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Israel
2026

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Earth Science

D-Index
69
Citations
14638
World Ranking
1075
National Ranking
2

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in Israel Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in Israel Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Earth Science in Israel Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Earth Science in Israel Leader Award
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America

Overview

Yehouda Enzel is affiliated with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel and has contributed extensively to research in Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant work in Environmental Science. Their scholarly output includes a broad focus on Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, and Oceanography as primary subfields.

Key research topics addressed by Yehouda Enzel include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
  • Aeolian processes and effects
  • Marine and environmental studies
  • Climate variability and models
  • Soil erosion and sediment transport

Their work has been published frequently in several prominent venues, including:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
  • Geology
  • Sedimentology

Yehouda Enzel's recent publications include:

  • "Determining Bathymetry of Shallow and Ephemeral Desert Lakes Using Satellite Imagery and Altimetry," 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • "Radar-based characterisation of heavy precipitation in the eastern Mediterranean and its representation in a convection-permitting model," 2020, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • "Reduced Rainfall in Future Heavy Precipitation Events Related to Contracted Rain Area Despite Increased Rain Rate," 2021, Earth's Future
  • "Sedimentology and stratigraphy of a modern halite sequence formed under Dead Sea level fall," 2020, Sedimentology
  • "Dust storms in northern China during the last 500 years," 2021, Science China Earth Sciences

Collaborations have been frequent with several coauthors, most notably:

  • Nadav G. Lensky (18 joint publications)
  • Moshe Armon (16 joint publications)
  • Efrat Morin (15 joint publications)
  • Amit Mushkin (9 joint publications)
  • Haggai Eyal (9 joint publications)

Yehouda Enzel has been recognized as a Fellow of the Geological Society of America. Their research covers a diverse range of environmental and geological processes, with an emphasis on integrating field data, remote sensing, and modeling approaches to study phenomena related to sediment transport, precipitation patterns, and paleoclimatic conditions.

Best Publications

  • High-Resolution Holocene Environmental Changes in the Thar Desert, Northwestern India

    Y. Enzel;Lisa L. Ely;S. Mishra;R. Ramesh

  • Use of Systematic, Palaeoflood and Historical Data for the Improvement of Flood Risk Estimation. Review of Scientific Methods

    Gerardo Benito;Michel Lang;Mariano Barriendos;M. Carmen Llasat

  • A 5000-year record of extreme floods and climate change in the southwestern United States.

    Lisa L. Ely;Yehouda Enzel;Victor R. Baker;Daniel R. Cayan

  • Lake Levels and Sequence Stratigraphy of Lake Lisan, the Late Pleistocene Precursor of the Dead Sea

    Yuval Bartov;Mordechai Stein;Yehouda Enzel;Amotz Agnon

  • 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

  • Catastrophic arid episodes in the Eastern Mediterranean linked with the North Atlantic Heinrich events

    Yuval Bartov;Steven L. Goldstein;Mordechai Stein;Yehouda Enzel

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

    Ron Kahana;Baruch Ziv;Yehouda Enzel;Uri Dayan

  • Late Holocene lake levels of the Dead Sea

    R. Bookman;Y. Enzel;A. Agnon;M. Stein

  • Holocene paleoclimates of India

    Sushma Prasad;Yehouda Enzel

  • Sand dunes as a major proximal dust source for late Pleistocene loess in the Negev Desert, Israel

    Onn Crouvi;Rivka Amit;Yehouda Enzel;Naomi Porat

  • High-resolution geological record of historic earthquakes in the Dead Sea basin

    Revital Ken-Tor;Amotz Agnon;Yehouda Enzel;Mordechai Stein

  • Dynamics of Flood Water Infiltration and Ground Water Recharge in Hyperarid Desert

    Ofer Dahan;Boaz Tatarsky;Yehouda Enzel;Christoph Kulls

  • Impacts of abrupt climate changes in the Levant from Last Glacial Dead Sea levels

    Adi Torfstein;Steven L. Goldstein;Steven L. Goldstein;Mordechai Stein;Yehouda Enzel

  • Atmospheric circulation during Holocene lake stands in the Mojave Desert: evidence of regional climate change

    Yehouda Enzel;Daniel R. Cayan;Roger Y. Anderson;Stephen G. Wells

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

    Uri Dayan;Baruch Ziv;Tova Shoob;Yehouda Enzel

  • Reconciling the roles of tectonism and climate in Quaternary alluvial fan evolution

    John B. Ritter;Jerry R. Miller;Yehouda Enzel;Stephen G. Wells

  • Evolution of vertical knickpoints (waterfalls) with resistant caprock: Insights from numerical modeling

    I Haviv;Y Enzel;K. X Whipple;E. Zilberman

  • Paleoflood evidence for a natural upper bound to flood magnitudes in the Colorado River Basin

    Yehouda Enzel;Lisa L. Ely;P. Kyle House;Victor R. Baker

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

    Baruch Ziv;Uri Dayan;Yohanan Kushnir;Chaggi Roth

  • Sediment yield exceeds sediment production in arid region drainage basins

    Erik M. Clapp;Paul R. Bierman;Asher P. Schick;Judith Lekach

Frequent Co-Authors

Ofer Bar-Yosef
Ofer Bar-Yosef Harvard University
Rivka Amit
Rivka Amit Geological Survey of Israel
Efrat Morin
Efrat Morin Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Naomi Porat
Naomi Porat Physical Research Laboratory
Mordechai Stein
Mordechai Stein Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Achim Brauer
Achim Brauer University of Potsdam
Gerardo Benito
Gerardo Benito Spanish National Research Council
Yigal Erel
Yigal Erel Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Alan R. Gillespie
Alan R. Gillespie University of Washington
Ari Matmon
Ari Matmon Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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