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Barclay, Peter Armstrong (1939 - )

Meteorologist

Born: 25 September 1939 Australia

Peter Armstrong Barclay 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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See Also

Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Federation and Meteorology, 2001, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/fam/scripts/fam-dynindex.php3?EID=P003223. [ Details ]

Structure based on ISAAR(CPF) - click here for an explanation of the fields.

Prepared by: Helen Morgan
Created: 10 May 2001
Modified: 24 May 2006

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