Postdoc position on interannual climate prediction at the Climate Forecasting Unit (CFU) REFERENCE NO: IC3-CFU-2010-03 LOCATION: IC3 headquarters in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
ENVIRONMENT: IC3 is a climate research institute recently created by the Government of Catalonia. IC3's main scientific goal is to assess and understand climate variability and change at both global and regional scales to improve both predictions and projections. Linked to this goal, IC3 works on understanding and simulating how global change modulates variability and change in society and ecosystems. IC3's mandate is to become a leading international centre for climate research in Europe, with a regional focus on the Mediterranean area. IC3 will mainly develop top-quality research on basic and applied climate sciences, while informing society and stakeholders on future climate risks. Working languages of IC3 are English, Catalan and Spanish. For details, see www.ic3.cat. There is growing interest in the implications of climate variability and change from a season to a few decades ahead. Reliable climate information is critical to ensure that adaptation measures to climate variability and change are well justified and efficient. The Climate Forecasting Unit (CFU), which is led by the ICREA Research Professor F. J. Doblas-Reyes, undertakes research on the development and assessment of dynamical and statistical methods for the prediction of global climate on time scales ranging from months to decades. More information about the activities of the unit is available from the following links: http://www.ic3.cat/research.html http://ic3cfu.wikispot.org MAIN DUTIES: The successful applicant will investigate the predictability and actual forecast quality of interannual ensemble predictions carried out with the dynamical global climate model EC-Earth. The applicant will be involved in developments within the ECEARTH consortium to carry out initialized interannual ensemble simulations. Outstanding opportunities exist for collaboration with other European research institutions.?
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