Engineer position on urban climate modelling F/M

Overview

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 even 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.

Why join us?

• Flexible working hours, RTT and telecommuting
• Administrative restaurant or luncheon voucher
• 75% contribution to public transport
• Contribution to health insurance
• Sports and cultural associations (climbing, gym, pottery, theatre, etc.)
• Other benefits available upon discovery

Responsibilities

• Improve the turbulence scheme by adding a 3‑D effect at 200 m and optimise the vertical and horizontal length scales in the AROME model.
• Use the Météo‑France high‑performance computing resources for development and preliminary testing.
• Collaborate closely with SMHI and KNMI researchers through the Destination‑Earth (DE_330) framework.
• Deliver improved forecasts at 200 m (or 100 m) for selected dates over pilot cities such as Antwerp, Barcelona, Paris and Bristol.
• Evaluate and refine pseudo‑3D terms in the AROME code, revisiting the horizontal and vertical length scales and the numerical horizontal diffusion scheme.
• Assess the impact of building height on the planetary boundary layer using multi‑layer coupling in SURFEX and explicit building‑height integration.
• Interface with other partners across WP6‑7 (large‐scale models) and WP9 (building‑resolving models).

Qualifications

• Engineer or Ph.D. in atmospheric sciences, computational fluid dynamics, or an equivalent field.
• Extensive experience in turbulence and numerical weather prediction.
• Strong grasp of physical processes governing the atmosphere.
• Experience validating weather models with experimental data.
• Familiarity with the AROME and Méso‑NH models.
• Proficiency in Python and Fortran90.
• Comfortable working in a team and as part of a project.
• Ability to publish scientific articles.
• Fluency in French essential to perform duties.

Additional Information

• This position is open to people with disabilities.
• 24‑month fixed‑term contract.
• Remote work available: 2 days per week.