Post Doctoral Research Associate in Mars Atmospheric Research
About the Role
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The Role
The Open University is recruiting for a UK Space Agency funded Post-doctoral Researcher position to perform atmospheric retrievals and global climate modelling using data from the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter mission. This project involves performing retrievals from the NOMAD instrument data being returned from the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter mission to Mars, as well as investigating the chemical processes regulating ozone in the atmosphere of Mars. This will be achieved through a comparison against simultaneous measurements of water by NOMAD, and the assimilation of these species into a Mars Global Climate Model. A key objective is to understand why global climate models cannot correctly represent the abundance of ozone observed on Mars, through an analysis of the chemical relationships between ozone and water.
The post holder will join the vibrant Atmospheric Research and Surface Exploration group within the School of Physical Sciences, making use of the group’s high-performance computing facility based in the STEM Faculty.
Key Responsibilities
1. Investigate atmospheric retrievals from martian radiative transfer experiments.
2. Develop, design and perform Mars climate modelling experiments.
3. Perform investigations of Mars atmospheric data assimilation experiments.
4. Assist the project team in interpreting and archiving retrieval and model output.
5. Write papers on the research and publish them in peer-reviewed journals, and present findings at international conferences and workshops.
6. Carry out administrative tasks associated with the work, such as writing project reports and documenting experiments and code updates.
Skills and Experience
1. Hold a PhD in atmospheric physics, or a closely related field.
2. Experience in running planetary atmospheric climate models and data assimilation of atmospheric observations.
3. Significant skills in Fortran and Python programming.
4. A strong record of research that is commensurate to the position.
Essential Requirements
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