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Today's Topics:
1. A two-year postdoc position in regional climate modeling at
Uni Bjerknes Centre (Beate Klementsen)
2. Research position in ocean modelling and data assimilation at
CMCC Bologna (Andrea Storto)
3. PhD Position at the University of Bern (Switzerland)
(Roger Brugge)
4. Postdoctoral Researcher Opportunity at Seoul National
University (South Korea) (Roger Brugge)
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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 13:01:33 +0200
From: Beate Klementsen <Beate.Klementsen@uni.no>
Subject: [Met-jobs] A two-year postdoc position in regional climate
modeling at Uni Bjerknes Centre
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A two-year postdoc position in regional climate modeling at Uni Bjerknes Centre
A two-year position as postdoc in regional climate modeling is available at Uni Bjerknes Centre, a department of Uni Research AS and part of the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research (BCCR). The BCCR is a national Centre of Excellence awarded by the Research Council of Norway in 2002 and is a collaboration between Uni Research, the University of Bergen, the Institute for Marine Research and the Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Centre.
The position is at the GREEN group (Global and Regional climatE projEctioNs), which works with the Norwegian Earth System model and regional climate modeling. GREEN has several projects with different countries. The postdoc will be involved in research related to high-resolution climate projections for selected continents. The prospective candidate should be a self-starter who is comfortable taking initiative and working both independently and as part of a group.
Applicants must have achieved a PhD in Atmospheric Sciences, Physics, Mathematics or similar at the time of appointment.
Good communication and writing skills in English and a desire to engage in international collaborative research is essential. Experience with data analysis visualization tools is essential (e.g. Matlab, IDL, R, GrAds). Programming experience is a plus. Previous applied use and skills in regional climate modelling are requirements for the position. Experience with the WRF or REMO models is a great advantage.
Salary is decided by agreement. Uni Research AS has employee pension and insurance agreement. The successful applicant must comply with the guidelines that apply to the position at any time.
Further information about the position can be obtained from Dr. Michel d. S. Mesquita (michel.mesquita@uni.no<mailto:michel.mesquita@uni.no>, +47 55583818) and Dr. Stefan Sobolowski (stefan.sobolowski@uni.no<mailto:stefan.sobolowski@uni.no>, +47 55583825). For more information about Uni Research and BCCR, please refer to http://uni.no and http://www.bjerknes.uib.no.
Applications must be submitted by e-mail to Beate.Klementsen@uni.no. The application must include a complete overview over education and previous practice (CV), list of publications, certified copies of certificates and diplomas, as well as names and addresses of 2 scientific references.
Application deadline: November 15, 2011.
The application should be marked: 11/11219.
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Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:57:27 +0200
From: "Andrea Storto" <andrea.storto@cmcc.it>
Subject: [Met-jobs] Research position in ocean modelling and data
assimilation at CMCC Bologna
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Dear All,
please find below a link
for a position opening at CMCC
on ocean modeling and ocean data assimilation,
You can find out more info on CMCC activities at
http://www.cmcc.it/research/research-units/ans
Feel free to circulate the advertisement,
Thanks and Best regards
Andrea
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Andrea Storto, Ph.D.
Dept. of Numerical Applications and Scenarios (ANS)
Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change (CMCC) - www.cmcc.it
viale Aldo Moro, 44, 7th Floor - 40127 BOLOGNA - Italy
Phone: +39 (0)51 3782605 (int. 205) Mobile: +39 339 8176646
Fax: +39 (0)51 3782655 Email: andrea.storto@cmcc.it
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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 07:47:25 +0000
From: "Roger Brugge" <r.brugge@reading.ac.uk>
Subject: [Met-jobs] PhD Position at the University of Bern
(Switzerland)
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PhD Position at the University of Bern
Dear all,
A PhD position in the field of atmospheric dynamics / forecast
verification is available at the newly founded Climate Impacts group at
the University of Bern.
Funding is available to analyze atmospheric precursors to heavy
precipitation events in northern Switzerland. More details are provided
in the abstract included at the bottom.
The successful candidate will work in the Climate Impact group of
Professor Olivia Romppainen-Martius at the University of Bern
(<http://www.geography.unibe.ch/content/forschungsgruppen/klimafolgen/index_eng.html>).
The project is part of the PANDOWAE research group
(<http://www.pandowae.de/>) and the THORPEX initiative.
I am looking for enthusiastic candidates with a Masters Degree in
atmospheric sciences, geosciences, environmental sciences, physics or a
related field. Ideally you have a some background in atmospheric
dynamics and a knack for programming.
For full consideration please send via email a CV, names and contact
information of two references (preferably the supervisors of your master
thesis project) to:
<olivia.martius@giub.unibe.ch> . If you need more information your are
welcome to contact me by email or by phone to discuss the project.
Review of applications will begin in mid-October and will continue until
the position is filled. The position will be available from 1 November
2011, but start dates are negotiable.
Applications from qualified women are warmly invited.
Kind regards
Olivia Romppainen-Martius
Abstract:
Heavy precipitation events occurring in steep terrain such as the Alps
often trigger
mass movement events (e.g. rock-falls or mud-avalanches) with devastating
consequences for population, settlements and infrastructure. Breaking
synoptic-scale
Rossby waves over western Europe can trigger such high-impact heavy
precipitation
events on the Alpine south-side. The breaking waves form meridionally
elongated
upper-level troughs. The southerly wind component along the eastern
flank of the
breaking waves brings moist air towards the Alps, where the air is
forced to rise and
precipitation sets in. The breaking waves are in return preceded by
upstream Rossby
wave trains (precursor RWTs) over the Atlantic and sometimes even the
Pacific basin.
The extended lifetime of such precursor wave trains may be exploited to
improve the
forecast of these high-impact weather events on the medium time-scale (5
to 10 day
lead time).
In contrast, our knowledge of the local synoptic-scale structures
triggering heavy
precipitation events on the Swiss Alpine north-side and of potential
precursor RWTs to
these events is limited. The goal of the first part of the proposed
project is to fill this
gap in knowledge regarding both the local upper-level structures and the
upstream
precursor waves. We will use a high-resolution observation-based
precipitation
climatology to identify heavy precipitation events affecting the Swiss
Alpine north-side.
For these events a detailed statistical and dynamical analysis of the
upper-level flow
will be conducted using climatologies of synoptic-scale propagating and
breaking
Rossby waves as well as reanalysis data sets.
The second part of the project will use the results from the first part
of the project and
from previous research projects of the PI to address the question how
well heavy
precipitation events in Switzerland (both northern and southern
Switzerland) are
predicted by a state of the art numerical weather prediction (NWP) suite
(the European
Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts' (ECMWF) IFS model) for
medium-range (5
to 10 days) forecast lead times. The spatial and temporal evolution of
forecast errors
associated with RWTs including precursor RWTs will be investigated for a
three-year
period from summer 2008 to summer 2011. This will include the
development of novel,
sophisticated object-based forecast error measures.
A detailed analysis of the processes leading to errors in the
medium-range forecast of
heavy precipitation events is planed for a small sample of selected
heavy precipitation
events in collaboration with the group of Michael Riemer (co-PI).
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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 07:50:49 +0000
From: "Roger Brugge" <r.brugge@reading.ac.uk>
Subject: [Met-jobs] Postdoctoral Researcher Opportunity at Seoul
National University (South Korea)
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Forwarded from CLIMLIST...
Laboratory for Ice Core and Paleoclimate (<http://icecore.snu.ac.kr>) in
School of Earth and Environmental Sciences (<http://sees.snu.ac.kr>) at
Seoul National University is inviting a postdoctoral researcher in the
field of paleoclimate, volcanology and gas geochemistry.
Experience in one of the following works may be preferred: (1) Firn air
sampling/modeling (2) Trace gas analysis for ice cores, (3)
Reconstruction of volcanic events recorded in ice cores and (4) Analysis
for fluid and melt inclusions in volcanic rocks. The position will be
supported by Brain Korea 21 project until February of 2013. Appointments
may be renewed based on publications during the work.
Applicants should send CV, summary of research interests and contact
information of 2~3 references by email to Dr. Jinho Ahn
(<jinhoahn@snu.ac.kr>). Deadline: October 7th, 2011
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Jinho Ahn
Assistant Professor
School of Earth and Environmental Science
Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea
E-mail: jinhoahn@snu.ac.kr
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