MMM Postdoctoral Fellow I

Mesoscale And Microscale Meteorology (Mmm) Postdoctoral Fellow

UCAR is excited to announce the job opening for the Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology (MMM) Postdoctoral Fellow role. This position will contribute to research activities within NCAR's MMM laboratory related to developing a GPU-compatible and auto-differentiable version of the Model for Prediction Across Scales (MPAS) using a higher-level, interpreted language such as JAX. The MMM Postdoctoral Fellow will interact with NCAR scientists, staff, and other postdoctoral fellows to advance the research over the position's one-year term, and will be encouraged to present at scientific conferences, publish scientific papers, and pursue professional development activities.

The mission of MMM is to lead and enable research that advances the understanding of weather and to apply this knowledge to benefit society. In support of this mission, MMM strives to produce accurate and effective computational models, data assimilation systems, and representations of unresolved weather model processes from local to global scales. We also conduct theoretically driven social science and interdisciplinary research that connects to the hazardous weather predictability and prediction capabilities.

With extensive external contributions, MMM's efforts have included development of the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model, the Model for Prediction Across Scales (MPAS), and sophisticated codes for cloud-resolving and eddy-resolving simulations. MMM continues to emphasize boundary-layer, turbulence and cloud-microphysics research. Eddy-resolving simulations of mesoscale phenomena such as tropical cyclones, mesoscale convective systems and fronts in the atmosphere and ocean enable research of multi-scale dynamics, i.e., a deeper understanding of interactions across a continuous spectrum of mesoscale and microscale atmospheric motions.