Australian Meteorology

The history of PAOBs in the Australian Bureau of Meteorology

One characteristic of numerical weather prediction (NWP) practice in the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (‘the Bureau’) since the early 1970s that distinguishes it from the practices in many other national meteorological centres has been the ongoing effort to incorporate the skills of manual analysis, including satellite imagery interpretation, into the initial states for NWP. Both the way in ...

Meteorology and Agroforestry Meteorology and Agroforestry

The physical environment affects and interacts with agroforestry systems through tree and crop growth, animal performance, management operations and interactions between the tree/shrub and non-tree components (abbreviated to tree/crop interactions). Interactions take place mainly through the media of microclimate, soil moisture and soil. They may have beneficial or adverse effects, for tree and...

Physical Meteorology

A verification of publicly issued seasonal forecasts issued by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology : 1998 - 2003

Investigating the Australian Bureau of Meteorology GMS satellite archive for use in tropical cyclone reanalysis

The Bureau of Meteorology (the Bureau) has an extensive archive of geostationary satellite imagery, which is derived from a number of data sources. Most of this data now exists in a single data format, namely Man computer Interactive Data Access System (McIDAS) AREA. The McIDAS system was commissioned in the Bureau in 1985 and used to digitise locally received analogue GMS-3 data as its geostat...