Germany - University of Bonn PhD / Postdoc Position in Numerical Analysis

Applications are invited for a PhD/Postdoc position in the research group of Professor Bartels at the Institute for Numerical Simulation of the University of Bonn. The successful applicant is expected to work on the numerical analysis and simulation of nonlinear partial differential equations.

Prerequisites are basic programming skills and a good background in the theory of partial differential equations.

Applications should be sent by email to bartels@ins.uni-bonn.de and must include:

  • curriculum vitae
  • thesis
  • letter of recommendation
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Continue Reading September 16th, 2008

Germany - University of Bonn PhD Position in Numerical Modeling of Atmospheric Chemical Process

Research field:
Numerical modeling of atmospheric chemical processes

Position:
A PhD position is available at the Meteorological Institute of the University of Bonn.
Together with another Postdoc student, the applicant will work within a common research project of the Meteorological Institutes of the Universities of Bonn and Mainz and the Max-Planck-Institute for Chemistry in Mainz.

Contract:
The research is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). It is limited to a three year period with a salary TVL 13/2.

Proposed research of the project:
Numerical modeling of chemical processes in the atmosphere is essential to increase our understanding of atmospheric composition and its changes induced by human activity. In recent years, global-scale atmospheric models have been developed that calculate the concentration and processing of atmospheric trace constituents. However, for key problems, auch as local air quality and long-range transport from local sources, the development of high-resolution models is essential.

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Continue Reading November 25th, 2007

Germany - University of Bonn PhD Position in Meteorology

PhD position, Meteorological Institute, University of Bonn

The Department of Meteorology at the University of Bonn, Germany invites applications for a PhD position in meteorology.

This position is within the project Transregio (Collaborative Research Centre (Transregio/SFB 32) on Patterns in Soil-Vegetation-Atmosphere Systems: monitoring, modelling, and data assimilation) funded by the German Science Foundation and it is available for three-year period (starting early next year). We will begin considering applications from January 15, 2007.

Research theme: A high-resolution multi-scale space-time precipitation model from direct measurements and remote sensing.

The project section will detect and monitor structures of rain fields covering spatial scales from tens of metres to hundreds of kilometres and temporal scales from minutes to months. Up- and down-scaling space-time models will be developed, which are constrained by observed surface precipitation information, and which will explicitly account for spatial and temporal structures of precipitation events. The model will assimilate uncertain and sparse surface precipitation estimates reaching from an X-band Doppler radar with polarisation diversity to conventional rain gauges.

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