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<font face="Arial" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 15px;" class="">Please circulate announcement for PhD position at ETH Zurich</font></h1>
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Zamin A. Kanji<br class="">
Group Leader - Atmospheric Physics Lab<br class="">
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ETH - Zürich<br class="">
Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science<br class="">
Universitätstr. 16, CHN O 16.3<br class="">
8092 Zurich, SWITZERLAND<br class="">
<a href="mailto:zamin.kanji@env.ethz.ch" class="">zamin.kanji@env.ethz.ch</a><br class="">
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Phone: +41 (0) 44 633 61 61</div>
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PhD position in cloud physics</h1>
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<p class="">The Atmospheric Physics group at the <a href="https://iac.ethz.ch/" target="_blank" style="color: inherit;" class="">Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science</a>(IAC) – ETH Zurich invites applications for a 3-year to 3.5-year PhD position on
cloud seeding to reduce hail damage. This research topics remains a challenge because demonstrating the effectiveness of cloud seeding has been hampered by the large natural variability of hailstorms in the past.</p>
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Job description</h2>
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<p class="">The PhD work will be conducted in collaboration with Baloise insurance, who purchased an aircraft and has continuously been seeding developing thunderstorm clouds in Switzerland for the last three summers. In order to demonstrate (or falsify) the
success of reducing hail damage, this PhD project will conduct model simulations with the Swiss numerical weather prediction model with and without cloud seeding and evaluate whether seeding can reduce the hail damage. The model simulations will be validated
with the radar data for observed seeding events. This project offers a rare opportunity to study a practical application of cloud physics. The insights gained from this research will thus be of interest not only with regard to cloud seeding, but to the discipline
as a whole.</p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15.399999618530273px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Review of applications will begin December 1, 2020 and will continue until the position is filled. </span>
<div class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15.399999618530273px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">The start date is flexible and could begin as soon as January 2021. Please contact Prof. Ulrike </span></div>
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