Prof. Dorita Rostkier Edelstein
Mesoscale and Planetary Boundary-Layer Meteorology, Mesoscale Numerical Weather-Prediction (from hours to seasons), Mesoscale Numerical Climate-Prediction, Impact of Weather and Climate on Environmental Applications: Urban Planning, Air Pollution, Dust Storms, Renewable Energies, Water Resources and Agriculture.
- Research Methods
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Dynamical Mesoscale Modeling:
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The Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) limited-area model including the following extensions:
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WRF-Chem: On-line coupled meteorology, atmospheric chemistry and mineral dust
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WRF-Urban: Detailed urban canopy modules
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MAD-WRF: Multi-sensor Advection Diffusion algorithm for advanced satellite cloud-initialization
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WRF-SCM: Single Column Model
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WRF-3DVAR, WRF-4DVar and WRF-EnKF: data assimilation suites based on 3- and 4-Dimensional Variational and Ensemble Kalman Filter algorithms
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The Model for Prediction Across Scales (MPAS) global model with high-resolution zoom-in capabilities
Statistical modeling:
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Statistical downscaling using analogues and weather-regimes based algorithms
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- Research Students
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- Dr. Anton Gelman: Post-doc position
Subject: Improvement of numerical weather prediction over the Eastern Mediterranean trough clouds-data assimilation and machine learning techniques
Email: anton.gelman@mail.huji.ac.il
- Dr. Ilya Livshits: Researcher
Subject: Development of an advanced model for dust forecasts over the Eastern Mediterranean
Email: ilivsh@gmail.com
- Borys Beznoshchenko: Ph.D. candidate with Dr. Eran Tas (Faculty of Agriculture) and Prof. Erick Fredj (Love Institute)
Email: Borys.Beznoshchenko@mail.huji.ac.il
- Yoav Rubin: Ph.D. candidate with Prof. Pinhas Alpert (TAU)
Subject: Use of microwave cellular links to measure atmospheric moisture and to improve numerical weather prediction
Email: rubin.yoav@gmail.com
- Contact
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Lab Lead: Prof. Dorita Rostkier-Edelstein
Email: dorita.rostkier-edelstein@mail.huji.ac.il