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Scientist fellowship for CMEMS-IBI (F/H)

  • Toulouse, 31057

  • CDD

  • 14/04/2025- 13/10/2027

  • 2705.55€- 4111.15€

Description

As a public weather and climate expert, Météo-France is at your side to contribute to your day-to-day safety and help you make the best decisions in a changing climate. Faced with dangerous weather episodes that are becoming more intense and more frequent as a result of climate change, our missions in the service of your safety are crucial. We mobilize our expertise and our scientific and technological excellence to help you anticipate and adapt to challenging weather and climate phenomena.

Find us online: https://meteofrance.com/carte-didentite-de-meteo-france

Joining Météo France means becoming part of a multi-site organization, located in France, overseas, etc. Météo-France is organized around central and inter-regional departments. Below is a presentation of the department you could join:

The “Direction des Opérations pour la Production” (staff ~500), located in Toulouse, is the real centre of gravity of Meteo-France. World weather information is processed here to produce weather forecasts for the public service missions and for many different sectors.

DirOP/MAR is the national marine and operational oceanography Department of METEO-FRANCE, located in Toulouse (France), in charge of :

  1. co-ordination of all marine and operational oceanography activities in Météo-France,

  2. Developments and exploitation of wave, storm-surge models and oil spill drifting model.

  3. software development and production (specifications for new marine and operational oceanography software, software conception and development),

  4. international representation (World Meteorological Organisation, JCOMM),

  5. nationwide studies

Missions

The job is part of the Iberia-Biscay-Ireland (IBI) regional forecasting center, part of the Copernicus marine service. The main task will be to prepare updates to the MFWAM waves model for the IBI regional configuration, as well as assimilating new satellite waves data. The candidate will be able to adapt the numerical computing code of MFWAM, performing numerical experiments and implementing an evaluation with observations. Another component of the work includes analyzing the impact of waves on the coupling with the NEMO ocean model, in a high-resolution configuration of the IBI ocean domain.

The candidate will also contribute to the updating of the QUID quality document and of the Product User Manual (PUM) dedicated to the IBI waves system.

About the project :

In the framework of Copernicus Marine Service (CMEMS) for IBI, Iberian Biscay and Ireland , DirOP/MAR has been selected to drive and implement R&D activities of the IBI wave system for the second phase of the CMEMS program (2025-2028). The proposal of this phase 2 includes several work packages in order to improve the waves system of CMEMS-IBI. The work will be conducted with partners from NOW systems (Spain) and Mercator Ocean International, which is the coordinator of CMEMS-IBI Monitoring Forecasting Center (MFC).

Additional information:

Position open to people with disabilities

Office hours

2,5 years fixed-term contract

Application deadline: March 15, 2025

Profile

We are looking for an experienced engineer or postdoctoral fellow to support research and development activities in the Marine and Oceanography Department (DIROP/MAR) of Météo-France.

The candidate should have a solid knowledge of high level programming languages, including Fortran (for the management of the calculation code), Python and shell scripts on linux.

Proficiency in data processing and data analysis tools such as R or MATLAB would be strongly appreciated.

Experiences in data assimilation and oceanography are highly desirable.

Good written and oral communication skills in English are necessary.

Required education : Master/PhD levels or experienced research engineer.

Why join us?

Embark on a stimulating adventure in the service of all, alongside men and women committed to the daily challenges posed to our society by the weather and climate. And enjoy the following benefits: flexible working hours, RTT, remote, administrative restaurant or luncheon voucher, 75% contribution to public transport, contribution to health insurance, sports and cultural associations depending on the site (climbing, gym, pottery, theater, etc.).

Other benefits await you, come and discover them!