Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunity
Sea Ice Forecasting
U.S. National/Naval Ice Center
Application Review Begins: Sunday, 1 October 2006
To view a complete position description, please go to:
http://www.vsp.ucar.edu
The U.S. National/Naval Ice Center (NIC) seeks to fill a postdoctoral
fellowship position, through the University Corporation for Atmospheric
Research (UCAR) Visiting Scientist Programs, to assist in the
development and implementation of new sea ice forecasting techniques.
NIC is a primary source of ice charts for U.S. agencies in support of
assets that include ice-breaking ships, submarines, commercial shipping,
and scientific research vessels.
UCAR offers up to a two-year collaborative research opportunity for the
analysis of new observations from ice mass balance buoys and other
remote sensing and in-situ sea ice observations to validate the Gerson
and Perchal (1973) ice thickness model and to exploit the significant
lag correlations found between variations in atmospheric circulation and
sea ice concentration to produce long range forecasts of arctic sea ice
conditions. This project is collaborative research between the NIC and
the Polar Science Center, University of Washington. The position is
located just outside Washington D.C. in Suitland, MD.
Applicants should have a recent Ph.D. in meteorology, oceanography, or a
related discipline. Strong working knowledge of statistical analysis,
remote sensing, ice physics, and ice modeling is required. The NIC
Science and Applied Technology Department currently works in a Linux and
Windows development environment. Preference will be given to individuals
with prior data assimilation experience.
The postdoctoral fellow appointed to this position will be an employee
of UCAR. The application review begins Sunday, 1 October 2006.
To view a complete position description, please go to:
http://www.vsp.ucar.edu