Location: University of Reading
Salary: £33,966 to £44,263 per annum (depending on experience)
Contract length: Fixed term (up to 36 months)
Contract type: Full time
Closing date: Midnight on Wednesday 21 August 2024
Interview date: September 2024 (to be confirmed)

We seek a motivated researcher to develop storylines of extreme weather events, including their attribution.

Extreme weather events are increasing in frequency and intensity, leading to more severe impacts. Understanding how these types of extreme event have already changed, and will change in the near-future, is of critical importance to inform decisions on adaptation.

This project will develop a reanalysis-based approach to translate observed historical and recent extreme weather events into different climates to quantitatively describe how those weather events and their impacts would be different in warmer or cooler ‘counter-factual’ worlds.

You will work within the National Centre for Atmospheric Science in the Department of Meteorology at the University of Reading, one of the world’s largest research centres focusing on the science of weather and climate. This project is part of a collaboration with the University of Edinburgh.

Find out more and make your application.

To explore the post further or for any queries you may have, please contact: 

Prof. Ed Hawkins, Professor of climate science

Email: ed.hawkins@reading.ac.uk