• Are you a highly motivated recent (or near) PhD graduate with expertise in climate sciences & mathematics, meteorology or oceanography?
• Prestigious Postdoctoral Fellowship on offer - kick-start your research career
• Join CSIRO's Ocean & Atmosphere world leading team of researchers

The Position

Postdoctoral Fellowships at CSIRO provide opportunities to scientists and engineers, who have completed their doctorate and have less than three years relevant postdoctoral work experience. These fellowships will help launch their careers, provide experience that will enhance their career prospects, and facilitate the recruitment and development of potential leaders for CSIRO.

The Postdoctoral Fellow will examine how tropical variability will change under greenhouse warming, what are the mechanisms for interactions between extreme positive Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) and extreme El Niño, and how it may respond to greenhouse warming.

In return you will be rewarded with working with a leading government organisation which is engaged in world class scientific research projects, excellent career development and professional support, by working with other innovative researchers.

Your duties will include:

• Lead the effort that addresses how the annual cycle and long-term mean state of the equatorial Indo-Pacific will change under global warming.
• Use physical mathematical equations to examine the impact of mean state and annual cycle change on tropical variability properties, in particular, whether there is physical mathematical evidence that the mean state change will lead to more extreme positive Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) and El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events, and whether there is a linkage for their changes.
• Use outputs from about 40 climate models participating in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to test the result from the theoretical framework described above, and examine if there is a systematic relationship between mean state changes in the equatorial Indo-Pacific and changes in occurrences of extreme Indian Ocean Dipole and ENSO events, and  how their interaction may change.
• Conduct mechanistic experiments using the Australian Community Climate and Earth-System Simulator climate model, to validate any aspect of the results.

Location:              Aspendale, VIC
Salary:                  AU $80K - $91K plus up to 15.4% superannuation
Tenure:                 Specified term of 2 years
Reference:            55802

To be successful you will need:

• PhD or equivalent in climate sciences and mathematics, or equivalent, such as Meteorology and Oceanography.
• Well-developed knowledge of ENSO or the IOD dynamics, their respective feedback processes, their interactions.
• Demonstrated strong ability in writing computer programs and in data analysis method/approach and techniques.
• Demonstrated excellent oral and written communication skills.
• The ability to work effectively as part of a multi-disciplinary, regionally dispersed research team, plus the motivation and discipline to carry out autonomous research.
• A record of science innovation and creativity, plus the ability & willingness to incorporate novel ideas and approaches into scientific investigations.

How to Apply:  Please upload one document only containing both your CV/Resume and cover letter providing enough information relevant to this position to enable the selection panel to determine your suitability.  If your application proceeds to the next stage you may be asked to provide additional information.

Please view the full position details and instructions on how to apply here:  Position Details

Applications will close on Wednesday 7 March, 2018

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