Postdoc Scientist Physics, Oceanography – Prediction System, Model Configuration (m/f/d) NEW

The Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) is a member of the Helmholtz Association (HGF) and funded by federal and state government. AWI focuses on polar and marine research in a variety of disciplines such as biology, oceanography, geology, geochemistry and geophysics thus allowing multidisciplinary approaches to scientific goals.Postdoc “Attribution and Prediction System” (m/w/d)BackgroundArctic amplification leads to the frequent emergence of extreme climate events, such as the Polynya opening up north of Greenland in February 2018 or the extremely low sea ice extent in November 2020.

Diagnostic capacities are needed to understand the origin of such events, including anthropogenic climate change, in near real time. Develop, apply and analyse an attribution and seasonal prediction system in close collaboration with observational and modelling scientists of the Sea Ice Physics and Climate Dynamic sections at AWI. The system will be based on a global configuration with a highresolution Arctic (O(km)) of the next generation sea ice-ocean model FESOM2 (fesom.

de). The new system will be initialized with remotely sensed and in-situ observations and will be run quasi-operationally, taking into account experienced gained in the Sea Ice Prediction Network SIPN (https://www.arcus.

org/sipn) You willset up the model configuration and develop an operational work flowinitialize the system with observations of the coupled sea ice-ocean system employing the Parallel Data Assimilation Framework (pdaf.awi.de)assess the performance of the attribution system for some recent extreme events and analyse the predictive skillanalyse recent high-profile events of scientific and public interest to better understand the governing processesactively disseminate findings to the scientific and public communities (e.

g. through meereisportal.de) PhD in physics, oceanography, meteorology or a related fieldExcellent programming skills (FORTRAN, python, bash scripting)Experience in numerical modellingReadiness to work in an interdisciplinary teamExcellent English language skills, both written and spokenReadiness to participate in sea-going and land expeditions to the Arctic our scientific success – excellent research.

collaboration and cooperation – intra-institute, national and international, interdisciplinary.opportunities to develop – on the job, aiming at other positions and beyond AWI.a culture of reconciling work and family – an audited and well-supported aspect of our operationour outstanding research infrastructure – ships, stations, aircraft, laboratories and more.

an international environment – everyday contacts with people from all over the world.having an influence – fundamental research with social and political relevanceflat hierarchies – facilitating freedom and responsibility exciting science topics, with opportunities also in technology, administration and infrastructureEqual opportunities are an integral part of our personnel policy. The AWI aims to increase the number of female employees and therefore strongly encourages qualified women to apply.

Disabled applicants will be given preference when equal qualifications are present.The AWI fosters the compatibility of work and family in various ways and has received a number of awards as a result of this engagement. About alfred wegener institut