CCI Land Evaporation

Position: Research appointment (pre-doc) Institute: CNR - Inst. Hydrogeological Protection Research
Posted on: 24/06/2026 Deadline: 10/07/2026

Scientific-Disciplinary Group

04/GEOS-03 - Physical Geography, Geomorphology And Applied Geology, 08/CEAR-01 - Hydraulics, Hydrology, Hydraulic And Maritime Engineering

Description

Land evaporation is a key component of the terrestrial water, energy, and carbon cycles, but its global behaviour remains uncertain due to limited ground observations, modelling challenges, and the lack of direct satellite measurements. The ESA Climate Change Initiative Land Evaporation project aims to develop a long-term, observation-constrained global dataset aligned with GCOS requirements. It will provide daily estimates from 1980 to the present of land evaporation and related variables, including transpiration, interception loss, bare soil evaporation, latent heat, and sensible heat. The dataset will be produced by integrating satellite observations with process-based and machine learning models through a novel multi-physics algorithm. Alternative process formulations will be tested against eddy-covariance observations to identify robust, simple, and satellite-driven configurations.

Compensation

27,175 Euro

Job posting website

https://selezionionline.cnr.it/jconon/search-call?filters-codice=IR+n.+04+2026+irpi+pg

Number of positions

1

Funding body

National Research Council - Research Institute for Geo-Hydrological Protection

Selection process

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Titles and interview. Candidates who achieve a score of at least 50/70 will be admitted to the interview. Holders of a master’s degree as specified in Article 3 of the call for applications, obtained no more than six years ago.Candidates holding a qualification obtained abroad are admitted to the selection process subject to conditions; should they pass the selection process, successful candidates are required to submit an application for recognition (equivalence) of their foreign qualification to the Ministry of University and Research within 15 days of the publication of the final ranking, failing which they will be excluded from the selection process.The Examination Board has a total of 100 points, allocated as follows:40 points for the scientific and professional curriculum;30 points for selected publications;30 points for the examination and interview.Citizens of non-European Union countries may be appointed to a research post only if they hold a residence permit and subject to the submission of recognition of the equivalence or equivalence of their foreign qualification.

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