PhD position in Lagrangian analyses of weather and climate
University of Vienna, Department of Meteorology and Geophysics
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The research team “Atmospheric Transport Processes” led by Andreas Stohl is part of the Department of Meteorology and Geophysics. The group further develops the Lagrangian particle dispersion model FLEXPART and uses it in several different fields of research, for instance: Lagrangian studies of heat and water transport in the atmosphere; transport of microplastics and other pollutants in the atmosphere; inverse modelling of greenhouse gases to determine their sources and sinks; interpretation of ice cores.
You will work with a Lagrangian Re-Analysis (LARA) data set, which has recently been created in a research project. This data set has been produced with FLEXPART based on the Eulerian re-analysis ERA5 from ECMWF. It consists of “particles” associated with meteorological information at their positions that are continuously traced in the atmosphere for 8 decades. You will use this data set for putting selected extreme weather events into a climatological perspective and studying the causal role of transport of heat and moisture for triggering the events. You will also perform global-scale analyses of specific atmospheric transport mechanisms such as warm conveyor belts or lifting in tropical cyclones. Finally, you will contribute to the creation of a follow-up Lagrangian re-analysis based on forthcoming ERA6 data and using the latest version of FLEXPART.
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