The Climate Services Team (CST) at the BSC Earth Sciences Department (ES), led by Dr. Ángel G. Muñoz, is looking for a climate scientist to work on the development of downscaled products for several sectors, including health, agriculture and energy, with a main focus on sub-seasonal, seasonal and decadal climate services.
The person appointed will be involved in different EU projects and national initiatives. An important part of their work will be in collaboration with the department’s Global Health Resilience (GHR) group, led by ICREA Professor Rachel Lowe. The mission of the GHR group is to apply a transdisciplinary approach to co-designing policy-relevant decision-support tools to enhance surveillance, preparedness, and response to global health challenges, with a focus on climate-sensitive infectious diseases. Together, the CST and GHR co-develop impact-based forecasting models at sub-seasonal to decadal timescales in collaboration with public health, disaster risk management, and humanitarian agencies. In addition, CST is growing in the field of spatial downscaling, promoting developments that provide tailored climate services across sectors; the person appointed will give support to such developments contributing to CST’s products in a wide range of projects, with a main focus on the climate and health project needs.
The successful applicant will participate in different projects operating in Europe, Asia, and the Latin America & Caribbean region and work with state-of-the-art climate predictions to obtain relevant climate indicators for health assessments at both global and local spatial scales. His/her/their activity will be positioned within the context of WMO’s Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS), whose aim is to advance climate predictions to provide actionable sub-seasonal to decadal climate information to key sectors of society. This position therefore presents the opportunity to work alongside a wide range of leading international climate scientists delivering cutting-edge climate science and climate services across Europe. The position holder will enjoy joining one of the leading and most dynamic European groups in the field of climate services.
Successful candidates will benefit from expert training and BSC-CNS staff benefits: international multidisciplinary scientific environment and advanced applied research training. We encourage applications from highly motivated candidates with demonstrated experience in climate science and interest in applied research projects within the context of climate services.
Key Duties
- Apply statistical downscaling methods to obtain climate data at high spatial resolution for specific sites, selecting the adequate method depending on the spatiotemporal scale and orography of each site
- Perform user-oriented research, understand user needs and facilitate technology transfer
- Actively participate in EU projects (participate in teleconferences, workshops, meetings, and writing deliverables)
- Contribute to disseminate the results in peer-reviewed scientific papers and international conferences
- Teamwork: Interaction with scientists in the group and the department to enhance synergies
- Develop and deliver training materials for users and decision-makers in handling, post processing, and analysing climate information
- Contribute to the development of a framework to provide downscaled products as climate services
- Develop R packages and workflows, while improving existing as well as creating new functions, to apply state of the art spatial downscaling techniques
Data de tancament: Dissabte, 23 Novembre, 2024
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