Climate Extremes Research Associate – Remote

Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss; Zürich; Ibrido; CHF 120.000 - 180.000; Tempo pieno

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Public sector mission

Diversity and inclusion

Health and wellbeing at work

Descrizione del lavoro

Zurich (and working from home) with 80-100% involvement: MeteoSwiss seeks a climate scientist to conduct climatological investigations into extreme weather, scientifically analyse weather and climate model data, and study pre-industrial to future climates.

You will develop data tools, manage data, and bring results into operations while collaborating with national and international partners including CLIM+.

Competenze

• PhD in atmospheric and climate science, meteorology, environmental science, physics or a related subject
• Very good knowledge of the dynamics of extreme weather and climate extremes in the mid-latitudes, and of the influence of circulation and teleconnections
• Very good knowledge of the analysis and handling of datasets from numerical weather prediction, reanalysis and climate models
• Experience in using modern analytical methods and programming, as well as a basic understanding of and interest in machine learning
• Enjoy collaborating with project partners and is motivated to find solutions together
• Proficiency in two official languages and very good command of English

Mansioni

• Conduct climatological investigations into extreme weather events taking large-scale circulation patterns into account
• Scientifically analyse weather and climate model data
• Analyse the characteristics, variability and trends in pre-industrial, present-day and future climates
• Develop data analysis tools, manage data and bring research results into operations
• Collaborate with national and international partners, in particular within the CLIM+ initiative
• Produce reports, documentation and scientific publications

Conoscenze

Data analysis

Programming

Machine learning basics

English proficiency

German proficiency

Formazione

PhD in atmospheric and climate science

Strumenti

Python

R

Climate models

Descrizione del lavoro

Zurich (and working from home) with 80-100% involvement: MeteoSwiss seeks a climate scientist to conduct climatological investigations into extreme weather, scientifically analyse weather and climate model data, and study pre-industrial to future climates.

You will develop data tools, manage data, and bring results into operations while collaborating with national and international partners including CLIM+.