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, V27, 743-760

Serial Clustering of Extratropical Cyclones, 2006, P. J. Mailier, D. B. Stephenson, C. A. T. Ferro and K. I. Hodges, Mon. Weather Rev, V134, 2224-2240.

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.

Can Climate Models Capture the Structure of Extratropical Cyclones?, 2010, J. L. Catto, L. C. Shaffrey and K. I. Hodges, J. Clim., 23, pp 1621-1635.

Storm track sensitivity to sea surface temperature resolution in a regional atmosphere model, 2010, T. Woollings, B. Hoskins, M. Blackburn, D. Hassell and K. Hodges, Climate Dynamics, V35, 341-353

Tracking and Mean Structure of Easterly Waves over the Intra-Americas Sea, 2010, Y. L. Serra, G. N. Kiladis and K. I. Hodges, J. Clim., 23, 4823-4840.

On the evaluation of temperature trends in the tropical troposphere, 2011, L. Bengtsson and K. I. Hodges, Clim. Dyn., 36, 419-430.

Sea-ice anomalies in the Sea of Okhotsk and the relationship with storm tracks in the Northern Hemisphere during winter, 2011, M. D. S. Mesquita, K. I. Hodges, D. E. Atkinson and J. Bader, Tellus, 63A, 312-323.

The effect of extratropical cyclones on satellite.retrieved aerosol properties over ocean. , 2011, B. S. Grandey, P. Stier, T. M. Wagner, R. G. Grainger, and K. I. Hodges , Geophysical Research Letters , 38, doi:10.1029/2011GL047703

A review on Northern Hemisphere sea-ice, storminess and the North Atlantic Oscillation: Observations and projected changes , 2011, J. Bader, M. D.S. Mesquita, K. I. Hodges, N. Keenlyside, S. Osterhus, M. Miles , Atmospheric Research , 101, 809-834.

Impact of increasing resolution and a warmer climate on extreme weather from Northern Hemisphere extratropical cyclones , 2011, A. J. Champion, K. I. Hodges, L. O. Bengtsson, N. S. Keenlyside, M. Esch , Tellus A , 63A, 893-906.

The changing atmospheric water cycle in Polar Regions in a warmer climate , 2011, L. Bengtsson, K. I. Hodges, S. Koumoutsaris, M. Zahn and N. Keenlyside, Tellus A , 63A, 907-920.

A Comparison of Extratropical Cyclones in Recent Reanalyses ERA-Interim, NASA MERRA, NCEP CFSR, and JRA-25 , 2011, K. I. Hodges, R. W. Lee and L. Bengtsson, J. Clim. , 24, 4888-4906.

Northern Hemisphere Extratropical Cyclones in a Warming Climate in the HiGEM High-Resolution Climate Model , 2011, J. L. Catto, L. C. Shaffrey and K. I. Hodges, J. Clim. , 24, 5336-5352.

High resolution Northern Hemisphere wintertime mid-latitude dynamics during the Last Glacial Maximum , 2011, Unterman, M. B., T. J. Crowley, K. I. Hodges, S.-J. Kim, D. J. Erickson , 38, L23702, doi:10.1029/2011GL049599.