[ES_JOBS_NET] postdoc (2 years) and a PhD student, basic wave-rose climatology, University of Miami

[Christine Wiedinmyer]

I am seeking a postdoc (2 years) and a PhD student to work on measuring
those faint but distinct mesoscale waves of darker and lighter you can see
rippling across low cloud decks in animations. How can we assemble and test
algorithms to most robustly quantify what the eye sees so easily? With
synthetic data exercises, of course. Ready for decades of archived
satellite imagery!

What is the basic wave-rose climatology, across the basins and the seasons?
Unknown! Can wave packets be traced back to sources, or forward to impacts?
How do their uplifted and subsided (brighter and darker) phases affect the
cells living in the cloud deck? For instance, how often do they induce a
precipitation threshold, triggering a transition from closed to open cells?
What synergy might our satellite-only data find with published and
under-study cases from the well-studied low-cloud field campaigns (VOCALS,
CSET, EUREC4A-ATOMIC, etc.)? Can our quantifications of clouds + dynamics
interactions tell us anything new about the albedo problem for Earth’s
energy budget? Do the new global highest-resolution models have these
things realistically?

Correspondence welcomed.
Application is through University of Miami web sites I can steer you to.

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Brian Mapes
Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences
Director, Meteorology and Physical Oceanography program
Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science,
University of Miami
4600 Rickenbacker Causeway
Miami, FL 33149-1031
bmapes at miami.edu
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