PostDoc Attribution and Prediction System in Sea Ice Physics

The Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) is a member of the Helmholtz Association (HGF) and funded by federal and state government. AWI focuses on polar and marine research in a variety of disciplines such as biology, oceanography, geology, geochemistry and geophysics thus allowing multidisciplinary approaches to scientific goals.

PostDoc "Attribution and Prediction System in Sea Ice Physics" (m/f/d)

Background

Polar amplification leads to the emergence of unusual climate events, such as the Polynia opening up north of Greenland in February 2018 or the extremely low sea ice extent in October 2019. Diagnostic capacities are needed to understand the governing processes and underlying causes of such events in near real-time.

This project will develop and apply an attribution and seasonal prediction system based on a global configuration of the sea ice-ocean model FESOM2 (fesom.de) with high resolution in polar regions. The system will be designed based on experience gained in the Sea Ice Prediction Network SIPN (

The new system will be initialized with remotely-sensed and in-situ observations and will be run quasi-operationally. Seasonal predictions are generated from an ensemble of atmospheric forcing of past years.

The position is part of our recruiting initiative AWI INSPIRES - INternational Science Program for Integrative Research in Earth Systems. AWI INSPIRES aims at strengthening our new research program “Changing Earth, Sustaining our Future”. Details about all open positions and the general application requirements can be found at

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Tasks

You will

• set up the model configuration and operationalize the run scripts,
• optimize the model parameters for the atmospheric forcing (ERA5, available almost in near real-time),
• initialize the system with observations of the sea ice-ocean system employing the Parallel Data Assimilation Framework (pdaf.awi.de),
• assess the attribution system performance for some recent extreme events, and
• analyse the predictive skill.

Requirements

• PhD Degree in physics, oceanography, meteorology or a related field.
• Excellent programming skills (FORTRAN, python, bash scripting).
• Experience in numerical modelling.
• Excellent English language skills, both written and spoken.
• Readiness to participate in seagoing and land expeditions to the Arctic.

Further Information

For further information please contact
Dr. Frank Kauker
(Frank.Kauker@awi.de, +49(471)4831-1804) or
Prof. Dr. Thomas Jung
(Thomas.Jung@awi.de, +49(471)4831-1761).
This is a full-time position, limited to 3 years. It is also suitable for part-time employment. The salary will be paid in accordance with the German “Collective Agreement for the Public Service of the Federation” (Tarifvertrag des öffentlichen Dienstes, TVöD Bund), up to salary level

13
. The place of employment will be
Bremerhaven.
Postdocs can register with AWI’s postdoc office
, thereby gaining access to a set of tailor made career development tools.

This characterizes us

• our scientific success - excellent research.
• collaboration and cooperation - intra-institute, national and international, interdisciplinary.
• opportunities to develop – on the job, aiming at other positions and beyond AWI.
• a culture of reconciling work and family – audited, and even more than that.
• our outstanding research infrastructure – ships, stations, aircraft, laboratories and more.
• an international environment – everyday contacts with people from all over the world.
• having an influence – fundamental research with social and political relevance
• flat hierarchies – freedom and responsibility.
• exciting topics – also in technology, administration and infrastructure.

Equal opportunities are an integral part of our personnel policy and we encourage women to apply.
Disabled applicants will be given preference when equal qualifications are present. The AWI fosters the compatibility of work and family through various means. Because of our engagement in the area of work-life compatibility we have been awarded the certificate “Career and Family”.

We look forward to your application!

Please forward your application with letter of motivation explaining why you want to join one of our research areas, two letters of recommendation and a list of publications by

February 16
th
, 2020
exclusively online.
Selected candidates will be invited to present their research ideas and motivation during the “Annual recruitment days”, planned from 16 to 24 March 2020 in Bremerhaven, Germany.

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