Journal

Metarch papers (1982 - )

Commonwealth Bureau of Meteorology

From
1982
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Functions
Journal and Meteorology

Summary

Metarch papers (ISSN 0819-0135) was a series of monographs published by the Commonwealth Bureau of Meteorology from 1982 to 1999 and 2004 to 2007. These monographs were on the history of the Bureau and the R.A.A.F. Meteorological Service, many written by those involved. Numbers 1-14 (1981 - 1999) were included in Federation and meteorology, a project of the Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre.

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  • Catalogue of Items in Weather news, issues No. 1-262, August 1956 - December 1982 ([Melbourne]: Bureau of Meteorology, 1986), 94 pp. Details
  • Clarke, Ray, Stories of the Bureau's Technical Officers From 1948 ([Melbourne]: Bureau of Meteorology, 1999), 113 pp. Details
  • Cornish, Allan, Memories of the Bureau of Meteorology 1929-1946 [and three other papers] ([Melbourne]: Bureau of Meteorology, 1996), 92 pp. Details
  • Douglas, Kirsty, "Under Such Sunny Skies": understanding weather in colonial Australia, 1860-1901 (Melbourne: Bureau of Meteorology, 2007), 54 pp. Details
  • Fletcher, Peter, Seventy five Years at Willis Island ([Melbourne]: Bureau of Meteorology, 1996), 49 pp. Details
  • Gardner, John, Stormy weather: a history of research in the Bureau of Meteorology (Bureau of Meteorology, 1997), 60 pp. Details
  • Gibbs, W. J., A glimpse of the RAAF Meteorological Service ([Melbourne]: Bureau of Meteorology, 1995), 100 pp. Details
  • Gibbs, W. J., The origins of Australian meteorology ([Melbourne]: Bureau of Meteorology, 1998), 21 pp. Details
  • Gibbs, W. J., A very special family: memories of the Bureau of Meteorology 1946 to 1962 (Canberra: Bureau of Meteorology, 1999), 259 pp. Details
  • Haldane, Thomas, War history of the Australian Meteorological Service in the Royal Australian Air Force April 1941 to July 1946 ([Melbourne]: Bureau of Meteorology, 1997), 114 pp. Details
  • Hannay, Keith, Some recollections of service in the Commonwealth Bureau of Meteorology and RAAF Meteorological Service: Mascot and Rose Bay (1938 to 1940):sojourn in the Far East (1942) (Bureau of Meteorology, 1994), 25 pp. Details
  • Hogan, John, Notes prepared by John Hogan (1896-1970) ([Canberra]: Bureau of Meteorology, 1986), 34 pp. Details
  • Joyce, John, The story of the RAAF Meteorological Service (Melbourne: Bureau of Meteorology, 1993), 112 pp. Details
  • Lillywhite, John, My early years in the Bureau of Meteorology: the formation of the Frosterley Club (Bureau of Meteorology, 1992), 39 pp. Details
  • Seaman, R. S., ANMRC - victim of institutional politics? (Melbourne: Bureau of Meteorology, 2004), 29 pp. Details
  • Sherratt, Tim, Inigo Jones, the weather prophet (Melbourne: Bureau of Meteorology, 2006), 59 pp. Details
  • Spinks, D.; and Haynes, I., The life of George Grant Bond, early Queensland weather forecaster ([Melbourne]: Bureau of Meteorology, 1986), 30 pp. Details

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