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Overview

Baruch Ziv is affiliated with the Open University of Israel in Israel. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a particular focus on Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change. Additional subfields include Astronomy and Astrophysics, Ecology, and Environmental Engineering.

The scientist's work extensively covers topics related to climate and meteorology. Key themes in their research include:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Hydrology and Drought Analysis
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Lightning and Electromagnetic Phenomena
  • Environmental and biological studies

Frequent publication venues for Baruch Ziv comprise:

  • International Journal of Climatology
  • Weather and Climate Dynamics
  • Natural hazards and earth system sciences
  • Climatic Change
  • Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

They have collaborated repeatedly with a number of coauthors, including:

  • Hadas Saaroni (6 publications)
  • Dor Sandler (3 publications)
  • Ron Drori (2 publications)
  • Adi Etkin (2 publications)
  • Pavel Khain (2 publications)

Among their recent papers are the following:

  • "A composite approach to produce reference datasets for extratropical cyclone tracks: application to Mediterranean cyclones" (2023), published in Weather and Climate Dynamics
  • "Recent changes in the rain regime over the Mediterranean climate region of Israel" (2021), published in Climatic Change
  • "The Israel 4 Cloud Seeding Experiment: Primary Results" (2023), published in Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology
  • "Atmospheric conditions leading to an exceptional fatal flash flood in the Negev Desert, Israel" (2021), published in Natural hazards and earth system sciences
  • "Formation of cyclones over the East Mediterranean within Red-Sea Troughs" (2021), published in International Journal of Climatology

Best Publications

  • Late Holocene climates of the Near East deduced from Dead Sea level variations and modern regional winter rainfall

    Yehouda Enzel;Revital Bookman;David Sharon;Haim Gvirtzman

  • The climatic and physiographic controls of the eastern Mediterranean over the late Pleistocene climates in the southern Levant and its neighboring deserts

    Yehouda Enzel;Rivka Amit;Uri Dayan;Onn Crouvi

  • Semi-objective classification for daily synoptic systems: Application to the eastern mediterranean climate change

    P. Alpert;I. Osetinsky;B. Ziv;H. Shafir

  • THE FACTORS GOVERNING THE SUMMER REGIME OF THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN

    Baruch Ziv;Hadas Saaroni;Pinhas Alpert

  • Synoptic climatology of major floods in the Negev Desert, Israel

    Ron Kahana;Baruch Ziv;Yehouda Enzel;Uri Dayan

  • The Sharav Cyclone: Observations and some theoretical considerations

    P. Alpert;B. Ziv

  • A new seasons definition based on classified daily synoptic systems: an example for the eastern Mediterranean

    P. Alpert;I. Osetinsky;B. Ziv;H. Shafir

  • Climate of the Mediterranean: Synoptic Patterns, Temperature, Precipitation, Winds, and Their Extremes

    Uwe Ulbrich;Piero Lionello;Danijel Belušić;Jucundus Jacobeit

  • The impact of a small lake on heat stress in a Mediterranean urban park: the case of Tel Aviv, Israel

    Hadas Saaroni;Baruch Ziv

  • Suspended dust over southeastern Mediterranean and its relation to atmospheric circulations

    Uri Dayan;Baruch Ziv;Tova Shoob;Yehouda Enzel

  • Regional and global atmospheric patterns governing rainfall in the southern Levant

    Baruch Ziv;Uri Dayan;Yohanan Kushnir;Chaggi Roth

  • Links between the rainfall regime in Israel and location and intensity of Cyprus lows

    H. Saaroni;N. Halfon;B. Ziv;P. Alpert

  • Trends in rainfall regime over Israel, 1975–2010, and their relationship to large-scale variability

    Baruch Ziv;Hadas Saaroni;Roee Pargament;Tzvi Harpaz;Tzvi Harpaz

  • A severe autumn storm over the middle-east: synoptic and mesoscale convection analysis

    U. Dayan;B. Ziv;A. Margalit;E. Morin

  • A subtropical rainstorm associated with a tropical plume overAfrica and the Middle-East

    B. Ziv

  • Easterly Wind Storms over Israel

    H. Saaroni;B. Ziv;A. Bitan;P. Alpert

  • A mid-winter, tropical extreme flood-producing storm in southern Israel: Synoptic scale analysis

    B. Ziv;U. Dayan;D. Sharon

  • Chapter 2 Relations between climate variability in the Mediterranean region and the tropics: ENSO, South Asian and African monsoons, hurricanes and Saharan dust

    Pinhas Alpert;Pinhas Alpert;Marina Baldi;Ronny Ilani;Ronny Ilani;Shimon Krichak;Shimon Krichak

  • Long‐term variations in summer temperatures over the Eastern Mediterranean

    Hadas Saaroni;Baruch Ziv;Johnathan Edelson;Pinhas Alpert

  • Tropical Plumes over Eastern North Africa as a Source of Rain in the Middle East

    Shira Rubin;Baruch Ziv;Nathan Paldor

  • New observations of sprites from the space shuttle

    Yoav Yair;Peter Israelevich;Adam D. Devir;Meir Moalem

Frequent Co-Authors

Hadas Saaroni
Hadas Saaroni Tel Aviv University
Colin Price
Colin Price Tel Aviv University
Pinhas Alpert
Pinhas Alpert Tel Aviv University
Uri Dayan
Uri Dayan Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Zev Levin
Zev Levin Tel Aviv University
Efrat Morin
Efrat Morin Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Barry Lynn
Barry Lynn Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Elena Xoplaki
Elena Xoplaki University of Giessen
Andrea Toreti
Andrea Toreti University of Giessen
Vassiliki Kotroni
Vassiliki Kotroni National Observatory of Athens

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