Summary heading

  Case studies of northern Australia cyclone records.

Function and purpose

 This series was created as a collection of documents to give relatively easy access to the case histories of tropical cyclones in northern Australia. The collection and collation was put together by Mr. Kevin Murphy who worked for the Bureau of Meteorology in the 1980s. In 1984 he published “Big Blow Up North: A History of Tropical Cyclones in Australia’s Northern Territory,” published by the University Panning Authority in Darwin.

The collection includes negative and positive prints of satellite and radar weather maps (laserfax sapix), written summaries, track maps, track details, relevant synoptic reports, M.L.S analysis, upper air analysis, operational worksheets, operational watch and warning messages, Radiosonde data, F160 aerological diagrams, messages, rainfall maps with isohyets, anemograms, barograms, damage reports, post cyclone reports, and newspaper clippings.

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System of arrangement and control

 National Archives has imposed a system of arrangement and control to facilitate searching, retrieval and lending.   

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Sources

  National Library of Australia catalogue.