The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) seeks a postdoctoral fellow or project scientist to use cloud-scale observations from the Department of Energy’s Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility to evaluate and develop cloud and convection parameterizations in climate models. This position will provide an unique opportunity to apply a new class of field observations to reducing one of the major uncertainties in modeling climate and climate change.

Radar measurements of vertical motions in cloud systems are now becoming available from the ARM Facility. NOAA’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) is experimenting with new approaches for modeling clouds and convection in climate models that are based partly on their distributions of vertical velocity and associated aerosol and microphysical processes.

The successful applicant will work with Leo Donner at GFDL and members of a multi-institutional ARM team engaged in field measurement of cloud dynamic, thermodynamic, and aerosol properties. Scientists with backgrounds in general circulation modeling and parameterization development and/or evaluation of models using field observations are especially encouraged to apply.

To apply, send a curriculum vitae (CV), three suggested references for letters of recommendation, and statement of interest to Leo Donner by August 7, 2013.