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{{:projects:itars:marie_curie.png?50|}}**FP7 ITARS ITN: Early Stage Researcher (ESR11): Improvements of Integrated Profiling Technique (IPT) by inclusion of lidar **



Applications are invited for a PhD position to work in the ITARS project, a Marie Curie Initial Training Network (ITN) within the FP7 programme. ITARS (Initial Training for Atmospheric Remote Sensing) focuses on the synergistic application of high-end ground-based remote-sensing instrumentation that has the potential to substantially contribute to an improved understanding of aerosols, clouds, and aerosol-cloud interaction processes and their role for both climate and weather. ITARS science objectives are
  * to bring together experts from the aerosol and cloud community to efficiently tackle the problems of aerosol-cloud interaction as well as their relevance for climate and weather, 
  * to build close ties between industry and research to optimize instrumentation for future networks, and
  * to assess the potential of advanced remote-sensing instrumentation and capabilities as an ingredient in a future observation system based on both ground-based networks and space-borne observations.

The selected candidate will explore the sensor synergy of Differential Absorption Lidar (DIAL) and microwave radiometry (MWR) to retrieve the atmospheric state and cloud parameters with high-vertical resolution. The Integrated Profiling Technique developed at UCO combines cloud radar and MWR in an optimal estimation framework where lidar information is only used at cloud base. The capabilities of water vapour DIAL able to provide high-vertical resolution information below clouds will be explored. The necessary combination of instrumentations is currently operated for the first time at Barbados in cooperation with MPI Hamburg. The impact on retrieval quality of thermodynamic profiles and cloud parameters will be investigated in cooperation with University of Potsdam.


The post is available for 3 years at the University of Cologne, Germany, and the salary will be commensurate with a Marie-Curie Early-Stage Researcher (ESR) position.

**Nr. Job Positions:** 1

**Research Fields**

Environmental - Other

**Career Stage**

Early stage researcher or 0-4 yrs (Post graduate)

**Research Profile**

First Stage Researcher (R1)

**Comment/web site for additional job details**

For more information on ITARS and on the applications process see www.itars.net ; see the [[http://www.mpimet.mpg.de/en/science/the-atmosphere-in-the-earth-system/initiatives/barbadosstation.html|MPI page]] for the instrumentation.

** Requirements**
^Required Education Level^^
|Degree 	|Master Degree or equivalent   |
|Degree Field 	|Meteorology, Physics, Mathematics, Geosciences   |
^ Required Languages ^^
|Language 	|ENGLISH  |
|Language Level |Good     |



**Additional Requirements** 

Good computer programming skills.

Applicants must be researchers who have not yet been awarded the doctorate degree and are in the first 4 years (full-time equivalent) of their research careers. This includes the period of research training, starting at the date of obtaining the degree which would formally entitle them to embark on a doctorate either in the country in which the degree was obtained, irrespective whether or not a doctorate is envisaged. 

Applicants may not have resided or carried out their main activity in Germany for more than 12 months in the last 3 years. Short stays such as holidays are not taken into account.