Education

• 2000 - Ph.D. (Oceanography), University of Southampton
  Dissertation: Predicting internal wave refraction and shoaling at shelf edges
• 1990 - M.S. (Meteorology), University of Reading
  Thesis: Review of the theory "Mid-Latitude Storm Tracks in the Northern Hemisphere"
• 1988 - B.Sc. (Honors Mathematics), University of Nottingham

Research Interests

• Air-sea interaction
• Regional climate modeling
• Simulation of nonlinear internal waves in the ocean

Scientific Work Experience

• International Pacific Research Center. (Ocean atmosphere interactions in the tropical Pacific from satellite data), August 2001–present
• Defence Evaluation Research Agency, UK. (Worked on ocean acoustics, three-dimensional ocean modeling, feature modeling, internal wave measurement and simulation, radar backscatter modeling, satellite oceanography), 1991–2001

Selected Publications

• de Szoeke, S.P., S.-P. Xie, T. Miyama, K.J. Richards, and R.J. Small: What maintains the SST front north of the eastern Pacific equatorial cold tongue? J. Climate, in press.
• Minobe, S., A. Kuwano-Yoshida, N. Komori, S.-P. Xie, and R.J. Small: Influence of the Gulf Stream on the troposphere. Nature, in press.
• Small, R. J., S. P. deSzoeke, and S.-P. Xie: The Central American Mid-summer Drought: regional aspects and large scale forcing. J. Climate, in press.
• Small, R. J., S.P. de Szoeke, S.-P. Xie, L. O’Neill, H. Seo, Q. Song, P. Cornillon, M. Spall, and S. Minobe: Air-sea interaction over ocean fronts and eddies. Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans, in press.
• Xie, S.-P., T. Miyama, Y. Wang, H. Xu, S.P. de Szoeke, R.J. Small, K.J. Richards, T. Mochizuki, and T. Awaji: A regional ocean-atmosphere model for eastern Pacific climate: Towards reducing tropical biases. J. Climate, in press.
• Small, R.J., and R.P. Hornby, 2005: A comparison of weakly and fully non-linear models of the shoaling of a solitary internal wave. Ocean Modelling, 8, 395–416.
• Small, R.J., S.-P. Xie, and J. Hafner, 2005: Satellite observations of mesoscale ocean features and co-propagating atmospheric surface fields in the tropical belt. J. Geophys. Res.-Oceans, 110, doi:10.1029/2004JC002598.
• Small, R.J., S.-P. Xie, Y. Wang, S.K. Esbensen, and D. Vickers, 2005: Numerical simulation of boundary layer structure and cross-equatorial flow in the Eastern Pacific. J. Atmos. Sci., 62 (6), 1812–1830.
• Xu, H., S.-P. Xie, Y. Wang, and J. Small, 2005: Effects of Central American mountains on the eastern Pacific winter ITCZ and moisture transport. J. Climate, 18 (18), 3856–3873.
• Small, J., 2003: The refraction and shoaling of non-linear internal waves at the Malin shelf break. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 33 (12), 2657–2674.
• Small, J., S.-P. Xie, and Y. Wang, 2003: Numerical Simulation of Atmospheric Response to Pacific Tropical Instability Waves. J. Climate, 16 (22), 3722–3740.
• Hornby, R.P., and J. Small, 2002: PHOENICS predictions of the shoaling of a large amplitude internal wave. PHOENICS Journal, 14, 126–137.
• Small, J., 2002: Internal tide transformation across a continental slope off Cape Sines, Portugal. J. Mar. Sys., 32, 43–69.
• Small, J., and J. Martin, 2002: The generation of non-linear internal waves in the Gulf off Oman. Continental Shelf Research, 22 (8), 1153–1182.
• Small, J., 2001: A Nonlinear Model of the Shoaling and Refraction of Interfacial Solitary Waves in the Ocean. Part 1: Development of the Model and Investigation of the Shoaling Effect. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 31, 3163–3183.
• Small, J., 2001: A Nonlinear Model of the Shoaling and Refraction of Interfacial Solitary Waves in the Ocean. Part 2: Development of the Model and Investigation of the Shoaling Effect. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 31, 3184–3199.
• Hallock, Z., J. Small, J. George, R.L. Field, and J.C. Scott, 2000: Shoreward propagation of internal waves at the Malin shelf edge, Cont. Shelf Res., 20, 2045–2057.
• Small, J., G. Pavey, Z. Hallock, and J. Scott, 1999: Observation of large amplitude internal waves at the Malin Shelf edge during SESAME 1995,  Cont. Shelf Res., 19, 1389–1436.
• Small, J., T. Sawyer, and J. Scott, 1999: The evolution of an internal bore at the Malin shelf break. Annales Geophysicae, 17, 547–565.
• Small, J., L. Shackleford, and G. Pavey, 1997: Ocean feature models - their use and effectiveness in ocean-acoustic forecasting. Annales Geophysicae, 15, 101–112.
• Heathershaw, A.D., J. Small, and C.E. Stretch, 1994: Frictional formulations in Numerical Ocean Models and their effect on simulated acoustic fields. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 24, 2.