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Overview

Keith Lindsay is affiliated with the National Center for Atmospheric Research in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, contributing to a body of work that spans various subfields including Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, and Ecology.

Lindsay's work covers multiple topics central to environmental and atmospheric research, such as Marine and coastal ecosystems, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Climate variability and models, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Atmospheric Ozone and Climate, and Marine Biology and Ecology Research.

The scientist has published extensively in a range of academic journals. Among the frequent publication venues are:

  • Global Biogeochemical Cycles
  • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Geoscientific model development
  • Progress In Oceanography
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Recent notable papers authored or coauthored by Lindsay include:

  • The Community Earth System Model Version 2 (CESM2), 2020, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Global Carbon Budget 2022, 2022, Earth system science data
  • Carbon-concentration and carbon-climate feedbacks in CMIP6 models and their comparison to CMIP5 models, 2020, Biogeosciences
  • Evaluation of global ocean-sea-ice model simulations based on the experimental protocols of the Ocean Model Intercomparison Project phase 2 (OMIP-2), 2020, Geoscientific model development
  • Simulations With the Marine Biogeochemistry Library (MARBL), 2021, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Key frequent coauthors collaborating with Lindsay include:

  • Matthew C. Long
  • Michael N. Levy
  • Kristen M. Krumhardt
  • Nicole S. Lovenduski
  • J. Keith Moore

Keith Lindsay's research contributes to improving the understanding of complex Earth system processes, including ocean-sea-ice interactions, carbon cycle dynamics, and biogeochemical modeling. Their work on modeling and evaluating marine biogeochemistry and climate feedbacks is reflected across multiple publications in both oceanographic and atmospheric science disciplines.

Best Publications

  • Anthropogenic ocean acidification over the twenty-first century and its impact on calcifying organisms

    James C. Orr;Victoria J. Fabry;Olivier Aumont;Laurent Bopp

  • Climate–Carbon Cycle Feedback Analysis: Results from the C4MIP Model Intercomparison

    Pierre Friedlingstein;P. Cox;Richard A. Betts;Laurent Bopp

  • The Community Earth System Model Version 2 (CESM2)

    G. Danabasoglu;J. F. Lamarque;J. Bacmeister;D. A. Bailey

  • The Community Earth System Model: A Framework for Collaborative Research

    James W. Hurrell;M. M. Holland;P. R. Gent;S. Ghan

  • The Community Earth System Model (CESM) large ensemble project: a community resource for studying climate change in the presence of internal climate variability

    Jennifer E Kay;Clara Deser;Adam S Phillips;A Mai

  • The carbon cycle and atmospheric CO2

    IC Prentice;GD Farquhar;Mjr Fasham;ML Goulden

  • Upper ocean ecosystem dynamics and iron cycling in a global three-dimensional model

    J. Keith Moore;Scott C. Doney;Keith Lindsay

  • Carbon–Concentration and Carbon–Climate Feedbacks in CMIP5 Earth System Models

    Vivek K. Arora;George J. Boer;Pierre Friedlingstein;Michael Eby

  • Oceanic sources, sinks, and transport of atmospheric CO2

    Nicolas Gruber;Manuel Gloor;Sara E. Mikaloff Fletcher;Scott C. Doney

  • Projected 21st century decrease in marine productivity: a multi-model analysis

    Marco Steinacher;Marco Steinacher;Fortunat Joos;Fortunat Joos;T. L. Frölicher;T. L. Frölicher;L. Bopp

  • Carbon-concentration and carbon-climate feedbacks in CMIP6 models and their comparison to CMIP5 models

    Vivek K. Arora;Anna Katavouta;Anna Katavouta;Richard G. Williams;Chris D. Jones

  • Observed 20th century desert dust variability: impact on climate and biogeochemistry

    Natalie Mahowald;Silvia Kloster;S. Engelstaedter;Jefferson Keith Moore

  • Carbon-nitrogen interactions regulate climate-carbon cycle feedbacks: results from an atmosphere-ocean general circulation model

    P. E. Thornton;S. C. Doney;K. Lindsay;J. K. Moore

  • Inverse estimates of anthropogenic CO2 uptake, transport, and storage by the ocean

    Mikaloff Fletcher;Mikaloff Fletcher;Nicolas Gruber;Andrew Jacobson;Scott Doney

  • Marine Ecosystem Dynamics and Biogeochemical Cycling in the Community Earth System Model [CESM1(BGC)]: Comparison of the 1990s with the 2090s under the RCP4.5 and RCP8.5 Scenarios

    J. Keith Moore;Keith Lindsay;Scott C. Doney;Matthew C. Long

  • Evolution of carbon sinks in a changing climate

    Inez Y. Fung;Scott C. Doney;Keith Lindsay;Jasmin G. John

  • Sustained climate warming drives declining marine biological productivity.

    J. Keith Moore;Weiwei Fu;Francois Primeau;Gregory L. Britten

  • Systematic assessment of terrestrial biogeochemistry in coupled climate-carbon models

    James T. Randerson;Forrest M. Hoffman;Peter Edmond Thornton;Peter Edmond Thornton;Natalie M. Mahowald

  • Twenty-First-Century Compatible CO2 Emissions and Airborne Fraction Simulated by CMIP5 Earth System Models under Four Representative Concentration Pathways

    Chris Jones;Eddy Robertson;Vivek Arora;Pierre Friedlingstein

  • Evaluating Global Ocean Carbon Models: The Importance of Realistic Physics

    Scott C. Doney;Keith Lindsay;K. Caldeira;J.-M. Campin;J.-M. Campin

  • The Parallel Ocean Program (POP) reference manual: Ocean component of the Community Climate System Model (CCSM)

    R. Smith;P. Jones;P. Briegleb;O. Bryan

Frequent Co-Authors

Scott C. Doney
Scott C. Doney University of Virginia
Matthew C. Long
Matthew C. Long National Center for Atmospheric Research
Fortunat Joos
Fortunat Joos University of Bern
Natalie M. Mahowald
Natalie M. Mahowald Cornell University
J. Keith Moore
J. Keith Moore University of California, Irvine
Anne Mouchet
Anne Mouchet University of Liège
James T. Randerson
James T. Randerson University of California, Irvine
James C. Orr
James C. Orr French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)
Forrest M. Hoffman
Forrest M. Hoffman Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Gokhan Danabasoglu
Gokhan Danabasoglu National Center for Atmospheric Research

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