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Overview

Uri Dayan is affiliated with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Environmental Engineering, and Economics and Econometrics.

Dayan's work covers a variety of topics within these fields such as Climate variability and models, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Hydrology and Drought Analysis, Air Quality and Health Impacts, Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting, Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, and Atmospheric aerosols and clouds.

Recent published papers include:

  • Atmospheric conditions leading to an exceptional fatal flash flood in the Negev Desert, Israel (2021, Natural hazards and earth system sciences)
  • Reduced Rainfall in Future Heavy Precipitation Events Related to Contracted Rain Area Despite Increased Rain Rate (2021, Earth s Future)
  • Toward Narrowing Uncertainty in Future Projections of Local Extreme Precipitation (2021, Geophysical Research Letters)
  • Uncertainty in Projected Changes in Precipitation Minus Evaporation: Dominant Role of Dynamic Circulation Changes and Weak Role for Thermodynamic Changes (2022, Geophysical Research Letters)
  • Impact of the first induced COVID-19 lockdown on air quality in Israel (2021, Atmospheric Environment)

Frequent co-authors in collaborations include:

  • Dorita Rostkier-Edelstein
  • Chaim I. Garfinkel
  • Ori Adam
  • Efrat Morin
  • Moshe Armon

The researcher frequently publishes in venues such as Geophysical Research Letters, Natural hazards and earth system sciences, Atmospheric Environment, Earth s Future, and The Science of The Total Environment.

Best Publications

  • Control of atmospheric export of dust from North Africa by the North Atlantic Oscillation

    Cyril Moulin;Claude E. Lambert;François Dulac;Uri Dayan

  • Satellite climatology of African dust transport in the Mediterranean atmosphere

    C. Moulin;C. E. Lambert;U. Dayan;V. Masson

  • 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

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

    Ron Kahana;Baruch Ziv;Yehouda Enzel;Uri Dayan

  • Paleoclimate and location of the border between Mediterranean climate region and the Saharo–Arabian Desert as revealed by speleothems from the northern Negev Desert, Israel

    A. Vaks;M. Bar-Matthews;A. Ayalon;A. Matthews

  • Dust Intrusion Events into the Mediterranean Basin.

    U. Dayan;J. Heffter;J. Miller;G. Gutman

  • 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

  • Trans boundary transport of pollutants by atmospheric mineral dust.

    Yigal Erel;Uri Dayan;Reut Rabi;Yinon Rudich

  • Climatology of Back Trajectories from Israel Based on Synoptic Analysis

    Uri Dayan

  • Review Article: Atmospheric conditions inducing extreme precipitation over the eastern and western Mediterranean

    U. Dayan;K. Nissen;U. Ulbrich

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

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

  • Mineralogical and chemical characterization of suspended atmospheric particles over the east Mediterranean based on synoptic-scale circulation patterns

    Boriana Kalderon-Asael;Yigal Erel;Amir Sandler;Uri Dayan

  • Sea spray aerosol in central Antarctica. Present atmospheric behaviour and implications for paleoclimatic reconstructions

    R. Udisti;U. Dayan;S. Becagli;M. Busetto

  • Relationship between synoptic‐scale atmospheric circulation and ozone concentrations over Israel

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  • The influence of meteorological conditions and atmospheric circulation types on PM10 and visibility in Tel Aviv

    Uri Dayan;Ilan Levy

  • Flash flood–producing rainstorms over the Dead Sea: A review

    Uri Dayan;Efrat Morin

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

    B. Ziv;U. Dayan;D. Sharon

  • Relationships linking primary production, sea ice melting, and biogenic aerosol in the Arctic

    Silvia Becagli;Luigi Lazzara;C. Marchese;U. Dayan

  • Heavy Rain in the Middle East Related to Unusual Jet Stream Properties

    Uri Dayan;Richard Abramski

Frequent Co-Authors

Baruch Ziv
Baruch Ziv Open University of Israel
Rita Traversi
Rita Traversi University of Florence
Roberto Udisti
Roberto Udisti University of Florence
Efrat Morin
Efrat Morin Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Silvia Becagli
Silvia Becagli University of Florence
François Dulac
François Dulac French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)
Mirko Severi
Mirko Severi University of Florence
Yigal Erel
Yigal Erel Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Yehouda Enzel
Yehouda Enzel Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Vassiliki Kotroni
Vassiliki Kotroni National Observatory of Athens

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