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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
Radiosonde Personnel
Chemical Warfare Experiments
Training of Outside Personnel
Miscellaneous Training and Lectures
Civil Air Lines' Trainees
Compilation of Notes and Manuals
Meteorological and Climatic Reports
Coastal and Seaward Areas
Enemy Occupied Areas
Training Statistics

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

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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Coastal and Seaward Areas (continued)

Attention was given firstly to the tropical regions, so that in July 1942 Part 1, "The Bismarck Archipelago", appeared; followed by: "The Pacific Ocean from the Equator to the Tropic of Capricorn between Longitude 155 degrees and 170 degrees East", "The Coral Sea west from Longitude 155 East, including the coast of Papua and the Queensland coast from Cape York to Rockhampton", "Northern Australian waters, including the north coast of Australia from its intersection with Longitude 120 degrees East to Cape York, and the seas northward to approximately Latitude 10 degrees South, including parts of the Timor and Arafura Seas and the Gulf of Carpentaria", "The eastern part of the Netherlands East Indies and the surrounding seas (0 degrees South to 10 degrees South, 120 degrees to 141 degrees East)", "The Eastern Part of the Indian Ocean (13 degrees to 28 degrees South, 95 degrees to 120 degrees East), including the coast of Western Australia from Condon to a point between Hamelin Pool and Geraldton", "The Pacific Ocean between the Tropic of Capricorn and Latitude 32 degrees South, west of Longitude 170 degrees East, including the Australian coast from Rockhampton to Port Macquarie", "The South-West Tasman Sea (32 degrees to 46 degrees South, 146 degrees to 160 degrees East), including the Australian coast from Port Macquarie to Wilsons Promontory, and the eastern part of Tasmania", "Southern waters north from Latitude 46 degrees South, between Longitudes 135 degrees and 140 degrees East, including the west coast of Tasmania and the coast of Australia from Port Lincoln to Wilsons Promontory", "Southern waters north from Latitude 46 degrees South, between Longitudes 122 degrees and 135 degrees East, including the coast of Australia from Esperance to Port Lincoln" and, finally, "The south-eastern part of the Indian Ocean (28 degrees to 46 degrees South, 80 degrees to 122 degrees East), including the coast of Western Australia from Esperance to Geraldton".

This work was not completed until December 1944, involving as it did a great deal of research, so that less attention was possible to Volume Three. Considerable progress, however, was made in the third volume, of which the first series (a discussion of charts of a selected synoptic situation) was completed in June 1944.


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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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