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Natural disasters in Australia - Australia's Culture PortalAustralia experiences a range of 'natural disasters' including bushfires, floods, severe storms, earthquakes and landslides. Fire can often follow drought, and drought can be followed by flood. I love a sunburnt country, a land of sweeping plains, Of ra...
Even though the four 'official' calendar seasons have the same names as the northern hemisphere seasons, the weather during these seasons is very different to northern hemisphere weather patterns. Indigenous Australians have long had their own seasonal c...
Mawson ice edge, © Australian Antarctic Division, 2006, Kingston Tasmania 7050. Sir Douglas Mawson (1882-1958) was an Australian who led a series of expeditions to Antarctica. The Australasian Antarctic Expedition (AAE) 1911-14 was an important scie...
Australia is a unique and diverse country in every way - in culture, population, climate, geography, and history. For articles on specific topics about Australian history and culture visit our Australian Stories Index. Australia's population is concentrat...
World Heritage-listed Fraser Island. However, Australia is actually made up of more than 8,000 islands, including the island state of Tasmania. Norfolk Island is located far off the east coast of Australia. ...
Mr Salchany, lighthouse keeper of Neptune Islands signals a passing ship, 1963. In Australia, lighthouses are built in harbours, on islands, coral reefs and beaches. Courtesy of the Australian Heritage Photo Library, Department of Environment, Water Her...
Sir William Bragg - Nobel Prize for physics, 1915. Bragg shared the prize with his son (also Sir William Bragg). Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet - Nobel Prize for medicine, 1960. ...
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Bureau of Meteorology (more info)
The Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology is the national meteorological authority. The website contains national weather, forecasts warnings and observations, news, services for agriculture and much more.
The History of Floods in Australia (more info)
The History of Floods in Australia is a book and DVD package contains extensive information about floods in South Australia since European settlement.
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Bureau of Meteorology Annual Report 2001-02 (website Bureau of Meteorology )The following is a list of Bureau of Meteorology publications and publications by Bureau staff for 2001-02. A charge applies to those publications marked **. Australia´s Global Climate Observing System, a Detailed National Report on Systematic Observation...
Budget and Program 2002-03. Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, pp 510. Report on the Bureau of Meteorology Data Quality Workshop, Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, 26-27 March 2001. Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne : pp Bureau of Meteorology, 2003. ...
Figure 5. A simplified output-based model of the operation of the Bureau of Meteorology shown at the Major Output level. Figure 8. A schematic representation of the main components of the Bureau's integrated national meteorological service system and the...
The term "research" is generally used to cover two quite different things which I will specify as "special investigation" and "pure research". A Meteorological Service constantly receives enquiries from the general public for specialised information beari...
10. Bureau of Meteorology-Files, 45/2821, 'Organisation Met. 36. Gibbs, W. J., Priestley, C. H. B. and White, Sir Frederick, Prospectus for Meteorological Research in Australia, BOM, Melbourne, 1967. Gardner, J. 1997 'Stormy Weather: A History of Researc...
Index Search Help Contact us Appendix 2: Reports, Papers, Manuscripts This Appendix supplements references listed in Appendix 1. It refers to scientific papers, reports and other papers and manuscripts (some unpublished), proceedings of conferences, semin...
Bright Sparcs Index A B C D E F G H I JK L M N O P Q R ST U V W X Y Z Australian Science at Work Index Chapter 2: Establishing and Developing the RAAF Directorate of Met. © Online Edition Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre and Bureau ...
The Commonwealth Bureau of Meteorology, usually referred to simply as the Bureau of Meteorology or the Bureau, was established under the authority of the Meteorology Act 1906 by formally bringing together the individual Colonial/State Meteorological Servi...
Description: The Bureau´s Hydrological Services include water resources assessment, hydrometeorological advice for design, and other aspects of operational hydrology including, in particular, the provision of flood warning and forecasting services. Planne...
The Bureau of Meteorology is the National Meteorological Authority for Australia. The Bureau presently operates under the authority of the Meteorology Act 1955 which provides the explicit legal basis and basic charter for its activities. The overall miss...
An Act relating to the Commonwealth Bureau of Meteorology. Repeal 3. In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears- "the Bureau" means the Commonwealth Bureau of Meteorology established by this Act; "the Director" means the Director of Meteorology. E...
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