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Research Associate in heat-health extremes under Paris Agreement climate

scenarios

Job number

ACAD103225

Division/School

School of Geographical Sciences

Contract type

Open ended contract staff

Working pattern

Full time

Salary

£32,548 - 36,613

Closing date for applications

12-Apr-2018

The University of Bristol seeks to employ a 3-year postdoctoral researcher on the project
Half a degree Additional warming, Prognosis and Projected Impacts – Health (HAPPI-
Health), to be part of the wider HAPPI consortium (www.happimip.org).

The researcher will work as part of a larger team to provide a detailed analysis of how
different climate projection methods lead to similarities/disparities in the interpretation of
future climate, thereby informing on when a particular method is appropriate to use, and
how to interpret past literature results which employ different methodologies. They will use
untapped, targeted Paris Agreement scenarios from HAPPI to give a thorough analysis of
processed based climate change in relation to mid-latitude extremes, thereby contributing
to the missing body of literature in this area. They will assess the drivers of extremes,
including targeted experiments that inform on when the regional atmospheric composition

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plays more of a role than the global mean state, and how this relates to the flow patterns
and associated time scales. Finally, they will make headway into understanding impacts of
temperature related human health under future climate change, including changes in
human habitability zones, and the interplay between hot- and cold-related deaths, in
developed and developing nations.

The ideal candidate will have a PhD in a physical science discipline, with a track record in
climate/atmospheric science. Other desired, but not essential qualities, include proficiency
in Python or R, and track records in statistics and geophysical fluid dynamics.

For informal enquiries, please contact Dr Dann Mitchell, by email to

d.m.mitchell@bristol.ac.uk

The closing date for applications is 23:59 on 12 April 2018

The anticipated start date will be 01 July 2018, or as soon as possible thereafter.

Collaborators: University of Oxford, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Met
Office, Public Health England, Centre for Disease Control and Prevention.

The University is committed to creating and sustaining a fully inclusive culture. We

welcome applicants from all backgrounds and communities.

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