James
R. Holton is a Professor of the Atmospheric Sciences Department
at the University of Washington in Seattle. He holds a B. A. degree in
physics from Harvard College (1960), and a Ph.D. in meteorology from MIT
(1964). He is a Senior Fellow of the Joint Institute for the Study of
the Atmosphere and Oceans (JISAO) at the University of Washington, and
was the Acting Director of JISAO
during 1981-1982. Professor Holton is a Fellow of the American Meteorological
Society, a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, and a member of the
U.S. National Academy of Sciences. He has served on numerous advisory
committees and NASA science teams, including service as a Principal Investigator
on the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS)
Science Team. Professor Holton is currently a co-investigator on the High-Resolution
Dynamic Limb Sounder (HIRDLS)
scheduled for launch on the Aura
Satellite in 2004. He is the author of An
Introduction to Dynamic Meteorology, coauthor of Middle
Atmosphere Dynamics, and numerous journal
articles. Professor Holton's research area is large-scale dynamics,
with emphasis on the dynamics of the stratosphere including stratospheric
effects of gravity waves generated by convective storms, transport of
trace constituents in the stratosphere, and stratosphere-troposphere exchange
of mass and constituents.
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