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Natural disasters in Australia - Australia's Culture Portal

Australia 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...

Australian weather and the seasons - Australia's Culture Portal

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...

Antarctica and Sir Douglas Mawson - Australia's Culture Portal

Mawson ice edge, &copy 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 at a glance - Australia's Culture Portal

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...

Australian islands - Australia's Culture Portal

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. ...

Australian lighthouses - Australia's Culture Portal

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...

Australia's maritime history under sail - Australia's Culture Portal

Australia's maritime history is closely related to the global story of people crossing oceans. N B Stuckey, Thursday Island, Torres Strait Islands, 1945, Members of Torres Strait Island Light Infantry returning from fishing trip in outrigger sailing cano...

Science in Australia - Australia's Culture Portal

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. ...

Urban renewal: the transformation of Australia's docklands - Australia's Culture Portal

Waterfront docks, wharves and quay areas played a significant role in Australia's history. Image courtesy of the State Library of New South Wales. Many customs houses and other maritime buildings are usually prime waterfront locations with architecturall...

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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 **. Observations Plan 2001-02. Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, 73 pp. Mills, G.A. BMRC Research Rep...

Bureau of Meteorology Annual Report 2002-03   (website Bureau of Meteorology )

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. ...

Bureau of Meteorology Annual Report 2000-01 - Letter of Transmittal   (website Bureau of Meteorology )

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...

Australian Bureau of Meteorology: Water Information: News and Events: NWI Seminars 2007 - 2008   (website Bureau of Meteorology )

The National Water Information Seminar Series 2009 featured presentations by senior Bureau and State and Territory representatives highlighting progress toward achieving our water information mission and describing the water information products planned f...

Australian Bureau of Meteorology: Water Information: Design Rainfalls: Publications   (website Bureau of Meteorology )

Kennedy, M.R, Pearce, H.J., Canterford, R.P., and Minty, L.J. (1988) The Estimation of Generalised Probable Maximum Precipitation in Australia, Proc. Kennedy, M.R. and Hart, T.L. (1984) The Estimation of Probable Maximum Precipitation in Australia, Civil...

Federation and Meteorology, History of Research in the Bureau of Meteorology, page 802   (website Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre )

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...

Federation and Meteorology, History of Research in the Bureau of Meteorology, References   (website Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre )

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...

Federation and Meteorology, Bright Sparcs Index W   (website Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre )

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. &copy Online Edition Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre and Bureau ...

Federation and Meteorology, Memories of the Bureau, 1946 to 1962, page 1160   (website Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre )

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...