Subject: Vacancy: Post-Doctoral Position at the European Commission - Joint Research Centre (Ispra, Italy)

A 36-month Post-doctoral position, is available at EC- Joint Research Centre in Ispra, Italy, applications deadline : 03/06/2013 23:59 CET

TOPIC: “Drought Probabilistic / Ensemble Forecasting”

Applicants must fill the ESRA on-line form on: http://recruitment.jrc.ec.europa.eu/call-for-grantholders.php?inst=IES&pid=2044 .

A short manual of the ESRA (External Staff Recruitment Application) is available in  http://recruitment.jrc.ec.europa.eu/docs/ESRA%20Terms%20and%20Conditions%20of%20Use%202013-03_v6_FINAL.pdf

Contractual conditions:

DETAILS on Vacancy

JRC’s Climate Risk Management (CRM) Unit is developing methods and tools for monitoring and assessing extreme events (e.g., droughts & floods) and their impacts from regional to global scales.

Ongoing work includes the development of a European Drought Observatory (EDO) for drought monitoring, assessment, and forecasting in Europe and the development of similar methods and tools for Africa, Latin America and at the global level.

The CRM Drought Team is looking for a candidate to support and further develop our activities on drought forecasting, especially medium to longrange

probabilistic /ensemble forecasting. The candidate will apply ensemble forecasts from ECMWF and other forecasting centres for meteorological drought forecasting, but also as input to land surface models that can provide related drought products, such as soil moisture anomalies. The tasks include the development, implementation and testing of forecasting methodologies for selected drought products as well as the provision of meteorological expertise to the team.

Qualifications:

The ideal candidate should have a Ph.D. in meteorology or closely related disciplines or a minimum of 5 years of research experience in the mentioned fields after the first degree giving access to doctoral studies

She/he should have experience in working with meteorological forecasts including ensemble forecasting and should be familiar with handling large meteorological datasets. Demonstrated experience with related programming, specifically in R or similar languages, and scripting tools are essential.

Good knowledge of spoken and written English is required. The knowledge of another community language would be an advantage.

Relevant publications and presentations should be highlighted.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ph.D. FABIO MICALE

Research Administrator

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European Commission

DG - Joint Research Centre

Institute for Environment and Sustainability

Climate Risk Management Unit

Via E. Fermi 2749, JRC.H.7-TP280

I-21020 Ispra (VA), ITALY

Phone: +39 033278 9386

Fax:     +39 033278 3033

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From: Agrometeorology and Agroclimatology discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Rene Gommes
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Subject: [Agromet-L] Book on index-based insurance (agrometeorology, remote sensing, economics)

 

Dear colleagues

The link below

http://ies.jrc.ec.europa.eu/news/472/155/Insuring-future-food-security.html

points to a recent publication which I edited with François Kayitakire of the MARS/FoodSec unit at the EC Joint Research Centre. Even if you have no interest in crop insurance, please do have a look: the volume is full of good technical and not-so-technical papers on agrometeorology and remote sensing, agroclimatology, climatic risk, crop modelling, spatial variability of weather... and some insurance economics!

Following the link, you'll be able to download and electronic version or to order a hard copy.

Regards to everyone

R.

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René Alex Gommes
http://english.ceode.cas.cn
gommes.net/wergosum

 


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