NASA Postdoctoral Program - Earth Science: Atmospheric Dynamics and Cloud Remote Sensing

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 fast dynamical and cloud processes that present challenges to remote sensing from space. Research areas include atmospheric/ionospheric wave dynamics, cloud remote sensing, and atmospheric wind sounding techniques. The research involves developing novel methods using advanced satellite sensors to detect and map perturbations of atmospheric temperature and density induced by gravity waves, new sounding methods with mm and submm-wave radiometry, and analysis of A-Train data from Aqua AIRS, Aura MLS, CloudSat and CALIPSO. The position is located at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, under the advisorship of Dr. Dong Wu. This opportunity is closed to applicants who are Senior Fellows (5-years or more past PhD).