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Subject: 	Com AMMA/ Informative mail October 2011
Date: 	Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:16:47 +0200
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/*Please find below information of interest for the AMMA community/

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Announcement*

*AgMIP Intent to establish RFP for research teams in S-Asia and
Sub-Saharran Africa*
The Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP;
www.agmip.org) is establishing an integrated, transdisciplinary
framework for assessing climate impacts on the agricultural sector while
building capacity for continuing agricultural assessment and management
in developing countries. AgMIP aims to better characterize food security
risks associated with climate variability and change, and to help
identify effective strategies for adaptation.
The Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern
Ireland, acting through their Department for International Development,
is generously providing funds to support AgMIP activities in South Asia
and Sub-Saharan Africa through a competitive Request For Proposals (RFP)
from these regions. The RFPs will be administered by Columbia University
in the City of New York, in partnership with the US Department of
Agriculture -- Agricultural Research Service, and with expert guidance
by an international team of climate scientists, crop modelers,
economists, and information technology specialists.*
Deadline for expressions of interest:* Novembre 18, 2011*
More information:* please see:
http://www.locean-ipsl.upmc.fr/~ESCAPE/SSA%20RPF%20Intent%2016sep11.pdf

*Conferences and workshops*
*
Call for abstracts, 4th World Climate Research Programme International
Conference on Reanalyses (ICR4), Silver Spring, Maryland, USA, 7-11 May 2012
 *
*Conference website:*  http://icr4.org/index.html

The Conference will provide an opportunity for the global community to
review and discuss the major observations and modeling research
associated with reanalyses, including the current uncertainties, such as
consistency of the time series, and the complexity of Earth system.
Characterizing the uncertainty and quality of reanalyses is a task that
reaches far beyond the international community of developing
institutions, and into the interdisciplinary research community,
especially those using the reanalyses products in their research and
applications.

*Conference objectives:*

    * Sharing understanding of the major challenges facing reanalyses:
      the changing observing system and the integrated Earth system.
    * Assessing the state of the disciplinary atmospheric, ocean and
      land reanalyses, including the needs of the research community for
      weather, ocean, hydrology and climate reanalyses.
    * Reviewing the new developments in reanalyses, models and observations.

*Call for abstracts:
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Abstracts covering work on the following themes are requested.

    * Status and Plans: Major international reanalysis development,
      including broad disciplinary overviews (e.g., atmosphere, oceans,
      hydrology, cryosphere). ?
    * Validation and Metrics: Intercomparison and validation studies;
      assessing the impact of the assimilation and analysis increments;
      innovative diagnostics that characterize uncertainty and the
      degree to which a reanalysis represents reality and ultimately
      applicability for weather and climate research. ?
    * Data Assimilation: Data assimilation techniques and impact on
      eventual reanalysis data products, especially producing a climate
      quality time series.
    * Space and In Situ Observations: Studies on the quality and
      stewardship of observations and their use in reanalyses and
      exploiting new data types and sources. ?
    * Application in Support of Climate, Weather and Environmental
      Services: Innovative research using reanalysis to study the
      weather, ocean, hydrology and climate, including operational
      climate monitoring, uncertainty, study of extremes and high impact
      weather, climate assessment and end-to-end decision making studies. ?

*Deadline for Abstracts:* January 6, 2012

*Fifth WMO Workshop on the Impact of Various Observing Systems on NWP,
Sedona, AZ, United States, 22 to 25 May 2012*
Co-sponsored by WMO and THORPEX. Contributions are expected on the
science questions listed, or on observation impact studies more generally.
*More information:* see 1st announcement
<http://www.amma-international.org/IMG/pdf/5thWMOWorkshop_Obs_Announcement.pdf>
*Deadline:* November 15, 2011
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***Positions*
*
**Post-doctoral Fellow in Climate System Science*
A post-doctoral position is available working with Professor Kerry H.
Cook on topics related to understanding processes of tropical climate
dynamics and regional-scale climate prediction over Africa and the U.S.
The position is located in the Climate System Science group in the
Department of Geological Sciences, in the Jackson School of Geosciences.
This is a one-year position, renewable for an additional year depending
on performance and the availability of funds. Applicants should have an
earned Ph.D. in atmospheric or a related field, such as oceanography or
climate science.  Experience in climate modeling and climate analysis is
required, including computational skill and a demonstrated record of
publication. Applicants should not have held a permanent position since
receiving the Ph.D.
The start date is approximately January 1, 2012,  and the starting
salary is $50,000.  Interested applicants should email a CV and three
references (name and email) to Kerry Cook at kc at jsg.utexas.edu.
*
**Post-doctoral position in agricultural economics applied to West
Africa -- CIRED, Paris, 18 or 24 months, starting November 2011 or later*
The International Research Center on Environment and Development (CIRED
) is looking for a post-doctoral researcher in order to develop an
agricultural economics model applied to West Africa and use it to: i)
assess technical options allowing higher crop yields through a better
management of weather risk; ii) study adaptation to climate change.
There is no deadline: this ad is valid until an applicant is hired. *
More information:* see the complete offer in French
<http://www.amma-international.org/IMG/pdf/offre_postdoc_cired.pdf> or
English
<http://www.amma-international.org/IMG/pdf/post-doctoral_position_cired.pdf>
*Contact:* quirion at centre-cired.fr
*
SEES positions in climate and social sciences*
For PhD students looking toward graduating in 2012 (or having received a
PhD within the last 4 years), the interdisciplinary NSF Science,
Engineering, and Education for Sustainability (SEES) postdoctoral
fellowships provide a great opportunity to work on climate impacts and
at the intersection of climate and social sciences more broadly. The
center for Robust Decision-making in Climate and Energy Policy (RDCEP)
at the University of Chicago is looking for qualified applicants to
prepare focused proposals for postdoctoral fellowships located or
co-located at the center. Through the Computation Institute, a joint
operation of the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory,
applicants will have access to advisers and resources at two of the
countries top research institutions.
Projects are expected to vary widely, but areas could include land-use
and land-cover change modeling and analysis (including agriculture,
forestry, hydrology, etc.), integrated assessment modeling, life-cycle
analysis, big data, computation, and information technology at the
intersection of climate and social sciences, etc.
Deadline for applications to the program is *December 5, 2011*.
If you're interested, please contact Joshua W. Elliott, Research
Scientist and Fellow, Computation Institute, jelliott at ci.uchicago.edu,
ASAP to discuss project and supervisor options.*
*
*Post-doctoral position on cloud radiative forcing over West Africa,
Météo-France, CNRM-GAME, Toulouse, France*
This 12-month postdoc is funded by the EU project *EUCLIPSE *and will
take place at the Mesoscale Meteorology Group of Météo-France /
CNRM-GAME, in Toulouse (France).
Expected starting date is approximately January 1st, 2011.
Applications should be sent by email to Dominique Bouniol
(dominique.bouniol at meteo.fr), Françoise Guichard
(francoise.guichard at meteo.fr) and Fleur Couvreux
(fleur.couvreux at meteo.fr) no later than *December 1, 2011*.
*More information:* http://www.cnrm-game.fr/IMG/pdf/q40_euclipse.pdf

*Position vacancy announcement for a 1-year contract in numerical
weather prediction model and data assimilation, **Météo-France,
CNRM-GAME, Toulouse, France*
The National Centre for Meteorological Research (Centre National de
Recherches Météorologiques), CNRM-GAME, Météo-France and CNRS, is
offering a one year position to a scientist specialized in numerical
weather prediction model and data assimilation.
*Coordinators:* Florence Rabier and Ghislain Faure
*More information:* http://www.cnrm-game.fr/IMG/pdf/offreemploi_anglais.pdf

*Several Ph.D and post-doctoral positions available at 2iE, Burkina Faso
* **Ph.D theses on irrigation and climate change:
http://www.2ie-edu.org/ed2ie/
Post-doctoral position on irrigation supplement and participatory
research:
http://www.2ie-edu.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1164%3Aappel-a-candidature-pour-le-recrutement-dun-e-post-doctorant-e-pour-le-compte-de-lunite-thematique-denseignement-et-de-recherche-gestion-et-valorisation-des-eaux-et-assainissement-gvea&catid=120%3Atravailler-au-2ie&Itemid=143&lang=fr
Position in rural sociology:
http://www.2ie-edu.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1135:appel-a-candidature-reference-leah-2011-03-sociologie-rurale&catid=120:travailler-au-2ie&Itemid=234&lang=fr

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