Junior Scientist

**Your role**:
You will also benefit from regular short stays at the ESRIN Φ-lab in Frascati (Italy) to facilitate interaction with experts at ESA.

**About ECMWF**:
ECMWF is the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts. It is an intergovernmental organisation created in 1975 by a group of European nations and is today supported by 35 Member and Co-operating States, mostly in Europe. The Centre’s mission is to serve and support its Member and Co-operating States and the wider community by developing and providing world-leading global numerical weather prediction. ECMWF functions as a 24/7 research and operational centre with a focus on medium and long-range predictions and holds one of the largest meteorological archives in the world. The success of its activities relies primarily on the talent of its scientists, strong partnerships with its Member and Co-operating States and the international community, some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world, and the use of innovative technologies such as machine learning across its operations.

Over the years, ECMWF has also developed a strong partnership with the European Union, and for the past seven years has been an entrusted entity for the implementation and operation of the Climate and the Atmosphere Monitoring Services of the EU Copernicus Programme, as well as a contributor to the Copernicus Emergency Management Service. The collaboration does not stop there and includes other areas of work, including High Performance Computing and the development of digital tools that enable ECMWF to extend its provision of data and products covering weather, climate, air quality, fire and flood prediction and monitoring.

ECMWF has recently become a multi-site organisation, with its headquarters based since its creation in Reading, UK, its new data centre in Bologna, Italy, and a large new office in Bonn, Germany.

**About Copernicus**:
**The All Data for Green Deal (AD4GD) European project**:
ECMWF is involved in different tasks in the project and, in particular for this position, is in charge of developing a use case demonstrating the usefulness of IoT data for monitoring air pollutants and greenhouse gases at local scales. There are opportunities with a wide array of “low-cost” sensors providing information about some of the key air pollutants and greenhouse gases becoming available, but the actual usefulness of these sensors on top of the already existing information (from reference sensors, numerical modelling and satellite observations) still needs to be established. The project aims at evaluating some of these new observational data for the purpose of better assessing health impacts and greenhouse gas emissions at local scales.

**Your responsibilities**:

- Exploit IoT / “low-cost” sensor information for improving health impact assessments and quantification of greenhouse gas emissions at local scales.
- Evaluate the usefulness and complementarities with existing standard systems.
- Write scientific documentation and extract visual outputs.
- Contribute to the deliverables and reporting activities for AD4GD, and engage in project meetings.
- Present results as use case(s) for enriching the Copernicus Thematic Hub on Health.

**What we’re looking for**:

- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with a proactive and constructive approach
- Flexibility, with the ability to adapt to changing priorities.
- Ability to work autonomously and as part of multidisciplinary and geographically distributed teams.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Highly organised with the capacity to work on a diverse range of tasks to tight deadlines.
- Genuine interest in ECMWF and Copernicus, especially on the environmental impacts on health and greenhouse gas emissions monitoring

**Education and experience**:

- Experience in atmospheric composition and use of observation and numerical models.
- Understanding of the Earth Observation data value chains, including aspects on data access infrastructure.
- Some knowledge of the impacts of air quality on human health or of greenhouse gas emissions (and ways to estimate these) would be an advantage.
- Some experience with communicating scientific results to a general audience would also be beneficial.

**Knowledge and skills**:

- Experience developing with Fortran, Python and software lifecycle maintenance is required.
- Experience with geospatial data analysis with Python would be an advantage.
- Knowledge of one of ECMWF’s other working languages (French or German) would be an advantage.

**Other information****:
**Start date**: As soon as possible

**Length of contract**: 24 months. At the end of the contract, there could be an opportunity for continuing on similar activities in the context of the ESA Research Fellowship Programme.

**Location**: Bonn, Germany

As a multi-site organisation, ECMWF has adopted a hybrid organisation model which allows flexibility to staff to mix offic