The Cooperative Institute for Extreme and Excessive-Impression Climate Analysis and Operations (CIWRO) on the College of Oklahoma at present is looking for a analysis scientist to collaborate with scientists within the Nationwide Extreme Storms Laboratory’s (NSSL) Warning Analysis & Growth Division on the event of latest radar-based purposes for investigation into tornadic thunderstorms.
Date posted
Dec. 12, 2022 12:30 pm
Utility deadline
Jan. 12, 2023 5:00 pm
Group
CIWRO on the College of Oklahoma
Location
Job description
The Cooperative Institute for Extreme and Excessive-Impression Climate Analysis and Operations (CIWRO) on the College of Oklahoma at present is looking for a analysis scientist to collaborate with scientists within the Nationwide Extreme Storms Laboratory’s (NSSL) Warning Analysis & Growth Division on the event of latest radar-based purposes for investigation into tornadic thunderstorms. The incumbent will use their experience and technical capabilities to an array of tornado-related issues, together with creating new radar-based climatologies and purposes for extreme climate warning steering. The place will primarily give attention to the wants and targets of NOAA’s VORTEX-USA Program.
The duties of the place are:
- Apply data of extreme storms and radar to the event of latest algorithms and fashions to enhance twister and extreme storm detection and prediction for probabilistic extreme climate warning steering;
- Apply data of extreme storms and radar to the event of latest climatologies for rotating storms and tornadoes utilizing a big, gridded radar information set and its derivatives;
- Examine the impact of non-WSR-88D community radars and different observations of alternative on extreme merchandise within the Multi-Radar Multi-Sensor system;
- Present experience and contribute towards investigating totally different tornado-related issues utilizing a big, gridded radar information set;
- Collaborate on scientific proposals for analysis associated to extreme storms and their attendant hazards;
- Attend conferences {and professional} conferences to current analysis outcomes and work together with collaborators and customers;
- Meet with collaborators and supply common summaries of labor achieved;
- Evaluation technical {and professional} publications and attend seminars to remain abreast of present developments in meteorological, distant sensing, and computing and/or machine studying science.
The minimal {qualifications} for the place are:
- Minimal PhD in Meteorology or associated space;
- Expertise utilizing radar information, together with Doppler velocity and polarimetric fields, in extreme storms analysis;
- Expertise with scientific programming on UNIX/Linux programs utilizing a high-level language (e.g., C++, Python, Java).
Candidates ought to determine experience with any of the next areas: climate radar information and ideas; extreme native storms and their attendant hazards; programming; statistics; machine studying. Sturdy oral and written communication expertise are wanted for the place, together with the flexibility to current analysis to numerous audiences and collaborate on reviews and publications.
Regular working hours might be noticed besides for infrequent irregular hours throughout information assortment, warning/forecast experiments, or workshops performed at distant websites. Supervision might be offered by CIWRO workers. Technical oversight might be offered by CIWRO workers, NSSL scientists, and NSSL administration. The incumbent will work underneath normal supervision however is predicted to find out motion to be taken in dealing with all however uncommon conditions. Incumbents on this place usually are not anticipated to oversee different workers however might function technical workforce leads and supervise college students.
Incumbents can have alternatives to obtain coaching and achieve experience within the newest radar and different distant sensing expertise, and, as wanted by the place’s technical necessities, technical expertise associated to programming and machine studying. Incumbents may even have alternatives for profession growth by way of assets offered by the College; extra info could also be discovered at https://hr.ou.edu/Workers/Profession-Growth.
The start wage might be based mostly on {qualifications} and expertise with College advantages. Info on advantages could also be discovered at https://hr.ou.edu/. The place might be positioned in Norman, OK (https://www.normanok.gov/about-norman) on the Nationwide Climate Middle (https://www.ou.edu/nwc).
To use for the place, please ahead your resume, cowl letter and checklist of three references to:
CIWRO Careers
College of Oklahoma CIWRO
120 David L. Boren Blvd., Suite 2100
Norman, OK 73072-7304
ATTN: VORTEX-USA Radar RS
The College of Oklahoma is an equal alternative/Affirmative Motion employer.
