Education:
- B.Sc. (Hons) 1962, Majors in physics and maths, London University.
Interests and Research:
- I am currently developing methods for producing objective weather forecasts from
numerical model output fields.
Publications:
- Durrant T.H.,Woodcock, F. and Greenslade, D.J.M. 2007, Consensus forecasts of modelled
wave parameters. Wea. Forecasting. In press.
- Woodcock, F., Elliott, G. and Setek, M. Comparison of official and operational consensus forecasts of capital city daily extreme temperatures in 2006. 95-108.
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- Woodcock, F. and Greenslade, D. 2007, Consensus of Numerical Model Forecasts of Significant
Wave Heights. Wea. Forecasting. 22, 792-803.
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- Woodcock, F. and Engel, C. 2005, Operational Consensus Forecasts. Wea. Forecasting, 20, 101-11.
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- Connor, G.J. and Woodcock, F. 2000, The application of synoptic stratification to
precipitation forecasting in the trade wind regime. Wea. Forecasting, 15, 276–97
- Seaman, R.S., Mason, I. and Woodcock, F. 1996, Confidence intervals for some performance
measures of yes-no forecasts. Aust. Met. Mag. 45, 49-53.
- Sanderson, B., Tang, Y., Holland, G., Grimshaw, R. and Woodcock, F. 1995, A Tropical
Cyclone Maximum Envelope of Waters (MEOW) Technique. BMRC Research Report No. 51.
- Ready, S. and Woodcock, F. 1992, The South Pacific and southeast Indian Ocean tropical
cyclone season 1989-1990. Aust. Met. Mag. 40, 111-21.
- Drosdowsky, L. and Woodcock, F., 1991, The South Pacific and southeast Indian Ocean tropical
cyclone season 1988-1989. Aust. Met. Mag. 39, 113-29.
- Leslie, L.M., Holland, G.J., Glover, M. and Woodcock, F. 1990, The skill in tropical
cyclone position forecasting in the Australian region. Aust. met. Mag. 38, 87-92.
- Holland, G,J., Leslie, L.M., Tsui, T.L., Miller, R., Woodcock, F. and Ng, S. 1989, A
PC-based workstation for tropical cyclone forecasting. IAMAP 89. Reading, UK., 31 July-12
August 1989.
- Jasper, J.D., Holland, G.J. and Woodcock, F. 1988, The economic value of meteorological
research and operations to northern Australia. international Conference on Tropical
Meteorology. Brisbane, Austr., 4-8 July 1988.
- Tapp, R.G., Woodcock, F. and Mills, G.A., 1986, The application of model output
statistics to precipitation prediction in Australia., Mon. Weath. Rev., 114, 50-61.
- Woodcock, F. 1984, Australian experimental Model Output Statistics of daily maximum and
minimum temperature., Mon. Weath. Rev., 112, 2112-21.
- Woodcock, F; Southern, B. 1983, Use of linear regression to improve official temperature forecasts
Aust. Met. Mag. 31, 57-62.
- Woodcock, F. and Nicholls, N., 1982. A methodology for numerical prognosis evaluation using
objective local weather retrieval. Aust. Met. Mag., 30, 155-61.
- Nicholls, N. and Woodcock, F., 1981. Verfication of an empirical long-range weather
forecasting technique. Quart. J. Roy. Met. Soc., 107, 973-6.
- Woodcock, F. 1981, Hannsen and Kuipers'Discriminant Related to the Utility of Yes/No
Forecasts., Mon. Weath. Rev., 109, 172–3.
- Woodcock, F. 1980, On the use of analogues to improve regression forecasts. Mon. Weath.
Rev., 104, 1209-1214.
- Woodcock, F. 1980, Use of analogues in statistical forecasts. WMO Symposium on the Probabilistic
and Statistical Methods in Weather Forecasting, Nice, Sept. 8-12, 1980,
Collection of papers presented, Geneva, W.M.O. 415-421.
- Keenan, T.D. and F. Woodcock, 1979: A combined analogic and synoptic pattern recognition
approach to the prediction of tropical cyclone movement.
International Conference on Tropical Cyclones, Perth, 25-29 November 1979.
- Woodcock, F. 1976, The evaluation of yes/no forecasts for scientific and administrative
purposes., Mon. Weath. Rev., 108, 292-7.
- Woodcock, F. 1973, Efficiency of conservation of absolute angular momentum in the Australian
tropical troposphere. Aust. Met. Mag., 21, 47-60.
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