NASA Postdoctoral Program - Investigation of analyzed and simulated aerosols in the Goddard Earth Observing System (GEOS)

The NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) offers unique research opportunities to highly-talented scientists to engage in ongoing NASA research projects. This specific opportunity focuses on investigating analyzed and simulated aerosols in the Goddard Earth Observing System (GEOS) model. The GEOS model features interactive aerosols in configurations designed for numerical weather prediction, seasonal prediction, and reanalysis. Research areas include validation of aerosol properties using satellite and ground-based observations, connecting regional and global aerosol to climate variability using GEOS reanalysis products, assessing air quality and its impact on human health, improving aerosol representation through model updates, and forecasting extreme events. These one- to three-year fellowships are competitive and designed to advance NASA's missions in space science, Earth science, aeronautics, space operations, exploration systems, and astrobiology. The work will be conducted at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in the high performance computing environment.