The University of Hamburg jointly with the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology and the Institute for Coastal Research at the GKSS Research Centre is establishing a trans- disciplinary research focus on “Integrated Climate System Analysis and Prediction (CliSAP)”. The goal is to analyze ongoing and past changes of the state of the climate system, in response to natural and human-driven perturbations, to determine predictable elements of the climate system over a broad range of space and time scales, and to determine uncertainties intrinsic to predictions of important climate system and environmental indices (see www.clisap.de).

The scientific work of the cluster of excellence will be supported by four platforms which will cover data aspects (P1), model development (P2), instrumentation (P3) and IT infrastructure (P4). As part of the platforms P1 “Integrated Climate Data Center” and P2 “Model Development”, four scientists and two scientific programmer positions will be filled as soon as possible:

Research Associate (wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/in) with the salary group 13 TV-L  and
a work week of  39 hours. (Code P1 Wiss1)
Responsibilities:
Extend the climate data base: A goal of CLISAP is to analyze past and present climate
changes. For that purpose a scientist is required who merges CliSAP’s own data sets with
data available in partner institutions and around the world, expanding the proxy data
available to CLISAP. Climate indices will be computed from those data sets and data sets
and climate indices will be provided in an easy to use manner to CLISAP and the outside
world. This work will include a routine documentation and retrieval of newly available data
that are essential for climate diagnostic studies and climate data assimilation in support of
climate predictions.
Requirements:
Academic degree in a natural science or comparable qualification with a focus on climate
science, including physical oceanography and meteorology. Competency in Unix, Fortran, C,
Matlab. Webtool; knowledge about data analysis and statistics, data sets and climate
processes as well as scientific programming. For more information please contact Prof. Dr.
Detlef Stammer ( This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ).
 
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Research Associate (wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/in) with the salary group 13 TV-L  and
a work week of  39 hours. (Code P1 Wiss2)
 
Responsibilities:
Reprocessing of existing data: a central goal of CLISAP is to expand the existing climate
data base by improving algorithms, by reprocessing and recalibrating available data,
including the satellite data base. The position will be also responsible to provide the CLISAP
community with all climate relevant satellite data sets and model output available from NWP
centers (reanalyses) and climate scenarios. The position will work in close collaboration with
the World Data center for Climate (WDCC) based at M&D.

Requirements:
Academic degree in a natural science or comparable qualification with a focus on climate
science, including physical oceanography and meteorology. Competency in Unix, Fortran, C,
Matlab; knowledge about data analysis and statistics, data sets and climate processes as
well as scientific programming and satellite data processing. For more information please
contact Prof. Dr. Detlef Stammer ( This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ).
 
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Research Associate (wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/in) with the salary group 13 TV-L  and
a work week of  39 hours. (Code P1 WissProgr)
 
Responsibilities:
Web portal for a climate data base: A goal of CLISAP is to provide climate quality data sets
to the wider community in an easy to use way. For that purpose a scientific programmer is
required who is responsible for the physical data base and for its accessibility through a web
portal. The web portal is expected to link also all internationally available data sets and data
banks and contain meta data required to use the provided data. The web portal also needs to
provide visualization tools summarizing data availabilities and climate indices.
Requirements:
Academic degree in a natural science or comparable qualification; expertise in Unix, Fortran,
C, Web-Portals; Java, MATLAB as well as scientific programming. For more information
please contact Prof. Dr. Detlef Stammer ( This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ).
 
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Research Associate (wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/in) with the salary group 13 TV-L  and
a work week of  39 hours. (Code P2 Wiss1)
 
Responsibilities:
CliSAP is concerned with climate dynamics and climate variability. For this research a
hierarchy of coupled climate models is employed. The research associate will support the
climate modelling and climate diagnostics. The main area of responsibility will be in the
application of modern numerical methods and algorithms in climate modelling with the
objective of further developing the models for simulations and prognoses.
Requirements:
Academic degree in a natural science or comparable qualification; expertise in numerics and
climate modelling; competency in scientific programming. For more information please
contact Prof. Dr. Klaus Fraedrich ( This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ).
 
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Research Associate (wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/in) with the salary group 13 TV-L  and
a work week of  39 hours. (Code P2 Wiss2)
 
Responsibilities:
CliSAP is concerned with climate dynamics and climate variability. For this research a
hierarchy of coupled climate models is employed. The research associate will support the
climate modelling and climate diagnostics. The main focus will be on the dynamics of the
slow components of the climate –  the ocean, inland ice and vegetation – as well as on their
interactions with the atmosphere.
Requirements:
Academic degree in a natural science or comparable qualification; expertise in climate
modelling and climate diagnostics; ability to carry out scientific work independently. For more
information please contact Prof. Dr. Klaus Fraedrich ( This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ).

Research Associate (wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/in) with the salary group 13 TV-L  and
a work week of  39 hours. (Code P2 WissProgr)
 
Responsibilities:
CliSAP is developing a hierarchy of coupled climate models. The “Planet Simulator” is used
by a large number of scientific institutions, both within and outside of the KlimaCampus.
Service for the users, particularly the graduate students in the Cluster of Excellence, the
operation of a scientific user forum and the development of diagnostic software will be the
responsibilities of the scientific programmer in the sub-topic P2.
Requirements:
Academic degree in a natural science or comparable qualification; expertise in Unix, Fortran,
C and parallelization as well as scientific programming. For more information please contact
Prof. Dr. Klaus Fraedrich ( This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ).
 
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The contracts will all have a fixed-term ending with the conclusion of the project (31 October
2012) but with the possibility of renewal.
 
 
The university intends to increase the number of women amongst its academic personnel
and expressly encourages qualified women to apply. In compliance with the Hamburg Equal
Opportunity Law, preference will be given to qualified female applicants.
 
Preference will be given to disabled applicants with equal qualifications.
 
Please submit application dossiers (application letter, curriculum vitae, degree certificate(s),
etc.) to 
Dorothea Fitterling
KlimaCampus Hamburg
Zentrum für Marine und Atmosphärische Wissenschaften ZMAW
Universität Hamburg
Bundesstr. 53, 20146 Hamburg.
 by 20 June 2008.