Senior Research Associate - Climate Scientist
We are pleased to announce an exciting opportunity for a postdoc (Senior Research Associate) to work on an EU-funded project, involving tuning a state-of-the-art CMIP7 model using paleoclimate data, and using the paleo-tuned model to make future climate predictions.
Focus will be on the key paleoclimate intervals of the Last Glacial Maximum, 21,000 years ago, and the early Eocene, 50 million years ago, leveraging information from the warmest and coldest states of the last 65 million years, and stretching the capabilities of climate models to their limits.
The position is part of the EU-funded Past2Future project (Past to Future: towards fully paleo-informed future climate projections). More details of the project are available from Dan Lunt on request (d.j.lunt@bristol.ac.uk). The project collaborates with multiple institutions across Europe, particularly with the UK Met Office, the University of Leeds, and the British Antarctic Survey.
What will you be doing?
The successful candidate will be responsible for carrying out and analysing climate model simulations from the UKESM Earth system model. The candidate will likely spend extended periods at the UK Met Office – the details of which are flexible and can be discussed at interview.
You should apply if
The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate:
1. Experience in running climate models and/or analysing climate model output, or equivalent.
2. Evidence of scientific excellence.
3. Evidence of the ability to write and publish first-author scientific papers, or equivalent.
Additional information
Contract type: Open ended with fixed funding for three years.
Work pattern: Full time.
Grade: J/Pathway 2.
School/Unit: School of Geographical Sciences.
Shift pattern: Working hours are flexible.
This advert will close at 23:59 UK time on 15/02/25.
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