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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Design of Water Storages, Etc (continued)
Neil Body points out that Munro was a strong influence in arranging for the Bureau to increase its networks of pluviographs and to begin the extraction of rainfall data from the pluviograph records for periods less than 24 hours. He points out that he had some difficulty with Bill Brann and Geoff Goodman in the Bureau's Central Office Instruments Section.Neil was able to make progress in this field and to prepare a book of monthly and annual deciles of monthly and annual rainfalls. The Bureau published this as a contribution to the works of the Australian Water Resources Council, which was formed in 1963.
This was followed by a significant effort to process the accumulated stack of pluviograph charts. After a herculean effort by Neil this was done with the aid of the Bureau's IBM 360/65 computers acquired in 1968. Neil had devised systems for processing the charts and using the computer to yield the data required.
Allan Rainbird and Neil Body demonstrated the wisdom of Len Dwyer in arranging for a meteorologist and an hydrologist to work together in producing information required for design of water storages and drainage systems and the development of flood mitigation schemes.
People in Bright Sparcs - Brann, Harold Walter Allen Neale (Bill); Dwyer, Leonard Joseph
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