Job Summary
The Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (ATOC) welcomes applications for a Postdoctoral Research Associate position focusing on Arctic ice clouds and ice nucleation. The position is part of a dynamic project to understand how intentional or unintentional perturbations to Arctic clouds may affect Arctic climate and ripple through the Arctic climate system to impact Sea Ice, Ice Sheets, permafrost and the Arctic Carbon cycle. You will work with a team of other researchers analyzing different aspects of arctic climate. This position will be co-mentored by Marika Holland (NCAR) and Andrew Gettelman (PNNL/CU).
What Your Key Responsibilities Will Be
This position will analyze observations and numerical simulations performed with the Community Earth System Model (CESM) to better understand how Arctic ice clouds and ice nucleation due to aerosols affects the Arctic and global climate system. This will involve running some simulations and analyzing observations and simulations focusing on ice clouds and aerosols that nucleate ice in ice and mixed phase clouds in the Arctic. The project will help improve the representation of cloud microphysics for ice clouds in CESM and to understand how changes to ice clouds may alter the Arctic climate system.
What We Require
- Ph.D. in atmospheric sciences, meteorology, physical oceanography, or a related field and have an interest in Arctic Climate.
- Experience processing large model outputs, applying statistical methods, diagnosing physical processes, and performing model simulations with a hierarchy of models from idealized to global.
- Experience analyzing and performing global climate simulations is desired.
- Ability to perform independent research.
- Proficiency in written and verbal English are essential for publishing research papers and presenting results from the project.