Applied Research Scientist, Deep Cumulus Parameterization

University of Colorado; Boulder (CO); On-site; USD 77,000 - 102,000; Part time

Job summary

The Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at the University of Colorado Boulder welcomes applications for a Temporary Researcher, Deep Cumulus Parameterization Developer. This role will refine and translate developments into the next-generation Community Convective Cloud (C3) parameterization to support NOAA operational modeling efforts.

This appointment is for no more than 0.25 FTE (~10 hours per week) for 12 months and pays hourly from $55.88 to $74.04 per hour.

Qualifications

• Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science or related field.
• At least twenty years of experience developing, testing and evaluating deep cumulus parameterizations.
• Ability to collaborate with a diverse team of developers and researchers.
• Experience with community modeling approaches for numerical weather prediction.
• Experience contributing to shared code bases in a GitHub workflow.

Responsibilities

• Further develop, test, and refine a novel physically-based scale-awareness representation for deep cumulus parameterizations and implement it within the community-governed Community Convective Cloud (C3) parameterization (55%).
• Further develop, test, and refine the representation of atmospheric aerosols for the C3 parameterization (15%).
• Prepare briefing materials and presentations for branch management, internal meetings, conferences, and workshops, and prepare and submit a scientific manuscript for eventual publication on the work completed (15%).
• Contributes code developments to the C3 parameterization Github repository, working with other C3 parameterization developers to ensure that all contributions are designed and implemented in a mutually agreeable fashion (10%).
• Other duties related to maintaining and debugging existing deep cumulus parameterization codes used in NOAA operational models as assigned (5%)

Education

Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science or related field

Twenty years of experience developing, testing and evaluating deep cumulus parameterizations

Tools

Github

NOAA model development

Job description

The Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at the University of Colorado Boulder welcomes applications for a Temporary Researcher, Deep Cumulus Parameterization Developer. This role will refine and translate developments into the next-generation Community Convective Cloud (C3) parameterization to support NOAA operational modeling efforts.

This appointment is for no more than 0.25 FTE (~10 hours per week) for 12 months and pays hourly from $55.88 to $74.04 per hour.