NASA Postdoctoral Program - Climate studies through analyzing satellite observations and climate model simulations

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 NPP opportunity focuses on climate studies through analyzing observations from state-of-the-art satellite and reanalysis datasets (e.g., AIRS, CERES, GPM, ERA5, and MERRA-2) as well as climate model simulations from the latest phases of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (e.g., CMIP6). The scholar can pursue a wide range of research topics including how well CMIP6 models simulate historical climate in comparison to observations, analysis of double-ITCZ bias in climate models, investigation of model climate sensitivity spread in CMIP6 models, and how to constrain model climate sensitivity using observations. The research will be conducted at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California under the advisement of Dr. Baijun Tian.