CEDAR email: Research Fellow in Modelling of the Upper Atmosphere - University of Leeds

[John Plane]

Applications are invited for the position of Research Fellow in Modelling of the Upper Atmosphere in the Atmospheric and Planetary Chemistry group within the School of Chemistry. You will contribute to two closely related projects, working with Professors John Plane and Daniel Marsh.
The first project is WAVECHASM (Wave-Induced Transport of Chemically Active Species in the Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere), funded by the NERC in the UK and the NSF in the US. It aims to bridge the gap between high-resolution regional models and global climate models in representing transport of constituents by gravity waves. It will contribute to a much deeper understanding of the key small-scale wave-induced constituent transport processes (advection, turbulent mixing, dynamical transport and chemical transport), their global characteristics and their impact on atmospheric chemistry. This role will be based at the University of Leeds (UK) but the successful candidate must be willing to spend periods of time at the University of Colorado (Boulder, USA) working with project partners.
The second project is DRivers and Impacts of Ionospheric Variability with EISCAT-3D (DRIIVE), a NERC highlight topic project. DRIIVE will investigate how ionospheric varibility at small-scales affects thermospheric density and how that leads to changes in atmospheric drag on satellites and space debris. It will focus on improving our ability to represent atmospheric joule heating in state-of-the-art upper atmosphere models to enable better short-term (~24 hour) forecasting of satellite and debris orbit predictions as well as inform the long-term (100-year) predictions of the space environment population.
You will have a PhD (or have submitted your thesis before taking up the role) in meteorology, atmospheric physics, atmospheric chemistry, applied mathematics, geophysics  or a closely allied discipline, together with a strong background in computer programming, code development and using large numerical codes and/or datasets. Experience of working directly on research problems related to the earth's mesosphere and lower thermosphere would be beneficial. The job advertisement and further particulars can be viewed at https://jobs.leeds.ac.uk/EPSCH1062. The closing date for applications is 5 July 2022.

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John Plane and Daniel Marsh
School of Chemistry and School of Physics and Astronomy
University of Leeds
Woodhouse Lane
Leeds LS2 9JT
U.K.

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