Ocean and Marine Forecasting Group

Education:

• B.Sc.(Hons) - University of Cape Town
• Ph.D - University of Cape Town. "Antarctic sea-ice extent, Southern Hemisphere circulation and South African rainfall"

Interests and Research:

I am currently working on the Bureau's POAMA model for seasonal forecasting. I have introduced a new atmosphere-land initialisation scheme into POAMA. Initial results of this work are described in this poster and presentation.

Prior to this I was in the Model Development Group of BMRC working on the land surface scheme in the climate-version of the BMRC AGCM.

July 2000 - December 2002: Research Scientist, Hadley Centre, Met Office, UK. I was contracted to work at the Hadley Centre on a project involving the configuration and use of the Hadley Centre regional climate model (RCM) for southern Africa.

January 1999 - June 2000: Lecturer, Department of Environmental and Geographical Science, University of Cape Town, South Africa. Specialty: Climatology (Climate Systems Analysis Group).

Other broad interests include:

• Seasonal forecasting
• Seasonal and intra-seasonal variability
• Global and regional climate modelling
• Land surface modelling
• Anthropogenically induced climate change
• Climate extremes

Publications:

Wang, G., Alves, O., Hudson, D. and Hendon, H. 2008. SST skill assessment from the new POAMA-1.5 system. BMRC Research Letters No. 8, Bureau of Meteorology, Australia.

Moise, A. and Hudson, D. 2008. Probabilistic predictions of climate change for Australia and southern Africa using the reliability ensemble average of IPCC CMIP3 model simulations. Journal of Geophysical Research. doi:10.1029/2007JD009250

Hudson, D. and Alves, O. 2007. The impact of land-atmosphere initialisation on dynamical seasonal prediction. BMRC Research Report No 133, Bureau of Meteorology, p19-22

Lemus-Deschamps, L., Sisson, J., Li, Z., Hudson, D. and Colman, R. 2005. The Model and Climatological data Comparison System: Version 2 (MACCS 2). BMRC Research Report No. 110, Bureau of Meteorology, Australia.

Arnell, N.W., Hudson, D.A. and Jones, R.G. 2003. Climate change scenarios from a regional climate model: estimating change in runoff in southern Africa. Journal of Geophysical Research, 108 (D16), 4519-4535

Jones, R., Hassell, D., Hudson, D., Wilson, S., Jenkins, G. and Mitchell, J. 2003. Workbook on generating high resolution climate change scenarios using PRECIS. UNDP, New York.

Hudson, D.A. and Jones, R.G. 2002. The effect of seasonally varying vegetation in the RCM over southern Africa. DEFRA Report 2/5/02, Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research, Met Office, Bracknell, UK.

Hudson, D.A. 2002. Future changes in temperature and precipitation extremes over southern Africa. DEFRA Report 2/2/02, Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research, Met Office, Bracknell, UK.

Senior, C.A., Jones, R.G., Lowe, J.A., Durman, C.F. and Hudson, D.A. 2002. Predictions of extreme precipitation and sea level rise under climate change. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. A, 360, 1301-1311.

Hudson, D.A. and Jones, R.G. 2002. Regional climate model simulations of present-day and future climates of southern Africa. Hadley Centre Technical Note 39, Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research, Met Office, Bracknell, U.K.

Hudson, D.A. and Jones, R.G. 2002. Simulations of present-day and future climate over southern Africa using HadAM3H. Hadley Centre Technical Note 38, Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research, Met Office, Bracknell, U.K.

Hudson, D.A. 2001. Simulations of present-day and future climate over southern Africa using HadAM3H. DEFRA Report 2/1/01, Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research, Met Office, Bracknell, UK

Hudson, D.A. 2001. Simulating present-day and future climates of southern Africa using the Hadley Centre regional climate model. DEFRA Report 2/5/01, Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research, Met Office, Bracknell, UK.

Hudson, D.A. and Hewitson, B.C. 2001. The atmospheric response to a reduction in summer Antarctic sea-ice extent. Climate Research, 16(2). 79-99.

Hudson, D.A. 1999. Antarctic sea-ice extent, Southern Hemisphere circulation and South African rainfall. PhD, University of Cape Town (UCT), 304pp.

Hudson, D.A. and Hewitson, B.C. 1997. Mid-latitude cyclones south of Africa in the GENESIS GCM. International Journal of Climatology, 17(5), 459-473.

Hudson, D.A. 1997. South African climate change simulated by the GENESIS GCM. South African Journal of Science, 93(9), 389-403.