Km-scale climate modelling Scientist

The Met Office is seeking a Km-scale global climate modelling Scientist in Exeter, UK. This full-time position involves developing advanced climate models for better local precipitation representation and assessing climate change impacts. The role may allow hybrid working, requiring at least 3 days in the office. The closing date for applications is June 15, 2025, and the position emphasizes collaboration and environmental responsibility.
Position: Km-scale global climate modelling Scientist

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Job Reference metoffice/TP/1339/713

Permanent - Full Time

Working Hours:

37

Location (City/Town):

Exeter

Closing Date:

15/06/2025

Profession:

Science

Region / Division:

UK Region

Careers website category:

Science
Job Introduction

We’re looking for an exceptional Km-scale global climate modelling Scientist to help us make a difference to our planet.

As our Km-scale global climate modelling Scientist, the job may be suitable for hybrid working, which is where an employee works part of the week in the office and part of the week from home, with a minimum of 3 days per week in the office. This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and the location advertised will be your contractual place of work.

Our opportunity is full time, 37 hours per week.

Our people are at the heart of what we do and we'll do our best toagreea working pattern that works for everyone.

World changing work

From science to technology, from meteorology to management, and from planning to communication, our expertise helps us stand out as the authority on weather accuracy and climate prediction. We help individuals, industries and government to make better decisions to stay safe and thrive. This is the Met Office. This is who we are.
• We’re aforcefor good - focusing on our environmental and social impact
• We’re experts by nature - always learning and developing to do things better
• We live and breathe it - putting our purpose at the heart of decision-making
• We’re bettertogether-understandingpartnerships and inclusivity make us greater
• We keep evolving - pushing boundaries to make tomorrow better for our customers

Our world of expertise

You will play a key role in developing the next generation of global climate models (GCMs), capable of resolving down to kilometre scales in both the atmosphere and the ocean (k-scale models).This is exciting and important research since the transition to k-scale promises toyield a step change in the scientific assessments of climate change available to policy makers, enabling them to take more effective action.

On country and continental scales, it has been convincingly demonstrated that k-scale models offer a much-improved representation of local precipitation, including extreme events, compared to more traditional climate models with coarser resolution.

Future changes in short-duration precipitation extremes from k-scale models are thus more credible, which is particularly important for assessing the socio-economic impacts of a warming climate.

Moving to k-scale in global simulations has the potential to overcome some of the long-standing precipitation biases afflicting conventional coarse-resolution GCMs, particularly in the tropics, leading to more reliable future projections.

The improved representation of tropical precipitation is also expected to modify the large-scale circulation of the atmosphere, affecting the mid-latitude jet streams and associated weather patterns.

Identifying these up-scale effects in k-scale GCMs, and their implications for climate projections, is anactive area of research in the community and you will contribute to improving our understanding.

One of the key challenges of global climate modelling at km-scale is the tremendous computational expense.

You will tackle this by combining the power of the new Met Office supercomputer with our new modelling system (LFRIc), designed for the world of exascale computing.
• Engage in technical work required to achieve the goal of running k-scale global climate simulations with the LFRIc model on the new Met Office supercomputer, working closely with model developers in Foundation Science to find solutions to problems.

Evaluate these simulations to identify their biases, feeding back into underpinning model development activities, ensuring that climate priorities are accounted for.
• Produce the first ever set of Met Office k-scale global climate change projections.

Exploit these to gain new understanding of future changes in local weather extremes, particularly relevant for the impacts of climate change on society.

Contribute to research to identify up-scale effects of the improved representation of…