Richard Whitaker

Richard Whitaker

Richard Northcroft "Dick" Whitaker (born 15 July 1947) is an Australian meteorologist and author. Whitaker is also a Meteorologist on The Weather Channel (Australia), following his esteemed thirty-year career as a meteorologist with the Bureau of Meteorology.

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Bureau of Meteorology

Whitaker began working with the Bureau of Meteorology in 1971, aged twenty-four. A decade later, he was promoted to the role of Officer in Charge of the Facilities and Information section of the Bureau. He held this position for three years, before being promoted again to Senior Operational Forecaster in the Sydney bureau, Australia's largest.

In 1984, he was presented with an Australia Day Achievement Award for his work in the field of meteorology. In 1992, Whitaker became the New South Wales Manager for Special Services, dealing with exceptional cirumstances and disaster recovery operations. He retired from the Bureau in 2002 after thirty-one years.[1]

During the final years of his tenure at the Bureau, between 1999 and 2001 Whitaker worked with the World Meteorological Organisation as a rapporteur for the Committee of Agricultural Meteorology.

Research and developments

Whitaker is partly credited with the initial development of precipitation charts for the Australian mass media. Such charts are now used throughout print and electronic media to convey data about present and future rainfall in graphical form.

In his second year at the Bureau of Meteorology, 1972, he developed and authored a manual for aviation forecasting in the state of New South Wales, still used today. Whitaker also researched the correlation between sea surface temperatures in the Indian Ocean and rainfall in Australia, which is now used as a routine consideration in the production of seasonal rainfall outlooks.

Publications and media

Whitaker is now the senior meteorologist on The Weather Channel which is found on channel 603 on AUSTAR and FOXTEL, having joined the station in 2004. On air, his first name is abbreviated to "Dick". He also presents numerous radio weather crosses to a selection of stations around Australia on a daily basis. Whitaker has authored or co-authored several books about weather and historical topics, having a particular interest in natural disasters.

List of publications

  • Colls, Keith, Whitaker, Richard (2001). The Australian Weather Book. Sydney, Australia: Reed New Holland. pp. 216. ISBN 1 876334 68 1. 
  • Whitaker, Richard (2004). Firewise, Fire-Safe: How to Survive a Bushfire. Sydney, Australia: Reed New Holland. pp. ?. ISBN 1 877069 16 7. 
  • Whitaker, Richard (2005). Australia's Natural Disasters. Sydney, Australia: Reed New Holland. pp. 239. ISBN 1 877069 04 3. 
  • Whitaker, Richard (2008). Disasters Events and Moments that Changed the World. Sydney, Australia: Reed New Holland. pp. 272. ISBN 1 741105 63 3. 
  • Whitaker, Richard (2010). The Complete Book of Australian Weather. Sydney, Australia: Allen & Unwin. pp. 175. ISBN 1 741757347. 

References

  1. ^ "2002 Seminar Abstracts". Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society. 2002-09-18. Archived from the original on 2008-07-29. http://web.archive.org/web/20080729104221/http://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~debbie/AMOS_Sydney/abstracts2002.html. Retrieved 2008-05-24. 

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