Jennifer E. Kay

22.5k total citations · 5 hit papers
117 papers, 9.4k citations indexed

About

Jennifer E. Kay is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Jennifer E. Kay has authored 117 papers receiving a total of 9.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 100 papers in Atmospheric Science, 90 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 6 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Jennifer E. Kay's work include Climate variability and models (64 papers), Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (45 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (33 papers). Jennifer E. Kay is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (64 papers), Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (45 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (33 papers). Jennifer E. Kay collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Canada. Jennifer E. Kay's co-authors include Andrew Gettelman, Marika M. Holland, Tristan L’Ecuyer, Alexandra Jahn, Julienne Strœve, A. P. Barrett, Mark C. Serreze, Hélène Chepfer, Brian Medeiros and Graeme L. Stephens and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Jennifer E. Kay

114 papers receiving 9.3k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

The Arctic’s rapidly shrinking sea ice cover: a research synthesis

2011 1.2k citations Julienne Strœve, Marika M. Holland et al. profile →
CloudSat mission: Performance and early science after the first year of operation

2008 799 citations Tristan L’Ecuyer, John M. Haynes et al. profile →
Insights from Earth system model initial-condition large ensembles and future prospects

2020 603 citations Clara Deser, Flavio Lehner et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
Quantifying climate feedbacks in polar regions

2018 327 citations Jennifer E. Kay, Hélène Chepfer et al. profile →
Projections of an ice-free Arctic Ocean

2024 55 citations Alexandra Jahn, Marika M. Holland et al. profile →

Peers

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jennifer E. Kay

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Jennifer E. Kay. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Jennifer E. Kay 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 Jennifer E. Kay. Jennifer E. Kay is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Accounting for Satellite Sampling Bias in the Validation of CESM2 Sea Surface Temperature and Chlorophyll 2025 ·Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems ·(unknown), Nicole S. Lovenduski, Michael N. Levy, (unknown), Jennifer E. Kay, (unknown), Brian Medeiros	0
2	A global gridded dataset for cloud vertical structure from combined CloudSat and CALIPSO observations 2024 ·Earth system science data ·(unknown), Jennifer E. Kay, John M. Haynes, Gijs de Boer	8
3	Distilling the Evolving Contributions of Anthropogenic Aerosols and Greenhouse Gases to Large‐Scale Low‐Frequency Surface Ocean Changes Over the Past Century 2024 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·Yue Dong, Jennifer E. Kay, (unknown), Antonietta Capotondi, Sara C. Sanchez	1
4	Greenland's firn responds more to warming than to cooling 2024 ·The cryosphere ·(unknown), Jennifer E. Kay, Bradley Markle	0
5	Sea ice feedbacks cause more greenhouse cooling than greenhouse warming at high northern latitudes on multi-century timescales 2024 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Jennifer E. Kay, Yu‐Chiao Liang, (unknown), Nicola Maher	1
6	New model ensemble reveals how forcing uncertainty and model structure alter climate simulated across CMIP generations of the Community Earth System Model 2024 ·Geoscientific model development ·Marika M. Holland, Cécile Hannay, John Fasullo, Alexandra Jahn, Jennifer E. Kay, Michael Mills, Isla R. Simpson, William R. Wieder, Peter Lawrence, Erik Kluzek, David A. Bailey	12
7	Surface Cloud Warming Increases as Late Fall Arctic Sea Ice Cover Decreases 2024 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·(unknown), Hélène Chepfer, Jennifer E. Kay, Tristan L’Ecuyer, (unknown)	4
8	Subtropical clouds key to Southern Ocean teleconnections to the tropical Pacific 2022 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·(unknown), Sarah M. Kang, Jennifer E. Kay, Shang‐Ping Xie	53
9	Less Surface Sea Ice Melt in the CESM2 Improves Arctic Sea Ice Simulation With Minimal Non‐Polar Climate Impacts 2022 ·Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems ·Jennifer E. Kay, Patricia DeRepentigny, Marika M. Holland, David A. Bailey, Alice K. DuVivier, (unknown), Clara Deser, Alexandra Jahn, Hansi Singh, Madison M. Smith, Melinda Webster, James Edwards, Sun‐Seon Lee, Keith B. Rodgers, Nan Rosenbloom	16
10	Anthropogenic aerosol and cryosphere changes drive Earth’s strong but transient clear-sky hemispheric albedo asymmetry 2022 ·Communications Earth & Environment ·Michael Diamond, (unknown), Jennifer E. Kay, Graham Feingold	10
11	LGM Paleoclimate Constraints Inform Cloud Parameterizations and Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity in CESM2 2022 ·Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems ·Jiang Zhu, Bette L. Otto‐Bliesner, Esther C. Brady, Andrew Gettelman, Julio T. Bacmeister, Richard Neale, Christopher J. Poulsen, (unknown), (unknown), Jennifer E. Kay	49
12	An underestimated negative cloud feedback from cloud lifetime changes 2021 ·Nature Climate Change ·Johannes Mülmenstädt, Marc Salzmann, Jennifer E. Kay, Mark D. Zelinka, Po‐Lun Ma, Christine Nam, Jan Kretzschmar, (unknown), Johannes Quaas	87
13	Publisher Correction: Insights from Earth system model initial-condition large ensembles and future prospects 2020 ·Nature Climate Change ·Clara Deser, Flavio Lehner, Keith B. Rodgers, Toby R. Ault, Thomas L. Delworth, Pedro DiNezio, Arlene M. Fiore, Claude Frankignoul, John C. Fyfe, Daniel E. Horton, Jennifer E. Kay, Reto Knutti, Nicole S. Lovenduski, Jochem Marotzke, Karen A. McKinnon, Shoshiro Minobe, James T. Randerson, James A. Screen, Isla R. Simpson, Mingfang Ting	10
14	Arctic Clouds and Precipitation in the Community Earth System Model Version 2 2020 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·(unknown), Jennifer E. Kay, Tristan L’Ecuyer	33
15	When Will Spaceborne Cloud Radar Detect Upward Shifts in Cloud Heights? 2019 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·Hanii Takahashi, Matthew Lebsock, Mark Richardson, Roger Marchand, Jennifer E. Kay	10
16	Evaluating lossy data compression on climate simulation data within a large ensemble 2016 ·Geoscientific model development ·Allison H. Baker, Dorit Hammerling, Sheri Mickelson, Haiying Xu, Martin B. Stolpe, Philippe Naveau, Benjamin M. Sanderson, Imme Ebert‐Uphoff, (unknown), Francesco De Simone, Francesco Carbone, Christian N. Gencarelli, John M. Dennis, Jennifer E. Kay, Peter Lindström	46
17	Evaluating Lossy Data Compression on Climate Simulation Datawithin a Large Ensemble 2016 ·Allison H. Baker, Dorit Hammerling, (unknown), Haiying Xu, Martin B. Stolpe, Philippe Naveau, Benjamin M. Sanderson, Imme Ebert‐Uphoff, (unknown), Francesco De Simone, Francesco Carbone, Christian N. Gencarelli, John M. Dennis, Jennifer E. Kay, Peter Lindström	5
18	Mapping the future expansion of Arctic open water 2015 ·Nature Climate Change ·Katherine R. Barnhart, (unknown), Irina Overeem, Jennifer E. Kay	153
19	Sea Ice Prediction Has Easy and Difficult Years 2014 ·NASA STI Repository (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) ·Lawrence C. Hamilton, Cecilia M. Bitz, Edward Blanchard‐Wrigglesworth, Matthew Cutler, Jennifer E. Kay, Walter N. Meier, Julienne Strœve, (unknown)	1
20	The Arctic response to remote and local forcing of black carbon 2013 ·Atmospheric chemistry and physics ·Maria Sand, Terje K. Berntsen, Jennifer E. Kay, Jean‐François Lamarque, Øyvind Seland, Alf Kirkevåg	72

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