The Cooperative Institute for Severe and High-Impact Weather Research and Operations (CIWRO) seeks to fill a Research Scientist position for its collaborative research as a Cooperative Institute with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Office, specifically with the National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) in Norman Oklahoma. T
his Research Scientist position will contribute to the integration of Deep Learning within the Warn-on-Forecast (WoF) System (https://wof.nssl.noaa.gov/), housed at the National Weather Center in Norman, Oklahoma (https://www.ou.edu/nwc).
As a CIWRO Research Scientist supporting WoF program, you will:
- Lead the development of AI-based numerical weather prediction (NWP) emulation for WoFS, including open-source scientific Python packages for AI model training and forecast verification.
- Collaborate with research scientists to design and implement tools for WoFS data analysis, visualization, verification, and AI-driven advancements.
- Support the generation and archival of large-scale WoFS datasets to enable retrospective analysis and deep learning model training for future research.
- Serve as a lead or contributing author on scientific manuscripts for peer-reviewed publications and present research findings at conferences, workshops, and symposia.
- Creatively and efficiently solve scientific problems, both independently and as an integral member of the WoF research team.
