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Today's Topics:
1. Second training school on convective and volcanic clouds
(riccardo)
2. atmospheric chemistry postdoc position at MIT (Colette L. Heald)
3. Postdoctoral offer on extreme El Niño at LOCEAN/IPSL
(Eric Guilyardi)
4. 3-year post doc at University of Exeter on high-impact
weather events (Screen, James)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2016 10:59:46 +0200
From: riccardo <riccardobiondi@hotmail.com>
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Subject: [Met-jobs] Second training school on convective and volcanic
clouds
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Dear Roger, I would like to post the announcement of the training school we still have EGU grants to be advertised.Thank youRiccardo Second training school on"Convective and volcanic clouds detecting, monitoring and modeling"Tarquinia, Italy, 19-28 October 2016This training school is supported by the European Geosciences Union (EGU) organized by researchers of the Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, National Research Council (ISAC-CNR), Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV), the Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU), the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) and the Oxford University. We have the patronage of the Marie Curie Alumni Association (MCAA), the Stratospheric Processes and their Role in Climate (SPARC) project, the AXA Research Fund and the Ministero degli Affari Esteri Cooperazione Internazionale (MAECI).Attending the school you will get an overview of the state of the art techniques and methods for detecting and monitoring the volcanic and convective clouds, you will know the different instruments and platforms allowing us to get the best performance in detecting such kind of clouds, you will be projected to the future learning about new missions planned for solving the main issues on these fields, you will be involved in real applications as early warming systems and modeling, you will directly analize the data.The school topics will range from satellite instruments such as IR sensors or GPS radio occultations to aircraft measuremtents like lidar and radar, from study of ash and SO2 clouds totropical cyclones, mediterranean hurricanes, land and maritime convection.
The purpose of the School is to train students with outstanding research interest in the techniques allowing to detect, monitor, and model convective and volcanic clouds, to gain knowledge of the instruments and satellite missions (present and future) and to be able to support such kind of studies. The double aim is to create a school managed by young scientists already well established and recognized in their respective fields for young scientists willing to reinforce or develop their knowledge on atmospheric extreme events detection and monitoring for supporting policy makers, early warning systems and aviation safety.The extreme atmospheric event cloud detection is a high multidisciplinary and challenging topic since the same techniques and instruments can be used for meteorology, volcanic monitoring, atmospheric physics and climate purposes. Within all these fields there are still many unsolved issues making this school fundamental for creating a new generation of scientists able to use the synergy of several different instruments and techniques. The air transportation became fundamental in the last decades for the World economy and social life, and volcanic or convective events can affect the regular management and operation creating large economic losses. This training school will support creating a new generation of scientists specialized on monitoring and detection of atmospheric extreme events supporting the safety of the citizens. Most of the young researchers are usually focused in a single subject (e.g. convection or volcanic eruption) and they are not in touch with final users to get their feedbacks, this school will be the occasion for broadening their horizons and for creating useful connections. We expect scientists and final users (such as pilots or early warning system technicians) meet during this course for discussing about common goals and for learning each other how to improve their work toward a proficient collaboration. Each topic includes keynote plenary lectures with in-depth discussion. The school will consist of lectures combined with the practical application of the material covered in the lectures through introductory lab sessions and a set of research problems that will form the core of the School.Through the introductory keynotes invited lectures, the students will be introduced to all the issues and challenges of the convective and volcanic cloud detection, monitoring and modeling, gaining an overview of the state of the art and the future development.All the participants are expected to give a short talk or to present a poster about their own research; the selection of the talks will be done through evaluation process as in a regular conference. Moreover a panel discussion between scientists and end users (both present within the lecturers and the students) will be organized for talking about possible improvements for collaborating in a better way, producing better results and establishing new collaborations. For creating a real link between the school and the students every year at least one student will be invited as lecturer of the following course.The students will leave the school with an increased understanding of the cutting-edge research questions and with the perspective of creating some future projects in this field also thanks to the network created during the school with the lecturers and other students.
Keynotes LecturersRoy Gordon Grainger (University of Oxford, UK)Fred Prata (Nicarnica Aviation, Norway)Klaus Sievers (German Airline Pilots' Association)Dorinel Visoiu (Romanian Air Traffic Services Administration
LecturersRiccardo Biondi (ISAC-CNR, Italy)Tatjana Bolic (Univ. of Trieste, Italy)Hugues Brenot (BIRA-IASB, Belgium)Elisa Carboni (Univ. of Oxford, UK)Stefano Corradini (INGV, Italy)Federico Fierli (ISAC-CNR, Italy)Guergana Guerova (University of Sofia, Bulgaria)Nina Kristiansen (NILU, Norway)Lorenzo Labrador (MetOffice, UK)Luca Merucci (INGV, Italy)Marcello Miglietta (ISAC-CNR, Italy)Mario Montopoli (Univ. of Rome, Italy)Simona Scollo (INGV, Italy)Mark Woodhouse (Univ. of Bristol, UK)
ApplicationsThe School is open to graduate students, PhD students and early career researchers.More info available at the website http://www.biondiriccardo.it/training/index.htmRegistration http://www.islandofmeetings.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=62&Itemid=151&lang=enEGU grants available!!DatesPre-registration is appreciated since there will be a limited space available. The priority will be given in chronological registration order.Extended early bird registration deadline: June 30, 2016Registration deadline: August 31, 2016ContactsRiccardo Biondiriccardo@biondiriccardo.it School modulesIt is possible to register for the module I (volcanic clouds, 19-23 October) the module II (convective clouds, 24-28 October) or for the whole training course (19-28 October).Excursions and fun-night
- Guided visit to the etruscan necropolis and museum (half day)
- Visit to LACOST (Laboratorio Atmosferico COstiero Saline Tarquinia) experimental site (managed by ISAC-CNR)
- Ice cream night
- Fun-run in the morning before the schoolSchool LocationTarquinia (Italy) is located close to Rome, easily reachable from the capital in i hour by train. The trains from Rome (all stations) to Tarquinia are very frequent: every 1h along the whole day. Pisa airport is also well connected to Tarquinia being about 1h30min away by train. The center of the town is pretty small, in the town there are several hotels, restaurants and bars of all types and categories. Tarquinia is an Etruscan town with one of the most popular necropolis and it is located on the seaside of Tyrrenean sea.
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Riccardo Biondi, Ph.D
AXA Fellow
Marie-Curie Alumnus
ISAC-CNR, Italy
phone: +39-349-393 7542
web: www.biondiriccardo.it
email: Riccardo@biondiriccardo.it
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Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2016 09:46:46 -0400
From: "Colette L. Heald" <heald@mit.edu>
To: met-jobs@lists.reading.ac.uk
Subject: [Met-jobs] atmospheric chemistry postdoc position at MIT
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ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, to work with Professor
Colette Heald to investigate biosphere-atmosphere interactions relevant
to atmospheric chemistry. The candidate will join a diverse research
group at MIT which studies the composition and chemistry of the global
atmosphere and the interactions of these with air quality and climate
(healdgroup.mit.edu). Major goals and responsibilities of the position
include investigation and improving the description of
biosphere-atmosphere fluxes (with a focus on bioaerosol) in global
models (GEOS-Chem and the Community Land Model), investigating the
impact of these exchanges on the past, present, and future atmosphere,
and presenting results at scientific conferences and preparing papers
for scholarly journals.
REQUIREMENTS: a PhD in atmospheric science, engineering, physics,
chemistry, or related field, experience with global or regional modeling
of atmospheric chemistry, highly effective oral and written
communication skills, and the ability to work as part of a research team.
The position is open immediately with an anticipated start date prior to
January 1, 2017. Initial appointment is for one year, with possible
renewal for second year depending upon performance. Additional details
about the position are available by contacting Professor Colette Heald
at heald@mit.edu.
In addition to applying online
(http://careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/client_mit/external/jobDetails.do?functionName=getJobDetail&jobPostId=7748&localeCode=en-us),
applicants should send a single pdf including cover letter, CV, and
contact information for 3 references directly to Professor Heald by
August 15, 2016.
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Colette L. Heald, Associate Professor
Departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering & Earth, Atmospheric
and Planetary Science
MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139
heald@mit.edu | http://healdgroup.mit.edu | tel: 617-324-5666
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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2016 16:13:27 +0200
From: Eric Guilyardi <eric.guilyardi@ncas.ac.uk>
To: met-jobs@lists.reading.ac.uk
Subject: [Met-jobs] Postdoctoral offer on extreme El Niño at
LOCEAN/IPSL
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*Understanding the dynamics of extreme El Niño events*
Post-doctoral offer at LOCEAN/IPSL, Paris, France
ENSO is the dominant source of interannual climate variability with
large environmental impacts both in the tropics and in many regions
distant from the Equatorial Pacific. Extreme El Niño events lead to
about twice the surface warming of the regular events, reaching sea
surface temperature anomalies of 4°C in the eastern tropical Pacific.
The impact of these extremes events are larger than those of regular
one, and potentially different in nature as their space and time
characteristics also differ. The last well observed extreme El Niño was
in 1997/98 and led to billions of US$ in damage and tens of thousands of
casualties. The recent 2015/16 extreme El Niño also had major impacts,
some still unfolding. Recent work has further shown that the occurrence
of extreme El Niño could double under unmitigated climate change (1 out
of 3 event instead of 1 out of 6 today, Cai et al. 2014). In the light
of their devastating impacts and possible future increased occurrence,
the understanding of the dynamics, predictability and teleconnections of
these extreme El Niño events is still limited and requires a major
effort from the community.
The physical processes that lead to extreme El Niños are not well
understood nor modelled (Guilyardi et al. 2009a, Bellenger et al. 2014).
Some studies suggested an amplifying role of the atmosphere, either via
intraseasonal wind bursts (Lengaigne and Vecchi 2010, Menkes et al.
2014, Puy et al. 2016) or via heat flux feedbacks (Guilyardi et al.
2009b, Lloyd et al. 2012, Bellenger et al. 2014), but many other
mechanisms can play a role (such as the influence external forcing,
natural and anthropogenic). Predicting the actual amplitude of El Niño
(beyond the prediction of the event itself) a few months in advance is
still a challenge, as seen for the contrasting 2014 and 2015 situations.
The successful applicant will investigate the specific mechanisms and
predictability of these extreme El Niño events by comparing modelling
studies (to obtain statistical robustness and explore mechanisms) with
the few observed cases available. In particular, an analysis of CMIP5
database that includes millennial-long simulations with and without
natural and anthropogenic forcings will allow to infer if specific
large-scale precursors can be found for extreme El Niño events as
compared to regular one. Analysing and performing sensitivity
experiments with specific climate models will allow to investigate these
mechanism and predictability issues. The predictability of extreme
events could for instance be investigated by performing ensemble
experiments starting a few months to a year before a simulated extreme
El Niño in these models. In collaboration with the rest of the IPSL
team, teleconnections with higher latitudes (Arctic and Europe), mainly
via the stratosphere and storm tracks, and impacts on the Indian monsoon
will be quantified against that of regular El Niños using the PDF
produced. The influence of external forcings (greenhouse gases,
volcanoes, etc.) on these likelihood will also be assessed.
The work will involve designing and running simulations with one or
several coupled GCMs (CNRM-CM5 and/or IPSL-CM6) as well as HadCM3 (via
CPDN) to explore the mechanisms and sources of predictability. Extension
of the experimental design to other models of the consortium will be
assessed for some case studies. The position is part of the Belmont
Forum GOTHAM project, with participants from UK, Germany, India, China
and Japan.
Candidate should have a PhD in meteorology, oceanography, or
environmental sciences, with a good background in dynamics. The position
is offered for 2 years (1 year renewable) with a net monthly salary of
about 2000 euros, commensurate with experience. This includes social
benefits and health insurance.
For more information and application, contact Eric Guilyardi at
eric.guilyardi@locean-ipsl.upmc.fr
<mailto:eric.guilyardi@locean-ipsl.upmc.fr> and Matthieu Lengaigne
matthieu.lengaigne@locean-ipsl.upmc.fr
<mailto:matthieu.lengaigne@locean-ipsl.upmc.fr> .Applicants should send
a resume, a statement of research interests, and the name, e-mail
address, and telephone number of at least two references. Applications
will be received until the position is filled. A start in Fall 2016 is
preferred but later dates are negotiable.
References in the attached document.
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Eric Guilyardi
IPSL/LOCEAN - Dir. Rech. CNRS
Tour 45, 4eme, piece 406
UPMC, case 100
4 place Jussieu, F-75252 Paris
Tel: +33 (0)1 44 27 70 76 Prof. Eric Guilyardi
NCAS Climate
Meteorology Department
University of Reading
Reading RG6 6BB - UK
Tel: +44 (0)118 378 8315
https://pagesperso.locean-ipsl.upmc.fr/ericg/
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Message: 4
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2016 08:42:28 +0000
From: "Screen, James" <J.Screen@exeter.ac.uk>
To: "met-jobs@lists.reading.ac.uk" <met-jobs@lists.reading.ac.uk>
Subject: [Met-jobs] 3-year post doc at University of Exeter on
high-impact weather events
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This new full-time post is available from 01 September 2016 on a fixed-term basis for 36 months.
The College wishes to recruit a Research Fellow to support the work of Dr James Screen. The NERC-funded project will combine state-of-the-art global climate model simulations and impact models to generate large ensembles of climate impacts in present-day and near-future climate conditions, and study high-impact events in Europe, China and India.
This post is part of a larger project - High Impact Weather Events in Eurasia: Selected, Simulated and Storified (HIWAVES3) - with international partners in the Netherlands, Norway, China and India. HIWAVES3 facilitates a dialogue between climate modellers, impact modellers and partners in different geographical regions with knowledge of local societally-relevant meteorological events to construct stories of selected high-impact extreme events, simulated for present-day and future climate conditions. The story includes the origin of the extreme event from a meteorological perspective, its inter-regional linkages, its predictability, its societal impact and how climate change affects its magnitude and probability.
The post will include designing and conducting climate model simulations, analysis of simulated high-impact weather extremes, analysis of dynamical linkages between the Arctic, the mid-latitudes and the Monsoon regions, and collaboration with project partners to construct powerful stories about selected high-impact events.
The successful applicant will possess a relevant PhD. They will be able to develop research objectives, publish results in internationally-renowned journals and make presentations at conferences and other events. They will be a nationally recognised authority in physical climate processes and possess sufficient specialist knowledge to develop research programmes and methodologies. The successful applicant will also be able to work collaboratively and act as team leader as required. Experience in running climate models is desirable.
To view the Job Description and Person Specification document please click here<http://www.admin.ex.ac.uk/personnel/jobs/P52935.pdf>.
To apply please click here<https://jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecruitment/wrd/run/ETREC107GF.open?VACANCY_ID=715279EwRi&WVID=3817591jNg&LANG=USA>. The closing date is 30 June.
For further information please contact Dr James Screen, e-mail j.screen@ex.ac.uk<mailto:j.screen@ex.ac.uk> or telephone +44 (0)1392 726408.
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Dr James Screen
Senior Research Fellow
Exeter Climate Systems
College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences
University of Exeter
Exeter, Devon
UK
e: j.screen@exeter.ac.uk<mailto:j.screen@exeter.ac.uk>
w: http://emps.exeter.ac.uk/staff/js546
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