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Dr. Edwards's central research interest is ocean-atmosphere coupling on 10 to 1000-km spatial scales, and how exchanges of heat, moisture, and momentum can be diagnosed using satellite datasets. Current NASA funding supports a study of how the California Current responds to fluxes on seasonal and interannual timescales, and how the overlying atmosphere in turn responds to the surface expression of the current. The interaction of stratified atmospheric and oceanic flow with coastal topography is another interest.
As a member of PRISM/MIXED, Dr. Edwards is investigating how atmospheric forcing affects the springtime stratification of Puget Sound and thus its spring bloom. All these projects synthesize satellite (SSM/I, AMSR-E, TRMM, QuikSCAT, AVHRR, and GOES) and in situ data (aircraft, shipboard, and station data). Dr. Edwards joined the Laboratory in 2002.
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