Postdoctoral Fellow, Lidar Studies Related to the Canadian HAWC Satellite Project
University of Saskatchewan
Job Description
Postdoctoral Fellow, Lidar Studies Related to the Canadian HAWC Satellite Project
Primary Purpose: Canada is developing three satellite instruments, TICFIRE (Thin Ice Cloud and Far InfraRed Emissions), ALI (Aerosol Limb Imager) and SHOW (Spatial Heterodyne Observations of Water), jointly known as the HAWC (High-altitude, Aerosols, Water Vapour and Clouds) mission, for space observations of climate parameters. The successful candidate will join the HAWC Science Development Team.
Nature of Work: An overview of the HAWC project including details of the instrumentation has recently been published:
Langille, J., and Coauthors, 2025: The High-altitude Aerosols, Water vapour and Clouds mission: concept, scientific objectives and data products. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., , , in press.
The HAWC Science Development Team (SDT) is jointly funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and the Canadian Sp...