BAMOS
Jun 2018
Contents
4
3
President’s report
5 News
8
Regional Centre updates
Belinda Campbell
9 Awards
10 Natural drivers of interannual to
decadal variations in surface climate
14 The “Big Wave” Event at Bondi, 1938
18 Weather Analysis and Prediction
in Australia
Editor
June is well and truly here and so it is time to introduce the next
quarterly issue of BAMOS. In the spirit of the end of financial year
we talk a little about budgets in this issue and some big plans for
science in Australia over the coming year.
We have crunched some numbers of our own at BAMOS since the
last issue and are pleased to be able to present some key outcomes
of the BAMOS survey. Many thanks to the 61 respondents who
completed the survey and provided valuable feedback on the
publication.
25 Research corner with Damien Irving The majority of respondents (54%) were from Victoria and from
a broad cross section of the AMOS community with strong
representation from Industry and Government Scientists, Academic
Researchers, Industry Professionals, Students and Retirees.
26 Charts of the Past with Blair Trewin Some of the main insights from the survey include:
27 Calendar and JSHESS contents
ISSN 1035-6576
Editor: Belinda Campbell
Editors-in-Chief: Damien Irving, Linden Ashcroft
Assistant Editors: Diana Greenslade, Melissa Lyne and Blair Trewin
Design: Jeanette Dargaville
Publisher: AMOS, GPO Box 1289, Melbourne VIC 3001, Australia
Submission deadline for next issue: 24 August 2018
Contact and submit pieces: bamos@amos.org.au; Submission guidelines
available online and at the end of this issue
Image (current page): Severe Tropical Cyclone Marcus spirals into the Indian
Ocean as captured by the Himawari 8 satellite on 22 March 2018
Cover image: A sunset, a thunderstorm and a view of Tavurvur volcano in
Rabual, Papua New Guinea. Photograph courtesy of VAAC Darwin
Other images in this publication: Photographs without a specified source are
obtained via the ‘pexels’ website and hyperlinked to the original image online.
• Climatology, climate variability and change and meteorology
were the topics of most interest
• Strong interest was evident across many subject areas
• Most readers prefer the “article-based” style of reading with
a large number also scan or skim reading the publication
• Around 50% of respondents read every issue
• Regular sections of BAMOS were rated highly
• The annual conference and newsletters were the most
popular AMOS communication channels
So in light of your overwhelming feedback on the main interest
areas, this edition presents three very interesting science pieces
covering weather, climate and a splash of marine science.
We look forward to using the survey results to further improve
future volumes of BAMOS and as a basis for this have used your
words from the survey on the ‘role of BAMOS’ to create the ‘word
cloud’ image displayed above.
We hope you enjoy reading this issue and as always welcome your
contributions, comments and ideas.