PHD POSITION

PhD Studentship: CENTA 2027-B11 Learning the changing extremes of European precipitation…

Deadline: 6 Jan 2027 · 55 days left

Institution: University of Birmingham
Country: United Kingdom
Field: Earth, environment and agriculture
Type: PhD position
Deadline: 6 Jan 2027 · 55 days left

About this position

One of the major challenges for the current and future climate diagnostics is the occurrence of very rare, but extreme intense precipitation events. Those record-shattering events lead to the Valencia-Flood in October 2024 in Spain or the Ahr-floods in July 2021 in Germany with billions of Euro of financial losses and unfortunately significant numbers of fatalities (cf. e.g., Leckebusch & McCarthy (2026) and references therein). While the principal underlying physical mechanism of precipitation formation and the principal mechanisms of necessary precursor conditions are well understood, the ex

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Official call: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DTP789/phd-studentship-centa-2027-b11-learning-the-changing-extremes-of-european-precipitation-in-a-warming-climate

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