Group

Prof. Ori Adam

Climate Dynamics Group 

Academic head of the Hebrew University Climate Science Center (HUCS)

Academic head of the Hebrew University Research Computing Services (HURCS) 

2022-2023 Research associate at the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (University of Miami) 

2016 ≤  The Hebrew University. Associate Professor

2013 – 2016 ETH Zürich. Postdoc (Prof. Tapio Schneider)

2011 – 2013 Tel-Aviv University. Postdoc (Prof. Nili Harnik)

2005 – 2011 Ph.D.  Atmospheric Dynamics. The Hebrew University (Prof. Nathan Paldor)

2002 – 2004 M.Sc. Astrophysics. The Hebrew University

1997 – 2001 B.Sc. Physics. City College of New York


Current group members


Dr. Ignasi Vallés Casanova

Postdoc

Research: Effect of Sharan dust on tropical Atlantic variability

 


 

Sreerag Sudheendran

Ph.D. Candidate

Research: Understanding the Ocean’s role in the seasonal cycle of the ITCZ

 


Shubham Pachpor

Ph.D. Candidate (co-advised by Ehud Strobach and Nadav Lensky)

Research: Effect of the Sea of Galilee on local meteorology.

 


Maya Shourky

M.Sc. 

Research: Using Lagrangian back trajectories to identify the origin of ENSO heat anomalies.


Noam Cohen

Pre-M.Sc.

Research: Energetic constraints on the intensity of the coupled ocean-atmosphere circulation.


Ofer Cohen

M.Sc

Research: Importance of coupled processes to sub-seasonal forecasting in the eastern Mediterranean.  


Past group members


Amita Kumar

Postdoc

Research: Improving sub-seasonal forecasts in the Eastern Mediterranean by implementing idealized coupled ocean-atmosphere processes in numerical weather prediction models.  


Moran Erez

M.Sc.

Research: Transient response of the tropical rain belt to volcanic events.

 


Ofir Ariel

M.Sc.

Research: Lagrangian trajectories in the wind-driven ocean circulation.

 


Maya Samuels

M.Sc.

Research: Dynamic and energetic constraints on the Pacific thermocline.

 



Eilat Elbaum

M.Sc.

Research: Relating large-scale and local processes driving eastern-Mediterranean precipitation changes


Noga Liberty

Undergrad

Research topic: Revisiting Riehl’s definition of the width of the tropics

 



Hilla Afargan-Gerstman

Postdoc

Research: Zonally asymmetric variations of the mean overturning circulation


Giora Hasson

Undergrad

Research: Coupled tropical ocean-atmosphere dynamics in an idealised shallow water model


Shuyan Lu

Undergrad

Visiting student, Zhejiang University, China

Research: The expansion of tropical climate under global warming


Arnon Ben-Levy

Undergrad

Research: Axi-symmetric anti-Hadley circulation