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Environmental Sciences
UK
2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
105
Citations
60170
World Ranking
259
National Ranking
17

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2002 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1990 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 1988 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom

Overview

Brian J. Hoskins is affiliated with the University of Reading in the United Kingdom. Their research spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a focus on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, and Oceanography.

Their scholarly work primarily addresses topics such as Climate variability and models, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Cryospheric studies and observations, Climate change and permafrost, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, and Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes.

Frequent publication venues for their research include:

  • Journal of Climate
  • Nature Geoscience
  • Weather and Climate Dynamics
  • Weather
  • Science

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Brian J. Hoskins include:

  • The Detailed Dynamics of the Hadley Cell. Part II: December-February, 2020, Journal of Climate
  • A Global Perspective on the Upper Branch of the Hadley Cell, 2023, Journal of Climate
  • Changes in Northern Hemisphere temperature variability shaped by regional warming patterns, 2020, Nature Geoscience
  • The role of Rossby waves in polar weather and climate, 2023, Weather and Climate Dynamics
  • A Simple Model for Interpreting Temperature Variability and Its Higher-Order Changes, 2021, Journal of Climate

Brian J. Hoskins collaborates frequently with researchers including Talia Tamarin-Brodsky, Kevin I. Hodges, Theodore G. Shepherd, Gui-Ying Yang, and Tim Woollings.

The scientist has received several recognitions, including:

  • Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom (1988)
  • Member of Academia Europaea (1990)
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2002)
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2012)

Best Publications

  • The ERA‐40 re‐analysis

    S. M. Uppala;P. W. Kållberg;Adrian J. Simmons;U. Andrae

  • On the use and significance of isentropic potential vorticity maps

    B. J. Hoskins;M. E. McIntyre;Andrew W. Robertson

  • The Steady Linear Response of a Spherical Atmosphere to Thermal and Orographic Forcing

    Brian J. Hoskins;David J. Karoly

  • The Generation of Global Rotational Flow by Steady Idealized Tropical Divergence

    Prashant D. Sardeshmukh;Brian J. Hoskins

  • Eliassen-Palm Cross Sections for the Troposphere

    H. J. Edmon;B. J. Hoskins;M. E. McIntyre

  • Rossby Wave Propagation on a Realistic Longitudinally Varying Flow

    Brian J. Hoskins;Tercio Ambrizzi

  • New perspectives on the Northern Hemisphere winter storm tracks

    Brian John Hoskins;Kevin Ivan Hodges

  • Atmospheric Frontogenesis Models: Mathematical Formulation and Solution

    B. J. Hoskins;F. P. Bretherton

  • On the Existence of Storm-Tracks.

    Brian J. Hoskins;Paul J. Valdes

  • Monsoons and the dynamics of deserts

    Mark J. Rodwell;Brian J. Hoskins

  • Two paradigms of baroclinic‐wave life‐cycle behaviour

    C. D. Thorncroft;B. J. Hoskins;M. E. McIntyre

  • The Shape, Propagation and Mean-Flow Interaction of Large-Scale Weather Systems

    Brian J. Hoskins;Ian N. James;Glenn H. White

  • Arctic Oscillation or North Atlantic Oscillation

    Maarten H. P. Ambaum;Brian J. Hoskins;David B. Stephenson

  • A new look at the ω‐equation

    B. J. Hoskins;I. Draghici;H. C. Davies

  • Subtropical Anticyclones and Summer Monsoons

    M. J. Rodwell;B. J. Hoskins

  • Tibetan Plateau warming and precipitation changes in East Asia

    Bin Wang;Qing Bao;Brian Hoskins;Brian Hoskins;Guoxiong Wu

  • Factors contributing to the summer 2003 European heatwave

    Emily Black;Mike Blackburn;Giles Harrison;Brian Hoskins

  • Variability of the North Atlantic eddy‐driven jet stream

    Tim Woollings;Abdel Hannachi;Brian Hoskins

  • The Life Cycles of Some Nonlinear Baroclinic Waves

    Adrian J. Simmons;Brian J. Hoskins

  • The formation mechanism of the Bonin high in August

    Takeshi Enomoto;Brian J. Hoskins;Yoshihisa Matsuda

  • A new perspective on blocking

    J. L. Pelly;B. J. Hoskins

Frequent Co-Authors

Julia Slingo
Julia Slingo University of Bristol
Tim Woollings
Tim Woollings University of Oxford
John Methven
John Methven University of Reading
Kevin I. Hodges
Kevin I. Hodges University of Reading
Keith P. Shine
Keith P. Shine University of Reading
Emily Black
Emily Black University of Reading
Tim Palmer
Tim Palmer University of Oxford
Theodore G. Shepherd
Theodore G. Shepherd University of Reading
Chris D. Thorncroft
Chris D. Thorncroft University at Albany, State University of New York
Jürgen Kurths
Jürgen Kurths Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

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