Overview
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We are seeking a motivated researcher to advance our understanding of regional climate responses to Marine Cloud Brightening (MCB) and identify deployment patterns that achieve global cooling while minimising detrimental regional impacts.
Location
Location: School of Mathematical Physical and Computational Sciences, University of Reading
Details
Salary: £36,636 to £46,049 per annum
Contract length: Fixed term (up to 3 years)
Contract type: Full time
Interview date: Friday 17 October 2025
Based in
The post holder will be based in the National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS) in the Department of Meteorology at the University of Reading. The Department of Meteorology is world-renowned for its pioneering research on weather, climate and earth observations with 100% of our research graded as world-leading or internationally excellent in REF2021. NCAS is a NERC research centre distributed across UK Universities. At Reading, it includes world-leading expertise on climate variability and change.
Main duties
* Assess the dynamical response to MCB deployments, and their impact on regional temperature, precipitation, and atmospheric circulation, including the regional monsoons
* Perform coupled-climate model simulations to develop optimal MCB deployment strategies that minimise residual climate impacts, and document strategies that should be avoided
* Assess the time of emergence of the MCB signal, and identify metrics that can be used to robustly detect that MCB deployment is working as intended
* Explore the linearity and interaction of teleconnections from single and combined MCB regions in driving regional climate responses
Contacts
Prof. Laura Wilcox, Professor of Aerosol-Climate Interactions
Email: l.j.wilcox@reading.ac.uk or l.j.wilcox@ncas.ac.uk
Seniority
* Not Applicable
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Science and Research
* Industries: Research Services and Higher Education
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