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Today's Topics:
1. Vacant position for MetOcean-Specialist at NPRA in Stavanger,
Norway (Eidem Mathias Egeland)
2. DPhil (PhD) studentship in the Climate Processes Group,
University of Oxford (Sarah Harrington)
3. Postdoctoral Research Fellowship or Researcher position in
permafrost and Earth system modeling (Jorg.Schwinger@uib.no)
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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2016 20:50:16 +0000
From: Eidem Mathias Egeland <mathias.eidem@vegvesen.no>
To: "met-jobs@lists.reading.ac.uk" <met-jobs@lists.reading.ac.uk>
Subject: [Met-jobs] Vacant position for MetOcean-Specialist at NPRA in
Stavanger, Norway
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The Norwegian Public Roads Administration, Fjord Crossing Project, has a vacancy for a MetOcean-Specialist in Stavanger, Norway.
The position is related to developing Metocean-spec for record breaking floating bridges along the west coast of Norway.
Requirements:
- MSc or PhD in a relevant subject
- Min. 15 years of experience with Metocean measurements or analysis
More info about the position, and where to submit an application can be found here:
http://m.finn.no/job/fulltime/ad.html?finnkode=72772383
Mathias Egeland Eidem
Project Manager, Fjord Crossing Project
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Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2016 15:35:31 +0000
From: Sarah Harrington <Sarah.Harrington@physics.ox.ac.uk>
To: "met-jobs@lists.reading.ac.uk" <met-jobs@lists.reading.ac.uk>
Subject: [Met-jobs] DPhil (PhD) studentship in the Climate Processes
Group, University of Oxford
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The Sub-Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic & Planetary Physics (AOPP) at the University of Oxford has the following 4-year NERC/Met Office CASE studentship available for October 2016:
Disentangling aerosol effects on shallow convection from meteorological co-variability
Clouds play a key role in the earth system. Shallow convection is by far the most frequent global cloud regime yet its representation in global weather and climate models remains incomplete. It is crucial to improve their representation in global weather and climate models to correctly represent the response to anthropogenic perturbations.
While aerosol effects on shallow convection have been suggested from theory, modelling and observations, they remain highly uncertain. Not even the sign of the response to increased levels of cloud condensation nuclei is clear: both an increase in cloud abundance due to reduction in precipitation efficiency as well as a decrease in cloud abundance due to enhancement of evaporation associated with smaller droplets have been reported.
This project has the objective to disentangle aerosol effects on shallow convection from the meteorological co-variability inherent in observational studies. It builds on novel capabilities of the high-resolution set-up of the UK Met Office Unified Model with the Cloud AeroSol Interacting Microphysics (CASIM) cloud microphysics and UKCA aerosol microphysics making it possible for the student to:
1. Accurately simulate aerosol-cloud interactions in large domains (~1000km)
2. Anchor these simulations with long-term observations of cloud and aerosol properties around the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology's Barbados observatory
3. Disentangle aerosol-cloud co-variability from physical effects and understand the dominant physics in different cloud-aerosol regimes using realistic and idealised case studies
4. Determine impact of aerosol-cloud interactions on weather forecasting performance and propose a practical framework for parameterising aerosol-cloud interactions in coarse scale models.
This studentship is a joint CASE studentship with supervisors Professor Philip Stier (Climate Processes Group<http://www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/research/climate-processes> in the Department of Physics at the University of Oxford) and Professor Paul Field (UK Met Office) in cooperation with the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (Germany). It benefits from the combination of academic and professional supervision and the experience and world leading expertise of the Met Office in the development and evaluation of cloud representations in numerical models as well as from access to the excellent facilities provided by the Met Office (training, HPC, storage, support, code integration). In addition, it is anticipated that the student will spend a research sojourn at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology.
The studentship will be affiliated with the Physical Climate Stream of the Oxford Doctoral Training Partnership in Environmental Research<http://www.environmental-research.ox.ac.uk/researchstream/the-physical-climate-system/>, providing an outstanding training environment in a year-group of 30 students.
The application deadline is 29 April 2016, with interviews on 16 May.
Informal enquiries to Professor Philip Stier<mailto:philip.stier@physics.ox.ac.uk>. Full application and eligibility information is here<http://www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/study-here/postgraduates/atmospheric-oceanic-and-planetary-physics/funding/nerc-met-office-case-stud>.
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Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2016 15:23:34 +0100
From: Jorg.Schwinger@uib.no
To: met-jobs@lists.reading.ac.uk
Cc: Hanna Lee <Hanna.Lee@uni.no>
Subject: [Met-jobs] Postdoctoral Research Fellowship or Researcher
position in permafrost and Earth system modeling
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Postdoctoral Research Fellowship or Researcher position in permafrost
and Earth system modeling
Job description:
A 2-year postdoctoral researcher position in land surface modeling is
available at Uni Research Climate in Bergen, Norway, with the
possibility of being extended. More experienced candidates will be
considered for a researcher position. The focus will be to improve our
understandings on permafrost carbon climate feedbacks using the coupled
framework of the state-of-the-art Norwegian Earth System Model (NorESM).
Main duties include implementing and improving permafrost related
processes in the land model for a more realistic representation of
permafrost in global as well as regional climate models. The candidate
will be responsible for the Community Land Model (CLM) simulations in
the framework of NorESM, CLM development and permafrost representation
in close interaction with field scientists, WRF modelers, and global
Earth system modelers. The model development will focus on subgrid
representation for other permafrost processes in the CLM, particularly
on the landscape development in areas with ice-rich ground, including
thermokarst formation and ground subsidence to ultimately understand the
effects of thawing permafrost on future climate. In addition to
permafrost model development, the candidate will contribute to the
upcoming Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6)
activities with the NorESM and its evaluation..
Requirements/qualifications:
The successful candidate should have a PhD degree or the equivalent in
the discipline of either mathematics, physics, or geosciences with a
strong background in ESM particularly on the representation of surface
energy balance, snow cover, permafrost, hydrology, biogeochemistry,
and/or glacier mass balance. Furthermore, the candidate must present
evidence that she/he is capable of programming enough to modifying the
model source code to facilitate improvements of the model physics. The
candidate should have experience with Earth System Model structure,
particularly previous experience with CLM is most beneficial. The
candidate should further have experience with evaluation of model
results using field observations and have knowledge in high-latitude
environments.
The successful candidate should further demonstrate:
- Knowledge in ESM framework particularly land surface modeling
- Technical expertise in programming, in particular FORTRAN and NCL
- Evidence of creativity and capability of independent research
- Excellent writing and communication skills in English
- Collaborate with researchers in different discipline
The application must include:
- A 2-pg motivation letter including a statement of research
interests
- CV (summarizing education, positions and academic work, and other
qualifying activity)
- Copies of educational certificates and transcript of records*
- List of publications and/or awards and stipends that the applicant
wishes to be considered by the evaluation committee
- If available, a copy of the PhD thesis
- Names and contact details of 2-3 referees (name, relation to
candidate, e-mail and telephone number)
*Foreign applicants are recommended to attach an explanation of their
University's grading system.
*Please remember that all documents should either be in English or a
Scandinavian language.
Salary and work environment:
Salary is decided by agreement. Uni Research AS has an employee pension
and insurance agreement. The successful applicant must comply with the
guidelines that apply to the position.
For further information about the position, please contact Hanna Lee
(hanna.lee@uni.no). As a partner in BCCR, we can offer numerous training
and career development opportunities via ResClim (http://resclim.no/)
and CHESS (The Norwegian Research School on Changing Climate in the
coupled Earth System). For more information about Uni Research and BCCR,
please visit http://uni.no/klima and http://www.bjerknes.uib.no.
How to apply:
The application must be submitted through the jobbnorge system. Please
visit (https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/123624/) for more
information.
Send electronic application by clicking on the button marked "APPLY FOR
THIS JOB" on this page. Applications must include a CV, certified copies
of diplomas and certificates, a 2-pg letter of motivation describing
yourself and outlining your motivation and relevant experience for the
project, and contact details of at least two references. Applications
sent by e-mail will not be considered.
Application deadline: April 15, 2016
Start date: ASAP, negotiable
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