Publications and Presentations

Jennifer E. Kay

Upcoming/Recent Conferences and Seminars

NOAA ESRL/CSD Seminar, October 1, 2008. Topic TBD.

Cornell EAS Seminar, September 24, 2008. “Mechanisms for recent Arctic sea ice loss”

CloudSat Team Meeting in Seattle, WA, August 2008. “Arctic cloud regimes in CloudSat data and NCAR's community atmosphere model”

“Arctic clouds, circulation, and sea ice during 2007 and beyond” presented at PAN-GCSS in Toulouse, France and CCSM Workshop in Breckenridge, CO, June 2008. click here for poster

Refereed Journal Articles

Kay, J. E., and R. Wood (2008). Timescale analysis of aerosol sensitivity during homogeneous freezing and implications for upper tropospheric water vapor budgets, Geophysical Research Letters. 35, L10809, doi:10.1029/2007GL032628. click here, Eq. 5 typo

Kay, J. E., L’Ecuyer, T., Gettelman, A., Stephens, G., and C. O’Dell (2008). The contribution of cloud and radiation anomalies to the 2007 Arctic sea ice extent minimum, Geophysical Research Letters, 35, L08503, doi:10.1029/2008GL033451. click here

Kay, J. E., Baker, M., and D. Hegg (2007). Physical controls on orographic cirrus inhomogeneity. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 7, 3771-3781. click here

Kay, J. E., Baker, M., and D. Hegg, (2006). Microphysical and dynamical controls on cirrus cloud optical depth distributions, Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, 111, D24205, doi:10.1029/2005JD006916. click here

Kay, J. E., Kampf, S. K., Handcock, R., Cherkauer, K, Gillespie, A. R., and S. J. Burges (2005). Accuracy of lake and stream temperatures estimated from thermal infrared images, Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 41 (5), 1161-1175. click here

Kay, J. E., Tsemekhman, V., Larsen, B., Baker, M. and B. Swanson (2003). Comment on evidence for surface initiated homogeneous nucleation, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 3, 1439-1443. click here

Kay, J. E., Gillespie, A. R., Hansen, G. B., and E. Pettit (2003). Spatial relationships between snow contaminant content, grain size, and surface temperature from multi-spectral images of Mt. Rainier, Washington (USA), Remote Sensing of Environment, 86:2, 216-231. click here

Simonelli, D. P., Kay, J., Adinolfi, D., Veverka, J., Thomas, P. C., and P. Helfenstein (1999). Phoebe: Albedo map and photometric properties, Icarus, 138, 249-258.

Cherkauer, K.A., Burges, S.J. , Handcock, R.N., Kay, J. E., Kampf, S.K. and A.R. Gillespie (2005). Assessing satellite-based thermal-infrared remote-sensing for monitoring Pacific Northwest river temperatures, Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 41 (5), 1149-1160. click here

Other Publications

Snover, A.K., Whitely Binder, L. C., Lopez, J., Willmott, E., Kay, J., Howell, D. and J. Simmonds (2007). Preparing for Climate Change: A Guidebook for Local, Regional, and State Governments. In association with and published by ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability, Oakland, CA click here

Kay, J. E. (2006). Snow density observations in the Washington Cascades, Proceedings of the 74th Western Snow Conference, 12 pp. click here

Casola, J.H., Kay, J. E., Snover, A.K., Norheim, R.A., Whitely Binder, L. C., and the Climate Impacts Group (2005). Climate Impacts on Washington’s Hydropower, Water Supply, Forests, Fish, and Agriculture. A report prepared for King County (Washington) by the Climate Impacts Group (Center for Science in the Earth System, Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, University of Washington). click here

Kay, J. E., Casola, J.H., and A.K. Snover (2005). Primers on Climate Change Science, Climate Change Policy, and the Projected Impacts of Climate Change on Washington State Resources. click here

Past Conferences and Presentations

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2008.

-Kay, J. E.*,. The contribution of cloud and radiation anomalies to the 2007 Arctic sea ice loss. ARM Science Team Meeting, March 10-14, Norfolk, VA (INVITED).

-Kay, J. E.*, ibid. Yale Spring Colloquium, February 20, New Haven, CT (INVITED).

-Kay, J. E.*,. ibid. NCAR Climate and Global Dynamics Seminar, February 5, Boulder, CO.

2007.

-Kay, J. E.*,. The contribution of cloud and radiation anomalies to the 2007 Arctic sea ice loss. University of Buenos Aires in Buenos Aires, Argentina, December (INVITED).

-Kay, J. E.*, Gettelman, A., and H. Morrison. Using A-Train observations to constrain and improve arctic cloud parameterizations. Fall AGU in San Francisco, CA, December (INVITED).

-Nelson, J., and J. E. Kay. Towards a realistic deposition coefficient expression for cirrus cloud modeling. Fall AGU, in San Francisco, CA, December.

-Kay, J. E., and A. Gettelman. Using A-Train Arctic cloud observations to constrain and improve climate models. A-train Lille 2007 Symposium, in Lille, France, October.

-Kay, J. E., and A. Gettelman. Using CloudSat observations to evaluate the representation of clouds in NCAR’s Community Atmosphere Model. CloudSat/Calipso Team Meeting in San Francisco, CA and CCSM Workshop in Breckenridge, CO, June.

2006.

-Kay, J. E., Wood, R. and M. Baker, Are cirrus ice number concentrations sensitive to aerosol number concentrations?, Fall AGU Meeting, Dec. 2006.

-Kay, J. E.*, Baker, M., and D. Hegg, Microphysical and dynamical controls on orographic cirrus inhomogeneity, 12th Annual AMS Conference on Cloud Physics, July.

-Kay, J. E.*, Fueglistaler, S., Hegg, D. and M. Baker, Physical controls on cirrus cloud inhomogeneity, AGU Joint Assembly, May.

-Kay, J. E.*, Snow density observations in the Washington Cascades, 74th Annual Western Snow Conference, April.

-Kay, J. E.*, Clouds and climate 101, PCC Graduate Student Climate Conference, April.

2005.

-Kay, J. E., Baker, M. and D. Hegg, What controls cirrus optical depth distributions?, Fall AGU Meeting, Dec. 2005.

-Kay, J. E.*, Microphysical and Dynamical Influences on Cirrus Cloud Optical Depth Distributions, Canadian Climate Center, Victoria, British Columbia, April.

-Kay, J. E., Baker, M. and D. Hegg, Microphysical and dynamical influences on cirrus optical depths, ARM Science Meeting, March.

2004.

-Kay, J. E.*, Baker, M. and D. Hegg, Lidar observations and parcel modeling of inhomogeneous cirrus clouds over Lamont, OK (USA), 3rd SPARC General Assembly, August.

-Kay, J. E.*, Cirrus Clouds over the ARM SGP Site (Lamont, OK): Can lidar observations help us understand cirrus formation, evolution, and radiative impacts?, Pacific Northwest National Labs, May.

2002.

-Kay, J. E.*, Hansen, G. B., Gillespie, A. R. and E. Pettit, Spatial relationships between snow contaminant content, grain size, and surface temperature in multi-spectral remote sensing data of Mt. Rainier, WA, AGU Fall Meeting, December.

2001.

-Kay, J. E.*, Handcock, R. N., Gillespie, A., Konrad, C., Burges, S., Naveh, N. and D. Booth, Stream-temperature estimation from thermal infrared images, International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), Sydney, Australia. IEEE 2001 International, Vol. 1, 2001, 112-114, July.

1999.

-Kay, J. E. and J. W. Head III, Geological mapping of Ganymede’s G8 calderas region: Evidence for cryovolcanism? Lunar and Planetary Science XXX, Abstract #1103, March 1999.