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James B. Edson is affiliated with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in the United States. Their work primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a strong emphasis on Oceanography, as reflected by 37 publications in this subfield. Additional areas of study include Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, and Earth-Surface Processes.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of oceanographic and atmospheric processes, with significant contributions to Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing, and Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research. Other topics include Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Climate Variability and Models, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics.

Frequent publication venues for the scientist include the Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans, with seven articles, followed by Frontiers in Marine Science and the Journal of Physical Oceanography, each with three publications. They have also published in repositories such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) and OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information).

Among recent papers authored or coauthored by Edson are:

  • Ocean Mesoscale and Frontal-Scale Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions and Influence on Large-Scale Climate: A Review, 2023, Journal of Climate
  • On Assessing ERA5 and MERRA2 Representations of Cold-Air Outbreaks Across the Gulf Stream, 2021, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Air-Sea Trace Gas Fluxes: Direct and Indirect Measurements, 2022, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Improving Wave-Based Air-Sea Momentum Flux Parameterization in Mixed Seas, 2023, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Developing an Observing Air-Sea Interactions Strategy (OASIS) for the global ocean, 2022, ICES Journal of Marine Science

James B. Edson has collaborated frequently with researchers such as Christopher J. Zappa, Carol Anne Clayson, Meghan F. Cronin, C. W. Fairall, and Sebastiaan Swart, contributing to multiple studies and expanding interdisciplinary approaches within earth and marine sciences.

Best Publications

  • Bulk Parameterization of Air–Sea Fluxes: Updates and Verification for the COARE Algorithm

    C. W. Fairall;E. F. Bradley;J. E. Hare;A. A. Grachev

  • Bulk parameterization of air‐sea fluxes for Tropical Ocean‐Global Atmosphere Coupled‐Ocean Atmosphere Response Experiment

    C. W. Fairall;E. F. Bradley;D. P. Rogers;J. B. Edson

  • Cool-skin and warm-layer effects on sea surface temperature

    C. W. Fairall;E. F. Bradley;J. S. Godfrey;G. A. Wick

  • On the exchange of momentum over the open ocean

    James B. Edson;Venkata Jampana;Robert A. Weller;Sebastien P. Bigorre

  • Direct Covariance Flux Estimates from Mobile Platforms at Sea

    J. B. Edson;A. A. Hinton;K. E. Prada;J. E. Hare

  • Direct covariance air‐sea CO2 fluxes

    W. R. McGillis;J. B. Edson;J. E. Hare;C. W. Fairall

  • Environmental turbulent mixing controls on air-water gas exchange in marine and aquatic systems

    Christopher J. Zappa;Wade R. McGillis;Peter A. Raymond;James B. Edson

  • THE SPRAY CONTRIBUTION TO NET EVAPORATION FROM THE SEA: A REVIEW OF RECENT PROGRESS

    Edgar L Andreas;James B. Edson;Edward C. Monahan;Mathieu P. Rouault

  • Large-Eddy Simulations and Observations of Atmospheric Marine Boundary Layers above Nonequilibrium Surface Waves

    Peter P. Sullivan;James B. Edson;Tihomir Hristov;James C. McWilliams

  • The Coupled Boundary Layers and Air–Sea Transfer Experiment in Low Winds

    James Edson;Timothy Crawford;Jerry Crescenti;Tom Farrar

  • On the accuracy of HF radar surface current measurements: Intercomparisons with ship‐based sensors

    R. D. Chapman;L. K. Shay;H. C. Graber;J. B. Edson

  • Parameterization and Micrometeorological Measurement of Air–Sea Gas Transfer

    C. W. Fairaill;J. E. Hare;J. B. Edson;W. McGillis

  • Similarity Relationships in the Marine Atmospheric Surface Layer for Terms in the TKE and Scalar Variance Budgets

    J. B. Edson;C. W. Fairall

  • Air‐sea CO2 exchange in the equatorial Pacific

    Wade R. McGillis;Wade R. McGillis;James B. Edson;Christopher J. Zappa;Jonathan D. Ware

  • Air‐sea gas transfer: Its dependence on wind stress, small‐scale roughness, and surface films

    Nelson M. Frew;Erik J. Bock;Uwe Schimpf;Tetsu Hara

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

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

  • Carbon dioxide flux techniques performed during GasEx-98

    Wade R. McGillis;James B. Edson;Jonathan D. Ware;John W.H. Dacey

  • Integrated Shipboard Measurements of the Marine Boundary Layer

    C. W. Fairall;A. B. White;J. B. Edson;J. E. Hare

  • A study of the inertial-dissipation method for computing air-sea fluxes

    J. B. Edson;C. W. Fairall;P. G. Mestayer;S. E. Larsen

  • Air–Sea Interactions from Westerly Wind Bursts During the November 2011 MJO in the Indian Ocean

    James N. Moum;Simon P. de Szoeke;William D. Smyth;James B. Edson

  • Corrigendum : On the exchange of momentum over the open ocean

    James B. Edson;Venkata Jampana;Robert A. Weller;Sebastien P. Bigorre

  • Air-sea CO2 exchange in the equatorial Pacific : Air-Sea Exchange

    Wade R. Mcgillis;James B. Edson;Christopher J. Zappa;Jonathan D. Ware

Frequent Co-Authors

Wade R. McGillis
Wade R. McGillis Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Christopher W. Fairall
Christopher W. Fairall National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
J. E. Hare
J. E. Hare Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
Christopher J. Zappa
Christopher J. Zappa Columbia University
Robert A. Weller
Robert A. Weller Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Rik Wanninkhof
Rik Wanninkhof Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory
Albert J. Plueddemann
Albert J. Plueddemann Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Robert K. Nelson
Robert K. Nelson Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Søren Ejling Larsen
Søren Ejling Larsen Technical University of Denmark
Larry Mahrt
Larry Mahrt Northwest Research Associates

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