Postdoc in "Developing a novel Antarctic Snow on Sea Ice Data Set" (m/w/d)

at  AlfredWegenerInstitut fr Polar und Meeresforschung

The Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) is a member of the Helmholtz Association (HGF) and funded by federal and state government. AWI focuses on polar and marine research in a variety of disciplines such as biology, oceanography, geology, geochemistry and geophysics thus allowing multidisciplinary approaches to scientific goals.
Postdoc in “Developing a novel Antarctic Snow on Sea Ice Data Set” (m/w/d)

• Implement a snow model (e.g., SNOWPACK) in a Lagrangian framework, coupled with a 1D ice growth model to track snowpack properties, including snow/ice formation over time.
• Develop an Antarctic circumpolar dynamic snow depth, density, and snow/ice data product that incorporates all physical processes involved in snowpack evolution.
• Co-locate various satellite datasets together with autonomous measurements for analysis and validation.
• Provide uncertainty estimates and quality flags for the individual datasets.
• Assess how snowpack properties influence the dominant scattering horizon in Ku- and Ka-band altimeters.
• Publish the datasets to make them available to project and external scientists.
• Present results at national and international scientific conferences and team meetings.
• Publish results in peer-reviewed scientific journals.