James Hocking

976 total citations · 1 hit paper
17 papers, 580 citations indexed

About

James Hocking is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, James Hocking has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 580 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 14 papers in Atmospheric Science and 2 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in James Hocking's work include Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (12 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (11 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (4 papers). James Hocking is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (12 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (11 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (4 papers). James Hocking collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, France and Germany. James Hocking's co-authors include Roger Saunders, Jérôme Vidot, Pascal Brunel, Alan Geer, Cristina Lupu, Peter Joseph Rayer, Niels Bormann, Marco Matricardi, Emma Turner and Peter N. Francis and has published in prestigious journals such as Atmospheric chemistry and physics, Remote Sensing and Geoscientific model development.

In The Last Decade

James Hocking

17 papers receiving 571 citations

Hit Papers

An update on the RTTOV fast radiative transfer model (cur... 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 100 200 300
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. An update on the RTTOV fast radiative transfer model (currently at version 12)
    2018 374 citations Roger Saunders, James Hocking et al. Geoscientific model development profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
James Hocking United Kingdom 10 500 454 61 49 49 17 580
Cristina Lupu United Kingdom 8 580 1.2× 509 1.1× 58 1.0× 67 1.4× 47 1.0× 12 642
Elisabeth Weisz United States 17 709 1.4× 670 1.5× 98 1.6× 50 1.0× 127 2.6× 50 813
Peter Joseph Rayer United Kingdom 7 607 1.2× 536 1.2× 55 0.9× 57 1.2× 56 1.1× 12 661
Caroline Poulsen United Kingdom 17 742 1.5× 743 1.6× 87 1.4× 60 1.2× 45 0.9× 37 873
Vincent Guidard France 14 560 1.1× 500 1.1× 50 0.8× 28 0.6× 16 0.3× 39 595
Thomas J. Kleespies United States 10 494 1.0× 375 0.8× 99 1.6× 55 1.1× 63 1.3× 17 557
Chunqiang Wu China 7 286 0.6× 264 0.6× 27 0.4× 31 0.6× 49 1.0× 20 336
Andriy Holdak France 4 638 1.3× 646 1.4× 71 1.2× 23 0.5× 56 1.1× 4 717
Guangliang Fu Netherlands 12 343 0.7× 377 0.8× 33 0.5× 36 0.7× 42 0.9× 31 423
Kotaro Bessho Japan 11 458 0.9× 369 0.8× 49 0.8× 95 1.9× 48 1.0× 18 530

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Fields of papers citing papers by James Hocking

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of James Hocking

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of James Hocking. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of James Hocking based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with James Hocking. James Hocking is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

17 of 17 papers shown
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Chambon, Philippe, et al.. (2025). Assessment and application of melting-layer simulations for spaceborne radars within the RTTOV-SCATT v13.1 model. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 18(12). 2751–2779. 1 indexed citations
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Kilic, Lise, Catherine Prigent, Carlos Jiménez, et al.. (2023). Development of the SURface Fast Emissivity Model for Ocean (SURFEM‐Ocean) Based on the PARMIO Radiative Transfer Model. Earth and Space Science. 10(11). 12 indexed citations
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Hocking, James, et al.. (2021). A new gas absorption optical depth parameterisation for RTTOV version 13. Geoscientific model development. 14(5). 2899–2915. 15 indexed citations
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Geer, Alan, Péter Bauer, Katrin Lonitz, et al.. (2021). Bulk hydrometeor optical properties for microwave and sub-millimetre radiative transfer in RTTOV-SCATT v13.0. Geoscientific model development. 14(12). 7497–7526. 30 indexed citations
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Geer, Alan, Péter Bauer, Katrin Lonitz, et al.. (2021). Bulk hydrometeor optical properties for microwave and sub-mm radiative transfer in RTTOV-SCATT v13.0. 5 indexed citations
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Carminati, Fabien, et al.. (2019). Assessment of the Hyperspectral Infrared Atmospheric Sounder (HIRAS). Remote Sensing. 11(24). 2950–2950. 17 indexed citations
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Carminati, Fabien, Stefano Migliorini, Bruce Ingleby, et al.. (2019). Using reference radiosondes to characterise NWP model uncertainty for improved satellite calibration and validation. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 12(1). 83–106. 20 indexed citations
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Saunders, Roger, James Hocking, Emma Turner, et al.. (2018). An update on the RTTOV fast radiative transfer model (currently at version 12). Geoscientific model development. 11(7). 2717–2737. 374 indexed citations breakdown →
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Marenco, Franco, John H. Marsham, Luis Garcia‐Carreras, et al.. (2017). Clouds over the summertime Sahara: an evaluation of Met Office retrievals from Meteosat Second Generation using airborne remote sensing. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 17(9). 5789–5807. 6 indexed citations
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Angelis, Francesco De, Domenico Cimini, Ulrich Löhnert, et al.. (2017). Long term Observations minus Background monitoring of ground-based microwave radiometer network. Part 1: Brightness Temperatures. 3 indexed citations
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Angelis, Francesco De, Domenico Cimini, Ulrich Löhnert, et al.. (2017). Long-term observations minus background monitoring of ground-based brightness temperatures from a microwave radiometer network. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 10(10). 3947–3961. 21 indexed citations
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Vidot, Jérôme, Pascal Brunel, Marie Dumont, Carlo Maria Carmagnola, & James Hocking. (2017). The VIS/NIR Land and Snow BRDF Atlas for RTTOV: Comparison between MODIS MCD43C1 C5 and C6. Remote Sensing. 10(1). 21–21. 12 indexed citations
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Angelis, Francesco De, Domenico Cimini, James Hocking, Pauline Martinet, & Stefan Kneifel. (2016). RTTOV-gb – Adapting the fast radiative transfer model RTTOV for the assimilation of ground-based microwave radiometer observations. 1 indexed citations
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Angelis, Francesco De, Domenico Cimini, James Hocking, Pauline Martinet, & Stefan Kneifel. (2016). RTTOV-gb – adapting the fast radiative transfer model RTTOV for theassimilation of ground-based microwave radiometer observations. Geoscientific model development. 9(8). 2721–2739. 21 indexed citations
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Marenco, Franco, John H. Marsham, Luis Garcia‐Carreras, et al.. (2016). Clouds over the summertime Sahara: An evaluation of Met OfficeMeteosat retrievals using airborne remote sensing. 1 indexed citations
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Holl, Gerrit, et al.. (2015). Simulating the effects of mid- to upper-tropospheric clouds on microwave emissions in EC-Earth using COSP. CentAUR (University of Reading). 1 indexed citations
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Hocking, James, Peter N. Francis, & Roger Saunders. (2011). Cloud detection in Meteosat Second Generation imagery at the Met Office. Meteorological Applications. 18(3). 307–323. 40 indexed citations

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