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Climate Engineer Scientist
2016-03-02 15:07:16| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
Our client, based near Frankfurt in Germany, is responsible for establishing and operating weather forecasting and Earth observation satellite programmes with associated data telemetry and dissemination operations. They are seeking engineering scientific consultancy support in the area of operational monitoring of the climate and the detection of global climate change. The client process satellite generated data mainly to support weather forecasting applications though the analysis of climate change enforces more stringent requirements on the data in terms of temporal coverage, accuracy and stability. The consultant they seek shall have at least 3 years experience in the implementation of software for operational or delayed mode processing of satellite instrument data and in the validation of satellite derived products. The key person should have strong technical skills with a scientific background on retrieval of parameters using visible wavelengths, e.g., surface albedo andor aerosol as well as knowledge of the visible calibration of satellite instruments. The Consultant shall have the following mandatory skills and experience Programming languages and CC and FORTRAN Scripting languages, such as Python, Perl, shell, TclTk Analysis and graphic software such as IDL Processing of remote sensing data Calibration of satellite observations in the visible spectral range Validation of satellite products Working in international projects andor environment. Desirable experience includes Structured software development documentation, testing and validation of application software in UNIX environments according to coding standards Operational product processing environments EUMETSAT Meteosat missions and instruments Retrieval of parameters using visible wave lengths. The working language is English. This is a permanent employee assignment starting in February 2015. Pactum have supplied professional recruitment services to clients throughout the UK and across continental Europe since 1988. We operate as a group of practices focussed onto specific markets and have been successfully recruiting for the Space sector since 2002.
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