A postdoctoral associate position is now open at the Courant’s Center for Atmosphere Ocean Science, New York University (NY, USA) for developing new data-driven methods, leveraging ocean dynamics together with machine learning, for inferring subsurface ocean transport from SWOT data.
The postdoc will join a small multi-institutional team that includes Ryan Abernathey (professor of Earth And Environmental Science at Columbia University), Spencer Jones (professor of Oceanography at Texas A&M University), and Dhruv Balwada (research professor at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory), conducting research as part of the NASA Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) Science Team. The SWOT mission, launching in December 2022, will provide new swath-based altimetric observations of sea surface height. The overall goal of our project is to develop new data-driven methods, leveraging ocean dynamics together with machine learning, for inferring subsurface ocean transport from SWOT data. The postdoctoral scientist will use high-resolution global numerical simulations (MITgcm LLC4320) to develop and test methods for reconstructing lateral and vertical transport from SSH, and then apply these methods to the real SWOT data post-launch.
For more information see here.