Opportunities exist to investigate the mean and time variability of ocean circulation, water properties, air-sea fluxes, their interactions, and their roles in climate. Possible research areas include (1) evaluation of terms in large-scale ocean heat, freshwater, and biogeochemical budgets; (2) regional analyses of seasonal to decadal variability of air-sea fluxes and water-mass formation; and (3) interpretation of ocean observations with simple dynamical models. A wide range of data are applied to these studies including CTD and ADCP data, profiling CTD float data, surface drifter data, air-sea flux data, moored array data, and various satellite data sets.

 

References

Johnson GC, Birnbaum AN: Geophysical Research Letters 44: 438, 2017

Johnson GC, Lyman JM, Purkey SG: Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology 32: 2178, 2015

 

key words

Ocean physics; Ocean temperature; Salinity; Currents (marine); Atmospheric-marine boundary layer; Climate variability; Time series analysis; Biogeochemical cycles; Earth Science;

Citizenship:  Open to U.S. citizens, permanent residents and non-U.S. citizens

Level:  Open to Postdoctoral and Senior applicants

Additional Benefits

Relocation

Awardees who reside more than 50 miles from their host laboratory and remain on tenure for at least six months are eligible for paid relocation to within the vicinity of their host laboratory.

Health insurance

A group health insurance program is available to awardees and their qualifying dependents in the United States.