Member Since 2001
Jen E. Kay
Associate Professor, University of Colorado Boulder
Professional Experience
University of Colorado Boulder
Associate Professor
2019 - Present
University of Colorado Boulder
Assistant Professor
2014 - 2019
Education
University of Washington Seattle
Doctorate
2006
Honors & Awards
Future Horizons in Climate Science-Turco Lectureship
Received December 2018
Outstanding Reviewer Award - Geophysical Research Letters
Received December 2014
Publications
An Observational Constraint for Future Greenland Rain in a Warmer Atmosphere
Increased rain over the Greenland Ice Sheet can accelerate ice sheet mass loss and sea level rise. Here, 14 years of unique spaceborne‐r...
February 28, 2025
Distilling the Evolving Contributions of Anthropogenic Aeros...
November 22, 2024
Surface Cloud Warming Increases as Late Fall Arctic Sea Ice ...
February 08, 2024
The Influence of Climate Feedbacks on Regional Hydrological ...
February 08, 2024
AGU Abstracts
Exploring drivers of modeled western North American mid-latitude precipitation change
DYNAMICS, VARIABILITY, PREDICTABILITY, AND IMPACTS OF REGIONAL PRECIPITATION II POSTER
atmospheric sciences | 11 december 2024
Arianna M. Varuolo-Clarke, Jennifer E. Kay, Brian ...
As we continue to increase atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations, surface temperatures continue to rise and hydroclimate patterns, including preci...
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What controls the rapid Arctic warming since 1980?
CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF POLAR AMPLIFICATION II POSTER
atmospheric sciences | 11 december 2024
Ash Gilbert, Jennifer E. Kay, Edward Blanchard-Wri...
The Arctic surface temperature (70-90°N) is increasing at 4 times the global rate, an amplification factor that CMIP models struggle to replicate. Thi...
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A sectional cloud microphysical model (CARMA Cloud) in the Community Earth System Model (CESM2)
ADVANCES IN CLOUD AND PRECIPITATION PROCESSES: INTEGRATING OBSERVATIONS, MODELING, AND THEORY I POSTER
atmospheric sciences | 11 december 2024
Cheng-Cheng Liu, Yunqian Zhu, Lu Wang, Charles Bar...
Clouds are critical to global radiative forcing and the climate system of Earth. However, cloud simulations in climate models remain highly uncertain....
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