PhD Position Convection permitting regional climate modelling

The Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS), a scientific organizational entity of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, located in Hamburg, invites applications for a PhD student position (75 %) in the research project HYDROLINE on convection permitting regional climate modelling of meteorological extremes in the frame of the Helmholtz Institute for Climate Service Science (HICSS). The position is limited to 3 years. The place of employment is Hamburg.

The HICSS project HYDROLINE will exploit the benefits of an advanced modelling framework for climate services and climate resilient development, by applying it to a warmer world allowing to investigate hydrometeorological extremes under 1.5°, 2.0°, 2.5° and 3.0° global warming to better anticipate potential future weather extremes and related impacts. The goal of this PhD position is to develop novel methods to better understand meteorological extremes and their driving mechanisms including associated land-atmosphere feedbacks under current and future climate conditions, by applying convection permitting regional climate modelling in selected case studies in Germany.
The project is part of the larger STORYLINE cluster project, where new climate service tools for adaptation are being developed with active stakeholder interactions. The project is funded as part of the Helmholtz Institute for Climate Service Science (HICSS), which is based at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, in collaboration with the University of Hamburg.
The PhD candidate will collaborate with another PhD candidate in the project, who will develop a hydrologic response model, and with staff from the affiliated URBANLINE project aimed at vulnerability assessments for urban heat events. The position is co-supervised by the University of Hamburg, Institute for Geography.

Equal opportunity is an important part of our personnel policy.

Your tasks

• Dynamical downscaling of selected past meteorological extremes with convection permitting regional climate model REMO and validation with observational data
• Implement and test new physical soil parameters and land use / land cover datasets
• Simulate selected meteorological extreme events under different global warming levels and evaluate its characteristics and driving physical processes including land-atmosphere interactions
• Analysis of soil moisture-precipitation and soil moisture-temperature feedbacks and their role in the development and persistence of extreme events.

Your profile

• M.Sc. degree in meteorology, climate physics or related disciplines in natural sciences and earth science is required
• Experience in analysing climate model data and simulated extreme events
• Experience in running regional climate models on high-performance computing facilities
• Knowledge in appropriate programming languages such as Python and R, and experience with Linux/Unix computer environments
• Fluency in English (spoken and written)
• Interest in teamwork in an interdisciplinary and international environment

Content-related inquiries regarding this position can be directed to Dr. Diana Rechid ([email protected]) and Prof. Jürgen Böhner ([email protected]).

We offer you

• an exciting and varied job in a research centre with more than 1,000 employees from around 60 nations
• a well connected research campus and best networking opportunities
• individual opportunities for further training
• social benefits according to the collective agreement of the public service and remuneration up to pay group 13 (according to EntgO Bund)
• an excellent technical infrastructure and modern workplace equipment
• 6 weeks holiday per year and company holidays between Christmas and New Year’s Day
• very good compatibility private and professional life through offers of mobile and flexible work
• PhD Buddy Program
• free assistance program for employees (EAP)
• corporate Benefits
• office location in the heart of the city of Hamburg in the historic Chilehaus

Severely disabled persons and those equaling severely disabled persons who are equally suitable for the position will be considered preferentially within the framework of legal requirements.

Interested?

Then we are looking forward to receiving your comprehensive application documents (cover letter, CV, transcripts, certificates etc.) indicating the reference number

code no. 2024/KG 6 until 07.04.2024.

Apply now!