Izaña Atmospheric Research Centre, AEMET
Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
Description
EUMETSAT is Europe’s meteorological satellite agency. Its role is to establish and operate meteorological satellites to monitor the weather and climate from space - 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. EUMETSAT is the prime source of satellite observations, data, products and services to the National Meteorological Services of the organisation’s Member and Cooperating states, and for the European meteorological and climate community at large. EUMETSAT delivers to users worldwide and is a major contributor to the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) programmes. As an intergovernmental European Organisation, EUMETSAT has 26 Member States (Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom) and 5 Cooperating States (Bulgaria, Estonia, Iceland, Lithuania, Serbia).
Continuous, consistent, and high quality long-term observations of the atmospheric composition are fundamental for addressing the challenges of climate research, whereby space-based remote sensing observations have a special importance since they are unique in giving a global perspective. Among the space-based remote sensors, IASI has a special status since it offers a unique combination of long-term data availability, high quality, global coverage, and measurement frequency. IASI operationally measures water vapour and ozone profiles as well as total column amounts of water vapour, ozone, methane, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide. Specific additional development and validation work is necessary in the area of atmospheric composition, especially on the green-house gases, to allow full use and application of the IASI L2 products to the climate research.
In this context a first comprehensive and long-term validation of IASI-A’s operational atmospheric gas products shall be performed. The study will be conducted for the high mountain observatory of the IARC (Izaña Atmospheric Research Centre from the Meteorological State Agency of Spain, AEMET), which unites the most advanced atmospheric gas measurement techniques at a single site. IARC’s ground-based FTS (Fourier Transform Spectrometer) experiment will be the Fellow’s core reference technique, since it is the only measurement technique that can comprehensively validate many different atmospheric gas products. By means of this technique, the quality of the whole IASI-A time series (2007-2012) shall be documented. The work will be performed with the FTS research group of IARC, which has a close collaboration with FTS experts from the IMK-ASF (Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research-Atmospheric trace Gases and Remote Sensing, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology). The work will be fundamental for studies that apply the operational IASI level 2 trace gas products in climate research (e.g., greenhouse gas and water cycle, stratosphere and troposphere processes, etc.). Furthermore, it will allow identifing the leading error sources, which is a prerequisite for further improvements of EUMETSAT’s operational retrieval algorithms.
Requirements
The Fellow for these tasks should have a PhD in an applied/experimental physical science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent and relevant research experience. Knowledge of ground- and satellite-based remote sensing, or data management would be a strong asset. Strong interpersonal and team working skills are required, along with strengths in scientific analysis, synthesis and presentation. Scientific computing skills, familiarity with programming languages (e.g., Matlab, IDL, C, C++ or FORTRAN) and experiences with file formats (e.g., hdf, bufr or EUMETSAT native format) are required.
Applications
Applications in English or French should be sent via our online form (attaching curriculum vitae and covering letter quoting Reference VN(12)18) at www.eumetsat.int
In this context a first comprehensive and long-term validation of IASI-A’s operational atmospheric gas products shall be performed. The study will be conducted for the high mountain observatory of the IARC (Izaña Atmospheric Research Centre from the Meteorological State Agency of Spain, AEMET), which unites the most advanced atmospheric gas measurement techniques at a single site. IARC’s ground-based FTS (Fourier Transform Spectrometer) experiment will be the Fellow’s core reference technique, since it is the only measurement technique that can comprehensively validate many different atmospheric gas products. By means of this technique, the quality of the whole IASI-A time series (2007-2012) shall be documented. The work will be performed with the FTS research group of IARC, which has a close collaboration with FTS experts from the IMK-ASF (Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research-Atmospheric trace Gases and Remote Sensing, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology). The work will be fundamental for studies that apply the operational IASI level 2 trace gas products in climate research (e.g., greenhouse gas and water cycle, stratosphere and troposphere processes, etc.). Furthermore, it will allow identifing the leading error sources, which is a prerequisite for further improvements of EUMETSAT’s operational retrieval algorithms.
Requirements
The Fellow for these tasks should have a PhD in an applied/experimental physical science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent and relevant research experience. Knowledge of ground- and satellite-based remote sensing, or data management would be a strong asset. Strong interpersonal and team working skills are required, along with strengths in scientific analysis, synthesis and presentation. Scientific computing skills, familiarity with programming languages (e.g., Matlab, IDL, C, C++ or FORTRAN) and experiences with file formats (e.g., hdf, bufr or EUMETSAT native format) are required.
Applications
Applications in English or French should be sent via our online form (attaching curriculum vitae and covering letter quoting Reference VN(12)18) at www.eumetsat.int
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