Physical Oceanographer / Numerical Modeller

The section Physical Oceanography of the Polar Seas invites applications for the position of a Physical Oceanographer / Numerical Modeller (m/f/d) in the framework of the EU project

S
outhern
O
cean
C
arbon and
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eat
I
mpact on
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limate (SO-CHIC).
Rates of climate change on decadal and longer time scales depend on oceanic processes taking place in the Southern Ocean, but little is known about the process details. The advertised position aims at understanding the heat budget (including sensitivities) in the Atlantic Sector of the Southern Ocean. More specifically, you will develop regional budgets for dynamically different areas (inner Weddell Sea, Circumpolar Current, Maude Rise).

Tasks

• estimate the subsurface heat flux divergence including both advective and diffusive fluxes from Argo Float data and historical data. You will employ an ocean general circulation model with data assimilation employing the adjoint method to obtain estimates of regional heat budgets by simultaneously adjusting boundary conditions and internal parameters such as vertical and horizontal eddy mixing coefficients.
• use the adjoint ocean general circulation model to explore the sensitivities of the system (Losch and Heimbach, 2007), in order to quantify and understand the interannual to decadal variations in the heat budgets including longer-term trends.

Requirements

• PhD degree in physical oceanography or related fields,
• experience in data analysis and numerical modelling,
• strong background in fluid dynamics and in high-level programming (preferably Fortran/Python)
• good communication skills in English - both written and oral

Additional advantageous knowledge and skills

• enjoy working in an interdisciplinary and international science community within SO-CHIC
• ideally has proven his ability to publish scientific results as first author in peer-reviewed journals

Further Information

For further information please contact
Prof. Dr. Torsten Kanzow
(torsten.kanzow@awi.de, +49(471)4831-2913) or
Dr. Martin Losch
(martin.losch@awi.de, +49(471)4831-1872).
The position is limited to 3 years, the targeted starting date is 1st December 2019. The salary will be paid in accordance with the German Tarifvertrag des öffentlichen Dienstes (TVöD Bund), up to salary level

13
. The place of employment will be
Bremerhaven.

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 for women and men are an integral part of our personnel policy. Therefore, 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”.

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