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Australian Meteorological Magazine - 2006 Papers

The Australian Meteorological Magazine is published four times per year, nominally in March, June, September and December.

PDF copies of all papers published in the Australian Meteorological Magazine will be available on this site as each issue is published.

Most papers are available in low and high-resolution versions. High-resolution versions have better image quality but are much larger downloads (most high-resolution papers are 1-5 MB, most low-resolution papers are 50-250 KB).

March 2006 (Vol 55 No. 1) - contents

• Trewin, B. Editor's note. Page 1. (PDF)
• Long, M. A climatology of extreme fire weather days in Victoria. 3-18. (Low-res) (High-res)
• Zawar-Reza, P. and Sturman, A.P. Two-dimensional numerical analysis of a thermally generated mesoscale wind system observed in the Mackenzie Basin, New Zealand. 19-34. (Low-res) (High-res)
• Wain, A.G., Lee, S., Mills, G.A., Hess, G.D., Cope, M.E. and Tindale, N. Meteorological overview and verification of HYSPLIT and AAQFS dust forecasts for the dust storm of 22-24 October 2002. 35-46. (Low-res) (High-res)
• Mills, G. and Morgan, E. The Winchelsea Convergence - using radar and mesoscale NWP to diagnose cool change structure. 47-58. (Low-res) (High-res)
• Bettio, L. Seasonal climate summary southern hemisphere (autumn 2005): an exceptionally warm and dry autumn across Australia. 59-70. (Low-res) (High-res)
• Shaik, H. and Cleland, S. The tropical circulation in the Australian/Asian region - May to October 2005. 71-84. (Low-res) (High-res)
• Lee, J. Quarterly numerical weather prediction model performance summary - October to December 2005. 85-87. (Low-res) (High-res)
• Bureau of Meteorology - publications issued 2005. 89-91.

June 2006 (Vol 55 No. 2) - contents

• Hess, G.D., Tory, K.J., Lee, S., Wain, A.G. and Cope, M.E. Modelling the King Island bushfire smoke. 93-103. (Low-res) (High-res)
• Parish, T.R. and Walker, R. A re-examination of the winds of Adelie Land, Antarctica. 105-117. (Low-res) (High-res)
• Grace, W. A model of diffuse broadband solar irradiance for a cloudless sky. 119-130. (Low-res) (High-res)
• Glowacki, T.J., Penna, N.T. and Bourke, W.P. Validation of GPS-based estimates of integrated water vapour for the Australian region and identification of diurnal variability. 131-148. (Low-res) (High-res)
• Wang, X. and Watkins, A.B. Seasonal climate summary southern hemisphere (winter 2005): neutral conditions in the tropical Pacific and a wet and warm winter across Australia. 149-160. (Low-res) (High-res)
• Lee, J. Quarterly numerical weather prediction model performance summary - January to March 2006. 161-163. (Low-res) (High-res)
• Book reviews - Climate Change - Turning Up The Heat (Barrie Pittock), The Weather Makers (Tim Flannery). 165-167. (Low-res) (High-res)

September 2006 (Vol 55 No. 3) - contents

• Tryhorn and Risbey. On the distribution of heat waves over the Australian region. 169-182. (Low-res) (High-res)
• Finkele, Mills, Beard and Jones. National gridded drought factors and comparison of two soil moisture deficit formulations used in prediction of Forest Fire Danger Index in Australia. 183-197. (Low-res) (High-res)
• Nicholls. Detecting and attributing Australian climate change: a review. 199-211. (Low-res) (High-res)
• Le Marshall, Jung, Zapotocny, Derber, Treadon, Lord, Goldberg and Wolf. The application of AIRS radiances in numerical weather prediction. 213-217. (Low-res) (High-res (10 MB))
• Shaik and Cleland. The tropical circulation in the Australian/Asian region - November 2005 to April 2006. 219-230. (Low-res) (High-res (44 MB))
• Arblaster. Seasonal climate summary (spring 2005): a wet and warm season across much of Australia. 231-244. (Low-res) (High-res)
• Lee. Quarterly numerical weather prediction model performance summary - April to June 2006. 245-247. (Low-res) (High-res)
• Book reviews - Encyclopedia of World Climatology (John Oliver (ed.)), Weather Analysis and Forecasting: Applying Satellite Water Vapour Imagery and Potential Vorticity Analysis (Patrick Santurette and Christo Georgiev). 249-251. (Low-res) (High-res)

December 2006 (Vol 55 No. 4) - contents

• Church, Hunter, McInnes and White. Sea-level rise around the Australian coastline and the changing frequency of extreme events. 253-260. (Low-res) (High-res)
• Huang and Mills. Objective identification of wind change timing from single station observations. Part 1: methodology and comparison with subjective wind change timings. 261-274. (Low-res) (High-res)
• Huang and Mills. Objective identification of wind change timing from single station observations. Part 2: towards the concept of a wind change climatology. 275-288. (Low-res) (High-res)
• Tupper, Davey, Stewart, Stunder, Servranckx and Prata. Aircraft encounters with volcanic clouds over Micronesia, Oceania, 2002/03. 289-299. (Low-res) (High-res)
• Mullen and Beard. Seasonal climate summary southern hemisphere (summer 2005-06): a neutral ENSO situation with strong contrasts across Australia. 301-312. (Low-res) (High-res)
• McInerney, Farlow, Henry, Lynch, Shepherd, Smith and Cleland. The South Pacific and southeast Indian Ocean tropical cyclone season 2003-04. 313-323. (Low-res) (High-res)
• Lee. Quarterly numerical weather prediction model performance summary - July to September 2006. 325-327. (Low-res) (High-res)
• Indexes - volume 55. 329-333. (High-res)

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