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Overview

Elizabeth C. Kent is affiliated with the National Oceanography Centre in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a focus on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, and Oceanography. Additional areas of work include Ecology and Astronomy and Astrophysics.

Their main research topics include Climate variability and models, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, and Marine animal studies overview.

Kent has contributed to multiple papers, including:

  • Global Climate, 2021, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Global Climate, 2022, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Progress towards a holistic land and marine surface meteorological database and a call for additional contributions, 2020, Geoscience Data Journal
  • Global Climate, 2023, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Reanalysis representation of low-level winds in the Antarctic near-coastal region, 2022, Weather and Climate Dynamics

Frequent coauthors in their work include Richard Cornes, David I. Berry, Christopher J. Merchant, John Kennedy, and Robert Dunn.

Kent's publications often appear in journals such as the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Geoscience Data Journal, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, Earth System Science Data, and Weather and Climate Dynamics.

Best Publications

  • Global analyses of sea surface temperature, sea ice, and night marine air temperature since the late nineteenth century

    N. A. Rayner;D. E. Parker;E. B. Horton;C. K. Folland

  • ICOADS Release 2.5: extensions and enhancements to the surface marine meteorological archive

    Scott D. Woodruff;Steven J. Worley;Sandra J. Lubker;Zaihua Ji

  • New Insights into the Ocean Heat Budget Closure Problem from Analysis of the SOC Air–Sea Flux Climatology

    Simon A. Josey;Elizabeth C. Kent;Peter K. Taylor

  • ICOADS Release 3.0: a major update to the historical marine climate record

    Eric Freeman;Scott D. Woodruff;Scott D. Woodruff;Steven J. Worley;Sandra J. Lubker

  • A New Air–Sea Interaction Gridded Dataset from ICOADS With Uncertainty Estimates

    David I. Berry;Elizabeth C. Kent

  • The Southampton Oceanography Centre (SOC) Ocean - Atmosphere, Heat, Momentum and Freshwater Flux Atlas

    S.A. Josey;E.C. Kent;P.K. Taylor

  • Air-Sea Fluxes With a Focus on Heat and Momentum

    Meghan F. Cronin;Chelle Leigh Gentemann;James B Edson;Iwao Ueki

  • The Accuracy of Voluntary Observing Ships' Meteorological Observations-Results of the VSOP-NA

    Elizabeth C. Kent;Peter K. Taylor;Bruce S. Truscott;John S. Hopkins

  • Wind Stress Forcing of the Ocean in the SOC Climatology: Comparisons with the NCEP NCAR, ECMWF, UWM/COADS, and Hellerman and Rosenstein Datasets

    Simon A. Josey;Elizabeth C. Kent;Peter K. Taylor

  • Air–Sea fluxes from ICOADS: the construction of a new gridded dataset with uncertainty estimates

    David I. Berry;Elizabeth C. Kent

  • Metadata from WMO Publication No. 47 and an Assessment of Voluntary Observing Ship Observation Heights in ICOADS

    Elizabeth C. Kent;Scott D. Woodruff;David I. Berry

  • A call for new approaches to quantifying biases in observations of sea-surface temperature

    Elizabeth C. Kent;John J. Kennedy;Thomas M. Smith;Shoji Hirahara

  • Methods to homogenize wind speeds from ships and buoys

    Bridget R. Thomas;Elizabeth C. Kent;Val R. Swail

  • A 20 year independent record of sea surface temperature for climate from Along-Track Scanning Radiometers

    Christopher J. Merchant;Owen Embury;Nick A. Rayner;David I. Berry

  • Guiding the Creation of A Comprehensive Surface Temperature Resource for Twenty-First-Century Climate Science

    Peter W. Thorne;Kate M. Willett;Rob J. Allan;Stephan Bojinski

  • Were extreme waves in the Rockall Trough the largest ever recorded

    Naomi P. Holliday;Margaret J. Yelland;Robin Pascal;Val R. Swail

  • Trends in ship wind speeds adjusted for observation method and height

    Bridget R. Thomas;Elizabeth C. Kent;Val R. Swail;David I. Berry

  • Global analyses of sea surface temperature

    Nick Rayner;David E. Parker;E. B. Horton;Chris K. Folland

  • A Statistical Determination of the Random Observational Errors Present in Voluntary Observing Ships Meteorological Reports

    Elizabeth C. Kent;Peter G. Challenor;Peter K. Taylor

  • Toward Estimating Climatic Trends in SST. Part I: Methods of Measurement

    Elizabeth C. Kent;Peter K. Taylor

Frequent Co-Authors

John Kennedy
John Kennedy Met Office
Nick Rayner
Nick Rayner Met Office
Simon A. Josey
Simon A. Josey National Oceanography Centre
Christopher J. Merchant
Christopher J. Merchant University of Reading
Alexey Kaplan
Alexey Kaplan Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Val R. Swail
Val R. Swail Environment and Climate Change Canada
Christopher W. Fairall
Christopher W. Fairall National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
David Parker
David Parker Met Office
Richard W. Reynolds
Richard W. Reynolds National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Peter Challenor
Peter Challenor University of Exeter

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