NASA Postdoctoral Program: Weather and Climate Research in the Latest GMAO Reanalyses

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 evaluating new reanalyses from the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office (GMAO) in the context of critical weather and climate physical processes represented in Earth System reanalysis. The research will involve analysis of large datasets in NASA high performance computing environments. Potential research topics include Earth Energy Imbalance, regional closure of water and energy cycles, developing quantitative uncertainty through analysis of ensemble spread, and use of reanalysis in applied science sectors such as Energy and Agriculture. The position requires strong data analysis skills with large climate datasets and programming experience in Python on UNIX platforms.