Jobs:Job-00887
Apply before: 3 March 2019
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Position: Postdoc
Apply before: 3 March 2019
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The XEROS project aims at (1) assessing the extremity of recent European drought events in the perspective of long (i.e., 500-year) benchmark period; (2) improving the process understanding of drought genesis; finally (3) enhancing the reliability of future hydro-climatic projections.
The underlying analysis will employ a multi-model reconstruction of hydrologic variables using the palaeoclimatic reconstructed driving data. Current state-of-the-art hydrologic/land surface models will be used to estimate spatio-temporal dynamics of the surface and subsurface water component. This will enable an improved understanding of historical characterisation of large-scale drought events and exploratory analysis of the governing atmospheric parameters influencing the genesis of droughts. The XEROS project builds upon a modelling infrastructure which has been recently established across Europe by CHS and CULS teams.
The candidate should have a Ph.D. degree in hydrology/environmental sciences, physics, or climatology. Additionally, the candidate should have very good programming and scripting skills, sound experience in modelling the complex interaction of land-surface hydrologic processes, strong scientific background in statistical analysis of hydrologic and climate variability as well as experience in writing scientific publications.
The closing date for applications is 3 March 2019.
Duration of the project is 36-months.
Starting day: as soon as possible
