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Today's Topics:
1. Met Office vacancy - UM Partner Support Scientist (Verney, Fiona)
2. Fully funded palaeoclimate modelling PhD at University of
Leeds (Daniel Hill)
3. MPI-M 2015-08 (Letscher, Reiner)
4. MPI-M 2015-09 (Letscher, Reiner)
5. PhD position in remote-sensing data assimilation at CNRM-GAME
(Olivier Caumont)
6. Opportunity as Experienced Development Engineer at
Meteo-France, Toulouse, France (Sesar secretary)
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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2015 12:04:01 +0000
From: "Verney, Fiona" <fiona.verney@metoffice.gov.uk>
Subject: [Met-jobs] Met Office vacancy - UM Partner Support Scientist
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Salary Information
Foundation Scientists ?21,675 and for exceptional candidates up to ?24,250
Scientist ?26,010 and for exceptional candidates up to ?29,100
+ competitive benefits including Civil Service Pension
Background
Use of the Unified Model for research and operations, its supporting software and data are key to Met Office scientific partnerships both nationally and internationally, and strengthens the Met Office's position as a global partner of choice for the provision of weather and climate services. In this post you will provide scientific and technical support for the use of coupled model and earth system model configurations for UM partners; help partners contribute to joint scientific and technical infrastructure programmes, e.g. the sixth climate model intercomparison project (CMIP6); provide training, develop UM partner communications, and through the EU funded IS-ENES2 project, provide services for the use of climate models. The post will offer you an opportunity to undertake research related to the UM partner science programme, interact across the Met Office and with our international UM partners at a high level, and develop your skills for a more senior role.
Job Purpose
To support UM applications at partner sites with an emphasis on coupled climate configurations, as well as the wider interests of the UM partnership through training, development of collaboration tools and scientific research and development aimed at improving UM capability.
Job Responsibilities
Provide technical support and training to international UM partners to allow the UM and associated software to be used effectively in coupled climate configurations, both remotely and by visiting partner organisations
Provide technical support for UM partner contributions to science and technical infrastructure programmes, and prepare for joint UM partner contributions to CMIP6.
Provide technical support to organisations using Earth System Model support services as part of the IS-ENES2 project.
Develop communication tools to allow international UM partners to increase the effectiveness of their use and development of the UM and associated software.
Through collaborative research, to support and enhance the ability of the UM and associated software to improve weather and climate forecast and services from short range through to climate timescales.
Essential Qualifications, Skills & Abilities
1. Scientific or technical background, such as a BSc or equivalent experience in a physical science or mathematics (FS) Strong scientific or technical background, such as a PhD or equivalent experience in a physical science or mathematics (S).
2. Experience of running large codes together with an ability to troubleshoot problems.
3. Evidence of ability to foster collaboration and work well with people to build partnerships.
4. Computing skills - Fortran and Unix (FS) Strong computing skills - Fortran, Unix and some use of High Performance Computing (S).
5. An organised approach to work with the ability to discern priorities amongst a range of competing demands.
6. Previous experience in providing training.
Desirable Qualifications, Skills & Abilities
1. Knowledge and experience of running the UM for weather or climate research.
2. Experience of running and analysing associated software e.g. FCM, Rose and Cylc, and experience using diagnostic tools e.g. python and Iris.
3. Willingness to undertake visits to partner organisations for periods of around 1 week to 1 month.
Additional Supplementary Information
This position provides excellent opportunity for career development through interaction across the Met Office and with our UM partners, and to develop your skills for a more senior role.
Please note, if you do not currently have permission to work in the UK, we will be unable to provide this for you for this vacancy.
To apply - please see our careers website - http://careers.metoffice.gov.uk/current-vacancies
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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2015 14:33:17 +0000
From: Daniel Hill <D.J.Hill@leeds.ac.uk>
Subject: [Met-jobs] Fully funded palaeoclimate modelling PhD at
University of Leeds
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Applications are open for a fully funded PhD in palaeoclimate modelling at the School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds. This project includes collaboration with and at least one research trip to the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing.
Title: Modelling Ancient Eurasian Seaways and the Onset of the Asian Aridity
Position: Fully funded for 3 years to start in October 2015
Suitable candidates: As a multi-disciplinary project this PhD would be suitable for a UK/EU candidate with a background in physical sciences, geology, geography, maths, computing etc.
Project Summary: During the Eocene, Oligocene and Miocene (56 - 5 million years ago), much of southern and western Eurasia was covered by the Paratethys Sea. Coincident with the reduction of the Paratethys is the onset of aridity over large areas of central Asia, notably in the southern and western areas of China. A series of palaeoclimate model simulations will be run incorporating changes in Paratethys configuration, Himalayan and Tibetan mountain uplift and greenhouse gases to determine the sensitivity of Asian aridity to palaeogeographic changes. These results will be compared to existing and new geological records of the onset of Asian aridity.
For more information see: <http://www.nercdtp.leeds.ac.uk/projects/index.php?id=237>
Contacts: Prof. Alan Haywood: earamh@leeds.ac.uk
Dr. Daniel Hill: eardjh@leeds.ac.uk
Dr. Zihua Tang: tangzihua@mail.iggcas.ac.cn
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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2015 14:22:52 +0000
From: "Letscher, Reiner" <letscher@vw.mpimet.mpg.de>
Subject: [Met-jobs] MPI-M 2015-08
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The Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) is a multidisciplinary centre for climate research located in Hamburg, Germany. It has an internationally recognised reputation in climate modelling. The MPI-M is located in the heart of one of Europe's most livable and vibrant cities. It provides a highly international and interdisciplinary environment for conducting scientific research as well as access to state-of-the-art scientific facilities.
Within the Marie Sk?odowska-Curie European Training Network (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2014) ?Carbon Cascades from Land to Ocean in the Anthropocene? (C-CASCADES), we are looking for an
Early-stage researcher ESRNR10
(m/f, SAS2015-08)
for the implementation of the sub-sea permafrost component into MPI-ESM and its merging with the model of marine sediments in order to simulate dynamics of biogeochemical processes on Arctic shelves in the global warming scenarios.
Marie Sk?odowska-Curie European Training Networks (ETNs) are joint research and training projects funded by the EU. Funding is provided for postgraduate researchers from both inside and outside Europe to carry out individual project work in a European country other than their own. The training network ?C-CASCADES? is made up of 13 partners, coordinated by the Universite Libre de Bruxelles. The network will recruit a total of 15 early-stage researchers, each for 36 months.
Responsibilities
? The objective of this position is the development of the sub-sea permafrost component in MPI Earth System model in order to simulate dynamics of biogeochemical processes on Arctic shelves.
? The researcher recruited for this position will work on implementation of the sub-sea permafrost component into MPI-ESM and its merging with the model of marine sediments in order to simulate dynamics of biogeochemical processes on Arctic shelves in the global warming scenarios.
? The researcher recruited for this position is expected to disseminate the results through publications in peer-reviewed journals and presentations at international conferences.
? He/she will form part of an international, interdisciplinary team based at universities and research institutes throughout Europe, and is expected to attend the training planned in the proposal in the disciplines of the project.
Qualifications / experience
? An ?early-stage researcher? is a researcher without a PhD, who is in the first four years (full-time equivalent research experience) of his/her research career, measured from the date when he/she obtained the degree which would formally entitle him/her to embark on a doctorate;
? Graduate degree in disciplines which applies mathematical modeling for environmental processes, e.g. physics, meteorology, or environmental sciences;
? Experience with coding and running computational models, programming skills, preferably in FORTRAN or C;
? Open for an interdisciplinary approach regarding adapt as needed: i.e. computational sciences, engineering and measurement techniques;
? The ability to work in an internationally-oriented environment, including fluency in English.
Mobility requirement
The applicant must not have resided or carried out his/her main activity (work, studies etc.) in Germany for more than 12 months in the past three years.
Secondment requirement
The applicant is required to spend 9 months in secondment at University of Bristol (UK).
Employment conditions
The position is offered for three years full-time position, starting in Spring/Summer 2015.
In accordance with the Marie Sk?odowska-Curie rules, the remuneration will be calculated summing up the following (gross for the employee):
? Living allowance is ca. 2460 Euro per month.
? Mobility allowance is ca. 480 Euro per month.
? Subject to eligibility, a family allowance of ca. 400 Euro per month might also be corresponded.
The Max Planck Institute for Meteorology seeks to increase the number of female scientist and encourages them to apply. Handicapped persons with comparable qualifications receive preferential status.
For further information, please contact Dr. Victor Brovkin victor.brovkin(at)mpimet.mpg.de Applications should be forwarded to the address indicated below.
Selection process
The selection process will start on 5 February 2015 and will continue until the position is filled. Please submit a letter of interest, curriculum vitae, details on your family status, and the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of two references, quoting the reference "C-CASCADE ESRNR. 10": via E-Mail: jobs@vw.mpimet.mpg.de (one pdf-attachment with max. 5 MB only).
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology
Administration (Ref. SAS2015-08)
Bundesstrasse 53
D-20146 Hamburg
Germany
This project has received funding from the European Union?s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 643052
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Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2015 14:23:55 +0000
From: "Letscher, Reiner" <letscher@vw.mpimet.mpg.de>
Subject: [Met-jobs] MPI-M 2015-09
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The Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) is a multidisciplinary centre for climate research located in Hamburg, Germany. It has an internationally recognised reputation in climate modelling. The MPI-M is located in the heart of one of Europe's most livable and vibrant cities. It provides a highly international and interdisciplinary environment for conducting scientific research as well as access to state-of-the-art scientific facilities.
Within the Marie Sk?odowska-Curie European Training Network (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2014) ?Carbon Cascades from Land to Ocean in the Anthropocene? (C-CASCADES), we are looking for an
Early-stage researcher ESRNR15
(m/f, SAS2015-09)
For working on incorporating riverine fluxes of carbon and nutrients into the ocean biogeochemical component of the Max Planck Institute Earth System Model (MPI-ESM) HAMOCC and (ii) extending the model to include crucial coastal processes and interactions at the coastal ? open ocean interface.
Marie Sk?odowska-Curie European Training Networks (ETNs) are joint research and training projects funded by the EU. Funding is provided for postgraduate researchers from both inside and outside Europe to carry out individual project work in a European country other than their own. The training network ?C-CASCADES? is made up of 13 partners, coordinated by the Universite Libre de Bruxelles. The network will recruit a total of 15 early-stage researchers, each for 36 months.
Responsibilities
? The objective of this position is to investigate the role of riverine fluxes in the marine cycles of carbon and nutrients within the MPI-ESM.
? The researcher recruited for this position will work on (1) incorporating riverine fluxes of carbon and nutrients into the ocean biogeochemical component of the Max Planck Institute Earth System Model (MPI-ESM) HAMOCC and (2) extending the model to include crucial coastal processes and interactions at the coastal ? open ocean interface.
? The researcher recruited for this position is expected to disseminate the results through publications in peer-reviewed journals and presentations at international conferences.
? He/she will form part of an international, interdisciplinary team based at universities and research institutes throughout Europe, and is expected to attend the training planned in the proposal in the disciplines of the project.
Qualifications / experience
? An ?early-stage researcher? is a researcher without a PhD, who is in the first four years (full-time equivalent research experience) of his/her research career, measured from the date when he/she obtained the degree which would formally entitle him/her to embark on a doctorate.
? Graduate degree in disciplines which apply mathematical modeling for environmental processes, e.g. oceanography, geosciences, physics, environmental sciences, or a related field.
? Previous experience with ocean carbon cycle models and ideally also with Earth system models is of advantage.
? Experience with coding and running computational models, programming skills, preferably in FORTRAN on Unix platforms, and expertise in model output analysis.
? Open for an interdisciplinary approach regarding adapt as needed: i.e. computational sciences, engineering and measurement techniques.
? The ability to work in an internationally-oriented environment, including fluency in English.
Mobility requirement
The applicant must not have resided or carried out his/her main activity (work, studies etc.) in Germany for more than 12 months in the past three years.
Secondment requirement
The applicant is required to spend 3 months in secondment at DELTARES (NL).
Employment conditions
The position is offered for three years full-time position, starting in Spring/Summer 2015.
In accordance with the Marie Sk?odowska-Curie rules, the remuneration will be calculated summing up the following (gross for the employee):
? Living allowance is ca. 2460 Euro per month.
? Mobility allowance is ca. 480 Euro per month.
? Subject to eligibility, a family allowance of ca. 400 Euro per month might also be corresponded.
The Max Planck Institute for Meteorology seeks to increase the number of female scientist and encourages them to apply. Handicapped persons with comparable qualifications receive preferential status.
For further information, please contact Dr. Tatiana Ilyina tatiana.ilyina(at)mpimet.mpg.de Applications should be forwarded to the address indicated below.
Selection process
The selection process will start on 5 February 2015 and will continue until the position is filled. Please submit a letter of interest, curriculum vitae, details on your family status, and the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of two references, quoting the reference "C-CASCADE ESRNR. 15": via E-Mail: jobs@vw.mpimet.mpg.de (one pdf-attachment with max. 5 MB only).
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology
Administration (Ref. SAS2015-09)
Bundesstrasse 53
D-20146 Hamburg
Germany
This project has received funding from the European Union?s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 643052
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Message: 5
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2015 15:22:08 +0100 (CET)
From: Olivier Caumont <olivier.caumont@meteo.fr>
Subject: [Met-jobs] PhD position in remote-sensing data assimilation
at CNRM-GAME
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Dear colleagues,
We are seeking applications for a 3-year PhD position to work on the assimilation of airborne cloud radar data in the framework of the HyMeX programme (see announcement below). Please feel free to forward this announcement to potential candidates.
Best regards,
Olivier Caumont
PhD title: Assimilation of airborne cloud radar data during the HyMeX special observing period
PhD supervisors: Dr. Olivier Caumont, Dr. V?ronique Ducrocq, Dr. Beno?t Vi?
Place: CNRM-GAME (M?t?o-France & CNRS), 42 avenue G. Coriolis 31057 Toulouse Cedex 1, France
Deadline for application: 31 March 2015
PhD goals, proposed methodology:
The HyMeX programme (HYdrological cycle in the Mediterranean Experiment, http://www.hymex.org/) is an international experimental programme that aims at improving our understanding of the water cycle in the Mediterranean area. Its first special observing period (SOP) took place from 5 September to 5 November 2012. The main goal of this SOP was to document the heavy precipitation events and flash floods that regularly affect the north-western Mediterranean coastal areas. In the two-month campaign, around twenty rainfall events were documented in France, Italy, and Spain.
Exceptional instrumental means (research aircrafts, drifting balloons, lidars, radars, additional radiosoundings, etc.) were deployed during the SOP and allowed to harvest a unique observational dataset. Among these instrumental platforms, the Falcon 20 of the Safire unit (http://www.safire.fr/) made numerous flights in storm systems so as to document their thermodynamic, microphysical, and dynamical properties. In particular, the cloud radar Rasta (http://rali.projet.latmos.ipsl.fr/) was aboard this aircraft. This radar measures vertical profiles of reflectivity and Doppler velocity above and below the aircraft. This unique instrument thus allows to document the microphysical properties and the speed of wind and hydrometeors in clouds, quasi-continuously in time and at a vertical resolution of 60 m.
For this field campaign, Arome-WMed, a special version of the numerical weather prediction (NWP) Arome system, was developed. This version, which covers the whole north-western Mediterranean basin, ran in real time during the SOP in order to, notably, schedule the airborne operations, especially in storm systems. Arome-WMed delivers forecasts at a horizontal resolution of 2.5 km. Deep convection is resolved explicitly and microphysical processes are governed by a one-moment bulk microphysical scheme. By the start of the PhD, an additional two-moment microphysical scheme will become available. The three-dimensional variational (3DVar) data assimilation system of Arome-WMed ingests observations from a wide variety of instruments (radiosonde, ground automatic weather station, radar, satellite, GPS, etc.) every three hours.
The objective of the proposed PhD thesis is i) to compare the data observed by Rasta with the convective-scale Arome-WMed NWP system to evaluate the respective degrees of realism of its two microphysical schemes, ii) assimilate Rasta data, and iii) assess the potential of such data to improve the forecasting of heavy precipitation events. The PhD work will start with comparisons between Rasta data and Arome-WMed. This will allow to assess to which extent Arome-WMed is able to reproduce observed microphysical features and the benefits brought about by a two-moment microphysical scheme over a one-moment microphysical scheme in this respect. This will be accompanied with a reflection on which observation type to assimilate. A choice will have to be made between, e.g., raw data such as reflectivity and retrieved data such as ice contents. Comparisons between different radar observational types, their equivalents as simulated by the model, and independent observations will allow to address this question. Then, the assimilation system will be adapted to handle the cloud radar observations. As the Arome assimilation system is already able to assimilate similar data (wind vertical profiles, radial Doppler velocity, radar reflectivity), the changes will mainly consider geometrical aspects.
Assimilation experiments will be carried out for one flight to begin with. The respective roles of the reflectivity-related observations and the Doppler velocity-related observations will be investigated. These experiments will be compared with a reference experiment analogous to that which ran in real time during the campaign. This comparison will be facilitated by the wealth of observations harvested during the field campaign. The assimilation experiments will then be run for other worthwhile intensive observing periods of the campaign.
Required knowledge and experience:
Candidates (citizens from the European Union or Switzerland, under age 27) should hold or will obtain in 2015 a master's degree in Atmospheric, Environmental Sciences or equivalent. The applicant should be familiar with programming languages (Fortran, Unix,?), background in numerical modelling (especially microphysics) is welcome.
French or English spoken, English well-written.
For full consideration, the applicant should send a detailed CV by March, 31 st to:
olivier.caumont@meteo.fr , veronique.ducrocq@meteo.fr , and benoit.vie@meteo.fr .
If selected, the candidate will have to submit an application through the armaments (DGA) portal in May.
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Olivier Caumont
CNRM-GAME UMR3589 (M?t?o-France, CNRS)
CNRM/GMME/MICADO
M?t?o-France
42 av G. Coriolis
31057 TOULOUSE Cedex 01 (FRANCE)
Tel: +33 5 61 07 96 46 | Fax: +33 5 61 07 96 26 | Email: olivier.caumont@meteo.fr
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Message: 6
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2015 17:09:13 +0100 (CET)
From: Sesar secretary <rachel.yue@meteo.fr>
Subject: [Met-jobs] Opportunity as Experienced Development Engineer at
Meteo-France, Toulouse, France
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We are accepting applications for a 12-month post-doctoral or civil engineer position (renewable position), starting preferably on April 2015, in the framework of the M?t?o-France contribution to SESAR (www.sesarju.eu/).
For full consideration, an application letter along with a curriculum vitae and the names, telephone and email address of at least 2 referees are required.
Please send their application to sesar@meteo.fr, latest by 27th February 2015.
For more details, see the attached document.
----- M?t?o-France -----
YUE RACHEL
CNRM /AERO
sesar@meteo.fr
Fixe : +33 561079880
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