| Table of Contents 
 Australian Meteorology through the 20th Century
 
 Introduction
 
 The Origins of Australian Meteorology
 
 Meteorology in the 20th Century
 The Forecast for the First Parliament
 The Meteorology Act 1906
 The Birth of the Bureau
 The Early Years
 Meteorological Services for Civil Aviation
 Meteorology at the Universities
 The RAAF Meteorological Service
 CSIR Meteorological Physics
 The Meteorology Act 1955
 Flood Warning
 Long-range Forecasting
 Antarctica
 World Meteorological Centre, Melbourne
 Regional Forecasting Centres
 Global Weather Experiment
 Research in the Bureau
 Committees of Inquiry
 
 The Weather and Climate of the Twentieth Century
 
 The Great Weather and Climate Events of the Twentieth Century
 
 A Century of Progress in Science and Service
 
 References
 
 Australian Meteorological Milestones of the 20th Century
 
 Endnotes
 
 Index
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   | Figure 4 Former members of the RAAF Meteorological Service gather together in Melbourne in August 1995, fifty years after the end of the war.  
          
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