UCAR Visiting Scientist Programs is seeking an outstanding postdoctoral research scientist to engage in research on understanding climate variations in the Intra-Americas Seas (IAS) and their influence on climate extremes using global high-resolution coupled models. The research activities fall under the broad banner of climate variability, predictability and attribution. This is a new, full-time, two-year appointment, renewable for a third year. This position is located at the Climate Change, Variability Prediction Group at the NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Labotatory, Princeton, New Jersey.
The development of the Future Earth – Research for Global Sustainability initiative launched in Rio+20 is well underway. The Alliance builds on the success of the international global environmental change programmes including WCRP. Co-sponsors are ICSU, ISSC, UNEP, UNESCO, UNU, with WMO as an observer.
NASA’s Earth Science Division and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Centre for Climate Sciences invite applicants to participate in their August summer school. Application deadline is 6 July.
The latest issue of CLIVAR’s Bulletin includes reports of the 19th SSG session and the VAMOS workshop on modelling and predicting climate in the Americas.
Session organizers are Troy Thornberry, Andrew Rollins and Holger Voemel. The AGU Fall meeting will be held on 3-7 December in San Francisco. Abstracts are due by 8 August.
A078: Water Vapour in the Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere (UT/LS)
Water vapor in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere (UT/LS) plays a significant role in Earth’s climate. Systematic disagreements among H2O measurements in the UT/LS indicate there are unrecognized uncertainties with in situ and/or satellite measurements that may impact our understanding of transport mechanisms, radiative balance and ice nucleation microphysics in the tropopause region. We invite contributions related to UT/LS H2O measurements and their implications for the understanding of UT/LS processes. Specific topics include: H2O measurement and measurement-model comparisons; measurement and model results describing the distribution and trends in UT/LS H2O; tropopause region transport and dehydration processes.
