Tätigkeitsprofil:
Key responsibilities:
- work on vegtation impact on energy fluxes permafrost dynamics
- versee and organize simulation protocol, organize model input-output and evaluation data of the improved LPJmL Dynamic Global Vegetation Model with the goal to analyse simulated fire effects on tundra vegetation and permafrost soils under climate change conditions
- n the joint project with our project partners you will
- ooperate with UZH field experts on arctic vegetation to improve the snow model in LPJmL and analyse seasonal effects of fire-induced removal of litter and vegetation cover on heat transfer
- ooperate with mathematical experts from RICAM to implement and apply heat transfer equations co-developed with mathematical experts at RICAM with the goal to investigate influence of variable root growth
- oordinate with UZH and RICAM documentation of data, analysis scripts and model code, and organize knowledge transfer of project results
- nalyse climate-induced changes on arctic tundra and related fire regimes by conducting factorial experiments using multiple climate-change scenarios.
Anforderungsprofil:
Requirements:
- a in biophysical, environmental and/or ecological sciences
- bility to work with large environmental and ecological data sets, incl. empirical, remote-sensing and simulated model data
- nowledge in programming languages (UNIX, C, or similar) and script-based programming (R, Python, or similar)
- illingness to travel to scientific conferences and workshops and visits to cooperation partners