Argonne National Laboratory, a U.S. Department of Energy National Laboratory, has an opening for a highly motivated post-doctoral appointee at the Environmental Science Division. This Postdoctoral Appointee will collaborate with a group of scientists developing Urban Scale Models of physics, chemistry, hydrology and biosphere as a part of the CROCUS project (https://www.anl.gov/crocus). In particular, this position is for further developing WRF and similar models for Urban Scale LES simulations, implementing mitigation technologies (e.g. Green Roofs) in the model and developing coupling between WRF and Agent based models. 

• Contributes technical expertise through analysis and support for programs and projects associated with HPC and computational problems related to earth system science and other environmental research programs.
• Develops, evaluates, and applies analytical approaches, synthesis activities, computational tools; compiles results, prepares reports, publications and documentation. 
• Expertise in developing and working with hydrological models at Urban scale is desired; these models will be developed to scale on leading high performance computing platforms at ALCF and other Department of Energy computational platforms and conducting analysis of the simulation output for urban-to-regional effects of climate change. 
• This is a two-year position that we want to fill immediately.

Position Requirements

• Recent or soon-to-be-completed PhD (typically within 0-3 years) in geophysical science or a related field.
• Experience using high performance computational platforms, writing and modifying scientific code in Fortran/C++, Python.
• Experience understanding of process scale models of atmospheric phenomena experience in using WRF and expertise and interest in data analysis and visualization.
• Experience with numerical modeling and performing data analysis.
• Technical knowledge in using HPC systems for numerical simulations.
• Technical knowledge of Urban Scale models, WRF in particular.
• Effective, clear, and concise writing of technical papers.
• Effective oral, communication, and interaction skills with colleagues.
• Effective problem solving skills.
• Organizational skills and flexibility in coordinating a broad spectrum of activities.
• Knowledge of atmospheric dynamics, process scale models  and numerical computation techniques.
• Knowledge of Urban Scale datasets and data analysis.
• Knowledge of using atmospheric observational datasets, data assimilation techniques and statistics.  
• Familiarity with the use of GPU based systems for computing
• Ability to model Argonne’s Core Values: Impact, Safety, Respect, Integrity, and Teamwork.

This position description documents the general nature and level of work but is not intended to be a comprehensive list of all activities, duties and responsibilities required of job incumbent. Consequently, job incumbent may be required to perform other duties as assigned.

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