Jobs:Job-00866
Apply before: 31 January 2019
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Position: PhD opportunity
Apply before: 31 January 2019
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PhD position:
The PhD project aims to identify the adequate level of complexity for bio-geo-chemical modeling of coupled water and carbon cycles, and check the adequacy of existing model concept for representing coupled carbon and water fluxes across different biomes (arable land and grassland sites). Building on this, the PhD shall investigate a range of integrated terrestrial carbon cycling and dynamic vegetation models for their suitability (in terms of complexity and adequacy) to be integrated within the in-house developed Multiscale Hydrologic Modeling framework (mHM). The model assessment shall be related to their applicability to run at different sites (transferability) and scales (field scale and regional). The so-developed integrated water and (terrestrial) carbon model will contribute to improve our understanding on the interaction between the water and carbon cycle under changing environmental conditions with particular emphasis on extreme events like droughts and heat waves.
Main tasks of this position will be screening and evaluation of possible (terrestrial) carbon and vegetation models against existing observational datasets (e.g., TERENO/ICOS sites and data sets from long term field experiments), their integration (numerical coding/programming) into the existing hydrologic model (mHM) including parameterizations and (multiscale) regionalization approaches for running the integrated model at different scales and sites, and perform thought-driven experiments with the integrated model.
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