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PhD Position Available
Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research (BCCR)
Bergen, Norway

For further information about BCCR, please go to:
http://www.bjerknes.uib.no/default.asp?lang=2

or contact:
Idar Barstad
E-mail: Idar.Barstad [at] bjerknes.uib.no


The Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research in Bergen, Norway invites
applications for a three-year PhD position to begin in Autumn 2007. The
successful applicant will study the development of extreme weather in
the polar region and its implication on air-sea interaction in the
climate system. The study will make use of a simplified coupled system
where a mixed layer model for the ocean and a wave model will be coupled
to an atmospheric component.

Applicants must hold a Masters degree in meteorology, oceanography,
mathematics or physics. Interested applicants in these fields who are
not yet graduated are asked to notify BCCR of their expected graduation
date.

For full application instructions, please contact:
Idar Barstad
E-mail: Idar.Barstad [at] bjerknes.uib.no