The Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium (RMIB) wants to hire a remote sensing scientist for the estimation of the surface turbulent heat fluxes from high resolution satellite measurements. A one year contract is proposed with possibility of extension.

The RMIB is responsible for the determination of the surface turbulent fluxes of sensible and latent heat (related to evapotranspiration, ET) from the Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) satellite in the context of the EUMETSAT Land Surface Analysis Satellite Application Facility, see http://landsaf.meteo.pt. MSG has a relatively low spatial resolution of 3 km at nadir.

Your job will consist in the adaptation of the model to use as input MODIS data with a resolution of 250 m in the visible bands to improve the resolution and the accuracy of the MSG ET product. SPOT-VEG data will also be considered. This work will be carried out in preparation of using high resolution data from the planned PROBA-V (vegetation) satellite.

Your profile

Required qualifications:

• A PhD or MSc in physical or mathematical sciences or in civil- or bioengineering.
• Experience in scientific computing with Fortran or C in a Linux/UNIX environment and familiarity with scientific visualization tools.
• Good working knowledge of English.
• Ability to work effectively both independently and in a team.
• Ability to be quickly operational.
• Availability to travel for occasional scientific missions within Europe.

Added value

• Experience of research and development in atmospheric science.
• Practical experience in meteorological / hydrological modelling, remote sensing and data assimilation or processing.
• Knowledge of one or both of the national Belgian languages Dutch and French.

You are available to start as soon as possible.

We offer

• Dynamic working environment with international contacts.
• Flexible working hours.
• Reimbursement of public transport commuter travel costs.
• Partial indemnification of the contribution for hospitalisation insurance.