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Today's Topics:
1. PDRA position at University of Reading for FP7 project
(Roger Brugge)
2. Hyperspectral Infrared Sounding Engineer (Simon Davidson)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 13:04:31 +0000
From: "Roger Brugge" <r.brugge@reading.ac.uk>
Subject: [Met-jobs] PDRA position at University of Reading for FP7
project
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We are currently advertising for a post-doctoral research assistant
for the FP7 funded MELODIES project. The successful candidate will
undertake research to help improve the UK Greenhouse Gas emission
inventories by developing a new, annual UK land cover map, and
developing a database of existing UK soil moisture data.
Further details are available here:
https://www.reading.ac.uk/about/jobs/tlive_webrecruitment/wrd/run/ETREC107GF.open?VACANCY_ID=5800736cS3&WVID=9493791XsD&LANG=USA
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Dr. Tristan Quaife
Department of Meteorology,
University of Reading,
Earley Gate,
PO Box 243,
Reading,
RG6 6BB,
UK
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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 09:18:53 +0200
From: "Simon Davidson" <recruit@hamtec.co.uk>
Subject: [Met-jobs] Hyperspectral Infrared Sounding Engineer
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Hyperspectral Infrared Sounding Engineer based at EUMETSAT, Darmstadt,
Germany
HAMTEC Consulting a provider of quality staff to the aerospace industry.
We are currently seeking a University degree (or equivalent) in a relevant
discipline such as computer science, mathematics, physics, astrophysics,
meteorology or remote sensing, the Candidate shall have at least three years
of experience in the field of mathematical modelling and scientific
computing.
Location: Darmstadt, Germany
Start Date: February 2014
Closing date: 15 November 2013
TASKS:
. The Key Person will be part of the HIL2 team. This team is
responsible for the scientific development, maintenance, validation and
routine monitoring of hyper-spectral infrared atmospheric sounding products
in support of the development and operations of EUMETSAT's geostationary and
polar orbiting systems. The Key Person shall contribute to the continued
improvement of current operational products considering opportunities and
new requirements from the user community. He/she shall support the
implementation and evaluation of new algorithms in EUMETSAT operational
ground segments.
. It is expected that the tasks of the Key Person will typically
include:
. Release and validation of new versions of the operational IASI
L2 Product Processing Facility
. Integration and verification of external software deliveries
in the operational ground segment and in the prototype processors of the
future missions
. Software anomaly fixing
. Development and documentation of prototype software and test
procedures
. Generation of test data
. Statistical analysis and visualisation of hyper-spectral
infrared Level 2 products
. Support the transfer of the IASI expertise to future
hyper-spectral infrared missions (MTG-IRS and IASI-NG)
. Retrieval algorithm specification, validation and tuning
Qualifications and Experience
. A University degree (or equivalent) in a relevant discipline
such as computer science, mathematics, physics, astrophysics, meteorology or
remote sensing
. at least three years of experience in the field of
mathematical modelling and scientific computing
Essential Skills
. Numerical algorithms
. Development and testing of complex scientific software;
. Handling and processing of big amounts of data
. Object oriented techniques for scientific computing
. Software tools for revision control
. Very good skills in a high level programming language,
preferably C++
. Advanced use of data analysis and visualisation with tools
like Matlab, IDL or equivalent; preferably with satellite data
Desirable Skills
. Inverse problems
. Principal component analysis
. Further mathematical modelling techniques (non-linear
optimization, regression, neural networks, Kalman filters, etc.)
. Familiarity with satellite data, preferably from IASI or other
hyper-spectral infrared instruments
. Use of radiative transfer models
. Retrieval of atmospheric parameters from infrared and/or
microwave radiances
. Data formats and libraries such as HDF5 and NetCDF
. Software testing
. Validation and visualization of satellite products
. Software libraries for numerical linear algebra and similar
subroutines
. Experience with further programming languages and tools such
as Python, Ruby, Java, etc.
. Multi-threads programming
Please send you CV in English to:
Simon Davidson via recruit@hamtec.co.uk
To register with HAMTEC Consulting and to view current opportunities go to
our website:
http://www.hamtec.co.uk
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