Researcher in meteorology within greenhouse gas

Researcher in meteorology within greenhouse gas

Are you interested in working within marine carbon cycle, with the support of competent and friendly colleagues in an international environment? Are you looking for an employer that invests in sustainable employeeship and offers safe, favourable working conditions? We welcome you to apply for a research position at Uppsala University.

The department is very broad in terms of knowledge and has been created by merging five previously independent departments. The Department of Geology, the Department of Physical Geography and the Department of Palaeontology were merged in 1992. Six years later, the Department of Meteorology and the Department of Geophysics were added. This makes us one of the most comprehensive departments in Earth sciences in all of Europe and we conduct education and research both in Uppsala and in Visby.

Luval are a large research program divided into three main areas: air (atmosphere), water (hydrosphere), and landscape (crust). We study weather and climate and the effects of climate change; water and environmental pollution; and glaciology and the processes that shape the Earth's surface. Our research takes place both in the field and in laboratories and much of our research revolves around climate issues. Read more here: Luval

This position is part of the GreenFeedBack project (Greenhouse gas fluxes and Earth system Feedbacks) funded under the Horizon Europe framework. The GreenFeedBack project is led by AU-ENVS and brings together scientists doing fieldwork and modelers from across Europe. The aims are to enhance our knowledge of greenhouse gas (GHG) fluxes within terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecosystems at high northern latitudes. In the project, we will investigate the impacts that human pressures have on ecosystem GHG fluxes, how the GHG fluxes will respond to a changing climate, and how changes to ecosystem GHG exchanges in the boreal and Arctic regions affect feedbacks in the global system.

Duties
This research project focus on how the marine carbon cycle responses feed back onto the global carbon cycle and modulate projected climate changes. The specific focus will be to use output from the coupled earth system model EC-Earth with implementations developments achieved in other work packages into the EC-Earth, and to perform evaluations of global-scale sensitivity and future simulations. The work will be done in close collaboration with teammates from Aarhus University (working with EC-Earth on the terrestial carbon cycle) as well as GreenFeedBack partners at other organisations within the consortium.

Requirements
To qualify for this position you must have a PhD degree or a foreign degree equivalent to a PhD degree in meteorology, oceanography, biogeochemistry, engineering, environmental sciences, statistics or computational science or similar. You are expected to know how to handle and analyse large data bases, in particularly output data from climate simulations Good knowledge of English in both speech and writing is required.

Additional qualifications
Understanding of dynamics in the atmosphere/ocean is a merit as is experience in modelling of atmosphere and ocean systems. Experience running either EC-Earth or another coupled climate or earth system model is an advantage

About the employment
The employment is a temporary position, 12 months. Scope of employment 100 %. Starting date 01-04-2025 or as agreed. Placement: Uppsala

For further information about the position, please contact: Professor Anna Rutgersson, 018-4712523, anna.rutgersson@met.uu.se

Please submit your application by 3 Marsh 2025, UFV-PA 2024/4468.

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