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Apply before: 15 May 2020
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Position: Post-doc fellowship
Apply before: 15 May 2020
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The postdoctoral researcher will be involved in the framework of the CAPACITY (ClimAte and Plant hydrAulics Controls on drought predIction uncertainty in a new-generation Terrestrial sYstem model) project funded by the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR). The project will tackle the challenges of investigating the controls of plant hydraulic traits on the drought predictive uncertainties across different ecosystems, regions, and the entire European continent under past and future climatic conditions. The CAPACITY project will make joint use of the most recent version of the Community Land Model (CLM5.0) and multi-source observations, exploit globally assembled and continuously updated databases of plant traits, and extract past and future climate signals from multi-model ensemble atmospheric simulations. The researcher will be incorporated in the Agro-Environmental Systems group of the Environmental Sensing and Modelling (ENVISION) RDI unit and will collaborate with scientists in other groups on topics related to remote sensing and plant ecophysiology.
Main missions
The postdoctoral researcher will play a central role in the project and its outputs. Her/his main mission is to perform regional- and continental-scale CLM5.0 simulations over Europe for seasonal and decadal time periods. In addition, the candidate will be asked to exploit information from a wide range of in-situ (e.g., FLUXNET and SAPFLUXNET) and remotely sensed (e.g., ESA-CCI soil moisture, MODIS Land Surface Temperature, and Sun-Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence) datasets to establish complementarity between the land surface modelling and remote sensing.
Scientific work tasks
Define plant hydraulic traits configurations for CLM5.0 continental-scale simulations Perform continental-scale evaluation of CLM5.0 response for past European drought events Quantify climate sensitivity of CLM5.0 using different plant hydraulic mapping Test seasonal drought predictive skills of CLM5.0 Project management tasks
Assist in the preparation of project reports and presentations to the Scientific Advisory Board Participate actively in the maintenance of a project-dedicated version-control system (e.g., GitLab) Explore and employ cutting edge software packages facilitating open science Dissemination, valorisation and transfer tasks
Contribute to dissemination, valorisation and transfer of project results (e.g., participation in scientific conferences, training sessions, and publications in reputed peer-reviewed scientific journals)
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