Publications in Press
Quantification of the probability of containment failure caused by an in-vessel steam explosion for the Sizewell B PWR, 1995, B.D. Turland, D.F. Fletcher, K.I. Hodges, G.J. Attwood, Nuclear Engineering and Design, V155, 445-458.
Mean Climate and Transience in
the Tropics of the UGAMP GCM - Sensitivity to Convective
Parameterization, 1994, J. Slingo, M. Blackburn, A. Betts, R.
Brugge, K. Hodges, M. Miller, L. Steenman-clark, J. Thuburn, Q. J.
R. Meteorol. Soc., V120, 881-922.
A General Method for Tracking
Analysis and its Application to Meterological Data, 1994, K. I.
Hodges, Mon. Weather Rev., V122, 2573-2586.
Feature Tracking on the Unit
Sphere, 1995, K. I. Hodges, Mon. Weather Rev., V123,
3458-3465.
Spherical Nonparameteric
Estimators Applied to the UGAMP Model Integration for AMIP, 1996, K.
I. Hodges; Mon. Weather Rev., V124, 2914-2932.
Distributions and Statistics of
African Mesoscale Convective Weather Systems Based on the ISCCP
Meteosat Imagery, 1997, K. I. Hodges, C. Thorncroft; Mon. Weather
Rev., V125, 2821-2837.
Feature Point Detection Using
Distance Transforms: Application to Tracking Tropical Convective
Complexes, 1998, K. I. Hodges, Mon. Weather Rev., V126,
785-795.
Extension of Spherical
Nonparametric Estimators to Nonisotropic Kernels: An Oceanographic
Application, 1999, K. I. Hodges, Mon. Weather Rev., V127,
214-227.
Adaptive Constraints for
Feature Tracking, 1999, K. I. Hodges, Mon. Weather Rev., V127,
1362-1373.
The Mean Evolution and
Variability of the Asian Summer Monsoon: Comparison of ECMWF and
NCEP-NCAR Reanalyses, 1999, H. Annamalai, J. M. Slingo, K. R.
Sperber, K. Hodges, Mon. Weather Rev., V127, 2914-2932.
An Improved Algorithm for
Generating Global Window Brightness Temperatures from Multiple
Satellite Imagery, 2000, K. I. Hodges, D. W. Chappell, G. J.
Robinson, G. Yang, J. Atmos. Ocean. Technol., V17, 1296-1312.
Simulation of Monsoon
Disturbances in the LMD GCM, 2000, M. Sabre, K. Hodges, K. Laval, J.
Polcher, F. Desalmand, Mon. Weather Rev., V128, 3752-3771.
African Easterly Wave
Variability and its Relationship to Atlantic Tropical Cyclone
Activity, 2001, C. Thorncroft, K. Hodges, J. Clim., V14,
1166-1179.
New Perspectives on the
Northern Hemisphere Winter Storm Tracks, 2002, B. J. Hoskins and K. I.
Hodges, J. Atmos. Sci., V59, 1041-1061.
Sensitivity of Feature Based
Analysis Methods of Storm Tracks to the Form of Background Field
Removal, 2003, D. Anderson, K. I. Hodges, B. J. Hoskins, Mon.
Weather Rev., V131, 565-573.
A Comparison of Recent Reanalysis Datasets
Using Objective Feature Tracking: Storm Tracks and Tropical
Easterly Waves, 2003, K. I. Hodges, B. J. Hoskins, J. Boyle and C. Thorncroft, Mon.
Weather Rev., V131, 2012-2037.
Corrigendum
Sensitivity of Large-Scale Analyses to Humidity Observations and its Impact on the Global Water Cycle and Tropical and Extratropical Weather Systems in ERA40, 2004, L. Bengtsson, K. I. Hodges and S. Hagemann, Tellus, V56A, 202-217.
Simulation of the diurnal cycle in a climate model and its evaluation using data from Meteosat 7, 2004, A. Slingo , K. I. Hodges and G. J. Robinson, Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., V130, 1449-1467.
Can climate trends be calculated from reanalysis data?, 2004, L. Bengtsson, S. Hagemann and K. I. Hodges, JGR-Atmos, 109, D11111, doi:10.1029/2004JD004536
Sensitivity of the ERA40 reanalysis to the observing system: determination of the global atmospheric circulation from reduced observations, 2004, L. Bengtsson, K. I. Hodges and S. Hagemann, Tellus, V56A, 456-471
Global observations and forecast skill, 2005, L. Bengtsson, K. I. Hodges and L. S. R. Froude, Tellus, V57A, 515-527
On the impact of humidity observations in numerical weather prediction, 2005, L. Bengtsson, and K. I. Hodges, Tellus, V57A, 701-708
A New Perspective on
Sourthern Hemisphere Storm Tracks, 2005, B. J. Hoskins and K. I.
Hodges, J. Clim., V18, 4108-4129.
A note on atmospheric predictability, 2006, L. Bengtsson, and K. I. Hodges, Tellus, V58A, 154-157
On the natural variability of the pre-industrial European climate, 2006, L. Bengtsson, K. I. Hodges, E. Roeckner and R. Brokopf, Climate Dynamics,
Serial Clustering of Extratropical Cyclones, 2006,
P. J. Mailier, D. B. Stephenson, C. A. T. Ferro and K. I. Hodges, Mon. Weather Rev,
Storm Tracks and Climate Change, 2006,
L. Bengtsson, K. I. Hodges and E. Roeckner, J. Clim., V19
, 3518-3543.
The Predictability of Extratropical Storm Tracks and the Sensitivity of their Prediction to the Observing system, 2007,
L. S. R. Froude, L. Bengtsson and K. I. Hodges, Mon. Weather Rev., V135, 315-333.
A tropospheric assessment of the ERA-40, NCEP, and JRA-25 global reanalyses in the polar regions, 2007, D. H. Bromwich, R. L. Fogt, K. I. Hodges and J. E. Walsh, JGR-Atmos, 112, D11111, doi:10.1029/2006JD007859,
West African Storm Tracks and Their Relationship to Atlantic Tropical Cyclones, 2007, S. B. Hopsch, C. D. Thorncroft, K. Hodges, and A. Aiyyer, J. Clim., V20, pp 2468-2483.
Tropical cyclones in a T159 resolution global climate model: comparison with observations and re-analyses, 2007, L. Bengtsson, K. I. Hodges and M. Esch, Tellus, V59A, pp 396-416.
How may tropical cyclones change in a warmer climate?, 2007, L. Bengtsson, K. I. Hodges, M. Esch, N. Keenlyside, L. Kornblueh, J.-J. Luo and T. Yamagata, Tellus, V59A, pp 539-561.
The Prediction of Extratropical Storm Tracks by the ECMWF and NCEP Ensemble Prediction Systems, 2007, L. S. R. Froude, L. Bengtsson and K. I. Hodges, Mon. Weather Rev., 135, pp 2545-2567.
Confidence Intervals and Significance Tests for Spherical Data Derived from Feature Tracking, 2008, K. I. Hodges, Mon. Weather Rev., 136, pp 1758-1777.
Will Extratropical Storms Intensify in a Warmer Climate?, 2009, L. Bengtsson, K. I. Hodges, and N. Keenlyside , J. Clim., 22, pp 2276-2301.
Characteristics and Variability of Storm Tracks in the North Pacific, Bering Sea, and Alaska, 2010, M. D. S. Mesquita, D. E. Atkinson, K. I. Hodges, J. Clim., 23, pp 294-311.
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