Researcher or Postdoctoral Position Available
Glaciology/Oceanography
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Grenoble, France
Application deadline: 22 February 2023
For more information and to apply, go to:
https://emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/UMR5001-ALEVIA-004/Default.aspx?lang=…
The Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) invites applications for a Researcher, or postdoc depending on experience, to study glaciology/oceanography. This full-time, 36-month position will be located in Grenoble, France.
The successful candidate will work on the Scale-Aware Sea Ice Project, a research project funded by the Schmidt Futures Foundation that aims to develop a new generation sea ice model (neXtSIM-DG) for use in future climate models.
In the framework of this project, the successful candidate will focus particularly on the sea ice dynamics simulated by the new neXtSIM-DG model, comparing it to both observations and other existing sea ice models (e.g., SI3 or neXtSIM in its Lagrangian version). In particular, the researcher will evaluate the realism of the simulated dynamics when including a new sub-grid physics parameterization that takes into account ice floe dynamics (developed within SASIP by another team based in Grenoble), and will try to characterize its impact on oceanic or atmospheric boundary layers. In practice, the proposed work will require the execution of stand-alone sea ice simulations and coupled ocean (NEMO)-ice simulations, as well as the statistical analysis of model outputs with observational data. The work will be carried out in collaboration between mainly three institutes: IGE and ISTERRE (Grenoble, France), and the Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center (NERSC) located in Bergen, Norway. Visits to NERSC are to be expected.
Applicants should have a PhD in oceanography, meteorology/applied mathematics. Their research background should demonstrate competence and interest in the fields of glaciology, physical oceanography, and/or numerical methods applied to geophysics. The successful candidate should be able to run numerical codes (sea ice or coupled ocean-sea ice), and possibly develop them further. Programming experience (knowledge of C++ or object-oriented programming will be a plus, but expertise in python/MATLAB is required), ideally in the field of modelling geophysical objects such as sea ice, ocean, and/or atmosphere. Applicants should be fluent in English (minimum level C1), and be able to interact in a multicultural environment.
Application deadline: 22 February 2023
For more information and to apply, go to:
https://emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/UMR5001-ALEVIA-004/Default.aspx?lang=…
For questions, contact:
Pierre Rampal
Email: pierre.rampal [at] univ-grenoble-alpes.fr