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Jeffrey R. Key is affiliated with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences with a significant emphasis on Environmental Science. The subfields they contribute to include Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, and Aerospace Engineering.

The scientist's work covers various main topics, such as:

  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Calibration and Measurement Techniques
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes

Frequent coauthors include:

  • Yinghui Liu
  • Richard Dworak
  • James Anheuser
  • Xuanji Wang
  • Jay P. Hoffman

Key's research is predominantly published in venues such as:

  • Remote Sensing
  • The Cryosphere
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Preprints.org

Selected recent publications include:

  • Multidecadal Arctic sea ice thickness and volume derived from ice age, 2020, The Cryosphere
  • A New Structure for the Sea Ice Essential Climate Variables of the Global Climate Observing System, 2022, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Application of a Convolutional Neural Network for the Detection of Sea Ice Leads, 2021, Remote Sensing
  • A 20-Year Climatology of Sea Ice Leads Detected in Infrared Satellite Imagery Using a Convolutional Neural Network, 2022, Remote Sensing
  • A New Perspective on Four Decades of Changes in Arctic Sea Ice from Satellite Observations, 2022, Remote Sensing

Best Publications

  • Role of Land-Surface Changes in Arctic Summer Warming

    F. S. Chapin;M. Sturm;Mark C. Serreze;J.P. McFadden

  • Arctic sea ice in transformation: A review of recent observed changes and impacts on biology and human activity

    Walter N. Meier;Greta K. Hovelsrud;Bob E.H. van Oort;Jeffrey R. Key

  • Cloud Detection with MODIS. Part I: Improvements in the MODIS Cloud Mask for Collection 5

    Richard A. Frey;S Teven A. Ackerman;I. Strabala;H Ong Zhang

  • Tools for atmospheric radiative transfer: Streamer and FluxNet

    Jeffrey R. Key;Axel J. Schweiger

  • Recent trends in Arctic surface, cloud, and radiation properties from space.

    Xuanji Wang;Jeffrey R. Key

  • Recent Innovations in Deriving Tropospheric Winds from Meteorological Satellites

    Christopher Velden;Jaime Daniels;David Stettner;David Santek

  • High-latitude surface temperature estimates from thermal satellite data

    Jeffrey R. Key;John B. Collins;Charles Fowler;Robert S. Stone

  • Sea ice surface temperature product from MODIS

    D.K. Hall;J.R. Key;K.A. Casey;G.A. Riggs

  • Arctic Surface, Cloud, and Radiation Properties Based on the AVHRR Polar Pathfinder Dataset. Part I: Spatial and Temporal Characteristics

    Xuanji Wang;Jeffrey R. Key

  • Arctic system on trajectory to new, seasonally ice‐free state

    Jonathan T. Overpeck;Matthew Sturm;Jennifer A. Francis;Donald K. Perovich

  • Parameterization of shortwave ice cloud optical properties for various particle habits

    Jeffrey R. Key;Ping Yang;Bryan A. Baum;Bryan A. Baum;Shaima L. Nasiri

  • Classification of merged AVHRR and SMMR Arctic data with neural networks

    J. Key;J. A. Maslanik;A. J. Schweiger

  • Arctic ice surface temperature retrieval from AVHRR thermal channels

    J. Key;M. Haefliger

  • Arctic Surface, Cloud, and Radiation Properties Based on the AVHRR Polar Pathfinder Dataset. Part II: Recent Trends

    Xuanji Wang;Jeffrey R. Key

  • Nighttime polar cloud detection with MODIS

    Yinghui Liu;Jeffrey R. Key;Richard A. Frey;Steven A. Ackerman

  • Errors in cloud detection over the Arctic using a satellite imager and implications for observing feedback mechanisms.

    Yinghui Liu;Steven A. Ackerman;Brent C. Maddux;Jeffrey R. Key

  • An Arctic Springtime Mixed-Phase Cloudy Boundary Layer Observed during SHEBA.

    Paquita Zuidema;B. Baker;Y. Han;J. Intrieri

  • Cloud cover analysis with Arctic AVHRR data: 1. Cloud detection

    J. Key;R. G. Barry

  • Clues to variability in Arctic minimum sea ice extent

    Jennifer A. Francis;Elias Hunter;Jeffrey R. Key;Xuanji Wang

  • Estimating the cloudy-sky albedo of sea ice and snow from space

    Jeffrey R. Key;Xuanji Wang;Julienne C. Stoeve;Charles Fowler

Frequent Co-Authors

Axel Schweiger
Axel Schweiger University of Washington
Robert S. Stone
Robert S. Stone National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
James A. Maslanik
James A. Maslanik University of Colorado Boulder
Jennifer A. Francis
Jennifer A. Francis Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Konrad Steffen
Konrad Steffen Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Mark C. Serreze
Mark C. Serreze University of Colorado Boulder
Terry D. Prowse
Terry D. Prowse University of Victoria
Walter N. Meier
Walter N. Meier University of Colorado Boulder
Steven A. Ackerman
Steven A. Ackerman University of Wisconsin–Madison
Josefino C. Comiso
Josefino C. Comiso Goddard Space Flight Center

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