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Benefits of meteorological services: evidence from recent research in Australia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 1998

Kwabena A Anaman ,
Stephen C Lellyett ,
Lars Drake ,
Roy J Leigh ,
Anne Henderson-Sellers ,
Peter F Noar ,
Patrick J Sullivan  and
Dodo J Thampapillai
Kwabena A Anaman
Affiliation:
Department of Economics, University of Brunei Darussalam, Bandar Seri Begawan 2028, Brunei Darussalam
Stephen C Lellyett
Affiliation:
Australian Bureau of Meteorology, New South Wales Regional Office, Sydney, Australia
Lars Drake
Affiliation:
Department of Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
Roy J Leigh
Affiliation:
Climatic Impacts Centre, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
Anne Henderson-Sellers
Affiliation:
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
Peter F Noar
Affiliation:
Australian Bureau of Meteorology Head Office, Melbourne, Australia
Patrick J Sullivan
Affiliation:
Australian Bureau of Meteorology, New South Wales Regional Office, Sydney, Australia
Dodo J Thampapillai
Affiliation:
Graduate School of the Environment and the Climatic Impacts Centre, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
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Abstract

This report is a summary of the methods and findings of a research project that evaluated the social and economic benefits of meteorological services in Australia. The meteorological services evaluated were the basic public weather services and several specialist user-pay and commercial services used by business firms in several sectors of the national economy. Overall, the results indicated that the quality of the selected services was high. In addition, the benefits of these services were extensive, resulting in high benefit-cost ratios.

Type
Research Article
Information
Meteorological Applications , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , June 1998 , pp. 103 - 115
Copyright
© 1998 Meteorological Society

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