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The Barcelona Supercomputing Center – Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS) is the leading supercomputing center in Spain. It houses MareNostrum, one of the most powerful supercomputers in Europe, was a founding and hosting member of the former European HPC infrastructure PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe), and is now hosting entity for EuroHPC JU, the Joint Undertaking that leads large-scale investments and HPC provision in Europe. The mission of BSC is to research, develop and manage information technologies in order to facilitate scientific progress. BSC combines HPC service provision and R&D into both computer and computational science (life, earth and engineering sciences) under one roof, and currently has over 1000 staff from 60 countries.
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Context And Mission
This position is hosted by the Climate Variability and Change (CVC) Group within BSC’s Earth Science Department. The CVC Group undertakes fundamental research to (1) understand climate variability and change, including for climate extremes, (2) investigate global biogeochemical dynamics, and the effectiveness and impacts of carbon removal technologies to mitigate climate change, (3) developing new Earth System modeling capabilities, including at ground-breaking resolutions and (4) improving our ability to forecast climate variations and biogeochemical dynamics from one month to multiple decades into the future, both at global and regional scales.
The position offered is funded by the European projects RESCUE, OptimESM and MOIRAI.
RESCUE investigates the potential response of the Earth System to the stabilization of global mean temperature following the reduction of net emissions. The project will also assess the potential role and impacts of large-scale implementations of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) techniques in the achievement of net-zero emissions. OptimESM is developing a novel generation of Earth system models (ESMs), combining high horizontal resolution with an unprecedented representation of key physical and biogeochemical processes at global scale, while MOIRAI will develop, test and implement the next generation of regional-coastal physical and biogeochemical climate models. All these models will be used to deliver cutting-edge and policy-relevant knowledge about the consequences of reaching or exceeding different levels of global warming, including the risk of rapid change in key Earth system phenomena.
The applicant will work closely with scientists within the Climate Variability and Change group and the Computational Earth Science group of the Earth Sciences Department. This position will offer the opportunity to work in a multi-disciplinary environment and to participate in two large European projects that would allow the successful candidate to establish an international network of collaborators.
Key Duties
- Leading the analysis of new multi-model climate projections forced by scenarios that include CDR implementations, to assess their effectiveness and their potential negative effects on oceanic and land ecosystems.
- Contribute to the simulation design of global observation systems that would be suitable for early detection of the collective effectiveness of CDR implementations and their potential negative effects on ocean and land ecosystems.
- Leading the validation of ocean biogeochemical variables of a new class of high-resolution models from global to regional scales.
- Leading research papers that will document the results obtained.
- Actively participate in project meetings and in relevant model development communities (EC-Earth, NEMO) and contribute to pursue new lines of funding.
- Contribute to the production of CMIP7 simulations with the new EC-Earth4 Earth System Model.