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2026

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Environmental Sciences

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96
Citations
50227
World Ranking
446
National Ranking
2

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Israel Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Israel Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Israel Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Israel Leader Award
  • 2015 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
  • Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts

Overview

Daniel Rosenfeld is affiliated with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. Their research primarily addresses topics within environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a specific focus on atmospheric science and global and planetary change. Their work intersects substantially with subfields such as health, toxicology and mutagenesis, earth-surface processes, and environmental engineering.

Their research contributions extensively cover themes related to atmospheric aerosols and clouds, atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, air quality and health impacts, aeolian processes and effects, atmospheric ozone and climate, meteorological phenomena and simulations, and climate variability and models.

Daniel Rosenfeld has published regularly in several scientific venues, with a notable frequency in the following journals:

  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Atmospheric Research
  • Environmental Chemistry Letters

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Daniel Rosenfeld include:

  • Advances in understanding large-scale responses of the water cycle to climate change, 2020, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
  • Constraining the Twomey effect from satellite observations: issues and perspectives, 2020, Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Opportunistic experiments to constrain aerosol effective radiative forcing, 2022, Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Tropical and Boreal Forest - Atmosphere Interactions: A Review, 2022, Tellus B
  • Aerosol-boundary-layer-monsoon interactions amplify semi-direct effect of biomass smoke on low cloud formation in Southeast Asia, 2021, Nature Communications

Frequent collaborators in Rosenfeld's research activities include Yannian Zhu, Minghuai Wang, Shaocai Yu, Zengxin Pan, and Mengying Li.

Daniel Rosenfeld's work has been recognized through several professional honors, including being named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2015 and membership in the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Best Publications

  • Aerosols, climate, and the hydrological cycle

    V. Ramanathan;P. J. Crutzen;P. J. Crutzen;J. T. Kiehl;D. Rosenfeld

  • Flood or drought: How do aerosols affect precipitation?

    Daniel Rosenfeld;Ulrike Lohmann;Graciela B. Raga;Colin D. O'Dowd

  • Aerosol cloud precipitation interactions. Part 1. The nature and sources of cloud-active aerosols

    M. O. Andreae;D. Rosenfeld

  • Smoking Rain Clouds over the Amazon

    Meinrat O. Andreae;Daniel Rosenfeld;P. Artaxo;A. A. Costa

  • Suppression of rain and snow by urban and industrial air pollution

    Daniel Rosenfeld

  • Weather and climate extreme events in a changing climate

    H. Douville;K. Raghavan;J. Renwick;Richard Allan

  • Persistent sulfate formation from London Fog to Chinese haze

    Gehui Wang;Gehui Wang;Gehui Wang;Renyi Zhang;Renyi Zhang;Mario E. Gomez;Mario E. Gomez;Lingxiao Yang;Lingxiao Yang

  • TRMM observed first direct evidence of smoke from forest fires inhibiting rainfall

    Daniel Rosenfeld

  • Desert dust suppressing precipitation: A possible desertification feedback loop

    Daniel Rosenfeld;Yinon Rudich;Ronen Lahav

  • Improving our fundamental understanding of the role of aerosol−cloud interactions in the climate system

    John H. Seinfeld;Christopher Bretherton;Kenneth S. Carslaw;Hugh Coe

  • Satellite-Based Insights into Precipitation Formation Processes in Continental and Maritime Convective Clouds

    Daniel Rosenfeld;Itamar M. Lensky

  • Aerosol and monsoon climate interactions over Asia

    Zhanqing Li;Zhanqing Li;W. K.M. Lau;V. Ramanathan;G. Wu

  • Review of Aerosol–Cloud Interactions: Mechanisms, Significance, and Challenges

    Jiwen Fan;Yuan Wang;Daniel Rosenfeld;Xiaohong Liu

  • Aerosol impact on the dynamics and microphysics of deep convective clouds

    A. Khain;D. Rosenfeld;A. Pokrovsky

  • The effect of smoke, dust, and pollution aerosol on shallow cloud development over the Atlantic Ocean

    Yoram J. Kaufman;Ilan Koren;Lorraine A. Remer;Daniel Rosenfeld

  • Long-term impacts of aerosols on the vertical development of clouds and precipitation

    Zhanqing Li;Zhanqing Li;Zhanqing Li;Feng Niu;Jiwen Fan;Yangang Liu

  • Dust and Biological Aerosols from the Sahara and Asia Influence Precipitation in the Western U.S.

    Jessie M. Creamean;Kaitlyn J. Suski;Daniel Rosenfeld;Alberto Cazorla

  • Deep convective clouds with sustained supercooled liquid water down to -37.5 °C

    Daniel Rosenfeld;William L. Woodley

  • Aerosol invigoration and restructuring of Atlantic convective clouds

    Ilan Koren;Ilan Koren;Yoram J. Kaufman;Daniel Rosenfeld;Lorraine A. Remer

  • Global observations of aerosol-cloud-precipitation-climate interactions

    Daniel Rosenfeld;Meinrat O. Andreae;Ari Asmi;Mian Chin

  • Contrasting convective regimes over the Amazon: Implications for cloud electrification

    E. Williams;D. Rosenfeld;N. Madden;J. Gerlach

Frequent Co-Authors

Meinrat O. Andreae
Meinrat O. Andreae Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
Zhanqing Li
Zhanqing Li University of Maryland, College Park
Paulo Artaxo
Paulo Artaxo Universidade de São Paulo
Shaocai Yu
Shaocai Yu Zhejiang University
Luiz A. T. Machado
Luiz A. T. Machado Max Planck Society
Christiane Voigt
Christiane Voigt German Aerospace Center
Ulrich Pöschl
Ulrich Pöschl Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
Manfred Wendisch
Manfred Wendisch Leipzig University
Jiwen Fan
Jiwen Fan Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Stephan Borrmann
Stephan Borrmann Max Planck Institute for Chemistry

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