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Please visit the NASA Postdoctoral Program website for application instructions and requirements: How to Apply | NASA Postdoctoral Program (orau.org)

A complete application to the NASA Postdoctoral Program includes:

1. Research proposal
2. Three letters of recommendation
3. Official doctoral transcript documents

About the NASA Postdoctoral Program

The NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) offers unique research opportunities to highly-talented scientists to engage in ongoing NASA research projects at a NASA Center, NASA Headquarters, or at a NASA-affiliated research institute. These one- to three-year fellowships are competitive and are designed to advance NASA’s missions in space science, Earth science, aeronautics, space operations, exploration systems, and astrobiology.

Description:

Opportunity Restricted to U.S. Citizens Only

There is a need to develop effective software analysis tools based on HITRAN and other spectroscopic data bases to predict lidar performance for atmospheric trace gas detection from space based platforms. The variation of line parameters with pressure, temperature and lineshape functions have to be accurately known for calculation of mixing ratios of a given trace gas species. The ongoing ASCENDS program at NASA Langley will benefit from these tools for accurate prediction of CO2 and oxygen mixing ratios. Practical lidar instrumentaion models can be developed by incorporating these tools to aid in refining lidar system parameters for achieving less than 0.3% accuracies in CO2 mixing ratio under various atmospheric conditions.

Location:
Langley Research Center
Hampton, Virginia

Field of Science:Interdisciplinary/Other

Advisors:
Narasimha S Prasad
narasimha.s.prasad@nasa.gov
757-864-9403

Questions about this opportunity? Please email npp@orau.org

• Citizenship: U.S. Citizen Only
• Degree: Doctoral Degree.