Stillingstittel:
PhD research fellowship in post-processing of climate model results for impact analysis in hydrology (ref.nr. 13/16)

Stillingsbeskrivelse:

Established in 1921, the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate is a directorate under the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy and is responsible for the management of Norway’s water and energy resources. Our mandate is to ensure an integrated and environmentally sound management of the country’s water resources, promote efficient energy markets and cost-effective energy systems and contribute to the economic utilization of energy. We are Norway’s national centre of expertise for hydrology, and play a central role in national flood contingency planning. NVE also has the overall responsibility for maintaining national power supplies. NVE is based in Oslo, has five regional offices in Norway and a total of 580 employees. If an applicant wishes to opt out from a public list of applicants, this must be justified. Information regarding the applicant can be released even if the applicant has asked not to be included on the list of applicants. If the reservation is disregarded the applicant will be notified of this before the public list of applicants drawn up.

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A PhD position is available at Hydrological Modelling Section at Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE). PhD supervision is done jointly by Hydrological Modelling Section at NVE, Department of Geosciences at University of Oslo and Norwegian Computing Center (Norsk Regnesentral). The fellowship will be for a period of three years with no compulsory work. The candidate will work in the project Post-processing of Climate Projection Output for Key Users in Norway (PostClim) funded by the Research Council of Norway. Projections of future climate are determined using climate models that simulate the interactions between the components of the climate system, including atmosphere, oceans, land surface and ice, under the influence of increased greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere. The temporal and spatial characteristics of climate models’ outputs usually differ from observed meteorological variables at the scales of climate impact studies, and what comes out of the climate models thus needs to be corrected before being used in impacts analysis, e.g. in hydrology. The aim of the post-processing methods used during this correction is to minimize the residuals between climate models’ outputs and the corresponding observed meteorological variables. The main objective of PostClim is therefore to produce tailored climate information for key Norwegian user groups, with secondary objectives of evaluating and improving of post-processing methods and user-defined climate products, estimating the value added by post-processed climate data in climate impact studies and quantifying the uncertainty in post-processed climate variables. The candidate will join the work in the research group in the PostClim project, which is composed of several of the leading climate impacts modelling groups in Norway, holding a high international standard.The major focus of the PhD position is on developing and evaluating post-processing methods for climate model results for impacts modelling, specifically: The position will be based in Oslo.

Arbeidsoppgaver

• Descriptions:Develop post-processing methods that preserve the frequency of and consistency between atmospheric variables and consider non-linear effects and extreme values
• Quantify the uncertainty and evaluate the strength of the post-processing methods
• Evaluate the effect of post-processing methods on user-defined products by application of post-processed variables in hydrological impacts models for the land phase of the water cycle. User defined products will b
  
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  Arbeidsgiver Navn: Norges vassdrags- og energidirektorat
  
  Arbeidsgiver adresse: 0368 OSLO
  
  Job kort beskrivelse: Geologists and geophysicists
  
  Land: Norge
  
  Region: Oslo
  
  Kilde til jobbtilbud: NAV, Offentlige arbeidsformidlinger, Norge
  
  Lønn valuta: NOK
  
  Lønn periode: Pr. år
  
  
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