NASA Postdoctoral Program - Climate Data Analysis Using GPS Radio Occultation

The NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) offers unique research opportunities to highly-talented scientists to engage in ongoing NASA research projects at a NASA Center, NASA Headquarters, or at a NASA-affiliated research institute. These one- to three-year fellowships are competitive and are designed to advance NASA's missions in space science, Earth science, aeronautics, space operations, exploration systems, and astrobiology. This specific opportunity focuses on GPS radio occultation (RO) observations for climate data analysis. GPS RO has unique characteristics that make it highly complementary to infrared and microwave passive sounders, including high vertical resolution, all-weather remote sensing, and coverage of diurnal cycle. With over ten years of continuous data record, GPS RO can now be used effectively to study the seasonal climatology as well as diurnal, intraseasonal, and interannual variabilities and trends of various atmospheric properties. The postdoctoral scholar will perform rigorous climate data analysis using GPS RO and other complementary data. Research topics can include but are not limited to tropopause trend and variability, climatology of planetary boundary layer depth, and diurnal variability of water vapor. The position is located at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.