Early-stage Researcher Positions - Tropical deforestation, atmospheric convection, clouds, and carbon fluxes,

The early-stage researcher employed on this project will build on work to couple the cloud-resolving model ATHAM with the terrestrial ecosystem model HYBRID, to better understand the responses of the coupled tropical forest-atmosphere system to deforestation. High resolution simulations will investigate the coupled dynamics of convective, cloud, hydrological, radiative, C cycle, and ecological processes. Ground truthing will draw on measurements made during the LBA-ECO project in Amazonia.

It is anticipated that they will register for the PhD degree at the University of Cambridge.

Applications are welcome from those with backgrounds in environmental science, biology, ecology, atmospheric science, physics, mathematics, etc. Applicants should hold, or expect to obtain shortly, at least an Upper Second Class Honours Degree, Masters Degree, Diploma, or equivalent (typically a Masters in a relevant science subject). The project involves programming and working with parallel codes on high performance computers. Experience with Fortran running under UNIX/Linux is highly desirable.