Person

Barclay, Peter Armstrong (1939 - )

Born
25 September 1939
Australia
Occupation
Meteorologist

Summary

Peter Barclay, BSc, worked for the Bureau of Meteorology for thirty years, joining as a physicist in 1963. He was responsible for implementing the Bureau's AROS (Automated Regional Operations System) project, which resulted in Australia having one of the most modern and efficient meteorological message handling, plotting and forecast/warning dissemination systems in the world. He retired in 1994.

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Published resources

Journal Articles

  • Barclay, P. A., 'Weather radar - Its quantitative application to hydrology', Transactions of the Institution of Engineers, Australia: Civil Engineering, CE8 (1966), 61-67. Details

Resources

See also

Helen Morgan

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