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Memories of the Bureau, 1946 to 1962

Foreword

Terminology

Prologue

Preface

Chapter 1: The Warren Years, 1946 to 1950
Warren the Man
Warren Joins the Bureau
Wartime Perceptions and Attitudes
Return to Civvy Street
Frosterley
People in the Bureau
Re-establishing and Reorganising the Bureau
Reorganisation of Central Office
The Position of Chief Scientific Officer
Post-War Reorganisation
The Haldane Story
Public Weather Services
The New South Wales Divisional Office
The Victorian Divisional Office
The Queensland Divisional Office
The South Australian Divisional Office
The Western Australian Divisional Office
The Tasmanian Divisional Office
Pre-war Services for Civil Aviation
Post-War Meteorological Service for Aviation
Indian Ocean Survey Flight
The Aviation Field Staff
Synoptic Analysis, Prognosis and Forecasting
Antarctic and Southern Ocean Meteorology
A Wider Scientific Horizon
Research, Development and Special Investigations
Analysts' Conference, April 1950
Instruments and Observations
Radiosondes
Radar Winds and Radar Weather Watch
Telecommunications
Climate and Statistics
Training
Publications
CSIRO
The Universities
Achievements of the Warren Years

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

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

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Research, Development and Special Investigations (continued)

Harry Mayne Treloar was a scientist of considerable ability who had problems in communicating with others. A Fellow of the Institute of Physics, B.Sc. Adelaide, LL B. Melbourne, he was the first Australian to be awarded D.Sc. for meteorology at the University of Melbourne. He was Supervising Meteorologist (Research) in the RAAF Meteorological Service from 1940 to 1945.

His academic qualifications and ambition to become the Bureau's chief scientist were obvious but as Cornish (1996) and Lillywhite (1992) have observed his obsession with his own particular interests tended to obscure any wider visions he might have had.

Warren's appointment as acting Director obviously displeased Harry Treloar and their relationship was formal but barely cordial. When in 1943 I persuaded Warren to agree to the publication of the Tropical Weather Research Bulletin (TWRB) by the RAAF Command meteorological section in Brisbane, Harry, obviously not attracted by the idea, raised objections. At that time Warren arranged for me to visit Central Office for discussions of Harry's objections with Harry and other Central Office staff.

Harry, Pat Squires and Max Cassidy had begun research in frontal analysis in the early 1940s at the same time as I was finding that these techniques were lacking as an analysis tool in lower latitudes. A rivalry developed between AMFA in Melbourne and our RAAF Command tropical analysis section in Brisbane. Eventually Pat Squires and Henry Phillpot joined our analysis section in Brisbane late in 1944 or early in 1945 in the closing stages of the war.

The Warren/Treloar incompatibility led to the latter being given a special assignment to carry out seasonal forecasting research in the Meteorological Department of the University of Melbourne after the war. He also served as Divisional Meteorologist, NSW, from 1955 to 1958.


Organisations in Australian Science at Work - Air Mass and Frontal Analysis Section (AMFA)

People in Bright Sparcs - Cornish, Allan William; Lillywhite, John Wilson; Phillpot, Henry Robert; Squires, Patrick; Treloar, Harry Mayne; Warren, Herbert Norman

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Gibbs, W. J. 1999 'A Very Special Family: Memories of the Bureau of Meteorology 1946 to 1962', Metarch Papers, No. 13 May 1999, Bureau of Meteorology

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