NASA Postdoctoral Program - Radiative Transfer and Climate Model

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 radiative transfer in the Earth's atmosphere and climate modeling. The research involves advancement of radiative transfer algorithms for NASA GISS's general circulation model (GCM) to study radiative interaction and feedbacks between various atmospheric constituents and the climate system. Topics include developing radiative kernel approaches, investigating coupling among clouds, sea ice and ocean in the polar climate system, developing radiative transfer algorithms, implementing observational system simulation experiments, evaluating climate modeling results through satellite data comparison, and parameterizing bio-heating processes in ocean and sea ice. The position is located at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City and requires experience in mathematical/statistical methods, data analysis, and Fortran programming.