Jim Hansen's Selected Publications

• Refereed Journals

• J-C. Golaz, V.E. Larson, J.A. Hansen, D.P. Schanen, and B.M. Griffin (2006)
  Elucidating model inadequacies in a cloud parameterization by use of an ensemble-based calibration framework [pdf] [gzipped pdf],
  Submitted, Monthly Weather Review.
• J.R. Moskaitis and J.A. Hansen (2006)
  Deterministic forecasting and verification: A busted system? [pdf] [gzipped pdf],
  Submitted, Weather and Forecasting.
• J.A. Hansen and C. Penland (2006)
  On stochastic parameter estimation using data assimilation [pdf] [gzipped pdf],
  Revised, Physica D.
• D. Gombos, J.A. Hansen, J. Du, and S. McQueen (2006)
  Theory and Applications of the Minimum Spanning Tree Rank Histogram [pdf] [gzipped pdf],
  Accepted, Monthly Weather Review.
• J.A. Hansen and C. Penland (2006)
  Efficient approximate techniques for integrating stochastic differential equations [pdf] [gzipped pdf],
  Accepted, Monthly Weather Review.
• A. Lawrence and J.A. Hansen (2006)
  A transformed lagged ensemble forecasting technique for increased ensemble size [pdf] [gzipped pdf],
  Accepted, Monthly Weather Review.
• J. Hacker, J.A. Hansen, J. Berner, Y. Chen, G. Eshel, G. Hakim, S. Lazarus, S. Majumdar, R. Morss, A. Poje, V. Sheremet, Y. Tang and C. Webb (2005)
  Predictability [pdf] [gzipped pdf],
  Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 86, 12, 1733-1737.
• W.G. Lawson and J.A. Hansen (2005)
  Alignment error models and ensemble-based data assimilation [pdf] [gzipped pdf],
  Monthly Weather Review, 133, 6, 1687-1709.
• V.M. Khade and J.A. Hansen (2004)
  State dependent predictability: Impact of uncertainty dynamics, uncertainty structure and model inadequacies [pdf] [gzipped pdf],
  Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, 11, 351-362.
• E. Evans, N. Bhatti, L. Pann, J. Kinney, M. Pena, S-C Yang, E. Kalnay, and J.A. Hansen (2004)
  RISE: Undergraduates find that regime changes in Lorenz's model are predictable [pdf] [gzipped pdf],
  Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 85, 4, 520-524.
• L.A. Smith and J.A. Hansen (2004)
  Extending the limits of forecast verification with the minimum spanning tree [pdf] [gzipped pdf],
  Monthly Weather Review, 132, 6, 1522-1528.
  For examples of how MST rank histograms are constructed, download MST_example.tar.gz.
• W.G. Lawson and J.A. Hansen (2004)
  Implications of Stochastic and Deterministic Filters as Ensemble-Based Data Assimilation Methods in Varying Regimes of Error Growth [pdf] [gzipped pdf],
  Monthly Weather Review, 132, 8, 1966-1981.
• J.A. Hansen and K.A. Emanuel (2002)
  Forecast 4d-Var: Exploiting Model Output Statistics [gzipped postscript] [pdf],
  Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 129, 1255-1267.
• D.J. Lea, T.W.N. Haine, M.R. Allen, and J.A. Hansen (2002)
  Sensitivity analysis of the climate of a chaotic ocean circulation model [gzipped postscript] [pdf],
  Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorology Society, 128, 586, 2587-2605.
• J.A. Hansen (2002)
  Accounting for model error in ensemble-based state estimation and forecasting [gzipped postcript] [pdf],
  Monthly Weather Review, Vol. 130, pp. 2373-2391.
• J.A. Hansen and L.A. Smith (2001)
  Probabilistic Noise Reduction [gzipped postscript] [pdf],
  Tellus, Vol. 53A, No. 5, pp. 587-598.
• J.A. Hansen, M.R Allen, D.A. Stainforth, A. Heaps and P. Stott (2001)
  Casino-21: Climate Simulation of the 21st Century [gzipped postscript] [pdf],
  World Resource Review, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 187-189.
• J.A. Hansen and L.A. Smith (2000)
  The Role of Operational Constraints in Selecting Supplementary Observations [gzipped postscript] [pdf],
  Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, Vol. 57, No. 17, pp. 2859-2871.

• Theses

• J.A. Hansen (1998)
  Adaptive Observations in Spatially-extended Nonlinear Dynamical Systems [gzipped postscript] [pdf],
  D.Phil. Thesis, Oxford University.
• J.A. Hansen (1993)
  The Laboratory Modeling of Atmospheric Vortices,
  M.S. Thesis, University of Colorado, Boulder.