The position is funded by and shall contribute to the Collaborative Research Center TRR 181 „Energy
Transfers in Atmosphere and Ocean“ for a duration of up to four years parallel to approved German
Research Foundation funding periods. TRR 181 is a collaborative project between Universität
Hamburg, Universität Bremen, KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, the Alfred-Wegener-Institut Bremerhaven, the
GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, and several other partner institutes.
Physical oceanographers, meteorologists, and applied mathematicians are working together in the
project
• to understand the energy transfers between the different dynamical regimes – small-scale
turbulence, internal gravity waves, and geostrophically balanced motion – in both atmosphere
and ocean,
• to develop, to test, and to implement new and consistent parameterisations in models, and
• to develop mathematical and numerical methods featuring consistent energetics.
The goal are energetically more consistent climate models for advanced climate predictions.
For more details follow the link.