Occasional Papers

Below are occasional papers on meteorological history. They include papers about the history of the Met Office, meteorological services leading to D-Day and many other topics.

The image on the right shows a weather map from June 5 1944, the day before D-Day.

• No.1: The Meteorological Forecasting Office at Heathrow
• No.3: Meteorological services leading to D-Day
• No.4: Meteorology and aerial navigation
• No.5: A short history of the British Rainfall Organization
• No.6: Air, Earth and Skies and Man's Unconquerable Mind
  
  Relationships between the Royal Meteorological Society and the Royal Geographical Society by Joan M. Kenworthy
• No.7: Weather Services at War by K. D. Anderson
• No.8: The Met Office Grows Up: In War and Peace by M. E. Crewe
• No.9: "An Experimental Measure". The first meteorological office at South Farnborough and the Meteorological Office Radio Station Aldershot January 1911 to December 1918
• No.10: Weather and Phenological Observations at Hurstpierpoint 1859 - 1862
• No.11: The Ripon Meteorological Data Set for 1892 to 1895 as recorded by Charles Piazzi Smyth
• No. 12: ALBERT WALTER, O.B.E (1877-1972) Meteorologist in the Colonial Service, Part I: His early life and work in Mauritius by Joan Kenworthy
• No 13 ALBERT WALTER, O.B.E. (1877-1972) Meteorologist in the Colonial Service. Part II First Director of the British East African Meteorological Service First President, IMO Regional Commission No. I (Africa)
  
  Group Captain in the Second World War and advisor on meteorology to the Groundnut Scheme by Joan Kenworthy
• No 14 The History of the first twenty-five years of radar meteorology in the United Kingdom by Richard Probert-Jones
• No 15 John Wesley, travelling weather observer. by Dr Howard Oliver
• No 16: January 1809: Synoptic Meteorology of floods and storms over Britain by David E Pedgley
• No 17: THE FIELD COURSES OF THE ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY by Malcolm Walker
• No 18: JAMES GEORGE TATEM WILLIAM HENRY WHITE AND EARLY METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETIES IN GREAT BRITAIN by Malcolm Walker