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About the NASA Postdoctoral Program
The NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) offers unique research opportunities to highly-talented scientists to engage in ongoing NASA research projects at a NASA Center, NASA Headquarters, or at a NASA-affiliated research institute. These one- to three-year fellowships are competitive and are designed to advance NASA’s missions in space science, Earth science, aeronautics, space operations, exploration systems, and astrobiology.
Description:
Prediction on subseasonal to seasonal time scales is societally relevant and
the fidelity of these predictions has improved in recent years. Assessing the
prediction skill and source of error, as well as the sources predictability
in the atmosphere and in the ocean, is critical to advancing seasonal prediction skill.
The Global Modeling and Assimilation Office (GMAO)'s Goddard Earth Observing System (GEOS)
seasonal prediction model and data assimilation system (GEOS-S2S) is currently being
used to produce MERRA-2 Ocean, a 1982-present weakly coupled reanalysis. Proposals
are invited for investigations using MERRA-2 Ocean and/or the Estimating the Circulation
and Climate of the Ocean (ECCO)reanalysis and the associated ocean ""analysis increments""
to assess the errors in the coupled earth system model predictions due to the
combination of local and remote effects. GMAO has a particular interest in
proposals that focus on the northern hemisphere high latitude regions based on
the relevance for sea ice prediction.
Location:
Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, Maryland
Field of Science:Earth Science
Advisors:
Andrea Mara Molod
andrea.m.molod@nasa.gov
(301) 614-6845
Applications with citizens from Designated Countries will not be accepted at this time, unless they are Legal Permanent Residents of the United States. A complete list of Designated Countries can be found at: https://www.nasa.gov/oiir/export-control.
Eligibility is currently open to:
- U.S. Citizens;
- U.S. Lawful Permanent Residents (LPR);
- Foreign Nationals eligible for an Exchange Visitor J-1 visa status; and,
- Applicants for LPR, asylees, or refugees in the U.S. at the time of application with 1) a valid EAD card and 2) I-485 or I-589 forms in pending status
Questions about this opportunity? Please email npp@orau.org
