Seasonal and secular temperature changes in Antarctica. (Paper presented to the Special Committee for the International Geophysical Year (CSAGI), Moscow).

  • Whittingham, H. E. 1958. The Bathurst Bay Hurricane and associated storm surge. Australian Meteorological Magazine, no 23, 14–36.

Interviews

  • *Morton, B. 1988. Record of interview of Dr C. H. B. Priestley at Monash University, Melbourne, November 1988. (Recently published manuscript in the archives of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society).

  • *Morton, B. 1996. Record of interview of Dr Jack Warner at Monash University, Melbourne, 30 September 1995. (Unpublished manuscript in the archives of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society).

Other Publications

  • 1956 Climatic Averages Australia. Bureau of Meteorology. 107 pp.

  • 1962 International Antarctic Analysis Centre. Bureau of Meteorology. 12pp.

Other Reports

  • *27 May 1940. Report of committee to consider applications for position of Director of Meteorology. 3 pp.

  • *17 February 1948: Report of committee to consider applications for the position of Chief Scientific Officer, Meteorological Branch, Department of the Interior. 4 pp + 4 pp attachment.

  • *April 1950. Report of analysts' conference. Central Weather Bureau, Melbourne. Unpublished. 34 pp.

  • September 1955. Report of tropical cyclone conference, Brisbane. Bureau of Meteorology. 228 pp. (includes the following working papers:
    • Nos 1 and 3, The structure of tropical cyclones by A .K. Hannay;

    • No. 4, Movement of tropical cyclones by A. K. Hannay;

    • No. 5, Formation, deepening and filling of tropical cyclones by W. J. Gibbs;

    • No. 6, Case histories of tropical cyclones by G. O'Mahony;

    • No. 8, Mass detection methods for tropical cyclone warning purposes by H. W. A. N. Brann and J. Hennessy; and

    • No. 11, Organization of cyclone warnings by A. T. Bath).

  • December 1956. Proceedings of the tropical cyclone symposium, Brisbane. Bureau of Meteorology. 436 pp. (includes the following working papers:
    • Occurrence in the Australian region by A. T. Brunt and J. Hogan;

    • Methods of tropical analysis by C. S. Ramage;

    • Structure of tropical cyclones by H. G. Bond and A. F. Rainbird;

    • Hurricane detection by radar and other means by V. D. Rockney;

    • Knowledge of formation and development of tropical cyclones by E. Palmen;

    • Two cases of cyclogenesis in tropical latitudes by W. J. Gibbs;

    • The motion of tropical storms by H. Riehl; and

    • Sea and swell in tropical cyclones by G. W. Mackey and H. E. Whittingham).

  • 1960. Publication of proceedings of the symposium on Antarctic meteorology held in Melbourne in February, 1959, under the auspices of the Australian Academy of Science with the endorsement of the Special Committee for the International Geophysical Year (CSAGI) and the Special Committee for Antarctic Research (SCAR). Pergamon Press, London. 483 pp.

  • August 1960. Report of seminar on rain, Sydney. Bureau of Meteorology. 1150 pp. (in six volumes comprising:
    • Vol. 1, Synoptic case histories;

    • Vol. 2, Tables of rainfall and related data;

    • Vol. 3, Precipitation notebook; and

    • Vols 4, 5 and 6 (parts I and II)—Papers presented and discussions).

Notes on Frosterley—No 2 Drummond Street, Carlton

  • *Unpublished notes by H. T. Ashton

  • *Unpublished notes by D. E. Handcock.

  • *Unpublished notes by S. Snowball Rowe. 5 pp

  • *Pamphlet issued by the Australian Trade Union Training Authority, Melbourne.

  • *Conservation Management Plan, Frosterley, 1 Drummond Street Carlton. (Prepared for Australian Estate Management by Australian Construction Services—I. Nelsen, P. Miller and T. Sawyer).


Organisations in Australian Science at Work - International Antarctic Analysis Centre

People in Bright Sparcs - Ashton, Henry Tamblyn (Harry); Bath, Allen Tristram; Bond, Harold George; Brann, Harold Walter Allen Neale (Bill); Brunt, Allan Thomas; Cornish, Allan William; Dwyer, Leonard Joseph; Fletcher, Peter; Foley, James Charles; Glendinning, Colin (Col); Haldane, Thomas; Handcock, Don; Hannay, Alexander Keith (Keith); Hogan, John; Joyce, John; Mackey, George William; O'Mahony, Gerard (Gerry); Phillpot, Henry Robert; Priestley, Charles Henry Brian (Bill); Warren, Herbert Norman; Whittingham, Herbert E. (Herb)

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