[Jpjobs] Fwd: Job Vacancy - Physical Oceanographer at LOCEAN (Paris)

[Julia Westwater]

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> The CNRS is inviting applications for a 2-year postdoctoral research 
> position to undertake high-resolution model analysis to investigate 
> dynamical processes in the Southern Ocean.
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> The post is attached to the Exciting project, which aims at mapping 
> and unveiling the dynamics of the tri-dimensional structure of the 
> meridional overturning circulation in the Southern Ocean. The 
> successful applicant will investigate the dynamics associated to 
> cross-frontal exchange and mixing in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current 
> using a state-of-the art high-resolution ocean model (NEMO framework). 
> Cross-frontal exchange and dynamics in the model will be investigated 
> using Lagrangian particles diagnosis. The study will build on 
> observation-based analysis demonstrating that cross-front transport in 
> the ACC is highly asymmetric. Cross-front exchanges at ocean surface 
> is localized in the lee of bathymetric features with more than 75% of 
> crossing events occurring in regions corresponding to only 20% of the 
> ACC’s zonal extent. The goal of this study will be to investigate the 
> vertical structure of this exchange and its time-variability. In 
> addition, strong emphasis will be given to the jet/topography 
> interactions and the dynamics associated to it (e.g. vertical 
> propagation of momentum flux, form drag, stratification, vertical 
> velocities). Strong connexions between this model-based analysis and 
> observation-based analysis will be made. We particularly seek a 
> researcher with an interest in and talent in ocean model analysis and 
> ability in running numerical simulations to develop deeper dynamical 
> understanding of ocean circulation and climate. The researcher will 
> join a team of scientists at LOCEAN-IPSL in Paris and will strongly 
> collaborate with project partners at the National Oceanography Centre 
> (Jan Zika in Southampton, UK) and LPO (Bruno Blanke in Brest, France).
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> More information can be found here 
> <http://www.oceanographypage.com/#%21about2/cpt1> (http://www.oceanographypage.com/#!about2/cpt1 
> <http://www.oceanographypage.com/#%21about2/cpt1>).
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> Informal requests for further information may be addressed to 
> Jean-Baptiste Sallée (jbsallee at gmail.com <mailto:jbsallee at gmail.com>).
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