Prof. Pinhas Alpert

The Mikhael M. Nebenzahl & Amalia Grossberg

Tel-Aviv University, Israel

Chair Professor in Geodynamics

Email: pinhas@tauex.tau.ac.il

Qualifications

1980 Ph.D., Atmospheric Sciences Department, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

1972 M.Sc., Physics-Electro-optics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

1970 B.Sc., Mathematics-Physics and Computer, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Publications (Selected)

1. Alpert P, Ben‐Gai T, Baharad A, Benjamini Y, Yekutieli D, Colacino M, et al., The paradoxical increase of Mediterranean extreme daily rainfall in spite of decrease in total values, Geophysical research letters, 29(11), 31-1-31-4, 2002.
2. Lionello P, Malanotte-Rizzoli P, Boscolo R, Alpert P, Artale V, Li L, et al., The Mediterranean climate: an overview of the main characteristics and issues, Developments in Earth and Environmental Sciences, 4, 1-26, 2006.
3. Stein U, Alpert P, Factor separation in numerical simulations, Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, 50(14), 2107-2115, 1993.
4. Messer H, Zinevich A, Alpert P, Environmental monitoring by wireless communication networks, Science, 312(5774), 713-713, 2006.
5. Alpert P, Neeman BU, Shay-El Y, Climatological analysis of Mediterranean cyclones using ECMWF data, Tellus A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography, 42(1), 65-77, 1990.
6. Drobinski P, Ducrocq V, Alpert P, Anagnostou E, Béranger K, Borga M, et al., HyMeX: A 10-year multidisciplinary program on the Mediterranean water cycle, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 95(7), 1063-1082, 2014.
7. Alpert P, Osetinsky I, Ziv B, Shafir H, Semi‐objective classification for daily synoptic systems: Application to the eastern Mediterranean climate change, International Journal of Climatology: A Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 2004.
8. Mariotti A, Zeng N, Yoon JH, Artale V, Navarra A, Alpert P, Li LZX, et al., Mediterranean water cycle changes: transition to drier 21st century conditions in observations and CMIP3 simulations, Environmental Research Letters, 3(4), 044001, 2008.
9. Ziv B, Saaroni H, Alpert P, The factors governing the summer regime of the eastern Mediterranean, International Journal of Climatology: A Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 2004.
10. Alpert P, Krichak SO, Shafir H, Haim D, Osetinsky I, Climatic trends to extremes employing regional modeling and statistical interpretation over the E. Mediterranean, Global and Planetary Change, 63(2-3), 163-170, 2008.
11. Zittis G, Almazroui M, Alpert P, Ciais P, Cramer W, Dahdal Y, Fnais M, et al., Climate change and weather extremes in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East, Reviews of Geophysics, 60(3), e2021RG000762, 2022.
12. Alpert P, Ziv B, The Sharav cyclone: observations and some theoretical considerations, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 94(D15), 18495-18514, 1989.
13. Alpert P, Kaufman YJ, Shay-El Y, Tanre D, Da Silva A, Schubert S, et al., Quantification of dust-forced heating of the lower troposphere, Nature, 395(6700), 367-370, 1998.
14. Alpert P, Kishcha P, Kaufman YJ, Schwarzbard R, Global dimming or local dimming?: Effect of urbanization on sunlight availability, Geophysical Research Letters, 32(17), 2005.
15. Alpert P, Osetinsky I, Ziv B, Shafir H, A new seasons definition based on classified daily synoptic systems: an example for the eastern Mediterranean, International Journal of Climatology: A Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 2004.
16. Krichak SO, Alpert P, Decadal trends in the east Atlantic-west Russia pattern and Mediterranean precipitation, International Journal of Climatology, 25(2), 183-192, 2005.
17. Alpert P, Neeman BU, Shay-El Y, Intermonthly variability of cyclone tracks in the Mediterranean, Journal of Climate, 3(12), 1474-1478, 1990.
18. Price C, Stone L, Huppert A, Rajagopalan B, Alpert P, A possible link between El Nino and precipitation in Israel, Geophysical Research Letters, 25(21), 3963-3966, 1998.
19. Trigo R, Xoplaki E, Zorita E, Luterbacher J, Krichak SO, Alpert P, et al., Relations between variability in the Mediterranean region and mid-latitude variability, Developments in Earth and Environmental Sciences, 4, 179-226, 2006.
20. Ben-Gai T, Bitan A, Manes A, Alpert P, Rubin S, Spatial and temporal changes in rainfall frequency distribution patterns in Israel, Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 61, 177-190, 1998.

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Web of Science ResearcherID: EMA-0460-2022