Exploring the Southern Ocean's Role in Climate

The job at beBee Careers in Sydney, Australia focuses on exploring the Southern Ocean's role in climate by developing a process-based understanding of eddy mixing and jet-topography interactions. Responsibilities include designing experiments with a numerical model and analyzing observations of Southern Ocean circulation. The position aims to improve climate models through theoretical and observational approaches.
Project Overview

The project aims to develop a process-based understanding of eddy mixing, focusing on jet-topography interactions. This will involve designing and implementing experiments with a numerical model of the interaction of an idealised Southern Ocean circulation with topography, as well as analysing various observations of Southern Ocean circulation to motivate these experiments and test the relevance of the understanding derived from them.

Objectives
• To develop a process-based understanding of eddy mixing focusing on jet-topography interactions through a combined theoretical and observational approach.
• To implement this understanding by assessing and potentially improving the representation of these effects in state-of-the-art climate models.

Responsibilities
• Design and implement experiments with a numerical model of the interaction of an idealised Southern Ocean circulation with topography.
• Analyse various observations of Southern Ocean circulation to motivate these experiments and test the relevance of the understanding derived from them.
• Contribute to the development of a process-based understanding of eddy mixing.