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2026

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
57
Citations
15590
World Ranking
3382
National Ranking
9

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - 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

Overview

Ilan Koren is affiliated with the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel and conducts research primarily in the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans various subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Ecology, and Oceanography.

Their research covers a range of topics centered on atmospheric and environmental dynamics. Key areas of focus include Atmospheric aerosols and clouds, Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, Climate variability and models, Meteorological phenomena and simulations, Aeolian processes and effects, and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics.

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Ilan Koren include:

  • Airborne microplastic particles detected in the remote marine atmosphere, 2020, Communications Earth & Environment
  • Record-breaking aerosol levels explained by smoke injection into the stratosphere, 2021, Science
  • Terrestrial and marine influence on atmospheric bacterial diversity over the north Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, 2022, Communications Earth & Environment
  • Longwave radiative effect of the cloud twilight zone, 2020, Nature Geoscience
  • Multifaceted aerosol effects on precipitation, 2024, Nature Geoscience

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Ilan Koren include:

  • Orit Altaratz
  • J. Michel Flores
  • Eshkol Eytan
  • Assaf Vardi
  • Emmanuel Boss

The scientist's publications appear often in venues such as:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Best Publications

  • Particulate matter, air quality and climate: Lessons learned and future needs

    S. Fuzzi;U. Baltensperger;K. Carslaw;S. Decesari

  • Measurement of the effect of Amazon smoke on inhibition of cloud formation.

    Ilan Koren;Ilan Koren;Yoram J. Kaufman;Lorraine A. Remer;Jose V. Martins;Jose V. Martins

  • Global aerosol climatology from the MODIS satellite sensors

    Lorraine A. Remer;Richard G. Kleidman;Robert C. Levy;Yoram J. Kaufman

  • Dust transport and deposition observed from the Terra-Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) spacecraft over the Atlantic Ocean

    Y. J. Kaufman;I. Koren;I. Koren;L. A. Remer;D. Tanré

  • 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

  • Aerosol invigoration and restructuring of Atlantic convective clouds

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

  • Smoke invigoration versus inhibition of clouds over the Amazon.

    Ilan Koren;J. Vanderlei Martins;J. Vanderlei Martins;Lorraine A. Remer;Hila Afargan

  • The Bodélé depression: a single spot in the Sahara that provides most of the mineral dust to the Amazon forest

    Ilan Koren;Yoram J Kaufman;Richard Washington;Martin C Todd

  • Smoke and Pollution Aerosol Effect on Cloud Cover

    Yoram J. Kaufman;Ilan Koren

  • On the twilight zone between clouds and aerosols

    Ilan Koren;Lorraine A. Remer;Yoram J. Kaufman;Yinon Rudich

  • From aerosol-limited to invigoration of warm convective clouds.

    Ilan Koren;Guy Dagan;Orit Altaratz

  • Review: Cloud invigoration by aerosols—Coupling between microphysics and dynamics

    O. Altaratz;I. Koren;L.A. Remer;E. Hirsch

  • Classification of aerosol properties derived from AERONET direct sun data

    G. P. Gobbi;Y. J. Kaufman;I. Koren;T. F. Eck;T. F. Eck

  • Airborne microplastic particles detected in the remote marine atmosphere

    Miri Trainic;J. Michel Flores;Iddo Pinkas;Maria Luiza Pedrotti

  • Aerosol-induced intensification of rain from the tropics to the mid-latitudes

    Ilan Koren;Orit Altaratz;Lorraine A. Remer;Graham Feingold

  • Precipitation-generated oscillations in open cellular cloud fields.

    Graham Feingold;Ilan Koren;Hailong Wang;Huiwen Xue

  • A critical examination of the residual cloud contamination and diurnal sampling effects on MODIS estimates of aerosol over ocean

    Y.J. Kaufman;L.A. Remer;D. Tanre;Rong-Rong Li

  • The invigoration of deep convective clouds over the Atlantic: aerosol effect, meteorology or retrieval artifact?

    Ilan Koren;Graham Feingold;Lorraine A. Remer

  • Links between topography, wind, deflation, lakes and dust: The case of the Bodélé Depression, Chad

    R. Washington;M.C. Todd;G. Lizcano;I. Tegen

  • Switching cloud cover and dynamical regimes from open to closed Benard cells in response to the suppression of precipitation by aerosols

    D. Rosenfeld;Y. J. Kaufman;I. Koren

  • An Emerging Global Aerosol Climatology from the MODIS Satellite Sensors

    Lorraine A. Remer;Richard G. Kleidman;Robert C. Levy;Yoram J. Kaufman

Frequent Co-Authors

Yinon Rudich
Yinon Rudich Weizmann Institute of Science
Lorraine A. Remer
Lorraine A. Remer University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Yoram J. Kaufman
Yoram J. Kaufman Goddard Space Flight Center
Graham Feingold
Graham Feingold National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Assaf Vardi
Assaf Vardi Weizmann Institute of Science
Zev Levin
Zev Levin Tel Aviv University
Didier Tanré
Didier Tanré University of Lille
Emmanuel Boss
Emmanuel Boss University of Maine
Brent N. Holben
Brent N. Holben Goddard Space Flight Center
Alexander Khain
Alexander Khain Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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