PhD (2) and MSc (1) Positions in Hydroclimate and Land-Atmosphere Interactions
Two PhD positions and one MSc position are open immediately as part of a collaborative research project involving the Université de Montréal (UdeM; Prof. Alexis Berg, Department of Geography, Montréal, QC), Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM; Prof. Philippe LucasPicher, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Montréal, QC) and Queen’s University (Prof. Christian Seiler, School of Environmental Studies, Kingston, ON).
This FRQNT- and NSERC-funded project investigates how hydroclimatic volatility – the clustering of extreme water-related climate events (like floods and droughts) in time and/or space – will change in a warmer climate and what the impacts will be on the land surface water cycle and land-atmosphere coupling processes. To do so, the project will rely on state-of-the-art, convection-permitting climate model (CPM) simulations to investigate these changes over Northeast North America, focusing in particular on the advanced understanding gained at veryhigh resolution compared to regional (RCM) and global (GCM) model projections.