Current Vacancies:
Met Éireann, a line division of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, is seeking expressions of interests in a research fellowship, which will commence as soon as possible. The following is a description of the role to be recruited for.
Competition for Postdoctoral Researcher RazorEge: Regional Ocean Zooms, Enhancements and Hy-brid Methods for Climate Extremes and Impacts
(Fixed term Contract)
Met Éireann, Ireland’s National Meteorological Service, is tasked with the provision of a wide range of services related to weather, climate, and flooding to help protect life and property and promote societal and economic wellbeing. It provides services to a broad range of sectors including air and land transport, marine and agriculture. It also plays a key role in the State’s emergency planning and management functions through its production and communication of warnings related to weather hazards.
Met Éireann’s mission as highlighted in our Strategic Plan 2024 – 2034 “Ready for change – preparing Ireland for changing weather and climate” is to provide Irish society and decision makers with world-class weather, climate, and flood services to protect life and property, and to promote wider societal and economic well-being.
Met Éireann has a current staffing level of more than 260 employees across nine divisions. The majority of staff are based at Met Éireann’s headquarters at Glasnevin, Dublin, and a number of staff are based at airport locations across the country and at Met Éireann’s Valentia Observatory in Cahersiveen, Co. Kerry.
Met Éireann, Ireland’s National Meteorological Service, is seeking a highly motivated and talented postdoctoral researcher to join our Research Applications Division (RAD) and contribute to the EU Horizon Europe project RazorEge (Regional Ocean Zooms, Enhancements and Hybrid Methods for Climate Extremes and Impacts at Global and Local Scales).
Job description and responsibilities
This position offers a unique opportunity to work at the frontier of Earth System Model develop-ment, within a prestigious international climate research consortia. RazorEge is a four-year EU Hori-zon Research and Innovation Action (RIA) coordinated by the UK Met Office and involving leading climate modelling institutions across Europe, South Africa, South Korea, China and Taiwan.
There is a clear and urgent need for robust estimates of the range of possible future regional changes in weather and climate. Reliable regional climate information underpins national adaptation and mitigation policy, flood risk assessment, marine sector planning, and Ireland’s preparedness for a changing climate. Providing this information demands Earth System Models (ESMs) capable of rep-resenting the regional drivers of climate variability and extremes and their feedback on the global system while remaining computationally affordable for the multi-centennial, multi-member ensem-ble simulations required for IPCC assessments.
Current ESMs, however, exhibit persistent biases that systematically reduce the reliability of regional climate projections, particularly for Europe. Key challenges include:
- Inaccurate simulation of major ocean boundary currents (Gulf Stream, Kuroshio, Agulhas), which drives systematic biases in European climate, storm tracks and precipitation patterns.
- Long-standing errors in the representation of deep-water overflows from the Nordic and Mediterranean Seas, causing large uncertainties in the strength and future trajectory of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), a circulation system of profound im-portance to Ireland’s climate.
- Underestimation of Southern Ocean carbon and heat uptake, with significant implications for global warming projections.
- Misrepresentation of sea-ice dynamics in the marginal ice zone, which propagates into North Atlantic circulation and European winter climate errors.
- Biased simulation of El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and its teleconnections, reducing skill in predicting regional extremes.
RazorEge addresses these challenges through targeted, computationally efficient improvements: two-way regional ocean nesting using AGRIF (Adaptive Grid Refinement In Fortran), localised Multi-Envelope (ME) vertical coordinates, new physics parameterisations, and supermodelling approaches. The goal is to achieve major improvements in model fidelity with only modest increases in computa-tional cost, producing a next generation of ESMs capable of delivering robust regional climate predictions.
The successful candidate will contribute to Met Éireann’s contracted obligations within the EU Hori-zon RazorEge consortium across four work packages over the project.
The core scientific work involves: contributing to consortium-wide analysis of links between regional climate biases and ocean-sea-ice model biases (WP1); developing and implementing regionally en-hanced coupling capability through AGRIF zoom nesting coupled to the atmospheric component in EC-Earth (WP6, Task 6.3); evaluating the role of improved coupling and resolution in representing European climate extremes including storms, marine heatwaves and extreme precipitation (WP6, Task 6.4); implementing ocean-sea-ice bias diagnostics into open-source community assessment packages (WP6, Task 6.1); conducting CMIP7 HighResMIP coupled climate simulations with the im-proved EC-Earth configuration and contributing these to the long-term FAIR archive (WP5, Task 5.1); participating in consortium-wide multi-model intercomparison and robustness assessment with the partner institutions (WP5, Task 5.3); and contributing to General Assembly meetings, open-access publications, and project dissemination throughout (WP7).
The successful candidate will also contribute to the broader implementation and testing of the im-proved GOSI ocean-sea-ice configuration within EC-Earth, working in close collaboration within Met Éireann’s Climate Modelling group.
Department/Authority
Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Met Éireann).
Recruitment
The Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Met Éireann) is recruiting for this position under its Recruitment Licence issued by the Commission for Public Service Appointments (CPSA) and in accordance with the CPSA’s Code of Practice.
Employing Department/Authority Website
www.met.ie
Location
The successful candidate will be based at Met Éireann Headquarters located at Glasnevin Hill, Dublin 9. Where possible, the successful candidates may be authorised to work remotely in line with approved policies for workplace attendance.
Applications
The closing date for applications is Friday; 30th October 2026 at 5pm
Additional Information
Applicants should submit completed application forms to postdoc.recruitment@met.ie.
Please note: only applications submitted on the official application form will be considered.
Advertising Date
12/10/2026
Closing Date for Applications
30/10/2026 at 5pm