Jeffrey Kiehl

{{Short description|American climate scientist}}

Jeffrey Theodore Kiehl (born June 10, 1952) is an American climate scientist. He is head of the Climate Change Research Section in the National Center for Atmospheric Research located in Boulder, Colorado. He completed his atmospheric science doctoral studies at the University at Albany, SUNY.

{{cite web |title=UCAR Staff Directory: Jeffrey T. Kiehl, Ph.D |url=https://staff.ucar.edu/users/jtkon |access-date=2017-10-02 |archive-date=2016-06-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160601012743/http://staff.ucar.edu/users/jtkon |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|title=CCR Staff: Jeff Kiehl, Section Head & Senior Scientist |url=http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/ccr/aboutus/staff/kiehl/kiehl.html |url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140510112344/http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/ccr/aboutus/staff/kiehl/kiehl.html |archivedate=2014-05-10 }}

He was awarded the 2012 Climate Communication Prize from the American Geophysical Union.{{cite web | title = 2012 Climate Communication Prize Winner | url = http://honors.agu.org/winners/jeffrey-kiehl/}}

With Kevin E. Trenberth, he is notable for the "Earth's Annual Global Mean Energy Budget"

{{cite journal|title=Earth's annual global mean energy budget| first=J.T.| last=Kiehl|author2=Kevin E. Trenberth| journal=Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society| pages=197–208| volume=78| issue=2| year=1997| doi=10.1175/1520-0477(1997)078<0197:EAGMEB>2.0.CO;2 |bibcode=1997BAMS...78..197K| doi-access=free}}

and the related diagram showing the Earth's energy balance that is contained in the IPCC's AR4 WG I{{citation

| title = IPCC AR4 WG I

| contribution = FAQ 1.1 Fig 1 – Estimate of the Earth’s annual and global mean energy balance

| contribution-url = http://www.ipcc.ch/graphics/ar4-wg1/jpg/faq-1-1-fig-1.jpg

| publisher = IPCC

| year = 2007

| url = http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar4/wg1/ar4-wg1-chapter1.pdf

| page = 96

| access-date = 2017-10-02

| archive-date = 2018-11-26

| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20181126204443/http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar4/wg1/ar4-wg1-chapter1.pdf

| url-status = dead

}}