Stellenangebot / Job offer
Postdoc position in the field of climate change attribution and impacts
The Coastal Climate and Regional Sea Level Changes group of the Institute of Coastal Systems – Analysis and Modeling invites applications for an exciting two-year postdoc position. It will be in the field of climate change attribution and impacts as part of the BMBF project ‘WAKOS-2’ starting March 1st, 2024, and ending February 28th, 2026. Within the project ‘Water on the coasts of East Frisia: Tailored Climate Services for Adaptation (WAKOS-2)’, a number of German Universities and authorities will work on appropriate adaptation measures to create a climate-resilient East Frisia region. Processes such as the expected rise in mean sea level, storm surges, heavy rain events or periods of drought play an important role as they cause coastal erosion, groundwater recharge or saltwater intrusion and thereby influence coastal protection.
Your tasks:
The sub-project of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon will focus on event-based storylines for a number of extreme events over Northern Germany and the German Bight and their attribution to anthropogenic climate warming. Regional spectrally nudged storyline simulations will be performed for present, preindustrial, and future climate states. The method was successfully implemented on a global scale for heat waves and droughts. These simulations will be downscaled to higher resolution using a regional climate model and will now be extended to cold winters, extratropical storms and storm surges. The overall goal is to achieve a quantification of climate change impacts for these extreme events.
Your profile:
- PhD (or be about to complete) in meteorology/atmospheric physics or in a related scientific field (e.g., geophysics or earth system science)
- strong interest in extreme events, climate change detection and attribution, climate modeling, and atmospheric dynamics
- experience in a higher programming language
- ability to communicate effectively in spoken and written English
- good knowledge of data analysis/statistics
- strong motivation, also to publish in peer-reviewed journals and to present scientific results at international conferences
