Postdoctoral Research Associate – Understanding Canopy Effects on Land-Atmosphere Coupling

18 November 2024 - 2 December 2024

The Atmospheric Climate and Earth Sciences Division at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) seeks a postdoctoral research associate to improve our process-level understanding of how heterogenous forest canopies affect the coupling between the ground and the boundary layer. This will be accomplished by integrating findings from new observations from sub- and near-surface in situ sampling, tall meteorological towers, remote sensing instruments, and aerial platforms with those from high-resolution meteorological simulations. The incumbent will work on one or more of the following areas: (1) analyze a wide range of measurements to elucidate ground-canopy-atmosphere-cloud interactions (2) modify or implement new canopy parameterizations in Large Eddy Simulation and/or mesoscale models, (3) evaluate LES and/or mesoscale model predictions that couple the ground, surface layer, canopy, and boundary layer, (4) examine water vapor pathways from transpiration, and (5) connect these insights with the turbulent mixing and chemical transformation of trace gases emitted from the soil and vegetation. The incumbent will work in close collaboration with other atmospheric scientists at PNNL.