The Bureau continued to make good progress in its implementation of the National Research Priorities. Both the extension of the Australian Air Quality Forecast System to the southeast capitals and Adelaide (involving collaborations with CSIRO and State Environmental Protection Agencies), and the project to increase awareness of UV radiation (with the Cancer Council and ARPANSA), contribute to the priority goal of Preventive healthcare. There is also work underway to examine relationships between climate variability and the Ross River virus and drought and suicide.

In collaboration with the Bushfire CRC, research on transport modelling aimed at improving the prediction of fire weather and awareness of fire danger supports the priority goal of Critical infrastructure. This goal is also supported by the development of high quality datasets and products, which constitute a significant contribution to infrastructure.

Collaborations with NEC and CSIRO at the High Performance Computing and Communications Centre (HPCCC) on optimisation of computer code used for numerical modelling and data assimilation support the priority goal of Smart Information Use.

Collaborative projects studying the water budget of the Murray-Darling Basin, the Indian Ocean Climate Initiative researching the decrease in rainfall in southwest Western Australia, and the new South-East Australia Climate Initiative all contribute to the priority goal of Water - a critical resource.

Research, such as investigation of the causes of apparent climate changes (e.g. the recent run of dry years in southeast Australia) and the development of a phenological database for climate change and ecosystems, both supported by the Australian Greenhouse Office, contribute to the goal of Responding to climate change and variability.

Ocean modelling and ocean prediction system development, as part of the BLUElink project, in partnership with the Royal Australian Navy, contribute to Transformational defence technologies.