Postdoctoral Researcher in Regional Climate Modeling and Analysis

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Position Summary

 

A postdoctoral researcher position is available through the Utah Climate Center and the Department of Plants, Soils & Climate, Utah State University. The person will join two research projects, one to understand the distinctive wet and dry cycles of climate that dominate the Intermountain West region, and the other aimed at producing an improved dynamical downscaling for climate simulations and forecasts.

 

Responsibilities:

 

• Perform numerical simulations with regional climate models such as the Weather Research & Forecasting (WRF) model and analyze the model output.
• Cooperate in current efforts to use various time statistical and dynamical analyses to quantify the magnitude and frequencies of drought and wet episodes.
• Identify large-scale atmospheric and oceanic features at appropriate spatial and temporal scales that connect with the cyclical variations in wet and dry periods.