Publications and Talks
2009
On the Evaluation of Temperature Trends in the Tropical Troposphere, Bengtsson, L., and K. I. Hodges, 2009, Climate Dynamics, accepted.
Impact of Duration Thresholds on Atlantic Tropical Cyclone Counts, Landsea, C. W., G. A. Vecchi, L. Bengtsson and T. R. Knutson, 2009, J. Climate, accepted, doi:10.1175/2009JCLI3034.1.
2008
Comment on "Is the number of North Atlantic tropical cyclones significantly underestimated prior to the availability of satellite observations?" by Edmund K. M. Chang and Yanjuan Guo
, 2007, Bengtsson, L. and K. I.
Hodges, Geophysical Research Letters, V35, doi:10.1029/2007GL032251
Will extra-tropical storms intensify in a warmer climate?, Bengtsson, L., K. I. Hodges and N. Keenlyside, 2008, J. Climate, V22, 2276-2301.
2007
How may Tropical Cyclones Change in a Warmer Climate?
, 2007, Bengtsson, L., K. I.
Hodges, M. Esch, N. Keenlyside, L. Kornblueh, J. Luo, T. Ymagata, Tellus, accepted.
2006
Hurricane-type vorticies in a T159 resolution global model:
Comparisons with observations and Re-Analyses, 2006, Bengtsson, L., K. I.
Hodges and M. Esch, Tellus, accepted.
The Prediction of Extratropical Storm Tracks by the ECMWF and NCEP Ensemble Prediction Systems, 2006, Froude, L. S. R., L. Bengtsson, K. I.
Hodges, Mon. Wea. Rev., accepted.
The Predictability of Extratropical Storm Tracks and the Sensitivity of their Prediction to the Observing System , 2006, Froude, L. S. R., L. Bengtsson, K. I.
Hodges, Mon. Wea. Rev., 135, 315-333.
On the response of the climate system to solar forcing,
2006, Bengtsson, L., Space Science Reviews, 00, 1-11.
Geo-engineering to confine climate
change: is it at all feasible?, 2006, Bengtsson, L., Climatic Change, 77, 229-234.
On the Natural Variability of the Pre-Industrial European Climate, 2006, Bengtsson, L., K. I. Hodges, E. Roeckner and R. Brokopf, Climate Dynamics, DOI: 10.1007/s00382-006-0168-y, 1-18
Storm Tracks and Climate Change, Bengtsson, 2006, L., K. I.
Hodges and E. Roeckner, J. Climate, V19, 3518-3543.
2005
On the impact of humidity observations in numerical weather prediction, 2005, Bengtsson, L. and K. I. Hodges, Tellus, V57A, 702-708
A Note on Atmospheric Predictability, 2005, Bengtsson, L. and K. I. Hodges, Tellus, V58A, 154-157
2004
Global weather prediction: Possible developments in the next decades., 2004, Bengtsson, L., Conference of 50 Years of NWP, NOAA.
Sea-Ice Change and its Connection with Climate Change in the Arctic in CMIP2 Simulations, 2004, Hu, Z., S. I. Kuzmina, L. Bengtsson, and D. M. Holland, JGR-Atmospheres, V109, D10106, doi:10.1029/2003JD004454
Sensitivity of the ERA40 Re-Analysis to the Observing System: Determination of the Global Atmospheric Circulation from Reduced Observations, 2004, Bengtsson, L., K. I. Hodges and S. Hagemann, Tellus, V56A, 456-471
Sensitivity of large-scale atmospheric analyses to humidity observations and its impact on the global water cycle and tropical and extratropical weather systems in ERA40, 2004, Bengtsson, L., K. I. Hodges and S. Hagemann, Tellus, V56A, 202-217.
Can climate trends be calculated from reanalysis data?, 2004, Bengtsson, L., S. Hagemann, K. I. Hodges, JGR-Atmospheres, V109, doi:10.1029/2004JD004536
WMO Bulletin Interview, 2004, Bengtsson, L.
The intraseasonal oscillation in ECHAM4 Part I: coupled to a comprehensive ocean model, 2004, Liess, S., L. Bengtsson and K. Arpe, 2004, Climate Dynamics, V22, 653-669
The intraseasonal oscillation in ECHAM4 Part II: sensitivity studies, 2004, Liess, S. and L. Bengtsson, Climate Dynamics, V22, 671-688
Arctic climate change: observed and modelled temperature and sea-ice variability, 2004, Johannessen, O. M., L. Bengtsson and others, Tellus, V56, 328-341
The Early Twentieth-Century Warming in the Arctic-A Possible Mechanism, 2004, Bengtsson L., V. A. Semenov and O. M. Johannessen, J. of Climate, 17, 4045-4057
2003
The Use of GPS Measurements for Water Vapor Determination, 2003, Bengtsson, L. and others, BAMS, V, 1249-1258.
On the determination of atmospheric water vapor from GPS 2 measurements, 2003, Hagemann, S. and L. Bengtsson, JGR-Atmospheres, V108, doi:10.1029/2002JD003235
2002
Global Ocean Warming Tied to Anthropogenic Forcing, 2002, Reichert, B. K., R. Schnur and L. Bengtsson, GRL, V29, doi 10.1029/2001GL013954
Recent Glacier Retreat Exceeds Internal Variability, 2002, Reichert, B. K. and L. Bengtsson, J. Clim., V15, 3069-3081.
Forcing of Northern Hemisphere Climate Trends, 2002, Schneider, E. K., L. Bengtsson and Z. Hu, JAS, V60, 1504-1521.
Secular trends in daily precipitation characteristics: greenhouse gas simulation with a coupled AOGCM, 2002, Semenov, V. A. and L. Bengtsson, Climate Dynamics, V19, 123-140.
2001
Huricane Threats, 2001, Bengtsson, L., Science Magazine, V293, 440-441.
Midlatitude Forcing Mechanisms for Glacier Mass Balance Investigated Using General Circulation Models, 2001, Reichert, B. K. and L. Bengtsson, J. Clim., V14, 3767-3784.
Royal Meteorological Society, presentation on the history of NWP
Lecture at University of Uppsala on climate models and climate change
The status of climate change research: Talk at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Energy 2050.
European Meteorological Society, Silver Medal (2009) - Why is the climate warming so irregular?
Eric Rockner retirement talk (2009) - Temperature trends in the tropical troposphere.
Svalbard talk (2009) - Why is the global temperature not increasing more rapidly?
Talk for Larry Gates Synposium (2009) - New tools for climate research - systematic model inter-comparison and re-analyses.
Trieste talk (2009) - Tropical and extra-tropical cyclones in high resolution climate predictions.
Oslo talk - How reliable are climate predictions?
Extra-tropical cyclones in a warmer climate, COLA talk 9-7-08
Tropical and Extra-tropical cyclones in a warmer climate, MPI talk 30-4-08
Talk to Lighthill Risk Network, 2-4-08
Tropical and Extra-tropical cyclones in a warmer climate, Bern talk 27-02-08
How may tropical cyclones change in a warmer climate - ESSC 22.11.2007
Predictability of weather and climate, Conference of modeling and
simulation, Stockholm 4-15 June 2007.
Tropical Cyclone Talk - Hamburg 2006.
The Greenhouse Effect, NMM, 5 Sept., 2006
The Pre-Industrial European Climate, NMM, 5 Sept., 2006
On the Integration of weather and climate prediction,
Steinhausen talk, 2006