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Atmospheric Dynamics
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Climate and Climate Change
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Mesoscale Modeling
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Numerical Weather Prediction
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Aerosols Observations and Modelling Dust and Sea-Salt Forecasting
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Cellular monitoring of the environment
Atmospheric Dynamics
Climate and Climate Change
Mesoscale Modeling
Numerical Weather Prediction
Aerosols Observations and Modelling Dust and Sea-Salt Forecasting
Cellular monitoring of the environment
B.Sc. in Mathematics, Physics and Computer, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1970
M.Sc. in Physics-Electro Optics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1972
Ph.D. in Meteorology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1980
Instructor, Meteorology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1972-1980
Lecturer, Geophysics & Planetary Sciences, Tel Aviv University, 1982-1986
Post-doctoral Fellow, Meteorology (CIMMS), The University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA, 1983
Visiting Scientist, Laboratory for Atmospheres, NASA - Goddard Space Flight Center, Maryland, USA, 1986-1987
Visiting Scientist, Meteorology, Reading Univesrity, Reading, England, 1987
Visiting Scientist, Meteorology, Penn State University, University Park, USA, 1992
NRC Senior Associate, Data Assimilation Office, NASA-GSFC; Goddard Space Flight Center, 1995-1997
Professor, Geophysics & Planetary Sciences, Tel Aviv University, 1998-Today
Physics Senior Visitor, Balearic University, Spain, 1998
Senior Visitor, Climate & Radiation, NASA-GSFC Aerosol Center, 2000
Fellow, NASA-Goddard Space Laboratory, Goddard flight Center Atmosphere, 2003-2008
Head, Department of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences, Tel Aviv University, 2005-2008
Head, Tel Aviv University, Porter School for Environmental Studies, 2008-2013
Israel “Psalms” Champion for Youth, 1965
Distinction Prize, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1967
Distinction Prize, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1970
Prize, Goethe Institute, Munich, Germany, 1975
Harvard Fellow, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA, 1980-1982
Grant, NATO Advanced Study Institute, 1982
Fellowship, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA, 1983
NRC Senior Associate, NASA/Goddard, Greenbelt, US, 1995-1997
American Men & Women of Sciences (AMWS Book), 1998
Goddard Fellow, NASA Goddard Flight Center, 2003-2008
Honorary Member, World Jewish Academy of Sciences, 2004-
Member as the Senate Delegate, Board of Governors of Tel Aviv University, 2007-2009
Best of What's New Popular Science Award of Flood Warning, 2009
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Medal, WIPO Medal, "for the best invention to predict floods using cellular networks" (with N. David and H. Messer-Yaron), 2009
Certificate of Championship of the Lower Jordan River, granted in Limassol, Cyprus, by the Jordanian, Palestinian & Israeli Directors of FoEME-Friends of the Earth Middle East, 2011
The Mikhael M. Nebenzahl & Amalia Grossberg Chair Professor in Geodynamics, 2011-2019
Head of the Porter School for Environmental Studies, Tel Aviv University, 2008-2013
Member of the International Advisory Board of DESERVE (Dead Sea Research Venue of the German Helmholtz Society), 2012-2017
Most Influential Paper Award by the American Journal of Climate Change (AJCC) to: Pinhas Alpert, Olga Shvainshtein and Pavel Kishcha for the paper: "AOD trends over megacities based on space monitoring using MODIS and MISR", AJCC, 1, 117-131, 2012, 2016
Recipient of the EGU Bjerknes Medal Award - Ceremony & Medal Lecture on the EGU General Assembly, April 2018
Our study is one of 10 leading curious environmental research in Israel of year 2017 (student doctorant Lee Sever), 2018
Award of JSIDRE: Our 2014 Springer Book on "Climate Analysis: Regional Atmospheric Processes, in Climate Change Impacts on Basin Agro-Ecosystems", Editors: Selim Kapur and Tsugihiro Watanabe, won the 2020 Award of JSIDRE (Japanese Society of Irrigation, Drainage and Rural Engineering), 2020