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Pinhas Alpert

Pinhas Alpert

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Environmental Sciences
Israel
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
72
Citations
17773
World Ranking
1501
National Ranking
5

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

Overview

Pinhas Alpert is affiliated with Tel Aviv University in Israel and has an extensive publication record in the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work predominantly focuses on Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change, with additional contributions in Oceanography, Environmental Engineering, and Earth-Surface Processes.

Their research topics span multiple areas including:

  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Climate variability and models
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Precipitation Measurement and Analysis
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Hydrology and Drought Analysis

Frequent co-authors working alongside Alpert include Emily Elhacham, Yoav Rubin, H. Shafir, Yara Dahdal, and Christian Chwala. These collaborations have contributed to research published in various scientific journals.

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Pinhas Alpert are as follows:

  • Climate Change and Weather Extremes in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East, 2022, Reviews of Geophysics
  • Is it possible to fit extreme climate change indices together seamlessly in the era of accelerated warming?, 2020, International Journal of Climatology
  • Temperature patterns along an arid coastline experiencing extreme and rapid urbanization, case study: Dubai, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Quantitative Analysis of the Performance of Spatial Interpolation Methods for Rainfall Estimation Using Commercial Microwave Links, 2021, Journal of Hydrometeorology
  • Ceilometers as planetary boundary layer height detectors and a corrective tool for COSMO and IFS models, 2020, Atmospheric chemistry and physics

Their work is regularly published in several scientific venues, including the International Journal of Climatology, The Science of The Total Environment, Remote Sensing, Environmental Research Communications, and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

Best Publications

  • The paradoxical increase of Mediterranean extreme daily rainfall in spite of decrease in total values

    P. Alpert;T. Ben-Gai;A. Baharad;Y. Benjamini

  • The Mediterranean climate: An overview of the main characteristics and issues

    P Lionello;Paola Malanotte-Rizzoli;Roberta Boscolo;Pinhas Alpert

  • Climate Change and Weather Extremes in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East

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  • Environmental Monitoring by Wireless Communication Networks

    Hagit Messer;Artem Zinevich;Pinhas Alpert

  • Factor Separation in Numerical Simulations.

    U. Stein;P. Alpert

  • Climatological analysis of Mediterranean cyclones using ECMWF data

    P. Alpert;B. U. Neeman;Y. Shay-El

  • HYMEX , a 10-year Multidisciplinary Program on the mediterranean water cycle.

    P. Drobinski;Véronique Ducrocq;P. Alpert;E. Anagnostou

  • 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

  • Mediterranean water cycle changes: transition to drier 21st century conditions in observations and CMIP3 simulations

    Annarita Mariotti;Annarita Mariotti;Ning Zeng;Jin-Ho Yoon;Vincenzo Artale

  • The Sharav Cyclone: Observations and some theoretical considerations

    P. Alpert;B. Ziv

  • Climatic trends to extremes employing regional modeling and statistical interpretation over the E. Mediterranean

    P. Alpert;S.O. Krichak;H. Shafir;D. Haim

  • Quantification of dust-forced heating of the lower troposphere

    P. Alpert;Y. J. Kaufman;Y. Shay-El;D. Tanre

  • Global dimming or local dimming?: Effect of urbanization on sunlight availability

    Pinhas Alpert;Pavel Kishcha;Yoram J. Kaufman;Rotem Schwarzbard

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

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

  • Implicit Filtering in Conjunction with Explicit Filtering

    Pinhas Alpert

  • Decadal trends in the east Atlantic–west Russia pattern and Mediterranean precipitation

    Simon O. Krichak;Pinhas Alpert

  • Predominant transport paths of Saharan dust over the Mediterranean Sea to Europe

    P. Israelevich;E. Ganor;P. Alpert;P. Kishcha

  • Intermonthly Variability of Cyclone Tracks in the Mediterranean

    P. Alpert;B. U. Neeman;Y. Shay-El

  • Increasing trend of African dust, over 49 years, in the eastern Mediterranean

    Eliezer Ganor;Isabella Osetinsky;Amnon Stupp;Pinhas Alpert

  • A possible link between El Niño and precipitation in Israel

    Colin Price;Lewi Stone;Amit Huppert;Balaji Rajagopalan

Frequent Co-Authors

Hagit Messer
Hagit Messer Tel Aviv University
Hadas Saaroni
Hadas Saaroni Tel Aviv University
Baruch Ziv
Baruch Ziv Open University of Israel
Arlindo da Silva
Arlindo da Silva Goddard Space Flight Center
Colin Price
Colin Price Tel Aviv University
Annarita Mariotti
Annarita Mariotti National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Ulrich Corsmeier
Ulrich Corsmeier Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Roberto Udisti
Roberto Udisti University of Florence
Akio Kitoh
Akio Kitoh University of Tsukuba
Zev Levin
Zev Levin Tel Aviv University

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