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Jen E. Kay
Associate Professor, University of Colorado Boulder
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Tropical Pacific cooling and stronger Walker circulation driven by human emissions
OCEAN SCIENCES 2024
climate and ocean change | 23 february 2024
Pedro DiNezio, Clara Deser, Ping Chang, Nan A. Ros...
The tropical Pacific Ocean has been cooling over the past decades, a trend that global climate models cannot simulate, confounding the causes of envir...
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Using single model initial condition large ensembles and observations to document and attribute patterns of tropical sea surface ocean change
OCEAN SCIENCES 2024
climate and ocean change | 22 february 2024
Jennifer E. Kay, Yue Dong, Nicola Maher
We will present ongoing work from a recently funded NASA project that aims to strategically leverage observations and global climate models to underst...
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Bridging the gap between modeled and observed ocean chlorophyll using the Chlorophyll Observation Simulator Package in the Community Earth System Model
OCEAN SCIENCES 2024
marine ecology and biodiversity | 22 february 2024
Genevieve Clow, Nicole S. Lovenduski, Michael A. L...
For several decades, a suite of satellite sensors has enabled us to study the global spatiotemporal distribution of phytoplankton through remote sensi...
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The impact of definition differences on projections of an ice-free Arctic
OCEAN SCIENCES 2024
high latitude environments | 21 february 2024
Alexandra Jahn, Marika M. Holland, Jennifer E. Kay
The current generation of global climate models predict that ice-free conditions in September will occur for the first time by mid-century, and potent...
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The Influence of Climate Feedbacks on Regional Hydrological Changes Under Global Warming
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
08 february 2024
David B. Bonan, Nicole Feldl, Nicholas Siler, Jenn...
The influence of climate feedbacks on regional hydrological changes under warming is poorly understood. Here, a moist energy balance model (MEBM) w...
Surface Cloud Warming Increases as Late Fall Arctic Sea Ice Cover Decreases
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
08 february 2024
Assia Arouf, Hélène Chepfer, Jennifer E. Kay, Tris...
During the Arctic night, clouds regulate surface energy budgets through longwave warming alone. During fall, any increase in low‐level clouds...
The Nonlinear Effect of Temperature Governs the Asymmetric Response of Greenland Firn to Idealized Atmospheric Warming and Cooling
SNOW AND FIRN PROCESSES ON GLACIERS AND ICE SHEETS II ORAL
cryosphere | 15 december 2023
Megan Thompson-Munson, Jennifer E. Kay, Bradley Ma...
A porous layer of snow and firn on the Greenland Ice Sheet stores meltwater and buffers the ice sheet's contribution to sea level rise. The current wa...
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New Spectral Radiation Diagnostics for Climate Change Detection, Model Evaluation, and Satellite Mission Design.
THE SPECTRAL DIMENSION OF SHORTWAVE AND LONGWAVE RADIATION IN THE EARTH SYSTEM I ORAL
atmospheric sciences | 11 december 2023
Jonah Shaw, Jennifer E. Kay, Dustin J. Swales
Spectrally-resolved observations of radiation (such as those made by NASAs Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument) provide invaluable informat...
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