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2024

2023

  • Volodina V, Sonenberg N, Challenor P, Smith JQ. (2023) Propagating moments in probabilistic graphical models for decision support systems. [PDF]
  • Enri JG, Vignudelli S, Quartly G, Gommenginger C, Cipollini P, Challenor P, Benveniste J. (2023) Modeling Envisat RA-2 waveforms in the coastal zone: Case study of calm water contamination, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters (2010). [PDF]
  • Kimpton L, Salter J, Dodwell T, Mohammadi H, Challenor P. (2023) Cross-Validation Based Adaptive Sampling for Multi-Level Gaussian Process Models. [PDF]
  • Sonenberg N, Volodina V, Challenor PG, Smith JQ. (2023) Using infinite server queues with partial information for occupancy prediction, Journal of the Operational Research Society, volume 75, no. 2, pages 262-277, DOI:10.1080/01605682.2023.2189002.
  • Sonenberg N, Volodina V, Challenor PG, Smith JQ. (2023) Using infinite server queues with partial information for occupancy prediction. [PDF]
  • Neto-Bradley AP, Choudhary R, Challenor P. (2023) A microsimulation of spatial inequality in energy access: A bayesian multi-level modelling approach for urban India, Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, volume 50, no. 4, pages 895-910, DOI:10.1177/23998083211073140.

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2006

  • Cromwell D, Shaw AGP, Challenor P, Houseago-Stokes R, Tokmakian R. (2006) Towards measuring the meridional overturning circulation from space, volume 3, no. 5, pages 1623-1635, DOI:10.5194/osd-3-1623-2006.
  • Cipollini P, Challenor PG, Colombo S. (2006) A method for tracking individual planetary waves in remotely sensed data, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING, volume 44, no. 1, pages 159-166, DOI:10.1109/TGRS.2005.859355. [PDF]
  • Gomez-Enri J, Gommenginger CP, Srokosz MA, Challenor PG, Villares P, Alonso J. (2006) The retracking of ocean parameters in the Mediterranean Sea and the surrounding area of the Iberian Atlantic using RA-2 Envisat data, GLOBAL DEVELOPMENTS IN ENVIRONMENTAL EARTH OBSERVATION FROM SPACE, pages 713-+. [PDF]
  • Karaev VY, Kanevsky MB, Balandina GN, Challenor P, Gommenginger C, Srokosz M. (2006) A new concept for remotely sensing ocean waves, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, volume 87, no. 1, pages 17-18.
  • Wimmer W, Challenor P, Retzler C. (2006) Extreme wave heights in the North Atlantic from Altimeter Data, Renewable Energy, volume 31, no. 2, pages 241-248, DOI:10.1016/j.renene.2005.08.019.
  • Pezzi L, Caltabiano A, Challenor P. (2006) Satellite observations of the Pacific tropical instability wave characteristics and their interannual variability, International Journal of Remote Sensing, volume 27, no. 8, pages 1581-1599, DOI:10.1080/01431160500380588.
  • Karaev VY, Kanevsky MB, Balandina GN, Meshkov EM, Challenor P, Srokosz M, Gommenginger C. (2006) A rotating knife-beam altimeter for wide-swath remote sensing of ocean: Wind and waves, Sensors, volume 6, no. 6, pages 620-642, DOI:10.3390/s6060620.
  • Challenor P, Woolf D, Gommenginger C, Srokosz M, Cotton D, Carter D, Sykes N. (2006) Satellite altimetry: A revolution in understanding the wave climate, European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP, no. 614.
  • Gómez-Enri J, Gommenginger C, Villares P, Challenor P, Srokosz M, Benveniste J, Drinkwater M. (2006) The National Oceanography Centre, Southampton retracking scheme, European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP, no. 614.
  • Gommenginger C, Challenor P, Gomez-Enri J, Quartly G, Srokosz M, Berry P, Garlick J, Cotton D, Carter D, Rogers C. (2006) New scientific applications for ocean, coastal, land and ice remote sensing with ENVISAT radar altimeter individual echoes, European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP, no. 614.
  • Cromwell D, Shaw AGP, Challenor P, Houseago-Stokes R, Tokmakian R. (2006) Towards measuring the meridional overturning circulation from space, Ocean Science Discussions, volume 3, no. 5, pages 1623-1635.
  • Cipollini P, Challenor PG, Colombo S. (2006) A method for tracking individual planetary waves in remotely sensed data, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, volume 44, no. 1, pages 159-166, DOI:10.1109/TGRS.2005.859355.
  • Gómez-Enri JX, Gommenginger CP, Challenor PG, Srokosz MA, Drinkwater MR. (2006) ENVISAT radar altimeter tracker bias, Marine Geodesy, volume 29, no. 1, pages 19-38, DOI:10.1080/01490410600582296.
  • Kent EC, Challenor PG. (2006) Toward estimating climatic trends in SST. Part II: Random errors, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, volume 23, no. 3, pages 476-486, DOI:10.1175/JTECH1844.1.
  • Cipollini P, Challenor PG, Cromwell D, Robinson IS, Quartly GD. (2006) How satellites have improved our knowledge of extratropical planetary waves in the ocean, European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP, no. 614.

2005

  • Challenor P. (2005) Waves, rogue waves and statistics, Planet Earth, no. SPRING, pages 12-13.
  • Gómez-Enri J, Gommenginger C, Challenor P, Srokosz M. (2005) Retrieval of geophysical parameters from RA-2 envisat using the southampton oceanography centre retracking algorithm, European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP, no. 572, pages 225-232.
  • Gommenginger C, Challenor P, Quartly G, Gomez-Enri J, Srokosz M, Caltabiano A, Berry P, Mathers L, Bennett J, Cotton D. (2005) Raies: Envisat RA2 individual echoes and S-band data for new scientific applications for ocean, coastal, land and ice remote sensing, European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP, no. 572, pages 233-242.
  • Gommenginger C, Cotton D, Srokosz M, Challenor P. (2005) Ocean wave period from satellite altimeters: Validation for ENVISAT RA2, European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP, no. 572, pages 1413-1416.
  • Karaev VY, Kanevsky MB, Balandina GN, Challenor P, Gommenginger C, Srokosz M. (2005) The concept of a microwave radar with an asymmetric knifelike beam for the remote sensing of ocean waves, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, volume 22, no. 11, pages 1809-1820, DOI:10.1175/JTECH1807.1.
  • Tsimplis MN, Woolf DK, Osborn TJ, Wakelin S, Wolf J, Flather R, Shaw AGP, Woodworth P, Challenor P, Blackman D. (2005) Towards a vulnerability assessment of the UK and northern European coasts: the role of regional climate variability, Philos Trans A Math Phys Eng Sci, volume 363, no. 1831, pages 1329-1358, DOI:10.1098/rsta.2005.1571. [PDF]
  • Cotton PD, Challenor PG, Lefevre JM. (2005) Calibration of ENVISAT and ERS2 wind and wave data through comparison with in situ data and wave model analysis fields, European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP, no. 572, pages 1399-1406.
  • Challenor PG, Wimmer W, Ashton I. (2005) Climate change and extreme wave heights in the North Atlantic, European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP, no. 572, pages 1253-1257.
  • West LJ, Kilworth PD, Cornell VC, Challenor PG. (2005) Remote visualisation of Labrador convection in large oceanic datasets, Atmospheric Science Letters, volume 6, no. 4, pages 198-203, DOI:10.1002/asl.116.
  • Zarnecki JC, Leese MR, Hathi B, Ball AJ, Hagermann A, Towner MC, Lorenz RD, McDonnell JAM, Green SF, Patel MR. (2005) A soft solid surface on Titan as revealed by the Huygens Surface Science Package, Nature, volume 438, no. 7069, pages 792-795, DOI:10.1038/nature04211. [PDF]

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2001

  • Kennedy MC, O'Hagan A. (2001) Bayesian calibration of computer models, JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL STATISTICAL SOCIETY SERIES B-STATISTICAL METHODOLOGY, volume 63, pages 425-450, DOI:10.1111/1467-9868.00294. [PDF]
  • Wynn HP, Brown PJ, Anderson C, Rougier JC, Diggle PJ, Goldstein M, Kendall WS, Craig P, Beven K, Campbell K. (2001) Bayesian calibration of computer models - Discussion, JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL STATISTICAL SOCIETY SERIES B-STATISTICAL METHODOLOGY, volume 63, pages 450-464. [PDF]
  • Topliss BJ, Stepanzcak M, Snaith HM, Challenor P, Guymer TH. (2001) Ocean feature detection using altimetry backscatter: The gulf stream, International Journal of Remote Sensing, volume 22, no. 5, pages 843-849, DOI:10.1080/01431160051060282.
  • Cipollini P, Cromwell D, Challenor PG, Raffaglio S. (2001) Rossby waves detected in global ocean colour data, Geophysical Research Letters, volume 28, no. 2, pages 323-326, DOI:10.1029/1999GL011231.
  • Subrahmanyam B, Robinson IS, Blundell JR, Challenor PG. (2001) Indian ocean Rossby waves observed in TOPEX/POSEIDON altimeter data and in model simulations, International Journal of Remote Sensing, volume 22, no. 1, pages 141-167, DOI:10.1080/014311601750038893.
  • Challenor PG, Cipollini P, Cromwell D. (2001) Use of the 3D Radon transform to examine the properties of oceanic Rossby waves, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, volume 18, no. 9, pages 1558-1566, DOI:10.1175/1520-0426(2001)018<1558:UOTRTT>2.0.CO;2.
  • Anderson TR, Spall SA, Yool A, Cipollini P, Challenor PG, Fasham MJR. (2001) Global fields of sea surface dimethylsulfide predicted from chlorophyll, nutrients and light, Journal of Marine Systems, volume 30, no. 1-2, pages 1-20, DOI:10.1016/S0924-7963(01)00028-8.
  • Gommenginger CP, Srokosz MA, Challenor PG, Karaev VY, Cotton PD. (2001) Ocean wave effects on global altimeter wind climate retrieval, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Ocean Wave Measurement and Analysis, volume 1, pages 144-153.
  • Woolf DK, Challenor PG. (2001) Statistical comparisons of satellite and model wave climatologies, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Ocean Wave Measurement and Analysis, volume 1, pages 640-649.

2000

  • Cipollini P, Challenor PG, Cromwell D, Quartly GD, Raffaglio S. (2000) Detection of Rossby waves in ocean colour data, IGARSS 2000: IEEE 2000 INTERNATIONAL GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING SYMPOSIUM, VOL I - VI, PROCEEDINGS, pages 1821-1823. [PDF]
  • Cipollini P, Challenor PG, Cromwell D, Hill KL, Quartly GD, Robinson IS. (2000) Remote sensing of oceanic Rossby waves: New techniques and results, IGARSS 2000: IEEE 2000 INTERNATIONAL GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING SYMPOSIUM, VOL I - VI, PROCEEDINGS, pages 1824-1826. [PDF]
  • Ghafoor NAL, Zarnecki JC, Challenor P, Srokosz MA. (2000) Wind-driven surface waves on Titan, Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, volume 105, no. E5, pages 12077-12091, DOI:10.1029/1999JE001066.
  • Kent EC, Taylor PK, Challenor PG. (2000) The effect of successive correction on variability estimates for climatological datasets, Journal of Climate, volume 13, no. 11, pages 1845-1857, DOI:10.1175/1520-0442(2000)013<1845:TEOSCO>2.0.CO;2.
  • Cipollini P, Cromwell D, Quartly GD, Challenor PG. (2000) Chapter 6 Remote sensing of oceanic extra-tropical Rossby waves, Elsevier Oceanography Series, volume 63, no. C, pages 99-123, DOI:10.1016/S0422-9894(00)80007-0.
  • Quartly GD, Cipollini P, Cromwell D, Challenor PG. (2000) Synergistic Observations of Rossby Waves, European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP, no. 461, pages 287-294.

1999

1998

  • Davies CG, Challenor PG, Cotton PD. (1998) Measurements of wave period from radar altimeters, OCEAN WAVE MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS, VOLS 1 AND 2, pages 819-826. [PDF]
  • Cotton PD, Challenor PG, Carter DJT. (1998) Variability in altimeter global wave climate data, OCEAN WAVE MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS, VOLS 1 AND 2, pages 809-818. [PDF]
  • Kumar SP, Snaith H, Challenor P, Guymer HT. (1998) Seasonal and inter-annual sea surface height variations of the northern Indian Ocean from the TOPEX/POSEIDON altimeter, Indian Journal of Marine Sciences, volume 27, no. 1, pages 10-16.
  • Kent EC, Taylor PK, Challenor PG. (1998) A comparison of ship- and scatterometer-derived wind speed data in open ocean and coastal areas, International Journal of Remote Sensing, volume 19, no. 17, pages 3361-3381, DOI:10.1080/014311698214046.
  • Challenor PG, Tokmakian RT. (1998) Altimeter measurements of the volume transport through the Drake Passage, Advances in Space Research, volume 22, no. 11, pages 1549-1552, DOI:10.1016/S0273-1177(99)00071-X.

1997

  • Harmon R, Challenor P. (1997) A Markov chain Monte Carlo method for estimation and assimilation into models, Ecological Modelling, volume 101, no. 1, pages 41-59, DOI:10.1016/S0304-3800(97)01947-9.
  • Jones M, Allen M, Guymer T, Saunders M, Challenor P. (1997) Comparisons of altimetric sea surface height and radiometric sea surface temperature in the South Atlantic, European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP, no. 414 PART 3, pages 1343-1348.
  • Davies C, Cotton D, Challenor P. (1997) Altimeter estimates of wave period, European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP, no. 414 PART 3, pages 1151-1156.
  • Cipollini P, Cromwell D, Jones MS, Quartly GD, Challenor PG. (1997) The potential of ERS for the detection of Rossby waves in the Northeast Atlantic, European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP, no. 414 PART 3, pages 1473-1478.
  • Guymer TH, Alderson SG, Challenor PG, Cipollini P, Forrester TN, Schwarz JN, Snaith HM, Weeks AR, Corsini G. (1997) Remote sensing and in situ measurements of bio-optical variability in a Mediterranean mesoscale system, European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP, no. 414 PART 3, pages 1379-1384.
  • Cotton PD, Challenor PG, Carter DJT. (1997) Analysis of inter-annual variability of altimeter measured global wave climate, European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP, no. 414 PART 3, pages 1157-1161.
  • Cipollini P, Cromwell D, Jones MS, Quartly GD, Challenor PG. (1997) Concurrent altimeter and infrared observations of Rossby wave propagation near 34° N in the Northeast Atlantic, Geophysical Research Letters, volume 24, no. 8, pages 889-892, DOI:10.1029/97GL00758.

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1990

  • Challenor PG, Foale S, Webb DJ. (1990) Seasonal changes in the global wave climate measured by the geosat altimeter, International Journal of Remote Sensing, volume 11, no. 12, pages 2205-2213, DOI:10.1080/01431169008955170.
  • Gracian AP, Muller JP, Challenor PG, Srokosz MA. (1990) Automated stereo measurements of short gravity-capillary waves, Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, volume 1395 pt 2, pages 1008-1015.

1988

  • Challenor PG. (1988) FUTURE ROLE OF SATELLITES, Quarterly Journal of Technical Papers (Institute of Petroleum), pages 31-40.
  • Carter DJT, Challenor PG, Srokosz MA. (1988) Satellite remote sensing and wave studies into the 1990s, International Journal of Remote Sensing, volume 9, no. 10-11, pages 1835-1846, DOI:10.1080/01431168808954981.

1987

1986

  • Challenor PG, Guymer TH, Srokosz MA. (1986) Influence of spatial and temporal scales on calibration/validation.
  • Challenor PG, Guymer TH, Srokosz MA. (1986) Influence of spatial and temporal scales on calibration/validation.
  • Challenor PG, Guymer TH, Srokosz MA. (1986) Influence of spatial and temporal scales on calibration/validation.
  • Challenor PG, Guymer TH, Srokosz MA. (1986) Influence of spatial and temporal scales on calibration/validation.

1985

1984

  • CARTER DJT, CHALLENOR PG. (1984) EXTREME VALUE ANALYSIS IN METEOROLOGY - COMMENTS, METEOROLOGICAL MAGAZINE, volume 113, no. 1339, pages 43-47. [PDF]
  • Carter DJT, Challenor PG. (1984) The impact of satellite altimeter data on wave research, Proc. workshop on ERS-1 radar altimeter data products, Frascati, 1984, pages 47-50.
  • Tucker MJ, Challenor PG, Carter DJT. (1984) Numerical simulation of a random sea: a common error and its effect upon wave group statistics, Applied Ocean Research, volume 6, no. 2, pages 118-122, DOI:10.1016/0141-1187(84)90050-6.
  • Challenor PG, Srokosz MA. (1984) EXTRACTION OF WAVE PERIOD FROM ALTIMETER DATA, European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP, pages 121-124.
  • Challenor PG, Srokosz MA. (1984) Extraction of wave period from altimeter data, Proc. workshop on ERS-1 radar altimeter data products, Frascati, 1984, (ESA SP-221; distributed ESTEC, Noordwijk), pages 121-124.
  • Carter DJT, Challenor PG. (1984) IMPACT OF SATELLITE ALTIMETER DATA ON WAVE RESEARCH, European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP, pages 47-50.

1983

  • CARTER DJT, CHALLENOR PG. (1983) ESTIMATING RETURN VALUES OF ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS - REPLY, QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY, volume 109, no. 462, pages 894-896. [PDF]
  • LILWALL RC, CHALLENOR PG. (1983) ON THE SATURATION OF EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE - COMMENT, BULLETIN OF THE SEISMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA, volume 73, no. 1, pages 327-331. [PDF]
  • Carter DJT, Challenor PG. (1983) Application of extreme value analysis to Weibull data, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, volume 109, no. 460, pages 429-433, DOI:10.1002/qj.49710946013.
  • Carter DJT, Challenor PG. (1983) Methods of fitting the Fisher-Tippett type 1 extreme value distribution, Ocean Engineering, volume 10, no. 3, pages 191-199, DOI:10.1016/0029-8018(83)90027-6.
  • Challenor PO, Carter DJT. (1983) Monthly extreme air temperatures at Rothamsted, Journal of Climatology, volume 3, no. 4, pages 395-404, DOI:10.1002/joc.3370030407.

1982

  • Challenor PG. (1982) A new method for the analysis of extremes applicable to one years' data.
  • Challenor PG. (1982) A new method for the analysis of extremes applicable to one year's data.
  • Challenor PG. (1982) A new method for the analysis of extremes applicable to one year's data.
  • Challenor PG. (1982) A new method for the analysis of extremes applicable to one years' data.
  • Challenor PG. (1982) A new distribution for annual extremes of enivromental variables, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, volume 108, no. 458, pages 975-980, DOI:10.1002/qj.49710845815.

1981

  • Carter DJT, Challenor PG. (1981) Estimating return values of wave height.
  • CARTER DJT, CHALLENOR PG. (1981) ESTIMATING RETURN VALUES OF ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS, QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY, volume 107, no. 451, pages 259-266, DOI:10.1256/smsqj.45115. [PDF]
  • Carter DJT, Challenor PG. (1981) Estimating return values of environmental parameters, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, volume 107, no. 451, pages 259-266, DOI:10.1002/qj.49710745116.
  • Carter DJT, Challenor PG. (1981) Estimating return values of wave height.

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