Associate Scientist                                                       Tel:  (508) 289-2935
Dept. of Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering           FAX:  (508) 457-2194
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution                          Email:  jedson@whoi.edu
Woods Hole, Massachusetts  02543

EDUCATION:
B.S. (Physics), Dickenson College, 1984.
Ph.D. (Meteorology), The Pennsylvania State University, 1989.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
1995- Present    Associate Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
1991-1995         Assistant Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
1989-1990         Visiting Scientist, Ecole Nationale Superieure de Mecanique, France
1986                 Visiting Scientist, Risoe National Laboratory, Denmark
1984-1989         Research and Teaching Assistant, The Pennsylvania State University

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:
American Meteorological Society
    Chairperson, AMS Committee on Boundary Layers and Turbulence
American Geophysical Union.

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

My research interests lie in boundary layer meteorology with a focus on surface layer turbulence and air-sea interaction.  My specific research in these fields involve spectral analysis, turbulent fluxes, surface layer scaling, measurement techniques, instrumentation, motion correction, flux parameterization, humidity exchange, gas transfer coefficients, and wind-wave interaction.  My other major research focus involves investigations of the influence of evaporating sea-spray on the near surface energy budget using a self-developed numerical model.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

Edson, J.B., A.A. Hinton, K.E. Prada, J.E. Hare, C.W. Fairall, 1997:  Direct covariance flux
    estimates from mobile platforms at sea,  J. Atmos. Oceanic Tech., in press.
Fairall, C.W., A.B. White, J.B. Edson, and J.E.Hare, 1997: Integrated shipboard measurements
    of the marine boundary layer.  J. Atmos. Oceanic Tech., 14, 338-359.
Hare, Jeffrey E., Tetsu Hara, J. B. Edson, and James M. Wilczak, 1997.  A similarity analysis of
    the structure of airflow over surface waves. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 27, 1018-1037.
Vandemark, D., J.B. Edson, and B. Chapron, 1997.  Altimeter estimations of sea surface wind
    stress for light to moderate winds.  J. Atmos. Oceanic Tech., 14, 716-722.
Edson, J.B., S. Anquetin, P.G. Mestayer, and J.F. Sini, 1996.  Spray droplet modeling II: An
    interactive Eulerian-Lagrangian model of evaporating spray droplets, J. Geophys. Res.,
    101,1279-1294.
Fairall, C.W., E.F. Bradley, J.S. Godfrey, J.B. Edson, G.S. Young, and G.A. Wick, 1996.
    Cool skin and warm layer effects on the sea surface temperature. J. Geophys. Res., 101,
    1295-1308.
Fairall, C. W., E. F. Bradley, D.P. Rogers, J. B. Edson, and G. S. Young, 1996: Bulk
    parameterization of air-sea fluxes for TOGA COARE.  J. Geophys. Res., 101, 3747-3764.
Mahrt, L., D. Vickers, J. Howell, J. Højstrup, J.M. Wilczak, J.B. Edson, and J.E. Hare, 1996:
    Sea surface drag coefficients in RASEX, J. Geophys. Res., 101, 14,327-14,335.
Andreas, E.L., J.B. Edson, E.C. Monahan, M. Rouault, and S.D. Smith,  1995.  The spray
    contribution to net evaporation from the sea: A review of recent progress. Boundary-Layer
    Meteorol., 72, 3-52.
Lakehal, D., P.G. Mestayer, J.B. Edson, S. Anquetin, and J.-F. Sini, 1995.  Eulero-Lagrangian
    simulation of raindrop trajectories and impacts within the urban canyon.  Atmos. Environ., 29,
    3501-3517.
Sikora, T.D, G.S. Young, R.C. Beal and J.B. Edson, 1995: On the use of spaceborne synthetic
    aperture radar imagery of the sea surface in detecting the presence and structure of the
    convective marine atmospheric boundary layer. Mon. Weather. Rev., 123, 3623-3632.
Edson, J.B. and C.W. Fairall, 1994.  Spray droplet modeling, I:  Lagrangian model simulation of
    the turbulent transport of evaporating droplets.  J. Geophys. Res., 99, 25295-25311.