Postdoctoral Research Associate – An Improved Understanding of Land-Atmosphere Coupling Processes

 

7 January 2025 - 24 January 2025

https://careers.pnnl.gov/jobs/10172?lang=en-us

The Atmospheric Climate and Earth Sciences Division at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) seeks a postdoctoral research associate to improve our process-level understanding of how heterogenous land (e.g., canopy) and soil (e.g., moisture, texture) properties affect the coupling between the ground and the boundary layer. This will be accomplished by integrating findings from new observations from sub- and near-surface in situ sampling, tall meteorological towers, remote sensing instruments, and aerial platforms with those from high-resolution meteorological simulations. The incumbent will work on one or more of the following areas: (1) analyze a wide range of measurements to elucidate ground-vegetation-atmosphere-cloud interactions (2) modify or implement new parameterizations in Large Eddy Simulation and/or mesoscale models, (3) evaluate LES and/or mesoscale model predictions that couple the ground, surface layer, canopy, and boundary layer, (4) examine water vapor pathways from transpiration, and (5) connect these insights with the turbulent mixing and chemical transformation of trace gases emitted from the soil and vegetation. The incumbent will work in close collaboration with other atmospheric scientists at PNNL.