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Past and future evolution of the Greenland ice-sheet surface mass balance. Towards a coupled Greenland ice-sheet – general circulation climate model.

Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE, Gif-sur-Yvette, France) is seeking a post-doctoral researcher to take part in the NEEM-France ANR project. The main theme of this project is to study the climate evolution over Greenland and to understand the vulnerability of this ice-sheet to climate changes. In the framework of this project, we offer an 18 month post-doctoral position in climate modelling, focused on climatic features over the Greenland ice-sheet and the mechanisms to which they are sensitive, at interannual to millennial and orbital time-scales. The goal of this work will be to reach a better understanding and representation of the mass balance at the surface of the ice-sheet and to prepare the coupling of the IPSL climate model to the Greenland ice-sheet model developed at LGGE (Laboratoire de Glociologie et Géophysique de l'Environnement, Grenoble). This will be achieved through the evaluation of the present LMDZ snow mass balance and through the implementation of the SISVAT snow module (developed at LGGE) into the LMDZ Atmospheric General Circulation Model. Therefore the applicant should have a strong background in atmospheric and/or cryosphere modelling.

This work will be based at LSCE in the climate modelling team (~15 persons) with a strong collaboration between LSCE and LGGE for the surface mass balance and ice-sheet modelling.

Contact: Masa Kageyama, LSCE. Este endereço de e-mail está protegido contra spam bots, pelo que o JavaScript terá de estar activado para que possa visualizar o endereço de e-mail

LSCE is located 30 km south of Paris and is part of Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace (IPSL). For more information on LSCE's activities: http://www.lsce.ipsl.fr.