[Wrf-users] Post Doc Position

Anthony P Praino apraino at us.ibm.com
Wed Apr 18 14:02:49 MDT 2007


The IBM Research Division conducts scientific research and develops 
technologies and processes for use with IBM Products and customer 
applications.  IBM Research has produced leading contributions to the 
technology underlying IBM's product portfolio, as well as to the world of 
science and the entire IT industry.  For more information go to 
www.ibm.com/research

The Deep Computing Systems Department of the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research
Center in Yorktown Heights, NY is seeking a post-masters or post-doctoral 
scientist to join a multi-disciplinary team focused on applications of 
environmental modeling and data analysis. The candidate would be 
responsible for the enhancement and operation of a meso-g-scale 
model-based weather forecasting system. 

The successful candidate will work with the extant team to improve and 
maintain operational capabilities, and develop and incorporate new 
modeling, analysis and visualization techniques that are part of an 
end-to-end weather forecasting solution with applications ranging from 
water and energy management to emergency planning for and response to 
severe weather and flooding events. 

Further information see http://www.research.ibm.com/weather/DT.html.

The hired candidate will possess experience with non-hydrostatic numerical 
weather prediction codes such as WRF-ARW, RAMS or MM5. Knowledge of 
surface and upper-air measurements as well as satellite and radar 
observations and utilization of NOAAport data streams. Experience in a 
high-performance parallel (cluster) computing environment (e.g., IBM 
Cluster 1600, Linux clusters, MPI, OpenMP). Some experience with 
hydrological codes for groundwater (e.g., MODFLOW).

Major Field of Study: Atmospheric, hydrological, or related earth science.

Skills:  UNIX programming (AIX, Linux), scripting (Perl), FORTRAN 
programming, Data Formats/Structures (netCDF, GriB), Image Processing 
(OpenDX, GEMPAK, GrADS, ImageMagick), C/C++, Java and Web 
programming/deployment, User Interface programming (TCL/TK, Qt) 

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without 
regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, 
sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability age, or veteran 
status. 

To apply please follow this URL 

http://careers.peopleclick.com/jobposts/Client40_GLDTR/BU1/External/139-21959.htm?ShowReturn=Yes

ACTC/Deep Computing Systems
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
apraino at us.ibm.com
http://www.research.ibm.com/weather
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