Dr Edward Hanna

Refereed Journals in print

  • Box, J.E., Bai, L.-S., Benson, R., Bhattacharya, I., Bromwich, D.H., Cappelen, J., Decker, D., DiGirolamo, N., Fettweis, X., Hall, D., Hanna, E., Mote, T., Tedesco, M., van de Wal, R. and van den Broeke, M. (2009). Greenland. Arctic Report Card: Update for 2009.
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  • Sundal, A.V., Shepherd, A., Nienow, P., Hanna, E., Palmer, S. and Huybrechts, P. (2009). Evolution of supra-glacial lakes across the Greenland Ice Sheet. Remote Sensing of Environment, 113(10), 2164-2171.
    doi:10.1016/j.rse.2009.05.018
  • Box, J.E., Bai, L.-S., Benson, R., Bhattacharya, I., Bromwich, D.H., Cappelen, J., Decker, D., DiGirolamo, N., Fettweis, X., Hall, D., Hanna, E., Mote, T., Tedesco, M., van de Wal, R. and van den Broeke, M. (2009). Greenland Climate in 2008. [In: 'State of the Climate in 2008'] Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 90(8), Special Supplement, S108-S111.
    doi:10.1175/BAMS-90-8-StateoftheClimate
  • Mernild, S.H., Liston, G.E. Hiemistra, C.A., Steffen, K., Hanna, E. and Christensen, J.H. (2009). Greenland Ice Sheet surface mass-balance modelling and freshwater flux for 2007, and in a 1995-2007 perspective. Hydrological Processes, 23(17), 2470-2484.
    doi:10.1002/hyp.7354
  • Bales, R.C., Guo, Q., Shen, D., McConnell, J.R., Du, G., Burkhart, J.F., Spikes, V.B., Hanna, E. and Cappelen, J. (2009). Annual accumulation for Greenland updated using ice core data developed during 2000-2006 and analysis of daily coastal meteorological data. Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, 114, D06116.
    doi:10.1029/2008JD011208
  • Wake, L.M., Huybrechts, P., Box, J.E., Hanna, E., Janssens, I. and Milne, G.A. (2009). Surface mass-balance changes of the Greenland ice sheet since 1866. Annals of Glaciology, 50(50), 178-184.
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  • Hanna, E., Cappelen, J., Fettweis, X., Huybrechts, P., Luckman, A., Ribergaard, M.H. (2009). Hydrologic response of the Greenland Ice Sheet: the role of oceanographic forcing. Hydrological Processes (Special Issue: Hydrologic Effects of a Shrinking Cryosphere), 23(1), 7-30.
    doi:10.1002/hyp.7090
  • Hanna, E., Cappelen, J., Allan, R., Jónsson, T., le Blancq, F., Lillington, T. and Hickey, K. (2008). New insights into North European and North Atlantic surface pressure variability, storminess and related climatic change since 1830. Journal of Climate, 21(24), 6739-6766.
    doi:10.1175/2008JCLI2296.1
  • Rignot, E., Box, J.E., Burgess, E. and Hanna, E. (2008). Mass balance of the Greenland ice Sheet from 1958 to 2007. Geophysical Research Letters, 35, L20502
    doi:10.1029/2008GL035417
  • Fettweis, X., Hanna, E., Gallee, H., Huybrechts, P. and Erpicum, M. (2008). Estimation of the Greenland ice sheet surface mass balance during Twentieth and Twenty-First centuries. The Cryosphere, 2, 117-129.
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  • Hanna, E., Mayes, J., Beswick, M., Prior, J. and Wood, L. (2008). An analysis of the extreme rainfall in Yorkshire, June 2007, and its rarity. Weather, 63(9), 253-260. (Special Issue: Summer 2007 in the UK).
    doi:10.1002/wea.319
  • Hanna, E., Huybrechts, P., Steffen, K., Cappelen, J., Huff, R., Shuman, C., Irvine-Fynn, T., Wise, S. and Griffiths, M. (2008). Increased runoff from melt from the Greenland Ice Sheet: a response to global warming. Journal of Climate, 21(2), 331-341.
    doi:10.1175/2007JCLI1964.1
  • Bougamont, M., Bamber, J., Ridley, J., Gladstone, R., Greuell, W., Hanna, E., Payne, A. and Rutt, I. (2007). The impact of model physics on estimating the surface mass balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet. Geophysical Research Letters, 34, L17501.
    doi:10.1029/2007GL030700
  • Hanna, E., Box, J. and Huybrechts, P. (2007). Recent changes in Greenland ice sheet mass balance. Invited MS for State of Arctic Report 2007/ACIA update.
    Available online at: http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/reportcard/
  • Jónsson, T. and Hanna, E. (2007). A new day-to-day pressure variability index as a proxy of Icelandic storminess and complement to the North Atlantic Oscillation index 1823-2005. Meteorologische Zeitschrift, 16(1), 25-36.
    doi:10.1127/0941-2948/2007/0177
  • Hanna, E., Jónsson, T., Ólafsson, J. and Valdimarsson, H. (2006). Icelandic coastal sea-surface temperature records constructed: putting the pulse on air-sea-climate interactions in the northern North Atlantic. Part 1: Comparison with HadISST1 open ocean surface temperatures and preliminary analysis of long-term patterns and anomalies of SSTs around Iceland. Journal of Climate, 19(21), 5652-5666.
    doi:10.1175/JCLI3933.1
  • Hanna, E., McConnell, J., Das, S., Cappelen, J. and Stephens, A. (2006). Observed and modelled Greenland Ice Sheet snow accumulation, 1958-2003, and links with regional climate forcing. Journal of Climate, 19(3), 344-358.
    doi:10.1175/JCLI3615.1
  • Hanna, E., Jónsson, T. and Box, J.E. (2006). Recent changes in Icelandic climate. Weather, 61(1), 3-9.
    doi:10.1256/wea.80.04
  • Luckman, A., Murray, T., de Lange, R. and Hanna, E. (2006). Rapid and synchronous ice-dynamic changes in East Greenland. Geophysical Research Letters, 33, L03503.
    doi:10.1029/2005GL025428
  • Hanna, E., Huybrechts, P., Janssens, I., Cappelen, J., Steffen, K. and Stephens, A. (2005). Runoff and mass balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet: 1958-2003. Journal of Geophysical Research- Atmospheres, 110(D13), D13108.
    doi:10.1029/2004JD005641
  • Orr, A., Hanna, E., Hunt, J.C.R., Cappelen, J., Steffen, K. and Stephens, A.G. (2005). Characteristics of stable flows over southern Greenland. Pure and Applied Geophysics, 162(10), 1747-1778.
    doi:10.1007/s00024-005-2691-x
  • Davis, C.H., Yonghong, L. McConnell, J.R., Frey, M.M. and Hanna, E. (2005). Snowfall-driven growth in East Antarctic Ice Sheet mitigates recent sea-level rise. Science, 308(5730), 1898-1901.
    doi:10.1126/science.1110662
  • Velicogna, I., Wahr, J. Hanna, E. and Huybrechts, P. (2005). Snow accumulation and ice discharge in Greenland from GRACE. Geophysical Research Letters, 32, L05501.
    doi:10.1029/2004GL021948
  • Krabill, W., Hanna, E., Huybrechts, P., Abdalati, W., Cappelen, J., Csatho, B., Frederick, E., Manizade, S., Martin, C., Sonntag, J., Swift, R., Thomas, R. and Yungel, J. (2004). Greenland Ice Sheet: increased coastal thinning. Geophysical Research Letters, 31, L24402.
    doi:10.1029/2004GL021533
  • Hanna, E., Jónsson, T. and Box, J.E. (2004). An analysis of the Icelandic climate since the nineteenth century. International Journal of Climatology, 24(10), 1193-1210.
    doi:10.1002/joc.1051
  • Hanna, E. (2004). The great aurorae of 29 and 30 October 2003. Weather, 59(6), 143-144.
    doi:10.1256/wea.18.04
  • Hanna, E. and Cappelen, J. (2003). Recent cooling in coastal southern Greenland and relation with the North Atlantic Oscillation. Geophysical Research Letters, 30(3), 1132.
    doi:10.1029/2002GL015797
  • Hanna, E. and Braithwaite, R. (2003). The Greenland Ice Sheet: a global warming signal? Weather, 58(9), 351-357.
    doi:10.1256/wea.248.02
  • Hanna, E., Huybrechts, P., Mote, T. and Thomas, L. (2002). Surface mass balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet from climate analysis data and accumulation/runoff models. Annals of Glaciology, 35, 67-72.
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  • Hanna, E. and Cappelen, J. (2002). Klimaet i det sydlige Grønlandi de sidste 40 år. Vejret, 92 + 93, 24-36. [In Danish].
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  • Hanna, E. and Cappelen, J. (2002). Recent climate of southern Greenland. Weather, 57(9), 320-328.
    doi:10.1256/00431650260283497
  • Hanna, E. (2002). The Climate of Kangerlussuaq, South-West Greenland. The Journal of Meteorology, 27(267), 85-90.
  • McConnell, J.R., Lamoney, G., Hanna, E., Mosley-Thompson, E., Bales, R.C., Belle-Oudry, D. and J.D. Kyne, J.D. (2001). Annual net snow accumulation over southern Greenland from 1975 to 1998. Journal of Geophysical Research, 106(D24), 33827-33837.
    doi:10.1029/2001JD900129
  • Hanna, E., Valdes, P. and McConnell, J. (2001). Patterns and variations of snow accumulation over Greenland, 1979-98, from ECMWF analyses, and their verification. Journal of Climate, 14(17), 3521-3535.
    doi:10.1175/1520-0442(2001)014<3521:PAVOSA>2.0.CO;2
  • Hanna, E. (2001). Anomalous peak in Antarctic sea-ice area, winter 1998, coincident with ENSO. Geophysical Research Letters, 28(8), 1595-1598.
    doi:10.1029/2000GL012368
  • Hanna, E. and Valdes, P. (2001). Validation of ECMWF (re)analysis surface climate data, 1979-98, for Greenland and implications for mass balance modelling of the Ice Sheet. International Journal of Climatology, 21(2), 171-195.
    doi:10.1002/joc.609
  • Hanna, E. and Bamber, J. (2001). Derivation and optimization of a new Antarctic sea-ice record. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 22(1), 113-139.
    doi:10.1080/014311601750038884
  • Hanna, E. (2000). Meteorological effects of the solar eclipse of 11 August 1999. Weather, 55, 430-446.
  • Hanna, E. (1999). Comparison of a new Antarctic sea-ice record, 1987-1997, with climate reanalysis data, and theoretical implications. Studying the Earth from Space [Russian journal later translated as Earth Observation and Remote Sensing] 1999(2), 52-62.
  • Hanna, E. (1999). Recent observations of Antarctic sea-ice. Weather, 54, 71-87.
  • Hanna, E. (1998). How and why does Antarctic sea ice vary? The Journal of Meteorology, 23, 153-158.
  • Hanna, E. (1998). Solar-driven global warming? The Journal of Meteorology, 23, 131-135.
  • Hanna, E. (1996). The role of Antarctic sea-ice in global climate change. Progress in Physical Geography, 20, 371-401.
  • Hanna, E. (1996). Have long-term solar minima, such as the Maunder Minimum, any recognisable climatic effect? Part 2: Evidence for a solar-climatic link. Weather, 51, 304-312.
  • Hanna, E. (1996). Have long-term solar minima, such as the Maunder Minimum, any recognisable climatic effect? Part 1: Evidence for solar variability. Weather, 51, 234-242.
  • Hanna, E. (1995). How effective are tipping-bucket raingauges? A review. Weather, 336-342.
  • Hanna, E. (1994) Choosing binoculars for weather observing. Weather, 49, 221-3.
  • Hanna, E. (1992) A prominent optical phenomenon associated with the physics of the ionosphere. Weather, 47, 339-41.

Chapters in books

  • Hanna, E. (2000). The climatic influence of the Sun as a variable star. In: Schröder, W. (ed.) Long and Short Term Variability in Sun's History and Global Change, D-28777, Bremen-Roennebeck, Germany. 45-51.
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