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Member Since 2001
Jen E. Kay
Professor, University of Colorado Boulder
Member, Atmospheric Sciences Ascent Award Committee
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University of Colorado Boulder
Professor
2025 - Present
University of Colorado Boulder
Associate Professor
2019 - 2025
University of Colorado Boulder
Assistant Professor
2014 - 2019
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Education
University of Washington Seattle
Doctorate
2006
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Detectability of Phytoplankton Biomass Extremes Using Simulated Satellite Chlorophyll Observations
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
12 february 2026
COSP-RTTOV: Spectral radiation diagnostics to enable new science applications in model evaluation, climate change detection, and satellite mission design
THE SPECTRAL DIMENSION OF SHORTWAVE AND LONGWAVE RADIATION IN THE EARTH SYSTEM I ORAL
atmospheric sciences | 18 december 2025
Disentangling warming and circulation influences on hydroclimate using nudging experiments
THE DYNAMICS OF LARGE-SCALE ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION IN PRESENT AND FUTURE CLIMATES: JET STREAMS, STORM TRACKS, STATIONARY WAVES, AND MONSOONS IV ORAL
atmospheric sciences | 18 december 2025
Processes controlling Arctic change in a warming world
ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES 2025 ASCENT, HOLTON, AND KAUFMAN AWARD WINNERS ORAL
atmospheric sciences | 17 december 2025
Accounting for Satellite Sampling Bias in the Validation of CESM2 Sea Surface Temperature and Chlorophyll
JOURNAL OF ADVANCES IN MODELING EARTH SYSTEMS
29 november 2025
Earth's Energy Imbalance More Than Doubled in Recent Decades
AGU ADVANCES
10 may 2025
An Observational Constraint for Future Greenland Rain in a Warmer Atmosphere
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
28 february 2025
What controls the rapid Arctic warming since 1980?
CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF POLAR AMPLIFICATION II POSTER
atmospheric sciences | 11 december 2024
Volunteer Experience
2025 - 2028
Member
Atmospheric Sciences Ascent Award Committee
Honors & Awards
Atmospheric Sciences Ascent Award
Received December 2025
Future Horizons in Climate Science-Turco Lectureship
Received December 2018
Outstanding Reviewer Award - Geophysical Research Letters
Received December 2014