The Submit-Doctoral Analysis Affiliate will contribute to NSSL’s new concentrate on fireplace climate analysis together with observations, modeling, and downstream impacts.
Date posted
Feb. 7, 2023 1:45 pm
Software deadline
Mar. 7, 2023 5:00 pm
Group
College of Oklahoma CIWRO
Location
Job description
The Cooperative Institute for Extreme & Excessive-Influence Climate Analysis and Operations (CIWRO- https://ciwro.ou.edu/) seeks to fill a Submit-Doctoral Analysis Affiliate place for its collaborative analysis as a Cooperative Institute with the Nationwide Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Workplace of Oceanic and Atmospheric Analysis (OAR) Nationwide Extreme Storms Laboratory (NSSL). The Submit-Doctoral Analysis Affiliate will contribute to NSSL’s new concentrate on fireplace climate analysis together with observations, modeling, and downstream impacts.
Background
Wildfires have elevated in frequency and their impacts on society have worsened over the previous decade. They’re additionally turning into thrice extra frequent and extra widespread. Excessive-severity fires have fast impacts on the ecosystem, crops, animals, and native communities. This has led to an elevated funding in assessing the traits of wildfires, their impacts, and the event of potential forecasting instruments. Features of this work embrace the potential for improved observations of wildfire impacts utilizing uncrewed aerial techniques (UAS), climate radar, and satellite tv for pc platforms and ingesting these information in excessive decision fashions to foretell circumstances which result in wildfires, how they might evolve, and post-fire impacts. This analysis presents many alternatives for higher understanding wildfires which have the potential for use in future decision-making actions.
Tasks
- Conduct analysis utilizing observations to raised perceive wildfire properties and/or enhance the flexibility of high-resolution fashions to investigate and forecast wildfire impacts
- Analyze giant and complicated information units by creating evaluation and visualization code
- Improvement of mannequin code that improves wildfire and smoke analyses and boundary layer interactions between the floor, environment, and fireplace properties
- Combine dynamically coupled fireplace entrance and microscale wind fashions into the Warn-on- Forecast System (WoFS), which is presently being prolonged to fire-weather purposes
- Publish analysis leads to peer-reviewed journals and current at skilled conferences regularly
Required {Qualifications}:
- Minimal PhD in Meteorology or associated space
- Expertise with scientific programming on UNIX/Linux techniques utilizing a high-level language (e.g., Fortran, Python, C++). Expertise with excessive efficiency computing is most popular
- Expertise in a number of matter areas together with numerical climate prediction, wildfire traits and their impacts using satellite tv for pc, radar, and/or UAS observations, and/or atmospheric boundary layer properties
- Glorious oral and written communication abilities
- A capability to work each independently and cooperatively with others
This place begins on or after Might 1, 2023 and ends on September 30, 2025. Additional employment past this date depends on availability of funding and a optimistic evaluation of the incumbent’s efficiency. Annual wage for this Submit Doctoral place is $58,000. Candidates ought to clearly determine which points of fireside climate they’re fascinated by engaged on. Info on advantages could also be discovered at https://hr.ou.edu/. The place will probably be situated in Norman, OK (https://www.normanok.gov/about–norman) on the Nationwide Climate Heart (https://www.ou.edu/nwc).
To use for the place, please ahead your resume, cowl letter and listing of three references to:
CIWRO Careers College of Oklahoma CIWRO
120 David L. Boren Blvd., Suite 2100 Norman, OK 73072-7304
The College of Oklahoma is an equal alternative/Affirmative Motion employer.
