NASA Postdoctoral Program - Using ocean data assimilation to assess model error and sources of predictability on seasonal time scales

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 prediction on subseasonal to seasonal time scales using ocean data assimilation. The research will assess prediction skill, sources of error, and sources of predictability in the atmosphere and ocean to advance seasonal prediction skill. Proposals are invited for investigations using MERRA-2 Ocean and/or the Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean (ECCO) reanalysis to assess errors in coupled earth system model predictions. GMAO has particular interest in proposals focusing on northern hemisphere high latitude regions based on relevance for sea ice prediction. This opportunity is closed to applicants who are Senior Fellows (5-years or more past PhD).