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Brian K. Eder

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Education:

Thesis: Spatial and Temporal Analysis of the Palmer Drought Severity Index over the Southeastern United States.

Employment:

1981 - 84 Assistant State Climatologist MEAS Dept. / NCSU
1984 - 85 Computer Scientist ASMD / ARL / NOAA
1985 - Research Meteorologist ASMD / ARL / NOAA
1995 - Adjunct Professor MEAS Dept. / NCSU
1998 - Adjunct Professor Geog. Dept. / UNC

Professional:

1978- Member, Central North Carolina Chapter - AMS
1984- Member, National Chapter - AMS
1993- Member, Sigma Xi
1997 - 00 Member, AMS Committee on Applied Climatology
1999 Winner, EPA Bronze Medal Award
1987- Referee: JGR-Atmos.; Atmos. Environ.; J. App. Met.; J. Clim.; Clim. Res.;
J. Air & Waste Man. Assoc.; Int. J. Clim.; Water, Air & Soil Poll.

Academia:

Publications:

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Eder, B. K. and J. E. Sickles, II, 2003: A climatology of air concentration data from the Clean Air Status and Trends Network (CASTNet). In preparation, Atmospheric Environment.

Mebust, M., B. K. Eder, F.S. Binkowski and S.J. Roselle, 2003: Models-3 CMAQ Model Aerosol Component 2. Model Evaluation., Journal of Geophysical Research. 108 No.D6, pp 4184-4202.

Cohn, R., B. K. Eder, S. K. LeDuc, R. L. Dennis, 2001: Development of an aggregation and episode selection scheme to support the Models-3 Community Multiscale Air Quality Model . Journal of Applied Meteorology, 40, pp. 210-228.

Eder, B.K., S.K. LeDuc and J.E. Sickles, 1999: A climatology of total ozone mapping spectrometer data using rotated principal component analysis. Journal of Geophysical Research. 104, No. D3, pp 3691-3709.

Davis, J.M., B.K. Eder, D. Nychka, and Q. Yang, 1998: Modeling the effects of meteorology on ozone in Houston using cluster analysis and generalized additive models. Atmospheric Environment, 32 pp. 2505-2520.

Eder, B. K., J. M. Davis and P. Bloomfield, 1994: An Automated Classification Scheme Designed to Better Elucidate the Dependence of Ozone on Meteorology. Journal of Applied Meteorology, 33, pp. 1182-1199.

Eder, B. K., J. M. Davis and P. Bloomfield, 1993: A Characterization of the Spatiotemporal Variation of Non-Urban Ozone in the Eastern United States. Atmospheric Environment, 27A, pp. 2645-2668.

Cooter, E. J., B. K. Eder, S. K. LeDuc and L. Truppi, 1993: Climate Change Models and Forest Impacts Research. Journal of Forestry, 91, pp. 38-43.

Eder, B. K., and R. Dennis, 1990: On The Use of Scavenging Ratios for the Inference of Surface-Level Concentration and Subsequent Dry Deposition of Ca2+, Mg2+, Na+ and K+. Water, Air, and Soil Pollution 52, No. 3-4, pp 197-216.

Eder, B. K., 1989: A Principal Component Analysis of SO4= Precipitation Concentrations over the Eastern United States. Atmospheric Environment 23, No. 12, pp 2739-2750.

Eder, B. K., J. M. Davis and J. Monahan, 1987: The Spatial and Temporal Analysis of the Palmer Drought Severity Index over the Southeastern United States. J. of Climatology - 7, pp 31-56.

BOOK CHAPTERS

Davis, J.M., Eder, B.K. and P. Bloomfield, 1998: Case Studies in Environmental Statistics, Chapter 2: Modeling Ozone in the Chicago Urban Area. Springer-Verlag Press, pp. 5-26.

Davis, J.M., Eder, B. K. and P. Bloomfield, 1998: Case Studies in Environmental Statistics, Chapter 3: Regional and temporal models for ozone along the Gulf Coast. Springer-Verlag Press, pp. 27-50.

CONFERENCE/WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS

Eder, B. K., Yu, Shaocai and R. Dennis, 2003: An Evaluation of the MODELS-3 CMAQ Aerosol Module

2003 AAAR PM Meeting Particulate Matter: Atmospheric Sciences, Exposure and the Fourth Colloquium on PM and Human Health, March 31 - April 4, 2003, Pittsburgh, PA

Kang, Daiwen, Eder, B.K., and Ken Schere, 2003: The Evaluation of Regional-Scale Air Quality Models as part of NOAA’s Air Quality Forecasting Pilot Program; Reprints, 26th NATO/CCMS International Technical Meeting on Air Pollution Modeling and Its Applications, May 26-30, 2003, Istanbul, Turkey

Eder, B.K, Yu, S., Dennis, R., Pleim, J and K. Schere, 2002: Preliminary Evaluation of the June 2002 Version of CMAQ. CMAS Models-3 User's Workshop, Oct. 21-23, RTP, NC

Eder, B. K., Yu, S., Dennis, R., Pleim, J and K. Schere, 2002: Testing of the June 2002 Version of the US EPA’s CMAQ. BMU/UBA-U.S. EPA-EMEP Workshop, October 7-11, Bad Breisig, Germany.

Eder, B. K., Kang, D. and K. Schere, 2002: An Evaluation Protocol for NOAA’s Air Quality Forecasting Pilot Program. November 7-8, Camp Spring, MD.

Eder, B.K., Mebust, M. and S. K. LeDuc, 2001: A Preliminary Evaluation of Models-3 CMAQ Using Particulate Matter Data from the IMPROVE Network; Reprints, 25th NATO/CCMS International Technical Meeting on Air Pollution Modeling and Its Applications, October 15-19, 2001, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, pp 327-334.

Eder, B. K., S. K. LeDuc, A. B. Gilliland, and P. L. Finkelstein, 2001: On the use of NEXRAD Stage IV data in the multimedia modeling of pollutant transport. Preprints from the Symposium Precipitation Extremes: Prediction, Impacts, and Responses, Albuquerque, New Mexico, January 15-18, 2001, American Meteorological Society, Boston, pp 284-285.

Binkowski, F.S., S.J. Roselle, B.K. Eder and Michelle Mebust, 2000: Prediction of Visual Range using the Community Multiscale Air Quality Modeling System. Reprints, November 6-10, St. Louis AAAR.

Binkowski, F.S., S.J. Roselle, B.K. Eder and Michelle Mebust, 2000: Evaluation of Predicted Visual Range using the Community Multiscale Air Quality Modeling System. Reprints, September, 2000, Dublin, Ireland.

Eder, B. K., F.S. Binkowski, S.J. Roselle and Michelle Mebust, 2000: A Preliminary Evaluation of Models-3 CMAQ Using the Light Extinction Coefficient (bext). Reprints from the 14th Annual International Symposium on the Measurement of Toxic and Related Air Pollutants, September 12-14, 2000, RTP, NC, Air & Waste Management Assoc.

Eder, B.K., R. Cohn. S.K. LeDuc and R. Dennis, 2000. An Aggregation and Episode Selection Scheme for EPA’s Models-3 CMAQ. Preprints from the 12th Conference on Applied Climatology, May 7-11, 2000, Asheville, NC , American Meteorological Society, Boston,166-169.

Eder, B. K. And J. E. Sickles, II, 1998: Climatological and Regional Analyses of CASTNet Air Concentration Data. Reprints from the 13th Annual International Symposium on the Measurement of Toxic and Related Air Pollutants, September 1-3, 1998, Cary, NC, Air & Waste Management Assoc., pp. 402-413.

Eder, B. K., 1998: A rotated principal component analysis of total column ozone obtained from TOMS (Version 7.0) for 1980-1992. Preprints from the 9th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, May 25-29, Paris, France, American Meteorological Society, pp. 88-91.

LeDuc, S.K., Eder, B.K., Cohn, R., and Dennis R., 1998: Development of an Aggregation Scheme for Models-3 CMAQ. Preprints from the 14th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences, January 11-16, Phoenix, AZ, American Meteorological Society pp. 107-110.

Eder, B.K, J.M. Davis and D. Nychka, 1997: Modeling Ozone’s Dependence on Meteorology: A comparison of clustering and non-parametric regression techniques. Preprints from the 10th Conference on Applied Climatology, October 20-24, 1997, Reno, Nevada, pp. 413-417.

Eder, B.K, J.M. Davis and D. Nychka, 1997: The Impact of Meteorology on Ozone in Houston. Reprints from the 12th Annual International Symposium on the Measurement of Toxic and Related Air Pollutants, April 29 - May 1, 1997, RTP, NC, pp. 204-214.

Eder, B. K. and Sharon LeDuc, 1996: Can Selected RADM Simulations be Aggregated to Estimate Annual Concentrations of Fine Particulate Matter? Reprints from the 11th Annual International Symposium on the Measurement of Toxic and Related Air Pollutants, May 7-10, 1996, RTP, NC, pp. 732-739.

Eder, B. K. and S. K. LeDuc, 1996: A Rotated Principal Component Analysis of Total Column Ozone Obtained from TOMS for 1984-1989. Preprints from the 13th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences, Feb. 21-23, San Francisco, CA; American Meteorological Society pp. 123-130.

Eder, B. K., S. K. LeDuc, 1996: Aggregation of Selected RADM Simulations to Estimate Annual Ambient Air Concentrations of Fine Particulate Matter. Ninth Joint Conference on the Application of Air Pollution Meteorology with A&WMA, Jan. 28-Feb. 2, 1996, Atlanta, GA, pp. 390-392.

Sickles, J.E., J. Fishman, F. Vukovich, V. Brackett, B. K. Eder, S. K. LeDuc, M. Bolstad and L. Truppi, 1995: The Visualization of Satellite-Based Global Tropospheric Ozone Data, Proceedings, 3rd International Environmental Visualization Exposition, Environmental Protection Agency, June 26-28, RTP, NC, pp. 21.

LeDuc, S. K., B. K. Eder and L. Truppi, 1995: The spatiotemporal variability of total column ozone derived from TOMS using rotated principal component analysis. Proceedings from the European Symposium on Satellite Remote Sensing II, Paris, France, September 25-28, 1995; pp. 264-274.

Eder, B. K. 1994: An Objective Meteorological Classification Scheme Designed to Elucidate the Influence of Meteorology on Ozone. Preprints of the Eighth Joint Conference On The Applications Of Air Pollution Meteorology, Nashville, TN, January 23 - 28, 1994, pp. 168-175.

Eder, B. K., S. K. LeDuc and L. E. Truppi, 1993: The Spatiotemporal Variability of Non-Urban Ozone and its Potential Replication by Satellite Data. Proceedings of AWMA/AMS International Specialty Conference, January 26-28, 1993, Scottsdale, Arizona, pp. 61-72.

Eder, B. K., 1992: The Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Non-Urban Ozone Over the Eastern United States Using Rotated Principal Component Analysis. Preprints of 12th Conference On Probability and Statistics In The Atmospheric Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, June 22-26, 1992, American Meteorological Society, pp. 178-183.

Eder, B. K., 1989: An Examination of SO4= Precipitation Patterns over the Eastern United States: 1981-1986. Sixth Joint Conference on Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology, Anaheim, CA, January 29 - February 3, 1989.

Eder, B. K. 1986: A Sensitivity Analysis of RELMAP Involving Fine and Coarse Particulate Matter. Fifth Joint Conference on Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology, Chapel Hill, NC, November 18-21, 1986, pp 32-36.

EPA PROJECT REPORTS

Cohn, R., B. K. Eder and S. K. LeDuc 1999: Science Algorithms of the EPA MODELS-3 Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) Modeling System, Chapter 17: An aggregation and episode selection scheme designed to support Models-3 CMAQ, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Report EPA/600/R/99/030, Research Triangle Park, NC, 63 pp.

Eder, B. K. 1994: On the Feasibility of Using Satellite Data to Infer Surface-Level Ozone Concentrations. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Report EPA/600/R-94/081, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711.

Eder, B. K., Truppi, L.E. and P.L. Finkelstein, 1989: A Climatology of Temperature and Precipitation Variability in the United States. U. S. Environmental Protection Agency Report EPA/600/S3-89/025, Research Triangle Park, NC, 43 pp.

Eder, B. K., 1987: A Sensitivity Analysis and Preliminary Evaluation of RELMAP Involving Fine and Coarse Particulate Matter. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Report EPA/600/S3-87/034, Research Triangle Park, NC, 77 pp.

Eder, B. K., D.H. Coventry, C. Bollinger and T. L. Clark, 1986: RELMAP: A Regional Lagrangian Model of Air Pollution User's Guide. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Report EPA/600/8-86/013, Research Triangle Park, NC, 146 pp.

Clark, T. L., D. H. Coventry, and B. K. Eder, 1985: International Sulfur Deposition Model Evaluation - 1980 Standard Model Input Data Set. U.S. Environmental Protection

Agency Report EPA/600/D-85/112, Research Triangle Park, NC, 34 pp.

MISCELLANEOUS

Eder, B. K. 1994: Non-urban Ozone Trends over the Eastern United States. NOAA National Environmental Watch (NEWS), CD-ROM compiled by the National Climate Data Center, Federal Building, Asheville NC.

Cooter, E. J., B. K. Eder, S. K. LeDuc and L. Truppi, 1993: General Circulation Model Output for Forest Climate Change Research and Applications. Gen. Tech. Report 85, Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Asheville, NC, 25 pp.

Eder, B.K. 1993: The Spatiotemporal Variability of Non-Urban Ozone and Development of an Objective Classification Scheme Designed to Elucidate its Dependence on Meteorology. Ph.D. Dissertation, North Carolina State University, 157 pp.

Eder, B. K. 1984: The Spatial and Temporal Analysis of the Palmer Drought Severity Index over the Southeastern United States, M. S. Thesis for the Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 86 pp.

Eder, B. K. and J.M. Davis, 1983: Variations of Monthly Precipitation Over North Carolina. Report 185, Office of the State Climatologist, Raleigh, N.C. 50 pp.

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