publications-ilan

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., I. Koren, 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
Tas, E., I. Koren, 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, I. Koren, 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, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 108(30): 12227-12232, 2011
Y. Lehahn, I. Koren, 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
A. Chudnovsky, 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
Rotem Z Bar-Or, Ilan Koren and Orit Altaratz, 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., 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
Ilan Koren, J. Vanderlei Martins, LorraineA. Remer, Hila 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
M.C. Todd, 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
Ilan Koren, 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
Yoram J. Kaufman and Ilan Koren, Smoke and pollution aerosol effect on cloud cover, Science vol. 313 08-04-2006, Published online 13 July 2006; 10.1126/science.1126232
Ulrike Lohmann, 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.
D. Rosenfeld, 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.
R Washington, 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, 2006: Dust and pollution aerosols over the Negev desert, Israel: Properties, transport, and radiative effect. J. Geophys. Res. 111, D05205, doi: 10.1029/2005/D006549
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., 2003, Morphological component analysis for feature detection in satellite images, Advances in Techniques for Analysis of Remotely Sensed Data, 2003 IEEE Workshop on , vol., no., pp. 70- 72, 27-28 Oct. 2003 doi: 10.1109/WARSD.2003.1295174
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., 2000,The histogram of the brightness distribution of clouds in high resolution remotely sensed images,J. Geophys. Res. Vol. 105 , No. D24 , p. 29,369
Loewenthal, D., Buchen, P., Kagansky, A., and KorenI., 1999, Zero-Moveout (ZMO) Stacking, Geophysics, 64, 567-571.

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