CIRES/NOAA GSL Postdoctoral Associate in Sub-Seasonal to Seasonal Prediction Studies
Date posted
Aug. 28, 2023 4:30 pm
Application deadline
Sep. 28, 2023 5:00 pm
Organization
CIRES/ NOAA at the University of Colorado Boulder
Location
- United States
Job description
The Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) in Boulder, Colorado and the NOAA Global System Laboratory (GSL) have an immediate opening for a motivated Postdoctoral research associate with experience in atmospheric sciences, numerical weather prediction, and atmospheric composition modeling to apply and perform state-of-the-art coupled atmospheric composition models developed at NOAA/GSL for medium-range and subseasonal to seasonal (S2S) forecast. The Postdoctoral research associate will have an appointment within the Earth Prediction Advancement Division (EPAD) of NOAA GSL to perform the S2S experimental predictions, evaluate the results, and compare them against those of additional models and configurations developed by GSL and other NOAA Research laboratories.
EPAD has been leading the development of regional and global aerosol and atmospheric composition forecast models in collaboration with other NOAA Research laboratories and the National Weather Service (NWS) over many years. One of the global forecast systems, Global Ensemble Forecast System (GEFS)-Aerosols v12, based on the Unified Forecast System (UFS, ufscommunity.org), has been in operations at NWS since 2020 (https://gsl.noaa.gov/focus-areas/atmospheric-chemistry-and-smoke-prediction/gefs-aerosols). A second-generation coupled aerosol system (UFS-Aerosols) has been collaboratively developed for the UFS by NOAA and NASA since 2021, and is planned to be implemented into the GEFS v13.0 in the coming years. Meanwhile, an innovative community model for Configurable ATmospheric Chemistry (CATChem), to be coupled online with the UFS, is under development. CATChem, developed under a wide collaborative effort between NOAA Research laboratories and the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), is able to utilize the Common Community Physics Package (CCPP) infrastructure to link the gas and aerosol chemistry modules to the rest of the model. In addition, EPAD has been leading the improvement of aerosol forecast systems by including aerosols direct and semi-direct radiative feedback for scales ranging from a few hours to S2S. The successful candidate will conduct retrospective and real-time S2S simulations using an ensemble of fire emissions, validate the predictions with an emphasis on aerosol optical depth (AOD), and assess the direct and indirect impacts of aerosols in the meteorological predictions.
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