PhD student in Atmospheric Sciences and Oceanography: Aerosols and Convective Clouds
Department of Meteorology, Stockholm University
The Department of Meteorology at Stockholm University (MISU) conducts research and education spanning the atmosphere, ocean and physical climate sciences. MISU offers educational programmes at the Bachelor’s, Master’s and PhD levels. Our research addresses fundamental questions concerning the dynamics, physics, chemistry and biogeochemistry of the atmosphere and ocean relevant to weather and climate. MISU strives toward a broad representation of research within our scientific domain.
We study questions originating from the deep ocean to the upper atmosphere and from the tropics to the poles. In this effort, we use and develop theory, statistical methods, and numerical models in close interplay with observations. We also develop and lead observational research using remote-sensing and in-situ measurements, including satellite missions and icebreaker expeditions to the Arctic.
The department has around 60 employees and is highly international, with over half of our employees coming from outside Sweden and both Swedish and English are used as working languages. We welcome and value diversity in our working environment.
Homepage: http://su.se/misu
Ocean Sciences (OS)
Interactions between aerosol particles and convective clouds make a potentially important but highly uncertain contribution to the anthropogenic radiative forcing of climate change. This project seeks to better understand the mechanisms of aerosol-cloud interactions by addressing the following question: Can changes in aerosol concentrations substantially invigorate or weaken the updrafts in convective clouds? The PhD student may investigate this question by analyzing observational data, performing numerical model simulations, collecting observations in the field, or a combination of these activities. The mechanistic understanding gained from this work will contribute to the long-term goal of the research group: to assess the historical radiative forcing of climate change from interactions between aerosols and tropical convective clouds. The project is funded by the ERC Starting Grant AC3S: Aerosols, Convection, Clouds, and Climate Sensitivity.