Postdoctoral Researcher in impact attribution from extreme weather events
University of Edinburg, UK Closing date: 4 February 2025 The University of Edinburgh seeks a postdoctoral research associate for a 33-month position to work on the UK NERC-funded pushing the frontiers grant “Attributable impacts from extreme weather events”, supervised by Andrew Schurer and Gabi Hegerl. The project will develop a novel reanalysis-based system to translate recent and historical extreme weather events into warmer or cooler (‘counter-factual’) climates and examine how their meteorological consequences and impacts are changed. The project will be in collaboration with researchers at the University of Reading (P.I. Ed Hawkins) with the Edinburgh position focused on estimating how the impacts of recent extreme weather events would change if they had occurred in a cooler pre-industrial world (thus attributing impacts to the observed warming of the climate system), or if they were to occur in a warmer future world. The project will consider many different types of extreme weather event, including heavy rainfall, windstorms, heatwaves and droughts, and examine the consequences of those weather events for society, including damage to property and flooding.
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University of Edinburg, UK Closing date: 4 February 2025 The University of Edinburgh seeks a postdoctoral research associate for a 33-month position to work on the UK NERC-funded pushing the frontiers grant “Attributable impacts from extreme weather events”, supervised by Andrew Schurer and Gabi Hegerl. The project will develop a novel reanalysis-based system to translate recent and historical extreme weather events into warmer or cooler (‘counter-factual’) climates and examine how their meteorological consequences and impacts are changed. The project will be in collaboration with researchers at the University of Reading (P.I. Ed Hawkins) with the Edinburgh position focused on estimating how the impacts of recent extreme weather events would change if they had occurred in a cooler pre-industrial world (thus attributing impacts to the observed warming of the climate system), or if they were to occur in a warmer future world. The project will consider many different types of extreme weather event, including heavy rainfall, windstorms, heatwaves and droughts, and examine the consequences of those weather events for society, including damage to property and flooding.
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