Scientist, Plume Modeling and Forecasting
Reflective, Remote or San Francisco, California +2
What you will do
What you'll do
Reflective studies stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI) through modeling and, where the science requires it, by assessing the feasibility of small-scale outdoor experiments. Our modeling work includes AIDE-SAI, a linked set of machine-learning emulators that simulates SAI end to end, from stratospheric circulation through aerosol microphysics to radiation. Both the modeling framework and experiment feasibility assessment require better representation of plume evolution at scales our current global tools do not resolve: the global emulators only carry injected material once it has spread across a grid box, while a field study would need to forecast where a plume is and how it dilutes over days to weeks.