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Brian K. Eder
AMAD Staff
Education:
- Ph. D. Meteorology, 1993 - North Carolina State University
- M.S. Meteorology, 1984 - North Carolina State University
- Minor: Statistics
- B.S. Meteorology, 1980 - North Carolina State University
- Minor: Statistics
- Classes Taught
- NCSU: MEA 130 Introduction to Weather and Climate
- NCSU: MEA 405 Meteorological Data Analysis
- NC-CH GEO 111 Introduction to Weather and Climate
- Committees
- UNC-CH: Michael Brown (Ph. D.)
- NCSU: Nealson Watkins (M.S.)
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Dissertation: The spatiotemporal variability of non-urban ozone and development of an objective classification scheme designed to elucidate its dependence on meteorology.
Thesis: Spatial and Temporal Analysis of the Palmer Drought Severity Index over the Southeastern United States.
Employment:
1981 - 1984 Asst. State Climatologist MEAS Dept / NCSU
1984 - 1985 Computer Scientist ASMD ARL / NOAA
1985 - 2008 Research Meteorologist ARL / NOAA
1998 - 2000 Adjunct Asst. Professor GEOG Dept / UNC-CH
2008 - pres Senior Reserch Scientist AMAD / EPA
1995 - pres Adjunct Assoc. Professor MEAS Dept / NCSU
2010 - pres Visiting Lecturer GEOG Dept / UNC-CH
Professional:
1978- Member, Central North Carolina Chapter - AMS
1984- Member, National Chapter - AMS
1997 - 00 Member, AMS Committee on Applied Climatology
1999 EPA Bronze Medal Award
2004 EPA Bronze Medal Award
2009 EPA Gold Medal Award
J. Air & Waste Man. Assoc.; Int. J. Clim.; Water, Air & Soil Poll.
Academia:
Publications:
SELECT JOURNAL ARTICLES
Eder, B., D.Kang,S.Rao,R.Mathur,S.Yu,T.Otte,K.Schere,R.Wayland,S.Jackson, P.Davidson,J.McQueen and G.Bridgers, 2010: Using National Air Quality Forecast Guidance to develop local air quality index forecasts. Bull. of the Amer. Meteor. Soc., 91, pp. 313-326.
Eder, B., D.Kang, R. Mathur, J. Pleim , S. Yu T. Otte and G. Pouliot, 2009: A performance evaluation of the National Air Quality Forecast Capability for the summer of 2007. Atmos. Environ., 43, 2312-2320.
Kang, D., R. Mathur, K. Schere, S. Yu and B. Eder: 2007, New categorical metrics for air quality model evaluation. J. Appl. Met. and Climate, 46, pp. 549–555
Eder, B., D. Kang, R. Mathur, S. Yu and K. Schere, 2006: An Operational evaluation of the Eta-CMAQ air quality forecast model. Atmos. Environ. 40: 4894 - 4905.
Eder, B. and S. Yu, 2006: A performance evaluation of the 2004 release of Models-3 CMAQ. Atmos. Environ. 40: 4811-4824.
Yu., S., B. Eder, R. Dennis, S. Chu and S. Schwartz, 2006: New unbiased metrics for the evaluation of air quality models. Atmos. Sci. Let. 7: 26-34.
Kang, D., B. Eder, A. Stein, G. Grell, S. Peckham and J. McHenry, 2005: The New England Air Quality Forecasting Pilot Program: Development of an evaluation protocol and performance benchmark. J. Air & Waste Manage. Assoc. 55: 1782-1796.
Grell G., S. Peckham, R. Schmitz, S. McKeen, G. Frost, W. Skamarock, B. Eder, 2005: Fully coupled ‘‘online’’ chemistry within the WRF model. Atmos. Environ. 39: 6957-6975.
Cooter, E., B. Eder. et al., 2005: Effects of climate change on weather and water. Environ. Manag., 2005: 32-35.
Yu, S., R. Dennis, S. Roselle, A. Nenes, J. Walker, B. Eder, K. Schere, J. Swall and W. Robarge, 2005: An assessment of the ability of three-dimensional air quality models with current thermodynamic equilibrium models to predict aerosol NO3-. J. of Geophys. Res. 110, No. D7 doi:10.1029/2004JD004718.
Lehman, J., K. Swinton, S. Bortnick, C. Hamilton, E. Baldridge, B. Eder, W. Cox, 2004: Spatio-temporal characterization of tropospheric ozone across the eastern United States. Atmos. Environ. 38:4357-4369.
Mebust, M., B. 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. 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., 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. 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., J. 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., J. 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., B. Eder, S. LeDuc and L. Truppi, 1993: Climate Change Models and Forest Impacts Research. Journal of Forestry, 91, pp. 38-43.
Eder, B., 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., 1989: A Principal Component Analysis of SO4= Precipitation Concentrations over the Eastern United States. Atmospheric Environment 23, No. 12, pp 2739-2750.
Eder, B., 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, Eder, B. 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, Eder, B. 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.
MISCELLANEOUS
Eder, B. 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., B. Eder, S. 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. 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. 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. and J. Davis, 1983: Variations of Monthly Precipitation Over North Carolina. Report 185, Office of the State Climatologist, Raleigh, N.C. 50 pp.