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Today's Topics:
1. Summer school "Physics of the Climate System" (Holzinger, R.)
2. One year contract opportunity at LaMP, Clermont-Ferrand,
France (Olivier Jourdan)
3. Four faculty positions in the Dept of Meteorology, Reading:
Chair, Reader and Lecturer in Climate Processes; Reader in
Hazardous Weather (Robin Hogan)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 10:09:19 +0000
From: "Holzinger, R." <R.Holzinger@uu.nl>
Subject: [Met-jobs] Summer school "Physics of the Climate System"
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The two weeks summer school "Physics of the Climate System" , starting on August 20, 2012, is aimed at the advanced bachelor / beginning master level. Registration deadline May 20. Poster attached. A few places (and partial scholarships) are still available. Please notify students that might be interested.
Best regards,
Rupert Holzinger
More information at http://www.utrechtsummerschool.nl/index.php?type=courses&code=H3
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 11:38:45 +0200
From: Olivier Jourdan <O.Jourdan@opgc.univ-bpclermont.fr>
Subject: [Met-jobs] One year contract opportunity at LaMP,
Clermont-Ferrand, France
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A temporary position funded by CNES (French Spatial Agency) is open in
the framework of the French EECLAT (Expecting Earth-Care, Learning from
A-Train) program on the *microphysical, optical and radiative properties
of mixed-phase and ice clouds in the arctic region*. The grant is secure
for one year *starting September 2012*, with possibility for a further
one year funding at the end of this term.
We are looking for an ingenious and highly motivated person. The
pre-requisites for application are a good experience in cloud physics
and/or remote sensing and data analysis. The candidate must hold at
least a Master or Engineer degree (or equivalent) in at least one of the
following areas of expertise: Remote Sensing/ Physics / Applied
Mathematics /Atmospheric science.
The research will be mainly conducted at the Laboratoire de M?t?orologie
Physique (LaMP), Clermont-Ferrand, France
(http://wwwobs.univ-bpclermont.fr/atmos/fr/index.php) in close
collaboration with the Laboratoire Atmosph?res, Milieux, Observations
Spatiales (LATMOS), Paris, France (http://www.latmos.ipsl.fr/). The
successful candidate will join an interdisciplinary team with experts in
meteorology, cloud physics, both from the instrumental (in situ and
remote sensing) and modelling points of view.
Language: English / French (not mandatory)
Application deadline: First week of July 2012.
Applications with a CV, motivation letter + name and phone numbers of
two potential referees should be introduced to Olivier Jourdan (LaMP) :
O.Jourdan@opgc.univ-bpclermont.fr
<mailto:O.Jourdan@opgc.univ-bpclermont.fr> and Julien Delanoe (LATMOS) :
julien.delanoe@latmos.ipsl.fr <mailto:julien.delanoe@latmos.ipsl.fr>
Detailed description of the work:
In Polar Regions, the precise quantification of the cloud radiative
forcing is still problematic and has been identified as a major source
of uncertainties in climate models. The assessment of the radiative
impact of arctic clouds is hindered by inadequate knowledge of their
thermodynamic phase, their geometrical (fractional coverage, height and
thickness), microphysical (liquid and ice water content, shape and size
of ice crystals) and optical (optical depth, phase function, single
scattering albedo) properties. Remote sensing observations from space
performed by active instruments such as CALIOP and CloudSat as a part of
the A-Train constellation give us the opportunity to bridge these gaps.
They provide us with detailed characterization of arctic cloud
properties with adequate spatial and temporal coverage. However, since
arctic clouds have a large variety of physical characteristics, detailed
optical and microphysical in situ measurements are needed to evaluate
satellite products and develop novel retrieval algorithms. Since 2004,
the LaMP?s instrumental payload was involved in several measurements
campaigns for the detailed in situ characterization of arctic cloud
properties (ASTAR 2004 and 2007, POLARCAT 2008 and SORPIC 2010).
Additionally, a unique combination of in situ (Polar Nephelometer, CPI,
Nevzorov probe and PMS FSSP and 2DC instruments) and active remote
sensing instruments (LATMOS RALI : RADAR RASTA and LIDAR LNG) was
deployed during the POLARCAT campaign. This valuable combination
provided us with an unprecedented data set coupling the microphysical
and optical properties of arctic clouds from small to regional scales.
The main objective of the proposed work will be to investigate the
relationships between microphysical and optical properties of arctic
clouds based on the measurements collected during these four campaigns.
Clouds will be classified with respect to their microphysical/optical
signature by implementation of statistical methods combined with light
scattering modelling. Then, a limited set of cloud parameters
representative of the radiative properties of the different cloud
classes will be determined using radiative transfer modelling at
different spatial scales. This methodology will enable us to evaluate
the retrievals of RALI, CLOUDSAT and CALIPSO products as well as their
combined products. This work is expected to contribute to the
improvement/validation of the retrieval algorithms of these instruments
especially in mixed phase cloud conditions.
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Dr Olivier Jourdan
Laboratoire de M?t?orologie Physique (LaMP)
Universit? Blaise Pascal /CNRS/OPGC
24, avenue des Landais
63177 Aubi?re Cedex
France
tel: (+33) 4 73 40 73 57
fax: (+33) 4 73 40 51 36
email: olivier.jourdan@opgc.univ-bpclermont.fr
http://wwwobs.univ-bpclermont.fr/atmos
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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:44:00 +0100
From: Robin Hogan <r.j.hogan@reading.ac.uk>
Subject: [Met-jobs] Four faculty positions in the Dept of Meteorology,
Reading: Chair, Reader and Lecturer in Climate Processes; Reader in
Hazardous Weather
To: Robin Hogan <r.j.hogan@reading.ac.uk>,
met-jobs@lists.reading.ac.uk
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Four faculty positions in the Department of Meteorology, University
of Reading, UK
The University of Reading is undertaking a major investment programme
<http://www.readingisinvesting.com/climate-environmental-sciences/> to
appoint 50 new faculty positions including up to 20 in Climate and
Environmental Sciences, around 10 of which will be in the Department of
Meteorology <http://www.met.reading.ac.uk/>. As part of this we are
delighted to advertise the following four permanent posts, all of which
have an application deadline of 24 May.
*Chair in Climate Processes
<https://www.reading.ac.uk/about/jobs/tlive_webrecruitment/wrd/run/ETREC107GF.open?VACANCY_ID=0131534eQ8&WVID=9493791XsD&LANG=USA>*
We seek a scientist with an outstanding record in climate research and
strong leadership skills to take up the position of Chair in Climate
Processes. We are interested in applicants with expertise in any aspect
of the climate system including (but not limited to): atmospheric
dynamics and physics, oceanography, the cryosphere, land-surface
processes, paleoclimatology, planetary physics, earth system modelling
and solar-terrestrial interactions. The successful applicant will play a
leading role within the Department of Meteorology to maximize the
ability of its strengthened capability in climate science to tackle the
next generation of scientific problems. Reading is a very exciting place
to do climate research; we have thriving research groups tackling many
aspects of the climate system
<http://www.met.reading.ac.uk/research/climate.html>, we host around 40
scientists from the Climate division of the National Centre for
Atmospheric Research (NCAS) as well as a number of scientists from the
Met Office Hadley Centre, and we work closely with the Walker Institute
<http://www.walker-institute.ac.uk/> at Reading to address the societal
impacts of climate change.
The salary is negotiable and at the Professorial level. Informal
enquiries are encouraged and may be made to Professor Michael Lockwood
(m.lockwood@reading.ac.uk, +44 (0)118 3785572) or Professor Robin Hogan
(r.j.hogan@reading.ac.uk, +44 (0)118 3786416). Job reference CH12011.
*Reader in Hazardous Weather
<https://www.reading.ac.uk/about/jobs/tlive_webrecruitment/wrd/run/ETREC107GF.open?VACANCY_ID=3792884eQ8&WVID=9493791XsD&LANG=USA>*
We seek a scientist with an excellent research track record to provide
leadership in research into the physical processes underlying weather,
with a focus on hazardous weather. There are excellent opportunities for
collaboration with our thriving weather research groups
<http://www.met.reading.ac.uk/research/weather.html>, with the newly
formed Weather and Climate Hazards Laboratory (led by the Willis Chair,
Professor Pier Luigi Vidale), and with the storm-scale numerical
modelling carried out within the Mesoscale Modelling Group of the
MetOffice@Reading, which forms a central part of our Academic
Partnership with the Met Office
<http://www.met.reading.ac.uk/research/moap.html>.
Note that this position is equivalent to Associate Professor in the US.
Informal enquiries are encouraged and may be made to Professor Eleanor
Highwood (e.j.highwood@reading.ac.uk, +44 (0)118 3786688) or Professor
Robin Hogan (r.j.hogan@reading.ac.uk, +44 (0)118 3786416). Job reference
RD12002.
*Reader in Climate Processes
<https://www.reading.ac.uk/about/jobs/tlive_webrecruitment/wrd/run/ETREC107GF.open?VACANCY_ID=9951554eQ8&WVID=9493791XsD&LANG=USA>
*
*Lecturer in Climate Processes
<https://www.reading.ac.uk/about/jobs/tlive_webrecruitment/wrd/run/ETREC107GF.open?VACANCY_ID=8819824eQ8&WVID=9493791XsD&LANG=USA>*
We seek scientists with an excellent research track record in climate
processes and good leadership skills to take up the positions of Reader
in Climate Processes and Lecturer in Climate Processes. We are
interested in applicants with expertise in any aspect of the climate
system from an observational, modelling and/or theoretical perspective.
There are excellent opportunities for collaboration; we host thriving
research groups working in many areas of climate science
<http://www.met.reading.ac.uk/research/climate.html>, including
tropospheric and stratospheric dynamics, climate variability and change,
oceanography, radiative transfer, cloud and aerosol physics,
land-surface processes, solar-terrestrial interactions, the global water
cycle, sea-level rise, climate impacts, coupled climate modelling and
model evaluation using novel observations.
Note that Reader is equivalent to Associate Professor in the US while
Lecturer is equivalent to Assistant Professor. Informal enquiries are
encouraged and may be made to Professor Robin Hogan
(r.j.hogan@reading.ac.uk, +44 (0)118 3786416), or Professor Eleanor
Highwood (e.j.highwood@reading.ac.uk, +44 (0)118 3786688). Job reference
numbers: RD12003 (Reader) and LE12020 (Lecturer).
For further details on any of these positions including how to apply,
please click on the links above or visit
https://www.reading.ac.uk/about/jobs/ and search current vacancies
entering the job reference number under "key words", and click on
"further particulars". Enquiries about other opportunities in the
Department of Meteorology related to the Climate and Environmental
Science investment initiative may be addressed to Robin Hogan.
The University aspires to be an "Employer of Choice" and recognises that
success is not simply determined by a competitive suite of terms and
conditions of service, but by fostering a working environment that
protects the physical and mental well-being of its staff. Full details
of the University's Health and Well-being policy are available from HR.
In addition to this, the University also supports its staff in other
ways, such as its Centre for Staff Training and Development
(http://www.reading.ac.uk/internal/cstd/), its Sportspark
(http://www.sport.reading.ac.uk/) and excellent Nursery facilities
(http://www.rusu.co.uk/intheunion/nursery/) available to staff.
The School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences was awarded an Athena
SWAN Silver award in 2010 in recognition of its good employment
practices in relation to women working in science, engineering and
technology. Please follow the link for more information:
http://www.athenaswan.org.uk/html/athena-swan/
--
Professor Robin J. Hogan
Room 2L77 Tel: +44 118 378 6416
Department of Meteorology Fax: +44 118 378 8905
University of Reading Email:r.j.hogan@reading.ac.uk
PO Box 243 Web:www.met.reading.ac.uk/clouds
READING RG6 6BB, UK
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