Hezi Gildor - Publications:

Journal Publications

  1. Gildor, H., and E. Tziperman, Sea ice as the glacial cycles' climate switch: Role of seasonal and orbital forcing, Paleoceanography, 15, 605-615, 2000. download
  2. Gildor, H., and E. Tziperman, A sea ice climate switch mechanism for the 100-kyr glacial cycles, J. Geophys. Res., 106, 9117-9133, 2001. download
  3. Gildor, H., and E. Tziperman, Physical mechanisms behind biogeochemical glacial-interglacial CO2 variations, Geophys. Res. Lett., 28, 2421-2424, 2001. download
  4. Gildor, H., and M. Ghil, Phase relations between climate proxy records: Potential effect of seasonal precipitation changes, Geophys. Res. Lett., 10.1029/2001GL013781, 2002. download  
  5. Gildor, H., E. Tziperman, and J.R.Toggweiler, Sea ice switch mechanism and glacial-interglacial CO2 variations, Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 16, 10.1029/2001GB001446, 2002. download
  6. Tziperman, E. and H. Gildor, The stabilization of the thermohaline circulation by the temperature-precipitation feedback, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 32, 2704-2714, 2002.  download
  7. Crosta, X., A. Shemesh, M.E. Salvignac, H. Gildor, and R. Yam, Late Quaternary variations of elemental ratio (C/Si and N/Si) in diatom-bound organic matter from the Southern Ocean, Deep Sea Research Part I I, 49(9-10), 1939-1952, 2002.
  8. Gildor, H. and M. Follows, Two-way interaction between ocean biota and climate mediated by biogeochemical cycles, Israel Journal of Chemistry, 42, 15-27, 2002 (special issue on Environmental Chemistry). download
  9. Tziperman, E. and H. Gildor, The mid-Pleistocene 41 kyr to 100 kyr glacial cycle transition, and the source of asymmetry between glaciation and deglaciation times, Paleoceanography, 18, 10.1029/2001PA000627, 2003.  download
  10. Gildor, H., A.H. Sobel, M.A. Cane, and R.N. Sambrotto, A role for ocean biota in the genesis of tropical intraseasonal atmospheric variability, Geophys. Res. Lett., 30, 1460, 10.1029/2002GL016759, 2003. download
  11. Timmermann, A., H. Gildor, M. Schulz, and E.Tziperman, Coherent resonant millennial-scale climate oscillations triggered by glacial meltwater pulses, J. Climate, 16, 2569-2585, 2003. download
  12. Sobel, A.H. and H. Gildor, A simple time-dependent model of SST hot spots, J. Climate, 3798-3992, 2003. download
  13. Ashkenazy, Y., D.R. Baker, H. Gildor, and S. Havlin, Nonlinearity and multifractality of climate change in the past 400,000 years, Geophys. Res.  Lett., 30, 2146, 10.1029/2003GL018099, 2003. download
  14. Ashkenazy, Y., D.R. Baker, H. Gildor, Simple stochastic models for glacial dynamics, J. Geophys. Res., 110, Art. No. C02005, 10.1029/2004JC002548, 2005. download
  15. Gildor, H. and N.H. Naik, Evaluating the effect of interannual variations of surface chlorophyll on upper ocean temperature, J. Geophys. Res., 110, Art. No. C07012, 10.1029/2004JC002779, 2005. download
  16. Cane, M.A., P. Braconnot, A. Clement, H. Gildor, S. Joussaume, M. Kageyama, M. Khodri, D. Paillard, S. Tett, E. Zorita, Progress in Paleoclimate Modeling, J. Climate, 19, 5031–5057, 2006. download
  17. Shepon, A., H. Gildor, L.J. Labrador, T. Butler, L.N. Ganzeveld, and M.G. Lawrence, Global lightning NOx deposition, J. Geophys. Res., 112, Art. No. D06304, 2007. download
  18. Ben-Tzvi, O., M. Kiflawi, H. Gildor, and A. Abelson, Possible effects of downwelling on the recruitment of coral reef fishes to the Eilat (Red-Sea) coral reefs, Limnology and Oceanography, 52: 2618-2628, 2007. download
  19. Silverman, J. and H. Gildor, The residence time of an active versus a passive tracer in the Gulf of Eilat: a box model approach, J. Marine System, 71, 159-170, doi:10.1016/j.jmarsys.2007.06.007, 2008. download
  20. Biton, E., H. Gildor, and W.R. Peltier, Relative sea level reduction at the Red Sea during the Last Glacial Maximum, Paleoceanography, 23, PA1214, doi:10.1029/2007PA001431, 2008. download
  21. Shepon, A. and H. Gildor, The Lightning-Biota Climatic Feedback, Global Change Biology, 14, 440-450, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2007.01501.x, 2008. download
  22. Ashkenazy, Y. and H. Gildor, The timing and significance of maximum and minimum equatorial insolation, Paleoceanography, 23, PA1206, doi:10.1029/2007PA001436, 2008. download
  23. Bar-Or, R., C. Erlick, and H. Gildor, The role of dust in glacial-interglacial cycles, Quaternary Science Reviews, 27, 201-208, doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2007.10.015, 2008. download
  24. Ashkenazy, Y., Y. Feliks, H. Gildor, and E. Tziperman, Asymmetry of temperature records, J. Atmos. Sci., 65, 3327-3336, 2008. download
  25. Biton, E., J. Silverman, and H. Gildor, Observations and Modeling of pulsating density current, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L14603, doi:10.1029/2008GL034123, 2008. download
  26. Gildor, H., The bottom Ekman layer and the apparent violation of the maximum principle, Geophy. Astro. Fluid Dyn., 102, 10.1080/03091920802002900, 2008. download

Submitted:

  1. Gildor, H. and E. Fredj, Evidence for submesoscale barriers to mixing in the ocean from current measurements and aerial-photographs, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 2009. download
  2. Lekien, F. and H. Gildor, Computation and approximation of the length scales of harmonic modes with application to the mapping of surface currents in the Gulf of Eilat, J. Geophys. Res., accepted pending revision, 2009.
  3. Bar-Or, R., H. Gildor, and C. Erlick, The aerosol cloud fraction effect on cellular marine stratocumulus and its contribution to glacial-interglacial cycles, Geophys. Res. Lett., 2009.

Chapters in Book:

  1. Gildor, H., Glacial-interglacial CO2 variations, in M. Follows and T. Oguz (Eds.), The ocean carbon cycle and climate, 317-352, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004. download
  2. Sobel, A.H., C.S. Bretherton, H. Gildor, and M. Peters, Convection, cloud-radiative feedbacks and thermodynamic ocean coupling in simple models of the Walker circulation, in  Earth's Climate: The Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction, C. Wang S.-P. Xie, and J. A. Carton, Eds., American Geophysical Union Geophysical Monograph 147, 393-405, 2004. download

Reviewed Proceedings

  1. Gildor, H. and E. Tziperman, Sea-ice, the glacial cycles' climate switch, and inter-hemispheric thermohaline teleconnections. Annals of Glaciology, 23, 501-506, 2001. [Proceedings of International Glaciological Society meeting. Fairbanks, Alaska, U.S.A., 19-23 June 2000.]
  2. Gildor, H. and E. Tziperman, Sea-ice switches and abrupt climate change. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. A, 361, 1935-1944, 2003. download

Misc:

  1. Gildor, H., When Earth's freezer door is left ajar, EOS, 84(23), 512, 2003. download
  2. Gildor, H., Reply to Comment by Richard Alley, EOS, 84(33), 315, 2003. download