WIVERN System and Operations Manager

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Location ESTEC, Noordwijk, Netherlands Description: WIVERN System and Operations Manager in the WIVERN Project in the Earth Explorer Missions Programme within the Earth Observation Project Department, Directorate of Earth Observation Programmes (D/EOP). WIVERN, WInd VElocity Radar Nephoscope, is the 11th Earth Explorer Mission and is designed to deliver the first global observations of the three-dimensional wind field, along with associated cloud and precipitation structures, across a wide range of atmospheric phenomena. In addition, it will provide valuable observations of sea ice and snow, as well as ocean surface currents. These observations will address critical gaps in the current global observation system. At the heart of the mission is a conically scanning 94 GHz Doppler radar, which operates from a 500 km near-polar orbit. With a 3 metre conically scanning antenna, the mission will sample across an 800 km swath, with vertical resolution of 600 metres and horizontal resolution of approximately 1 kilometre. With near-daily global coverage, WIVERN will enable the measurement of in-cloud winds from the surface to the upper stratosphere. You will report to the WIVERN Project Man...