• Consultative Services
• Highlights
• Resource Use
• Performance
• Meteorological Advice
• Special Investigations

Consultative Services include the provision of advice and the conduct of investigations involving the application of meteorology and related disciplines to such fields as agriculture, engineering, architecture, health, tourism, transport, urban planning and design. Services are provided to government and private users on a free, cost recovery or commercial basis, as appropriate to the degree of public interest involved.

Consultative Services are coordinated in the Bureau’s Head Office in Melbourne and provided mainly through the National Climate Centre (NCC), the Regional Office Climate and Consultative Services Sections and the Special Services Unit (SSU), making use of expertise drawn from throughout the Bureau. They comprise two individual outputs:

• meteorological advice; and
• special investigations.

Meteorological advice includes professional advice on meteorological and related oceanographic issues and applications. Where there is a clear public interest, advice is provided on a free or cost recovery basis. Education on, and promotion of, the use of weather and climate information, as well as contributions to Australian Standards are provided free of charge. Special investigations include theoretical, experimental or field studies undertaken to meet consultancy requests. These are delivered mainly on a commercial basis through the Bureau’s SSU which is essentially financially decoupled from the public good operations of the Bureau.