The Australian Bureau of Meteorology 1280-MHz Wind Profiler

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 ...

The Implementation of the AUSWAVE wave model at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology

AUSWAM, a version of the third-generation WAM wave model (WAMDI Group 1988), has been the operational sea-state model run by the National Meteorological and Oceanographic Centre (NMOC) since June 1994. Forecasts of sea-state from AUSWAM are used as numerical forecast guidance for the Bureau’s marine services. On Thursday 19 August 2010 AUSWAM was replaced by AUSWAVE, based on the WAVEWATCH III®...

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...

LabVIEW Based Moment Calculation for Wind Profiler

Wind speed is a most important weather parameter to record and monitor for many applications like meteorology, shipping, aviation etc. Wind observations are very important for general (operational) aviation meteorology, and weather prediction. Wind profilers are vertically directed pulsed Doppler radars which can analyze the back scattered signals and determine the velocity of air along the bea...