Publications

  • T Dror, I Koren, H Liu, O Altaratz: Convective Steady State in Shallow Cloud Fields, Physical Review Letters 131 (13), 134201, 2023

  • H Liu, I Koren, O Altaratz: Observed decreasing trend in the upper-tropospheric cloud top temperature, npj Climate and Atmospheric Science 6 (1), 142, 2023

  • F Lombard, G Bourdin, S Pesant, S Agostini, A Baudena, E Boissin, ... M Flores, I Koren, A Vardi ... : Open science resources from the Tara Pacific expedition across coral reef and surface ocean ecosystems, Scientific Data 10 (1), 324, 2023

  • H Liu, I Koren, O Altaratz, MD Chekroun: Opposing trends of cloud coverage over land and ocean under global warming, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 23, 6559–6569, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-6559-2023, 2023

  • MD Chekroun, I Koren, H Liu, H Liu: Generic generation of noise-driven chaos in stochastic time delay systems: Bridging the gap with high-end simulations, Science advances 8 (46), eabq7137, 2022

  • ET Sena, I Koren, O Altaratz, AB Kostinski: Record-breaking statistics detect islands of cooling in a sea of warming, Atmospheric chemistry and physics 22 (24), 16111-16122, 2022

  • I Koren, A Kostinski, U Wollner, D Dubrovin: Faint yet widespread glories reflect microphysics of marine clouds, NPJ climate and atmospheric science 5 (1), 87, 2022

  • M Tzabari, V Holodovsky, O Shubi, E Eytan, I Koren, YY Schechner: Settings for Spaceborne 3-D Scattering Tomography of Liquid-Phase Clouds by the CloudCT Mission, IEEE transactions on geoscience and remote sensing 60, 1-16, 2022

  • Naama Lang-Yona, J Michel Flores, Rotem Haviv, Adriana Alberti, Julie Poulain, Caroline Belser, Miri Trainic, Daniella Gat, Hans-Joachim Ruscheweyh, Patrick Wincker, Shinichi Sunagawa, Yinon Rudich, Ilan Koren, Assaf Vardi: Terrestrial and marine influence on atmospheric bacterial diversity over the north Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, Communications Earth & Environment 3 (1), 121, 2022

  • T Dror, V Silverman, O Altaratz, MD Chekroun, I Koren: Uncovering the Large‐Scale Meteorology That Drives Continental, Shallow, Green Cumulus Through Supervised Classification, Geophysical research letters 49 (8), e2021GL096684, 2022

  • Y Ben-Ami, O Altaratz, I Koren, Y Yair: Allowed and forbidden zones in a Lightning-strokes spatio-temporal differential space, Environ. Res. Commun. 4 031003, 2022

  • Pinsky, M., Eytan, E., Koren, I., & Khain, A.: Convective and turbulent motions in non-precipitating Cu. Part II: LES simulated cloud represented by a starting plume, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, Jan 16, 2022

  • Eytan, E., Khain, A., Pinsky, M., Altaratz, O., Shpund, J., & Koren, I.: Shallow cumulus properties as captured by adiabatic fraction in high-resolution LES simulations, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, Jan 25, 2022

  • Altaratz, O., Koren, I., Agassi, E., Hirsch, E., Levi, Y., & Stav, N.: The environmental conditions behind the formation of small (subLCL) clouds. Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e2021GL096242, 2021

  • Manish Jangid, Amit Kumar Mishra, Ilan Koren, Chandan Sarangi, Krishan Kumar, Sachchidanand Singh and Sachchidanand Tripathi: Observation of aerosol induced 'lower tropospheric cooling' over Indian core monsoon region, Environ. Res. Lett. 16 124057, 2021

  • Eytan, E., Koren, I., Altaratz, O., Pinsky, M., and Khain, A.: Revisiting adiabatic fraction estimations in cumulus clouds: high-resolution simulations with a passive tracer, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 21, 16203–16217, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-16203-2021, 2021

  • Flores, J.M., Bourdin, G., Kostinski, A.B. … Vardi, A & Koren I: Diel cycle of sea spray aerosol concentration, Nat Commun 12, 5476. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25579-3, 2021

  • A.L. Correia, E.T. Sena, M.A.F. Silva Dias & I. Koren: Preconditioning, aerosols, and radiation control the temperature of glaciation in Amazonian clouds, Commun Earth Environ 2, 168. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-021-00250-3, 2021

  • Dror, T., Chekroun, M. D., Altaratz, O., and Koren, I.: Deciphering organization of GOES-16 green cumulus through the empirical orthogonal function (EOF) lens , Atmos. Chem. Phys., 21, 12261–12272, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-12261-2021, 2021

  • M. Tzabari, V. Holodovsky, O. Shubi, E. Eytan, O. Altaratz, I. Koren, A. Aumann, K. Schilling, Y.Y. Schechner: CloudCT 3D volumetric tomography: considerations for imager preference, comparing visible light, short-wave infrared, and polarized imagers, Proc. SPIE 11833, Polarization Science and Remote Sensing X, 1183304, https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2594134, 2021

  • E Hirsch, I Koren: Record-breaking aerosol levels explained by smoke injection into the stratosphere, Science 371 (6535), 1269-1274, 2021

  • H Liu, I Koren, O Altaratz, RH Heiblum, P Khain, X Ouyang, J Guo: Oscillations in deep-open-cells during winter Mediterranean cyclones, npj Climate and Atmospheric Science 4 (1), 1-7, 2021

  • M Pinsky, E Eytan, I Koren, O Altaratz, A Khain: Convective and turbulent motions in non-precipitating Cu. Part 1: Method of separation of convective and turbulent motions, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 2021

  • M Trainic, JM Flores, I Pinkas, ML Pedrotti, F Lombard, G Bourdin, ..., A Vardi, I Koren: Airborne microplastic particles detected in the remote marine atmosphere, Communications Earth & Environment 1 (1), 1-9, 2020

  • T Dror, JM Flores, O Altaratz, G Dagan, Z Levin, A Vardi, I Koren: Sensitivity of warm clouds to large particles in measured marine aerosol size distributions–a theoretical study, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 20 (23), 15297-15306, 2020

  • E Eytan, I Koren, O Altaratz, AB Kostinski, A Ronen: Longwave radiative effect of the cloud twilight zone, Nature Geoscience 13 (10), 669-673, 2020

  • T Dror, I Koren, O Altaratz, RH Heiblum: On the Abundance and Common Properties of Continental, Organized Shallow (Green) Clouds, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2020

  • MD Chekroun, I Koren, H Liu: Efficient reduction for diagnosing Hopf bifurcation in delay differential systems: Applications to cloud-rain models, Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science 30 (5), 053130, 2020

  • JM Flores, G Bourdin, O Altaratz, M Trainic, N Lang-Yona, E Dzimban, ..., A Vardi, I Koren: Tara Pacific Expedition’s Atmospheric Measurements of Marine Aerosols across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans: Overview and Preliminary Results, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 101 (5), E536-E554, 2020

  • G Gorsky, G Bourdin, F Lombard, ML Pedrotti, S Audrain, N Bin, E Boss, ..., I Koren, …: Expanding Tara oceans protocols for underway, ecosystemic sampling of the ocean-atmosphere interface during Tara Pacific expedition (2016–2018), Frontiers in Marine Science 6, 750, 2019

  • RH Heiblum, L Pinto, O Altaratz, G Dagan, I Koren: Core and margin in warm convective clouds–Part 2: Aerosol effects on core properties, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 19 (16), 10739-10755, 2019

  • RH Heiblum, L Pinto, O Altaratz, G Dagan, I Koren: Core and margin in warm convective clouds–Part 1: Core types and evolution during a cloud's lifetime, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 19 (16), 10717-10738, 2019

  • Huan Liu, Jianping Guo, Ilan Koren, Orit Altaratz, Guy Dagan, Yuan Wang, Jonathan H Jiang, Panmao Zhai, Yuk L Yung: Non-monotonic aerosol effect on precipitation in convective clouds over tropical oceans, Scientific reports 9 (1), 1-7, 2019

  • Pavel Khain, Reuven Heiblum, Ulrich Blahak, Yoav Levi, Harel Muskatel, Elyakom Vadislavsky, Orit Altaratz, Ilan Koren, Guy Dagan, Jacob Shpund, Alexander Khain, Parameterization of vertical profiles of governing microphysical parameters of shallow cumulus cloud ensembles using LES with bin microphysics, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 76 (2), 533-560, 2019

  • G Dagan, I Koren, O Altaratz, Y Lehahn: Shallow convective cloud field lifetime as a key factor for evaluating aerosol effects, Iscience 10, 192-202, 2018

  • Griet Neukermans, Tristan Harmel, Martí Galí, Natalia Rudorff, Jacek Chowdhary, Oleg Dubovik, Chris Hostetler, Yongxiang Hu, Cédric Jamet, Kirk Knobelspiesse, Yoav Lehahn, Pavel Litvinov, Andrew M Sayer, Brian Ward, Emmanuel Boss, Ilan Koren, Lisa A Miller, Kevin Arrigo: Harnessing remote sensing to address critical science questions on ocean-atmosphere interactions, Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene 6, 2018

  • Dagan G, Koren I, Kostinski A, Altaratz O: Organization and oscillations in simulated shallow convective clouds, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 10 (9), 2287-2299, 2018

  • Trainic M, Koren I, Sharoni S, Frada M, Segev L, Rudich Y, Vardi A: Infection Dynamics of a Bloom-Forming Alga and Its Virus Determine Airborne Coccolith Emission from Seawater, iScience 6, 327-335, 2018

  • Dror T, Lehahn Y, Altaratz O, Koren I: Temporal‐Scale Analysis of Environmental Controls on Sea Spray Aerosol Production Over the South Pacific Gyre, Geophysical Research Letters 45 (16), 8637-8646, 2018

  • Sheyn U, Rosenwasser R, Lehahn Y, Barak-Gavish N, Rotkopf R, Bidle K, Koren I, Schatz D, Vardi A: Expression profiling of host and virus during a coccolithophore bloom provides insights into the role of viral infection in promoting carbon export, The ISME journal 12 (3), 704, 2018

  • Lehahn Y, d'Ovidio F, Koren I: A Satellite-Based Lagrangian View on Phytoplankton Dynamics, Annual review of marine science 10, 99-119, 2018

  • Dagan G, Koren I and Altaratz O: Quantifying the effect of aerosol on vertical velocity and effective terminal velocity in warm convective clouds, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 18, 6761-6769, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-6761-2018, 2018

  • Dagan G, Koren I, Altaratz O, and Feingold G: Feedback mechanisms of shallow convective clouds in a warmer climate as demonstrated by changes in buoyancy, Environ. Res. Lett. 13, 054033, 2018

  • Lehahn Y, Koren I, Sharoni S, d’Ovidio F, Vardi A & Boss E: Dispersion/dilution enhances phytoplankton blooms in low-nutrient waters, Nat. Commun. 8, 14868 doi: 10.1038/ncomms14868, 2017

  • Altaratz O, Kucienska B, Kostinski A, Raga G.B and Koren I: Global association of aerosol with flash density of intense lightning, Environ. Res. Lett. 12 114037, 2017

  • Derimian Y, Choël M, Rudich Y, Deboudt K, Dubovik O, Laskin A, Legrand M, Damiri B, Koren I, Unga F, Moreau M, Andreae M. O, and Karnieli A: Effect of sea breeze circulation on aerosol mixing state and radiative properties in a desert setting, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 17, 11331-11353, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-11331-2017, 2017

  • Chen Q, Koren I, Altaratz O, Heiblum R H, Dagan G, and Pinto L: How do changes in warm-phase microphysics affect deep convective clouds?, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 17, 9585-9598, doi: 10.5194/acp-17-9585-2017, 2017

  • Dagan G, Koren I, Altaratz O, and Heiblum R H: Time-dependent, non-monotonic response of warm convective cloud fields to changes in aerosol loading, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 17, 7435-7444, doi: 10.5194/acp-17-7435-2017, 2017

  • Sarangi C, Tripathi S N, Kanawade V P, Koren I, and Pai D S: Investigation of the aerosol–cloud–rainfall association over the Indian summer monsoon region, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 17, 5185-5204, doi: 10.5194/acp-17-5185-2017, 2017

  • Koren I, Tziperman E and Feingold G: Exploring the Nonlinear Cloud and Rain Equation, Chaos 27, 013107, doi: 10.1063/1.4973593, 2017

  • Hirsch E, Koren I, Altaratz O, Levin Z and Agassi E: Enhanced humidity pockets originating in the mid boundary layer as a mechanism of cloud formation below the lifting condensation level, Environ. Res. Lett. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/aa5ba4 2017

  • Heiblum RH, Koren I, Altaratz O, and Kostinski A B: The Consistent Behavior of Tropical Rain: Average Reflectivity Vertical Profiles Determined by Rain Top Height, J. Hydrometeor., 18, 591–609, doi: 10.1175/JHM-D-16-0078.1 2017

  • Dagan G, Koren I, Altaratz O, and Heiblum RH: Aerosol effect on the evolution of the thermodynamic properties of warm convective cloud fields, Sci. Rep. 6, 38769; doi: 10.1038/srep38769 2016

  • Gufan A, Lehahn Y, Fredj E, Price C, Kurchin R & Koren I: Segmentation and Tracking of Marine Cellular Clouds observed by Geostationary Satellites, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 37:5, 1055-1068, 2016

  • Heiblum RH, Altaratz O, Koren I, Feingold G, Kostinski AB, Khain AP, Ovchinnikov M, Fredj E, Dagan G, Pinto L, Yaish R, Chen Q: Characterization of cumulus cloud fields using trajectories in the center-of-gravity vs. water mass phase space. Part I: Cloud tracking and phase space description, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 121, 6336–6355, doi:10.1002/2015JD024186, 2016

  • Heiblum RH, Altaratz O, Koren I, Feingold G, Kostinski AB, Khain AP, Ovchinnikov M, Fredj E, Dagan G, Pinto L, Yaish R, Chen Q: Characterization of cumulus cloud fields using trajectories in the center-of-gravity vs. water mass phase space. Part II: Aerosol effects on warm convective clouds, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 121, 6356–6373, doi:10.1002/2015JD024193, 2016

  • Mishra, A. K., Y. Rudich, and I. Koren: Spatial boundaries of Aerosol Robotic Network observations over the Mediterranean basin, Geophys. Res. Lett., 43, 2259–2266, doi:10.1002/ 2015GL067630, 2016

  • Tubul Y, Koren I, and Altaratz O: The tropical Atlantic surface wind divergence belt and its effect on clouds, Earth Syst. Dynam., 6, 781-788, doi:10.5194/esd-6-781-2015, 2015

  • Ben Ami, Y., Altaratz, O., Yair, Y., and Koren, I: Lightning characteristics over the eastern coast of the Mediterranean during different synoptic systems, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 15, 2449-2459, doi:10.5194/nhess-15-2449-2015, 2015

  • Mishra AK, Koren I, Rudich Y: Effect of aerosol vertical distribution on aerosol-radiation interaction: A theoretical prospect, Heliyon, e00036, 2015

  • Koren I, Altaratz O and Dagan G: Aerosol effect on the mobility of cloud droplets, Environ. Res. Lett. 10 104011, 2015

  • Dagan, G., Koren, I., and Altaratz, O: Aerosol effects on the timing of warm rain processes, Geophys. Res. Lett., 42, doi:10.1002/2015GL063839, 2015

  • Sharoni S., M. Trainic, D. Schatz, Y. Lehahn, J.M. Flores, K. D. Bidle, S. Ben-Dor, Y. Rudich, I. Koren, A.Vardi, Infection of phytoplankton by aerosolized marine viruses, Published online before print May 11, 2015, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1423667112 PNAS May 11, 2015

  • Dagan G, Koren I, and Altaratz O: Competition between core and periphery-based processes in warm convective clouds – from invigoration to suppression, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 15, 2749-2760, doi:10.5194/acp-15-2749-2015, 2015

  • Feingold G, Koren I, Yamaguchi T and Kazil J: On the reversibility of transitions between closed and open cellular convection, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 15, 7351-7367, doi:10.5194/acp-15-7351-2015, 2015

  • Hirsch E, Koren I, Altaratz O and Agassi E, On the properties and radiative effects of small convective clouds during the eastern Mediterranean summer, Environ. Res. Lett. 10 044006, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/10/4/044006, 2015

  • Mishra A K, Lehahn Y, Rudich Y, and Koren I: Co-variability of smoke and fire in the Amazon Basin, Atmospheric Environment, Vol. 109, May 2015, Pages 97-104, doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2015.03.007, 2015

  • Tas, E., Teller, A., Altaratz, O., Axisa, D., Bruintjes, R., Levin, Z., and Koren, I.: The relative dispersion of cloud droplets: its robustness with respect to key cloud properties, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 15, 2009-2017, doi:10.5194/acp-15-2009-2015, 2015

  • Fuzzi, S., Baltensperger, U., Carslaw, K., Decesari, S., Denier van der Gon, H., Facchini, M. C., Fowler, D., Koren, I., Langford, B., Lohmann, U., Nemitz, E., Pandis, S., Riipinen, I., Rudich, Y., Schaap, M., Slowik, J. G., Spracklen, D. V., Vignati, E., Wild, M., Williams, M., and Gilardoni, S.: Particulate matter, air quality and climate: lessons learned and future needs, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 15, 8217-8299, doi:10.5194/acp-15-8217-2015, 2015

  • Snider, G., Weagle, C. L., Martin, R. V., van Donkelaar, A., Conrad, K., Cunningham, D., Gordon, C., Zwicker, M., Akoshile, C., Artaxo, P., Anh, N. X., Brook, J., Dong, J., Garland, R. M., Greenwald, R., Griffith, D., He, K., Holben, B. N., Kahn, R., Koren, I., Lagrosas, N., Lestari, P., Ma, Z., Vanderlei Martins, J., Quel, E. J., Rudich, Y., Salam, A., Tripathi, S. N., Yu, C., Zhang, Q., Zhang, Y., Brauer, M., Cohen, A., Gibson, M. D., and Liu, Y.: SPARTAN: a global network to evaluate and enhance satellite-based estimates of ground-level particulate matter for global health applications, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 8, 505-521, doi:10.5194/amt-8-505-2015, 2015

  • Koren, I., G. Dagan, and O. Altaratz: From aerosol-limited to invigoration of warm convective clouds, Science, 344(6188), 1143-1146, 2014

  • Altaratz, O., I. Koren, L. A. Remer, and E. Hirsch: Review: Cloud invigoration by aerosols—Coupling between microphysics and dynamics, Atmospheric Research, 140–141(0), 38-60, 2014

  • Wollner U., Koren I., Altaratz O. and Remer A.L.: On the signature of the cirrus twilight zone, Environmental Research Letters 9, 094010, 2014

  • Lehahn, Y., Koren, I., Schatz, D., Frada, M., Sheyn, U., Boss, E., Efrati, S., Rudich, Y., Trainic, M., Sharoni, S., Laber, C., DiTullio, Giacomo R., Coolen, Marco J.L., Martins, Ana M., Van Mooy, Benjamin A.S., Bidle, Kay D., Vardi, A., Decoupling Physical from Biological Processes to Assess the Impact of Viruses on a Mesoscale Algal Bloom, Current Biology, doi:10.1016/j.cub2014.07.046, 2014

  • Hirsch, E., Koren, I., Levin, Z., Altaratz, O., and Agassi, E.: On transition-zone water clouds, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 14, 9001-9012, doi:10.5194/acp-14-9001-2014, 2014

  • Heiblum, R. H., Koren, I., and Feingold, G.: On the link between Amazonian forest properties and shallow cumulus cloud fields, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 14, 6063-6074, doi:10.5194/acp-14-6063-2014, 2014

  • Lehahn, Y., I. Koren, Y. Rudich, K. D. Bidle, M. Trainic, J. M. Flores, S. Sharoni, and A. Vardi: Decoupling atmospheric and oceanic factors affecting aerosol loading over a cluster of mesoscale North Atlantic eddies, Geophys. Res. Lett., 41, doi:10.1002/2014GL059738, 2014

  • Mishra, A. K., Klingmueller, K., Fredj, E., Lelieveld, J., Rudich, Y., and Koren, I.: Radiative signature of absorbing aerosol over the eastern Mediterranean basin, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 14, 7213-7231, doi:10.5194/acp-14-7213-2014, 2014

  • van Creveld, S.G., Rosenwasser, S., Schatz, D., Koren, I., Vardi, A.: Early perturbation in mitochondria redox homeostasis in response to environmental stress predicts cell fate in diatoms, ISME J., advance online publication 1 August 2014; doi: 10.1038/ismej.2014.136, 2014

  • Lee, S.-S., Feingold, G., McComiskey, A., Yamaguchi, T., Koren, I., Martins, J.V., Yu, H., Effect of gradients in biomass burning aerosol on shallow cumulus convective circulations, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 119, 9948–9964, doi:10.1002/2014JD021819 2014

  • Frada, Miguel J., Schatz, D., Farstey, V., Ossolinski, Justin E., Sabanay, H., Ben-Dor, S., Koren, I., Vardi, A., Zooplankton May Serve as Transmission Vectors for Viruses Infecting Algal Blooms in the Ocean, Current Biology 24, 2592-2597 2014

  • Koren, I. & Feingold, G.: Adaptive behavior of marine cellular clouds, Sci. Rep. 3, 2507; DOI:10.1038/srep02507, 2013

  • Feingold, G. and Koren, I.: A model of coupled oscillators applied to the aerosol cloud–precipitation system, Nonlin. Processes Geophys., 20, 1011-1021, doi:10.5194/npg-20-1011-2013, 2013

  • Altaratz, O., R. Z. Bar-Or, U. Wollner, and I. Koren: Relative humidity and its effect on aerosol optical depth in the vicinity of convective clouds, Environmental Research Letters, 8(3), 034025, 2013

  • Gabriela Adler, Thomas Koop, Carynelisa Haspel, Ilya Taraniuk, Tamar Moise, Ilan Koren, Reuven H Heiblum, Yinon Rudich: Formation of highly porous aerosol particles by atmospheric freeze-drying in ice clouds, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110 (51), 20414-20419, 2013

  • Koren, I., Altaratz, O., Remer, L. A., Feingold, G., Martins, J. V., and Heiblum, R. H.: Aerosol-induced intensification of rain from the tropics to the mid-latitudes, Nature Geosci, 5, 118-122, 2012

  • Hirsch, E., Agassi, E., and Koren, I.: Determination of optical and microphysical properties of thin warm clouds using ground based hyper-spectral analysis, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 5, 851-871, doi:10.5194/amt-5-851-2012, 2012

  • Heiblum, R. H., Koren I., and O. Altaratz: New evidence of cloud invigoration from TRMM measurements of rain center of gravity, Geophys. Res. Lett., 39, L08803, doi:10.1029/2012GL051158, 2012

  • Bar-Or, R.Z., Koren, I., Altaratz, O., Fredj, E.: Radiative properties of humidified aerosols in cloudy environment, Atmospheric Research 118, 280-294, 2012

  • Tas, E., Koren I., and O. Altaratz: On the sensitivity of droplet size relative dispersion to warm cumulus cloud evolution, Geophys. Res. Lett., 39, L13807, doi:10.1029/2012GL052157, 2012

  • Michel Flores, J., Bar-Or, R. Z., Bluvshtein, N., Abo-Riziq, A., Kostinski, A., Borrmann, S., Koren, I., Koren, I., and Rudich, Y.: Absorbing aerosols at high relative humidity: linking hygroscopic growth to optical properties, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 12, 5511-5521, doi:10.5194/acp-12-5511-2012, 2012

  • Ben-Ami, Y., Koren, I., Altaratz, O., Kostinski, A., and Lehahn, Y.: Discernible rhythm in the spatio/temporal distributions of transatlantic dust, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 12, 2253-2262, doi:10.5194/acp-12-2253-2012, 2012

  • Davidi, A., A. B. Kostinski, Koren I., and Y. Lehahn: Observational bounds on atmospheric heating by aerosol absorption: Radiative signature of transatlantic dust, Geophys. Res. Lett., 39, L04803, doi:10.1029/2011GL050358, 2012

  • Heiblum, R. H., Koren, I., and Altaratz, O.: Analyzing coastal precipitation using TRMM observations, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 11, 13201-13217, doi:10.5194/acp-11-13201-2011, 2011

  • Koren, I. and G. Feingold: Aerosol-cloud-precipitation system as a predator-prey problem, (PNAS) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 108(30): 12227-12232, 2011

  • Y. Lehahn, Koren I., O. Altaratz, and A. B. Kostinski: Effect of coarse marine aerosols on stratocumulus clouds, Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, L20804, doi:10.1029/2011GL048504, 2011

  • Martins, J. V., Marshak, A., Remer, L. A., Rosenfeld, D., Kaufman, Y. J., Fernandez-Borda, R., Koren, I., Correia, A. L., Zubko, V., and Artaxo, P.: Remote sensing the vertical profile of cloud droplet effective radius, thermodynamic phase, and temperature, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 11, 9485-9501, doi:10.5194/acp-11-9485-2011, 2011

  • Bar-Or, R. Z., Altaratz, O., and Koren, I.: Global analysis of cloud field coverage and radiative properties, using morphological methods and MODIS observations, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 11, 191-200, doi:10.5194/acp-11-191-2011, 2011

  • Chudnovsky A., A. Kostinski, L. Herrmann, I. Koren, G. Nutesku, E. Ben-Dor, Hyperspectral spaceborne imaging of dust-laden flows: Anatomy of Saharan dust storm from the Bodele Depression, Remote Sensing of Environment, Volume 115, Issue 4, Pages 1013-1024, ISSN 0034-4257, DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2010.12.006, 2011

  • Hirsch, E., Agassi, E., and Koren, I.: A novel technique for extracting clouds base height using ground based imaging, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 4, 117-130, doi:10.5194/amt-4-117-2011, 2011

  • Koren, I., Feingold, G., and Remer, L. A.: The invigoration of deep convective clouds over the Atlantic: aerosol effect, meteorology or retrieval artifact?, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 10, 8855-8872, doi:10.5194/acp-10-8855-2010, 2010

  • Ben-Ami, Y., Koren, I., Rudich, Y., Artaxo, P., Martin, S. T., and Andreae, M. O.: Transport of North African dust from the Bodélé depression to the Amazon Basin: a case study, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 10, 7533-7544, doi:10.5194/acp-10-7533-2010, 2010

  • Feingold, G., Koren, I, Wang, HL, Xue, HW, Brewer, WA, Precipitation-generated oscillations in open cellular cloud fields, NATURE, 466 (7308): 849-852, DOI: 10.1038/nature09314 2010

  • Lehahn, Y., Koren, I., Boss, E., Ben-Ami, Y., and Altaratz, O.: Estimating the maritime component of aerosol optical depth and its dependency on surface wind speed using satellite data, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 10, 6711-6720, doi:10.5194/acp-10-6711-2010, 2010

  • Koren, I., Remer, L. A., Altaratz, O., Martins, J. V., and Davidi, A.: Aerosol-induced changes of convective cloud anvils produce strong climate warming, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 10, 5001-5010, doi:10.5194/acp-10-5001-2010, 2010

  • Altaratz, O., I. Koren, Y. Yair, and C. Price, Lightning response to smoke from Amazonian fires, Geophys. Res. Lett., 37, L07801, doi:10.1029/2010GL042679, 2010

  • Bar-Or Z.R., Koren I. and Altaratz O., Estimating cloud field coverage using morphological analysis, Environ. Res. Lett. 5, 014022 doi:10.1088/1748-9326/5/1/014022, 2010

  • Koren I, Feingold G, Jiang HL, Altaratz O, Aerosol effects on the inter-cloud region of a small cumulus cloud field, Geophys. Res. Lett., DOI: 10.1029/2009GL037424, 2009

  • Davidi, A., Koren, I., and Remer, L.: Direct measurements of the effect of biomass burning over the Amazon on the atmospheric temperature profile, Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., 9, 12007-12025, doi:10.5194/acpd-9-12007-2009, 2009

  • Ben-Ami, Y., Koren, I., and Altaratz, O, Patterns of North African dust transport over the Atlantic: winter vs. summer, based on CALIPSO first year data, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 9, 7867-7875, 2009

  • Chudnovsky, a., E. Ben-Dor, a. B. Kostinski, and I. Koren, Mineral content analysis of atmospheric dust using hyperspectral information from space, Geophysical Research Letters, 36(15), 1-5, doi:10.1029/2009GL037922, 2009

  • ‪Jiang HL, Feingold G, Koren I, Effect of aerosol on trade cumulus cloud morphology,J. Geophys. Res., DOI: 10.1029/2009JD011750, 2009

  • Koren, I., Wang C, (EDITORIAL) Cloud-rain interactions: as complex as it gets, Environ. Res. Lett., DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/3/4/045018, 2009

  • Koren, I., L. A. Remer, K. Longo, F. Brown, and R. Lindsey, Reply to comment by W. Schroeder et al. on “Reversal of trend of biomass burning in the Amazon”, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L03807, doi:10.1029/2008GL036063 2009

  • Laj P, et al. Measuring atmospheric composition chang, Atmospheric Environment, Volume 43, Issue 33, doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2009.08.020, 2009

  • Koren, I., Altaratz, O., Feingold, G., Levin, Z., and Reisin, T.: Cloud's center of gravity – a compact approach to analyze convective cloud development, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 9, 155-161, 2009

  • Koren I., Martins J.V., L.A. Remer, H. Afargan, Smoke Invigoration Versus Inhibition of Clouds over the Amazon, Science, 15 August, Vol. 321. no. 5891, pp. 946 – 949 DOI: 10.1126/science.1159185 2008

  • Altaratz, O., I. Koren, and T. Reisin, Humidity impact on the aerosol effect in warm cumulus clouds, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L17804, doi:10.1029/2008GL034178, 2008

  • Koren, I., Oreopoulos, L., Feingold, G., Remer, L. A., and Altaratz, O.: How small is a small cloud?,Atmos. Chem. Phys., 8, 3855-3864, 2008

  • Altaratz, O., Koren, I., Reisin, T., Kostinski, A., Feingold, G., Levin, Z., and Yin, Y.: Aerosols' influence on the interplay between condensation, evaporation and rain in warm cumulus cloud, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 8, 15-24, 2008

  • Remer, L. A., R. G. Kleidman, R. C. Levy, Y. J. Kaufman, D. Tanre, S. Mattoo, J. V. Martins, C. Ichoku, I. Koren, H. Yu, and B. N. Holben, Global aerosol climatology from the MODIS satellite sensors.,J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029/2007JD009661, 2008

  • Joseph, J. H., O. Yaron, E. Yaroslavich, P. Israelevich, I. Koren, Y. Yair, A. Devir, and P. Kishcha, Determination of Most Probable Height of Desert Dust Aerosol Layer from Space, J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029/2007JD009646, 2008

  • Derimian, Y., Karnieli, A., Kaufman, Y. J., Andreae, M. O., Andreae, T. W., Dubovik, O., Maenhaut, W., and Koren, I.: The role of iron and black carbon in aerosol light absorption, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 8, 3623-3637, 2008

  • ‪Todd M.C., D. Bou Karam, C. Cavazos, C. Bouet, B. Heinold, J.M. Baldasano, G. Cautenet, I. Koren, C. Perez, F. Solmon, I. Tegen, P. Tulet, R. Washington and A. Zakey, Quantifying uncertainty in estimates of mineral dust flux: an inter-comparison of model performance over the Bodélé Depression,Northern Chad, J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029/2008JD010476, 2008

  • Koren, I., L. A. Remer, and K. Longo, Reversal of trend of biomass burning in the Amazon, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L20404, doi:10.1029/2007GL031530, 2007

  • Koren, I., L. A. Remer, Y. J. Kaufman, Y. Rudich, and J. V. Martins, On the twilight zone between clouds and aerosols, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L08805, doi:10.1029/2007GL029253, 2007

  • Gian Paolo Gobbi, Yoram J. Kaufman, Ilan Koren and Tom F. Eck, Classification of Aerosol Properties Derived from AERONET Direct Sun Data,Atmos. Chem. Phys, 7, 453-458 Jan 25 2007

  • Koren I., Yoram J Kaufman, Richard Washington, Martin Todd, Yinon Rudich, Vanderlei J. Martins, Daniel Rosenfeld, The Bodélé Depression – A single spot in the Sahara that provides most of the mineral dust to the Amazon forest, Environ. Res. Lett. 1 014005 (5pp) doi:10.1088/1748-9326/1/1/014005, 2006

  • Kaufman Y.J. and Koren I., Smoke and pollution aerosol effect on cloud cover, Science vol. 313 08-04-2006, Published online 13 July 2006; 10.1126/science.1126232, 2006

  • Lohmann Ulrike, Ilan Koren, and Yoram J. Kaufman Disentangling the role of microphysical and dynamical effects in determining cloud properties over the Atlantic,GRL 33, L09802, doi:10.1029/2005GL024625, 2006

  • Rosenfeld D., Y. J. Kaufman, and I. Koren, Switching cloud cover and dynamical regimes from open to closed Benard cells in response to the suppression of precipitation by aerosols, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 6, 2503–2511, 2006

  • Kaufman, Y. J., G. P. Gobbi, and I. Koren, Aerosol climatology using a tunable spectral variability cloud screening of AERONET data, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L07817, doi:10.1029/2005GL025478, 2006

  • Washington R., M C Todd, G Lizcano, I Tegen, C Flamant, I Koren, P Ginoux, S Engelstaedter, C.S. Bristow, Charles S Zender, A Goudie, A Warren and Joseph M Prospero, Links between topography, wind, deflation, lakes and dust: The case of the Bodélé Depression, Chad, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L09401, doi:10.1029/2006GL025827, 2006

  • Derimian, Y., A. Karnieli, Y. J. Kaufman, M. O. Andreae, T. W. Andreae, O. Dubovik, W. Maenhaut, I. Koren, and B. Holben, Dust and pollution aerosols over the Negev desert, Israel: Properties, transport, and radiative effect. J. Geophys. Res. 111, D05205, doi: 10.1029/2005/D006549 2006

  • Koren, I., Y. J. Kaufman, D. Rosenfeld, L. A. Remer, and Y. Rudich, Aerosol invigoration and restructuring of Atlantic convective clouds. Geophys. Res. Lett., Vol 32, LI4828, doi: 10.1029/2005GL023187, 2005

  • Kaufman Y. J., Ilan Koren, Lorraine A. Remer, Daniel Rosenfeld and Yinon Rudich, The Effect of Smoke, Dust and Pollution Aerosol on Shallow Cloud Development Over the Atlantic Ocean, PNAS 2005 102 (32) 11207-11212; published ahead of print August 2, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0505191102, 2005

  • Kaufman Y. J., Koren I., L.A. Remer, D. Tanré, P. Ginoux and S. Fan, Dust transport and deposition observed from the Terra-MODIS space observations, J. Geophys. Res., 110, D10S12, doi:10.1029/2003JD004436 2005

  • J. I. Brennan, Y. J. Kaufman, I. Koren and R. R. Li, Aerosol-cloud interaction-misclassification of MODIS clouds in heavy aerosol, Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Transactions on , vol.43, no.4, pp. 911, doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2005.844662, 2005

  • Kaufman, Y. J., L. A. Remer, D. Tanre, R.-R. Li, R. Kleidman, S. Mattoo, R. Levy, T. Eck, B. N. Holben, C. Ichoku, J. Martins, and I. Koren, 2005: A critical examination of the residual cloud contamination and diurnal sampling effects on MODIS estimates of aerosol over ocean. Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Transactions on , vol.43, no.12, pp. 2886- 2897, doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2005.858430, 2005

  • Koren I., Y. J. Kaufman, L. A. Remer and J.V. Martins, 2004, Measurement of the Effect of Amazon Smoke on Inhibition of Cloud Formation,Science 303, 1342-1345, 2004

  • Koren, Ilan; Kaufman, Yoram J. Direct wind measurements of Saharan dust events from Terra and Aqua satellites, Geophys. Res. Lett., 31 (6), doi:10.1029/2003GL019338, 2004

  • Koren I., Joseph, J. H. and P. Israelevich, 2003, Detection of dust plumes and their sources in northeastern Libya, Can.J. Remote Sensing, Vol. 29, No. 6, pp. 792–796, 2003

  • Koren I. and Joseph, J. H., Morphological component analysis for feature detection in satellite images, Advances in Techniques for Analysis of Remotely Sensed Data, 2003 IEEE, vol., no., pp. 70- 72, 27-28 Oct. 2003 doi: 10.1109/WARSD.2003.1295174, 2003

  • Koren, Ilan; Ganor, Eliezer; Joseph, Joachim H.,On the relation between size and shape of desert dust aerosol, J. Geophys. Res. Vol. 106, No. D16, p. 18,047-18,054, 2001

  • Koren, I., Joseph, J. H., The histogram of the brightness distribution of clouds in high resolution remotely sensed images,J. Geophys. Res. Vol. 105 , No. D24 , p. 29,369, 2000

  • Loewenthal, D., Buchen, P., Kagansky, A., and Koren I., Zero-Moveout (ZMO) Stacking, Geophysics, 64, 567-571, 1999