NASA Postdoctoral Program - Earth Science: Water Cycle Extremes and Climate

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 better understanding the extreme fluctuations of global and regional atmospheric water cycles and their interactions with the Earth's surface using NASA Earth science satellite observations, in-situ measurements, modeling including IPCC CMIP model outputs. Research topics include statistical analysis of rainfall extreme characteristics, analysis and modeling of extreme events clusters including flash flood, severe drought, atmospheric rivers, and tropical cyclones, continental heat wave and prolonged droughts, and high impact hydroclimate events including estimation of return interval, attributions, and feedback processes. The fellowship is located at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.