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Today's Topics:
1. Met Office job vacancy - Model Evaluation Diagnostic Software
Engineer (Williams, Keith)
2. Re: Vacancy at University of Edinburgh: PDRA in Chinese
Climate Extremes (Simon Tett)
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Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2015 09:12:10 +0000
From: "Williams, Keith" <keith.williams@metoffice.gov.uk>
Subject: [Met-jobs] Met Office job vacancy - Model Evaluation
Diagnostic Software Engineer
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Please can I draw your attention to the following post being advertised on the Met Office website with a closing date of Nov 5th. More information and how to apply can be found at: http://careers.metoffice.gov.uk/current-vacancies
Model Evaluation Diagnostic Software Engineer
Full time, permanent contract
Based in Exeter
Job Responsibilities
* Act as code owner for a number of offline and on-line diagnostic software codes (e.g. operational monitoring, 'auto-assess'), and contribute to the development of others (e.g. Trials User Interface (TRUI), model nudging, cyclone tracking, etc.).
* Develop or re-write these codes as appropriate to improve their functionality, efficiency and ease of use.
* Work with others to unify related codes as appropriate and help set the strategy for their future development (e.g. consider interactions between operational monitoring, verification libraries, TRUI, 'auto-assess', 'climate cloud').
* Develop evaluation and monitoring codes to interact efficiently with other Met Office systems (MASS storage system; supercomputer).
* Develop and manage the release of some of the offline codes to UM partner institutes (e.g. UK universities, partnering national meteorological services in other countries) with the intention that their further development should be undertaken by the wider UM community.
* Develop all codes using recognised software quality assurance processes and act as a point of expertise on quality assurance for scientists writing their own codes.
Essential
* Bachelor's degree or equivalent, at level 2.2 or above, in a physical science, mathematics or computing subject or equivalent experience.
* Be an expert numerical programmer in Python or a similar language, having built and maintained complex applications using this language and its scientific extensions.
* Have experience of software engineering disciplines that lead to high quality tools, for instance automated testing and configuration management.
* Experience exploiting Linux/Unix as a programming environment.
* Have clear evidence of your ability to build relationships with scientists or customers and to understand their requirements.
Desirable
* Experience in developing weather and/or climate applications using Python and its scientific extensions (e.g. the IRIS library).
* Scientific background in meteorology/climatology or experience of working closely with scientists in this field.
* Experience of working with, or writing code to analyse data from, the Met Office Unified Model.
Dr. Keith Williams Manager of Model Evaluation and Diagnostics
Met Office
FitzRoy Road Exeter EX1 3PB United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)1392 886905 Fax: +44 (0)1392 885681
E-mail: keith.williams@metoffice.gov.uk
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/people/keith-williams
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Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2015 20:34:28 +0100
From: Simon Tett <simon.tett@ed.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: [Met-jobs] Vacancy at University of Edinburgh: PDRA in
Chinese Climate Extremes
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A correction -- the link for the detailed job description is:
https://www.vacancies.ed.ac.uk/pls/corehrrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=034316
and note the closing date is the 20th of October.
Simon Tett
On 06/10/2015 13:51, Simon Tett wrote:
> Dear Met-Jobs,
> I have a PDRA post at the University of Edinburgh with a closing date
> of the 20th October to work on the Newton funded project ?Long Term
> Undulations versus secular change in Chinese Climate (LOTUS-China)? at
> the University of Edinburgh. This is a joint project involving the
> Universities of Edinburgh, Reading and Oxford to answer the overarching
> question ?"Why is climate changing in China and what are the
> implications for China's vulnerability to extremes, e.g. drought?"
>
> The Edinburgh PDRA will quantify the contributions that greenhouse
> gases, aerosols and circulation change have made to changing Chinese
> temperature extremes, particularly urban events, and precipitation
> extreme events. They will also carry out research into the possible
> reasons why models underestimate the observed changes in minimum and
> maximum temperatures over China and link their results with those of
> project partners in Reading, Oxford and China.
>
> The ideal candidate for this post will have a PhD (or near completion)
> in Climate science or a closely related area and be enthusiastic about
> climate research. They will be able to use complex models, compare them
> with observations and be able to program computers. They should also be
> strongly numerate, have written peer-reviewed papers and have strong
> written and oral communication skills.
>
> The role is fixed term starting as soon as possible until June 30th 2018.
>
> See:
>
>
> https://www.vacancies.ed.ac.uk/pls/corehrrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.display_form
>
>
> for more details and to apply.
>
> Simon Tett
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Simon Tett
Chair of Earth System Dynamics
School of Geosciences
The University of Edinburgh
Mobile:+44 (0)7791-582-833 email :simon.tett@ed.ac.uk
Tel :+44-(0)131-650-5341 Fax : +44 (0)131 650 7340
Room 351, Grant Institute,
James Hutton Road,
Edinburgh
EH9 3FE
UK
http://www.geos.ed.ac.uk/people/person.html?indv=1592
The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in
Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
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