SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS 

The publication of scientific and technical results is a vital element of the work in BMRC. Publications produced in 2003 totalled 105, including refereed journal papers, articles, book chapters, conference papers and miscellaneous reports. Some 35 peer-reviewed papers were published in books and international journals, and three internally-reviewed BMRC Research Reports were published.

Research staff are continually involved in the peer review of work carried out across the Bureau, in addition to acting as reviewers for work from other organisations. Staff in the BMRC oversee the publication of the Australian Meteorological Magazine (AMM), the journal on southern hemisphere atmospheric, ocean and related sciences published by the Bureau in cooperation with the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (AMOS). Scientists in BMRC serve on the editorial board of AMM and other international scientific journals.

The volume of papers for the 2003 BMRC Modelling Workshop on 'Current issues in the parameterization of convection' was published before the workshop in October. There was some delay in the publication of other BMRC Research Reports in 2003-04 owing to a back-log associated with a change in the format of the reports.

COLLABORATION 

Meteorological and related research in Australia is carried out by the Bureau, the CSIRO, a number of university groups and, to a lesser extent, by other government departments and agencies and the private sector. In recent years, the Bureau and CSIRO, as the two major agencies engaged in atmospheric research, have worked closely to ensure that plans for atmospheric and related research are coordinated effectively and to identify joint research activities and areas of collaboration at the project level, particularly between the BMRC, CSIRO Atmospheric Research (CAR) and CSIRO Marine Research (CMR).

COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRES 

To improve further the coordination of meteorological and related research in Australia and to provide support for the strengthening of programs in meteorology at Australian universities, the Bureau actively participated in the development of multi-agency agreements to establish new research centres in meteorology and related disciplines under the Government's Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) program. During 2003-04, the Bureau participated in:

• the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems CRC which replaced the CRC for the Antarctic and Southern Ocean Environment, with the Australian Antarctic Division, CSIRO (Atmospheric Research and Marine Research) and the University of Tasmania;
• the CRC for Catchment Hydrology at Monash University with CSIRO Land and Water, the Department of Sustainability and Environment (Victoria), Melbourne Water, Monash University, the Murray Darling Basin Commission, Goulburn Murray Water (Victoria) and The University of Melbourne; and
• the Bushfire CRC with sixteen other core participants, including Emergency Management Australia (EMA) and relevant State authorities.