Membership of the Board is by Parliamentary Secretary invitation, after consultation with the Prime Minister. While the Director of Meteorology and the Portfolio Secretary are included as ex-officio members, the balance of membership is constituted so as to broadly reflect the Bureau's stakeholder community, with individual members selected on the basis of their ability to contribute at the highest level to the development of meteorology in Australia. Members are selected to represent, as far as possible, the following broad sectors:

• Agriculture;
• Aviation;
• Defence;
• Fire and Emergency Services;
• Environmental Management;
• Marine;
• Media;

and/or, as representatives of the following specialist fields:

• Economics;
• Law;
• Meteorology; and/or
• Scientific research.

Some members are recognised as contributing expertise and experience in more than one of these areas.

At 30 June 2004, the Bureau of Meteorology Advisory Board comprised the following

As the new Director of Meteorology from 1 July 2003, Dr Geoff Love joined the Board at Meeting 2003/3. The other change of membership was brought about by the retirement of the then portfolio secretary, Mr Roger Beale in March 2004. At his last meeting the Board expressed their great appreciation to Mr Beale for the clarity of thought, wisdom and guidance that he had contributed during his time on the Board, and wished him well in his retirement.

At meeting 2004/1, the Board welcomed Mr David Borthwick, who assumed ex-officio membership of the Board in his capacity as the incoming Secretary of the Environment and Heritage Portfolio.