[IGSMAIL-7544] Open position at AIUB

[Rolf Dach]

Author: Rolf Dach


Dear Colleagues,

The research group on "Satellite Geodesy" of the Astronomical Institute 
of the University of Bern (AIUB) offers the position for a

                 PhD CANDIDATE.

The focus will be on the derivation of time-variable Earth’s gravity 
fields from ultra-precise inter-satellite ranging data of the Gravity 
Recovery And Climate Experiment (GRACE) mission and its successor 
mission GRACE Follow-On, scheduled for launch in early 2018.

Today the analysts are still challenged with the GRACE processing. 
Regular comparisons in the frame of the H2020 project European Gravity 
Service for Improved Emergency Management (EGSIEM) have revealed that 
solutions from different GRACE analysis centers are not always fully 
comparable and therefore difficult to be combined. This was found to be 
mainly related to the underlying heterogeneous stochastic modeling in 
the GRACE data processing.

The main focus of the Ph.D. position will be on the derivation of 
empirical noise models and the thorough investigation of their impact on 
the time-variable gravity field solutions derived from GRACE/GRACE-FO 
data. In addition the candidate is expected to support the GRACE-FO 
processing at AIUB as soon as data will become available.


The complete position description is available at
http://www.bernese.unibe.ch/Stellen/Stellenausschreibung_20171018.pdf


Please circulate this information within your institute.


With best regards

Rolf Dach