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The Special Services Unit (SSU) is the commercial arm of the Australian Bureau of Meteorology and was set up to respond to clients' specialised meteorological needs on a user pays basis. These clients come mainly from the commercial and industrial sectors and the SSU's role is concerned with raising these sectors' awareness of the importance to their operations of weather and climate information. These activities should also serve to raise, generally, public awareness of climate as a valuable resource.
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Drosdowsky, L.M., Maunder, W.J. Australian industrial and commercial response to climate change: Risk analysis and communication under uncertainty. Climatic Change 25, 247–254 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01098375
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