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APPENDIX 13 - PUBLICATIONS 2000-01

The following is a list of Bureau of Meteorology publications and publications by Bureau staff for 2000-01. A charge applies to those publications marked **.

1. Reports

Bureau of Meteorology. 2000. Annual Report 1999-2000. AusInfo, Canberra,225 pp.

Bureau of Meteorology. 2000. Some aspects of variability and recent trends in rainfall in south-west Western Australia. Tapp, R. and Cramb, J., Technical Report 72, Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, 28 pp.

Bureau of Meteorology. 2000. The accuracy of forecasting rainfall events in the Australian capital cities: 1982-1997. Davis, C.J. Meteorological Note 218, Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, 21 pp.

Bureau of Meteorology. 2001. Arrangements for Flood Warning Services in Victoria. Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, 41 pp.

Bureau of Meteorology. 2001. Budget and Program 2000-01. Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, 416 pp.

Bureau of Meteorology. 2001. Development of the method of storm transposition and maximisation for the west coast of Tasmania. Xuereb, K.C., Moore, G.J. and Taylor, B.F., Hydrology Report Series No.7, Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, 46 pp.

Bureau of Meteorology. 2001. Engineering Plan 2001-02. Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, 66 pp

Bureau of Meteorology. 2001. Observations Plan 2001-02. Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, 73 pp

Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre. 2000. Upgrades to the Bureau of Meteorology's ocean wave forecasting system. Greenslade, D.J.M. BMRC Research Report No.79, Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, 41 pp.

Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre. 2000. Model Systematic Errors: extended abstracts of presentations at the Twelfth Annual BMRC Modelling Workshop (Co-Sponsored by WCRP/WGNE). Jasper, J.D. and Meighen, P.J. (eds.), BMRC Research Report No.80, Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, 288 pp.

Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre. 2000. Impact of soil moisture on climate variability and predictability. Viviand, J., Lirola, S., Timbal, B., Power, S.B. and Colman, R.A. BMRC Research Report No.81, Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, 49 pp

2. Books and Booklets

Books and booklets dealing with Australian weather and climate and the operations and services of the Bureau are published by the Bureau and updated as necessary. Approximately 30 titles are current. The following new and revised material was published in 2000-01.

Australian Meteorological Magazine. Quarterly journal, annual subscription, ISSN 0004 9743, $43.00, AusInfo.**

Bureau of Meteorology. 2000. Climatic Atlas of Australia-Rainfall. ISBN 0 642 70624 7, $19.40, Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, 20 pp.**

Bureau of Meteorology. 2000. Goldfields-Eucla Western Australia . Climatic Survey. ISBN 0 642 70606 9, $13.95, AusInfo, 102 pp.**

Bureau of Meteorology. 2001. A Hundred Years of Science and Services. Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, 20 pp.

Bureau of Meteorology. 2001. Climatic Atlas of Australia-Evapotranspiration. ISBN 0 642 32048 9, $33.00, Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, 39 pp.**

Bureau of Meteorology. 2001. Manual of Meteorology, Part 1-General Meteorology. ISBN 0 644 06933 3, $27.00 Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, 149 pp.**

Bureau of Meteorology. 2001. Observing the Weather. ISBN 0 644 00538 6, $9.70 Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, 49 pp.**

Bureau of Meteorology. 2001. Volunteers for Weather, Climate and Water. Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, 13 pp.

Bureau of Meteorology. 2001. Volunteers for Weather, Climate and Water - World Meteorological Day Address. Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, 10 pp.

3. Pamphlets and Newsletters

The Bureau maintained a set of more than 30 pamphlets covering fundamental and topical areas of meteorology, promoting the Bureau's services and providing basic corporate information. The following new pamphlets were published in 2000-01.

WATIR, Weather and Terminal Information Reciter, 2000

Boundary Layer Wind Profiler, 2000

Mini-guide to Bureau of Meteorology Marine Weather Services-NSW, 2000.

Mini-guide to Bureau of Meteorology Marine Weather Services-VIC, 2001.

Mini-guide to Bureau of Meteorology Marine Weather Services-TAS, 2001.

Mini-guide to Bureau of Meteorology Marine Weather Services-SA, 2001.

Mini-guide to Bureau of Meteorology Marine Weather Services-NT, 2001.

Mini-guide to Bureau of Meteorology Marine Weather Services-QLD, 2001.

4. Scientific Papers and Books

Articles listed were authored wholly or jointly by staff of the Bureau of Meteorology and published during the calendar year 2000.

Anaman, K.A., Lellyett, S.C. Avsan, G.S. 2000. Assessing the effect of aviation weather forecasts on fuel expenditures of an international airline. International Journal of Transport Economics, 27, 257-277.

Batt, K.L., Morison, R.P. and Speer, M.S. 2000. Direct verification of forecasts from a very high resolution numerical weather prediction (NWP) model. Met. Atmos. Phys., 74, 117-127.

Buckley, B.W. and Leslie, L.M. 2000. Sudden temperature changes in the Sydney Basin: climatology and case studies during the Olympic months of September and October. Intl J. Climatol., 20, 417-441.

Carbone, R.E., Wilson, J.W., Keenan, T.D. and Hacker, J.M. 2000. Tropical island convection in the absence of significant topography. Part I: Life cycle of diurnally forced convection. Mon. Weath. Rev., 128, 3459-3480.

Carey, L.D., Rutledge, S.A., Ahijevych, D.A. and Keenan, T.D. 2000. Correcting propagation effects in C-Band polarimetric radar observations of tropical convection using differential propagation phase. J. Appl. Meteor., 39, 1405-1433.

Chappel, L.C. and Bate, P.W. 2000. The South Pacific and southeast Indian Ocean tropical cyclone season 1997-98. Aust. Met. Mag., 49, 121-138.

Cifelli, R.C., Williams, C.R., Rajopadhyaya, D.K., Avery, S.K., Gage, K.S. and May, P.T. 2000. Drop-size distribution characteristics in tropical mesoscale convective systems. J. Appl. Meteor., 39, 760-777.

Clewett, J.F., Cliffe, N., Drosdowsky, L.M., George, D.A., O'Sullivan, D., Paull, C., Partridge, I. and Saal, R. 2000. Building knowledge and skills to use seasonal climate forecasts in property management planning. In: Applications of seasonal climate forecasting in agricultural and natural ecosystems, G.L. Hammer, N. Nicholls and C. Mitchell (eds.), London, Kluwer, 291-307.

Collins, D.A., Della-Marta, P.M., Plummer, N. and Trewin, B.C. 2000. Trends in annual frequencies of extreme temperature events in Australia. Aust. Met. Mag., 49, 277-292.

Connor, G.J. and Woodcock, F. 2000. The application of synoptic stratification to precipitation forecasting in the trade wind regime. Weath. Forecasting, 15, 276-297.

Cordery, I. and McCall, M. 2000. A model for forecasting drought from teleconnections. Water Resour. Res., 36, 763-768.

Davidson, N.E. and Weber, H.C. 2000. The BMRC high resolution tropical cyclone prediction system: TC-LAPS. Mon. Weath. Rev., 128, 1245-1265.

de Hoedt, G.C. 2000. Seasonal climate summary southern hemisphere (autumn 1999): a decline in weak cold episode conditions in the tropical Pacific. Aust. Met. Mag., 49, 51-58.

Drosdowsky, W. and Allan, R.J. 2000. The potential for improved statistical seasonal climate forecasts. In: Applications of seasonal climate forecasting in agricultural and natural ecosystems, G.L. Hammer, N. Nicholls and C. Mitchell (eds.), London, Kluwer, 77-87.

Elliott, J.F. and Stewart, B.J. 2000. Early warning for flood hazards. In: Floods, D.J. Parker (ed.), London, Routledge, Volume 1. 391-399.

Foley, G.R. 2000. Tropical cyclone impacts in Australia. In: Storms, R Pielke Jr. and R Pielke Sr. (eds.), London, Routledge. Volume 1, 320-338.

Gray, W.R. and Seed, A.W. 2000. The characterisation of orographic rainfall. Meteor. Applications, 7, 105-119.

Hammer, G., Nicholls, N. and Mitchell, C.D. (eds.) 2000. Applications of seasonal climate forecasting in agricultural and natural ecosystems. London, Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Haylock, M. and Nicholls, N. 2000. Trends in extreme rainfall indices for an updated high quality data set for Australia, 1910-1998. Intl J. Climatol., 20, 1533-1541.

Holper, P. and Tindale, N.W. 2000. Grim news about our air. GEO Australasia, 22, 10-11.

Jones D.A. and Trewin, B.C. 2000. On the relationships between the El Niño-Southern Oscillation and Australian land surface temperature. Intl J. Climatol., 20, 697-719.

Jones, D.A. 2000. Seasonal climate summary southern hemisphere (winter 1999): a return to near-normal conditions in the tropical Pacific. Aust. Met. Mag., 49, 139-148.

Jones, D.A. and Trewin, B.C. 2000. The spatial structure of monthly temperature anomalies over Australia. Aust. Met. Mag., 49, 261-276.

Jordan, P., Seed, A.W. and Austin, G. 2000. Sampling errors in radar estimates of rainfall. J. geophys. Res., 105, 2247-2257.

Kar, S.J. 2000. Stable centered-difference schemes, based on an unstaggered A-grid, that eliminate two-grid interval noise. Mon. Weath. Rev., 128, 3643-3653.

Kar, S.K. and Logan, L.W. 2000. A semi-Lagrangian and semi-implicit scheme on an unstaggered horizontal grid. Aust. Met. Mag., 49, 293-317.

Keenan, T.D., Rutledge, S.A., Carbone, R.E., Wilson, J.W., Takahashi, T., May, P.T., Tapper, N.J., Platt, M., Hacker, J.M., Sekelsky, S., Moncrieff, M., Saito, K., Holland, G.J., Crook, A. and Gage, K.S. 2000. The Maritime Continent Thunderstorm Experiment (MCTEX) : overview and some results. Bull. Am. met. Soc., 81, 2433-2455.

Kessler, W.S. and Kleeman, R. 2000. Rectification of the Madden-Julian Oscillation into the ENSO cycle. Jnl Climate, 13, 3560-3575.

Kininmonth, W.R., Voice, M.E., Beard, G.S., de Hoedt, G.C. and Mullen, C.E. 2000. Australian climate services for drought management. In: Drought, a global assessment, D.A. Wilhite (ed.), New York, Routledge, 210-222.

Kleeman, R., Naik, N.H. and Cane, M.A. 2000. Meridional location of the Pacific Ocean subtropical gyre. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 30, 1988-2000.

Kleeman, R. and Power, S.B. 2000. Modulation of ENSO variability on decadal and longer timescales. In: El Nino and the Southern Oscillation; multiscale variability and regional impacts, H.F. Diaz & V. Markgraf (eds.), Cambridge University Press, 413-441.

Lau, W.K.M., Ding, Y., Wang, J.-T., Johnson, R., Keenan, T.D., Cifelli, R.C., Gerlach, J., Thiele, O., Rickenbach, T.M., Tsay, S.-C. and Lin, P.-H. 2000. A report of the field operations and early results of the South China Sea Monsoon Experiment (SCSMEX). Bull. Am. met. Soc., 81, 1261-1270.

Le Bouar, E., Testud, J. and Keenan, T.D. 2000. Validating of the rain profiling algorithm ZPHI applied to a C-band polarimetric weather radar. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth. Part B - Hydrology, Oceans and Atmosphere, 25, 855-859.

Le Marshall, J.F., Leslie, L.M., Morison, R.P., Pescod, N.R., Seecamp, R. and Spinoso, C. 2000. Recent developments in the continuous assimilation of satellite wind data for tropical cyclone track forecasting. Adv. Space Res., 25, 1077-1080.

Lehmann, P. 2000. A study of the morphology of mid-stratospheric ozone minima using SAGE II data. . J. geophys. Res., 105, 17307-17324.

Leslie, L.M. and Speer, M.S. 2000. Comments on "Using ensembles for short-range forecasting". Mon. Weath. Rev., 128, 3018-3020.

Li, Q. and Power, S.B. 2000. Responses of a global CGCM to CO2 increase. Acta Meteorologica Sinica, 14, 46-60.

Limpus, C. and Nicholls, N. 2000. ENSO regulation of Indo-Pacific green turtle populations. In: Applications of seasonal climate forecasting in agricultural and natural ecosystems, G.L. Hammer, N. Nicholls and C. Mitchell (eds.), London, Kluwer, 399-408.

McBride, J.L. 2000. Book review - "Atmospheric Thermodynamics", by Craig F. Bohren and Bruce A. Albrecht, (Oxford University Press, 1998). Aust. Met. Mag., 49, 355.

McBride, J.L. and Ebert, E.E. 2000. Verification of quantitative precipitation forecasts from operational numerical weather prediction models over Australia. Weath. Forecasting, 15, 103-121.

Mulder, K. and Hart, T.L. 2000. Numerical prediction model performance summary October to December 1999. Aust. Met. Mag., 49, 149-157.

Nicholls, N. and Beard, G.S. 2000. The application of El Nino-Southern Oscillation information to seasonal forecasts in Australia. In: Drought, a global assessment, D.A. Wilhite (ed.), New York, Routledge, 41-51.

Nicholls, N. 2000. An artificial trend in District Average Rainfall in the Snowy Mountains. Aust. Met. Mag., 49, 255-258.

Nicholls, N., Frederiksen, C.S. and Kleeman, R. 2000. Operational experience with climate model predictions. In: Applications of seasonal climate forecasting in agricultural and natural ecosystems, G.L. Hammer, N. Nicholls and C. Mitchell (eds.), London, Kluwer, 109-119.

Nicholls, N. 2000. Opportunities to improve the use of seasonal climate forecasts. In: Applications of seasonal climate forecasting in agricultural and natural ecosystems, G.L. Hammer, N. Nicholls and C. Mitchell (eds.), London, Kluwer, 309-327.

Nicholls, N. 2000. What the instrumental and recent historical record tells us about the El Nino - Southern Oscillation. In: El Nino : history and crisis : studies from the Asia-Pacific region, R.H. Grove and J. Chappell (eds.), Cambridge, The White Horse Press, 79-88.

Oates, S. 2000. The South Pacific and southeast Indian Ocean tropical cyclone season 1998-99. Aust. Met. Mag., 49(3), 223-244.

Potts, R.J., Keenan, T.D. and May, P.T. 2000. Radar characteristics of storms in the Sydney area. Mon. Weath. Rev., 128, 3308-3319.

Qi, L., Wang, Y. and Leslie, L.M. 2000. Numerical simulation of a cut-off low over southern Australia. Met. Atmos. Phys. 74, 103-115.

Reader, G., Boothe, M.A., Elsberry, R.L. and Carr, L.E.III 2000. Southern Hemisphere application of the systematic approach to tropical cyclone track forecasting. Part IV: Sources of large track errors by dynamical models. Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, 51 pp.

Reeder, M.J., Smith, R.K., Deslandes, R., Tapper, N.J. and Mills, G.A. 2000. Subtropical fronts observed during the 1996 Central Australian Fronts Experiment. Aust. Met. Mag., 49, 181-200.

Reid, H.J. 2000. Regeneration of the southerly buster of southeast Australia. Weath. Forecasting, 15, 432-446.

Seaman, R.S. and Warne, J.O. 2000. A systematic difference between pressures measured by Kew pattern mercury barometers and electronic barometers. Aust. Met. Mag., 49, 351-354.

Seed, A.W., Draper, C., Srikanthan, R. and Menabde, M. 2000. A multiplicative broken-line model for time series of mean areal rainfall. Water Resour. Res., 36, 2395-2399.

Shaik, H.A. and Bate, P.W. 2000. The tropical circulation in the Australian/Asian region - May to October 1999. Aust. Met. Mag., 49, 59-69.

Shaik, H.A. and Bate, P.W. 2000. The tropical circulation in the Australian/Asian region November 1999 to April 2000. Aust. Met. Mag., 49, 331-342.

Siems, S.T., Hess, G.D., Suhre, K., Businger, S. and Draxler, R.R. 2000. The impact of wind shear on observed and simulated trajectories during the ACE-1 Lagrangian experiments. Aust. Met. Mag., 49, 109-120.

Skinner, W. and Hart, T.L. 2000. Numerical prediction model performance summary April to June 2000. Aust. Met. Mag., 49, 343-350.

Skinner, W. and Hart, T.L. 2000. Numerical prediction model performance summary January to March 2000. Aust. Met. Mag., 49, 245-254.

Skinner, W. and Hart, T.L. 2000. Numerical prediction model performance summary July to September 1999. Aust. Met. Mag., 49, 71-78.

Smith, N.R. and Koblinsky, C. 2000. The First International Conference on the Ocean Observing System for Climate: a new era for ocean observation. PAGES (Past Global Changes Project), 8, 22-23.

Smith, N.R. 2000. The Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment. Adv. Space Res., 25, 1089-1098.

Speer, M.S. and Leslie, L.M. 2000. A comparison of five flood rain events over the New South Wales north coast and a case study. Intl J. Climatol., 20, 543-563.

Speer, M.S. and Leslie, L.M. 2000. Mesoscale model forecasting as a tool for air pollution management: a case study of sustained smoke pollution over the Greater Sydney area. Meteor. Applications, 7, 177-186.

Stern, H., de Hoedt, G.C. and Ernst, J. 2000. Objective classification of Australian climates. Aust. Met. Mag., 49, 87-96.

Stone, R.C. and de Hoedt, G.C. 2000. The development and delivery of current seasonal climate forecasting capabilities in Australia. In: Applications of seasonal climate forecasting in agricultural and natural ecosystems, G.L. Hammer, N. Nicholls and C. Mitchell (eds.), London, Kluwer, 67-75.

Sun, X., Mein, R.G., Keenan, T.D. and Elliott, J.F. 2000. Flood estimation using radar and raingauge data. J. Hydrol., 239, 4-18.

Tang, Y.-M., Smith, N.R. and Greenslade, D.J.M. 2000. Comparison of model and observed surface winds in the Australian region. Aust. Met. Mag., 49, 23-35.

Tonkin, H., Holland, G.J., Holbrook, N. and Henderson-Sellers, A. 2000. An evaluation of thermodynamic estimates of climatological maximum potential tropical cyclone intensity. Mon. Weath. Rev., 128, 746-762.

Turner, J. and Pendlebury, S. 2000. The International Antarctic Weather Forecasting Handbook [CD-ROM]. Version 1.1, Cambridge, British Antarctic Survey.

Turner, J., Pendlebury, S., Cowled, L.H., Jacka, K.J., Jones, M. and Targett, P.S. 2000. Report on the First International Symposium on Operational Weather Forecasting in Antarctica. Bull. Am. met. Soc., 81, 75-94.

Walland, D.J., Power, S.B. and Hirst, A.C. 2000. Decadal climate variability simulated in a coupled general circulation model. Climate Dyn., 16, 201-211.

Watkins, A.B. and Simmonds, I. 2000. Current trends in Antarctic sea ice: the 1990s impact on a short climatology. Jnl Climate, 13, 4441-4451.

Watkins, A.B. 2000. Seasonal climate summary southern hemisphere (spring 1999) : a transition toward a second successive cool episode (La Nina). Aust. Met. Mag., 49, 319-330.

Yano, J.-I., Grabowski, W.W., Roff, G.L. and Mapes, B.E. 2000. Asymptotic approaches to convective quasi-equilibrium. Q. Jl R. met. Soc., 126, 1861-1887.

Zhang, H. and Casey, T. 2000. Verification of categorical probability forecasts. Weath. Forecasting, 15, 80-89.

Zillman, J.W. 2000.The science of climate change: an update. Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies. CSIRO, Collingwood, 11-21.

Zillman, J.W. 2000. The state of greenhouse science. Proceedings of the 2000 Invitation Symposium, Sustainable Australia, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Parkville, 35-54.

Zrnic, D.S., Keenan, T.D., Carey, L.D. and May, P.T. 2000. Sensitivity analysis of polarimetric variables at a 5-cm wavelength in rain. J. Appl. Meteor., 39, 1514-1526.

5. Articles

Barrell, S.L. 2000. A science perspective on the Kyoto Protocol. The Physicist, 37, 6, 206-211.

Broadbridge, L.W. 2000. Public weather services for Australian capital cities: a perspective. Bull. / WMO., 49, 336-340.

Cramb, J. 2000. Obituary: Joseph Gentilli, 13th March 1912 to 1st August 2000. Bull. Aust. Met. Oceanog. Soc., 13, 109-111.

Collins, D.A. 2000. Annual temperature summary - Australia's warmest decade. Climate Change Newsletter, 12, 6.

Downey, A. 2000. Ozone hole - an update. Climate Change Newsletter, 12, 6-7.

Hess, G.D., Cope, M.E., Lee, S., Manins, P.C., Mills, G.A., Puri, K. and Tory, K.J. 2000. The Australian Air Quality Forecast System. Bull. Aust. Met. Oceanog. Soc., 13, 67-73.

Keenan, T.D., Bally, J., May, P.T., Purdam, P., Freeman, G., Potts, R.J., Dance, S., Seed, A.W., Wilson, J., Joe, P., Conway, B., Golding, B.W. and Collier, C. 2000. The Sydney 2000 Forecast Demonstration Project. Bull. Aust. Met. Oceanog. Soc., 13, 63-66.

Le Marshall, J.F. 2000. 40 years of weather satellites - a remarkable story. Bull. Aust. Met. Oceanog. Soc., 13, 84-90.

Nicholls, N. 2000. El Nino/Southern Oscillation: aftermath of the 1997/1998 event and prediction of future events. Bull. / WMO., 49, 267-270.

Shepherd, D.J. 2000. Minimum temperature time. Bull. Aust. Met. Oceanog. Soc., 13, 104-109.

Stewart, B.J. 2000. Hydrological data and environmental management. Bull. / WMO., 49(3), 239-242.

Zillman, J.W. 2000. The challenges ahead. WMO Bulletin, 49, 1, January 2000, 8-13.

Zillman, J.W. 2000. International cooperation in continuing education and training in meteorology and operational hydrology. Bull. / WMO., 49, 127-134.

Zillman, J.W. 2000. Meteorology and the Environment - the WMO Perspective, Keynote Lecture, Second Symposium on Environmental Applications, 80^th Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society, Long Beach, January 2000 (Symposium Preprints).

Zillman, J.W. 2000. Book Review. Phillip R. Berke and Timothy Beatley: After the Hurricane. Natural Hazards, 21, 97-99.

6. Posters and Charts

Volunteers for Weather, Climate and Water, 2001

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