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
European
Commission
DG - Joint Research
Centre
Institute for
Environment and Sustainability
Via E. Fermi 2749,
JRC.H.7-TP280
I-21020 Ispra (VA),
ITALY
Phone: +39 033278 9386
Fax: +39 033278 3033
Disclaimer:
"The views expressed are purely those of the writer
and may not in any circumstances be regarded as
stating an official position of the European
Commission"
From: Agrometeorology and Agroclimatology
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Sent: 14-May-2013 4:07 AM
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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.
--
René Alex Gommes
http://english.ceode.cas.cn
gommes.net/wergosum
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