Atmospheric and Environmental Research (AER) has opportunities for atmospheric, ocean, and land surface remote sensing retrieval scientists to support the Microwave Integrated Retrieval System (MIRS) project, a NOAA Center for Satellite Applications and Research (STAR) project. MIRS is a state-of-the-art comprehensive and flexible real-time system for the retrieval of atmospheric profiles of temperature, water vapor, cloud and rain parameters, and surface characteristics.

Remote sensing retrieval scientists at AER work in diverse areas including sensor simulation; retrievals in the microwave, infrared, and visible parts of the spectrum; characterization of surface properties from space-based remote sensing; cloud analysis; and radiative transfer. The MIRS project requires specialized experience in physical science, mathematics, and computations with specific science experience or expertise desired in some of the following areas:

  • remote sensing
  • atmospheric radiative transfer in the microwave, infrared, and visible parts of the system
  • atmospheric scattering
  • retrievals
  • variational methods
  • radiometric calibration.

Experience with at least one satellite remote sensing data set is required. Candidates should possess an advanced degree in meteorology, oceanography, modeling and simulation, statistics, applied math, or a similar field. MIRS software is primarily composed of Fortran90/95, bash scripts, and IDL, so experience in these or similar languages is desired. The MIRS team is located in College Park, Maryland, at the NOAA Center for Weather and Climate Prediction.

For more information and to apply, go to the AER Career Center.