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PhD position Tropical Cyclone Modelling (1.0 FTE) Updated: 17 Dec 2020 link provider logo Category Research / Academic Location Utrecht APPLY NOW ADD TO FAVOURITES LinkedIn Messenger What's up Twitter Email Tropical cyclones are among the most dangerous weather events. As they thrive on warm surface water, there are fears that more intense cyclones could occur under global warming. Yet, changes in tropical atmospheric circulation may (partly) compensate the effect of a warmer sea surface. These counteracting effects, together with the fact that modelling tropical cyclones require high model resolutions, lead to considerable uncertainty regarding future cyclone behaviour. Even more uncertain is the impact of potential climate engineering measures - large-scale human intervention in the earth system aiming at limiting climate change. An often discussed technology is Stratospheric Aerosol Injection (SAI), which generates a thin sulphur aerosol layer in the stratosphere to reflect a few percent of the incoming sunlight. SAI could lead to substantial overall cooling, but what effect will it have on tropical circulation – and cyclones? As the PhD candidate, you will work closely with Claudia Wieners, Michiel Baatsen, Aarnout van Delden and Guus Velders at IMAU. You will set up and analyse high-resolution simulations of the Community Earth System Model (CESM) to investigate the impact of global warming and SAI on the tropical circulation and cyclone characteristics. As climate engineering affects many components of the climate system, there is scope for interaction with various Researchers at IMAU. The Centre for Complex System Studies (CCSS) provides opportunities to place your research into a wider, interdisciplinary context. In addition to your research, you will spend 10% of your time on teaching. Requirements: We are looking for a curious and driven candidate who has: an MSc degree or equivalent in climate science, meteorology or a related field, and a sound knowledge of climate physics; experience with climate modelling, ideally GCMs / ESMs, and/or in climate data analysis; good programming skills, ideally Python. Some knowledge of Fortran may be helpful as well; good communicative skills in English, both in speaking and in writing; an inquisitive mind and eagerness to engage with a societally controversial climate mitigation option. Salary Benefits: an opportunity to be part of a team of excellent Researchers who are determined to make a contribution to the climate change issue; a position for 4 years; a full-time gross salary that starts at €2,395 and increases to €3,061 per month in the fourth year (scale P of the Collective Labour Agreement Dutch Universities (cao)); benefits including 8% holiday bonus and 8.3% end-of-year bonus; a pension scheme, partially paid parental leave, and flexible employment conditions based on the Collective Labour Agreement Dutch Universities. In addition to the employment conditions laid down in the cao for Dutch Universities, Utrecht University has a number of its own arrangements. For example, there are agreements on professional development, leave arrangements, and sports. We also give you the opportunity to expand your terms of employment yourself via the Employment Conditions Selection Model. This is how we like to encourage you to continue to grow. More information about working at the Faculty of Science can be found here. Work Hours: 38 - 40 hours per week Address: Domplein 29 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/geoengineering/CAJ3C-055Qt%3DqD7TaDcT3cPHW0tTzuMtcOmi%2B1gRG%2BMz4Lyc94A%40mail.gmail.com.
