A Little About Me...

I was born in Haifa, Israel in 1940.
I am married to Susie and have two children, a son Rami and a daughter Tamar.
I enjoy traveling and sports (Tennis, Squash and swimming).

My Office Phone Number Is: 972-3-6408274
My Laboratory Phone Number Is: 972-3-6408242
My Fax is: 972-3-6405647

• Incumbent Professor of the J. Goldemberg Chair in Atmospheric Physics.
• Head of the Cloud and Precipitation Physics Laboratory
  and the The Florence and Louis Ross Meteorological Radar Laboratory
  in the Department of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences,
• The Head of the new Porter School of Environmental Studies at Tel Aviv University.
• I am the former Vice President for Research and Development
  and Dean of Research of the university.
• I am the Principle Investigator of the Mediterranean Israeli Dust Experiment
  -MEIDEX - the first Israeli astronaut project on board the Columbia space shuttle.
  
  

COURSES:

• Our Living Environment

EDUCATION:

1962-1966

California State University, Los Angeles -- Physics B.Sc. (Honors) 1966.

1966-1970

University of Washington, Seattle -- Atmospheric Sciences, Ph.D. 1970.

May 1994

CHAIR PROFESSOR - The J. Goldemberg Chair in Atmospheric Physics, Tel Aviv University

1987- 1992

DEAN OF RESEARCH and the VICE PRESIDENT OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, Tel Aviv University.

1986- 1987

CHAIRMAN- Dept. of Geophysics & Planetary Science, Tel Aviv University.

Nov. 1984

FULL PROFESSOR, Tel Aviv University,

1978-1984

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, Tel Aviv University, Dept. of Geophysics & Planetary Sciences.

1971-1974

LECTURER, Tel Aviv University, Dept. of Environmental Geophysical Sciences.

ETH, Zurich (1999)

NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center (1992-1993), summer visits (1994, 1995,1999).

NASA, Ames Research center, 1981, summer visits (1983, 1984).

NCAR (1976-1977), Summer visits (1978, 1979, 1980).

PRESENT SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ACTIVITIES:
 

Principle Investigator on MEIDEX - Mediterranean Israeli Dust Experiment - the first Israeli experiment from space with an Israeli astronaut.

Cloud and rain physics (Experimental and theoretical)

Cloud chemistry

Weather modification

Atmospheric aerosol and nucleation

Ice nucleation by bacteria

Terrestrial and planetary atmospheric electricity and lightning generation

ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL AWARDS:
 

1981 NRC Associateship -Senior scientist - NASA Ames Research Center

1985 ASEE-NASA - Stanford Fellowship.

1989 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science - A Visiting Distinguished Scientist

1992 NRC Associateship - Senior scientist - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

1994 Chair Professor, J. Goldemberg chair in Atmospheric Physics, Tel Aviv University.

1997 The Landesbausparkassen Baden-Wurttemberg Prize on Environment and Life by the University of Konstanz, Germany.

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:
 

1969 Member, American Meteorological Society

1969 Member, American Geophysical Union

1969 Member, Sigma XI

1972 Member of Israel Meteorological Society

1983 Governing body of the Israel Organization of Aerosol Research

1992 Member of European Geophysical Society.

PRESENT MEMBERSHIP IN INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL COMMITTEES:
 

1984-present

Member of Israel's Precipitation Committee.

1995-present

WMO committee on the physics and chemistry of clouds and weather modification.

1991-present

Tel Aviv University Representative to the UCAR International Affiliate Program.

1997- Present

President, Israeli Association for Aerosol Research.

1999- present

A member of the AMS committee on weather modification.

1998-present

Member of the International Commission on Cloud Physics.

1999 -

Orgenizing committee of the 2nd Geunter Sympossium in Geoscience, Nazereth, Israel.

 

ADMINISTRATIVE POSITION HELD IN THE UNIVERSITY:
 

Vice president for Research and Development and Dean of Research 1987-1992.

Chairman, Department of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences 1986-1987.

Chairman of the Board, Ramot Inc. The university commercial arm for research and development, 1987-1992.

Member of the Executive board of Ramot Inc, 1987 to present.

Member of the Steering Committee of the Academic Senate, 1987 to 1998.

Member of the Board of Governors of Tel Aviv University, 1987 to 1997.

Chairman of the evaluation committee of the Environmental Studies  program, 1994-1996.

Member of university academic development committee, 1999 - present.

Member and chairman of many committees of university affairs.

 
 

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS -- ARTICLES (SINCE 1995).
 
 

1. Reisin, T., Z. Levin and S. Tzivion, The role of cloud condensation nuclei and ice nuclei in the production of rain in cold convective clouds as determined by a numerical model with detailed microphysics. AMS, Confer. on Cloud Physics, Dallas Texas, 193-198, 1995.
2. Yair, Y., S. Tzivion and Z. Levin, Microphysical processes and dynamics of a Jovian thundercloud. Icarus, 114, 278-299, 1995.
3. Yair, Y., S. Tzivion and Z. Levin, Lightning generation in a Jovian thundercloud: Results from an axisymmetric numerical cloud model, Icarus,115, 421-434, 1995.
4. Reisin, T., Z. Levin and S. Tzivion, Rain production in convective clouds as simulated in as axisymmetric model with detailed microphysics. Part I: Description of the model. J. Atmos. Sci. 53, 479-519, 1996.
5. Reisin, T., Z. Levin and S. Tzivion, Rain production in convective clouds as simulated in as axisymmetric model with detailed microphysics. Part II: Effects of varying drops and ice initiation. J. Atmos. Sci.,1815-1837, 1996.
6. Reisin, T., S. Tzivion and Z. Levin, Seeding convective clouds with ice nuclei or hygroscopic particles: A numerical study using a model with detailed microphysics. J. Appl. Meteor., 35, 1416-1434, 1996.
7. Levin, Z., S. Krichak and T. Reisin, Numerical simulation of dispersal of inert seeding material in Israel using a three-dimensional mesoscale model (RAMS). J. Appl. Meteor., 36, 474 - 484 , 1997.
8. Levin, Z., E. Ganor and V. Gladstein, The effects of desert particles coated with sulfate on rain formation in the eastern Mediterranean. J. Appl. Meteor., 35, 1511-1523, 1996.
9. Levin, Z., Y. Yair and B. Ziv, Positive cloud-to-ground lightning flashes and wind shear in Tel Aviv thunderstorms. Geophysical Res. Letters., 23, 2231-2234, 1996.
10. Levin, Z., T. Reisin and S. Tzivion, Investigation of the relative importance of different ice crystal formation mechanisms in convective clouds using a model with detailed microphysics. Inter. Conf. on Clouds and Precipitation. 1337-1340, Zurich, Aug. 1996.
11. Pinsky, M. B., A. Khain and Z. Levin, The effect of turbulence on the broadening of the droplet spectrum in clouds at the initial stage of their evolution. Inter. Conf. on Clouds and Precipitation. 45-49, Zurich, Aug. 1996.
12. Levin, Z., Y. Yair, O. Altaratz and B. Ziv, On the occurrence of positive ground flashes in Tel Aviv Thunderstorms. 10th Inter. Conf. on Atmos. Electricity, Osaka, Japan, 640-644, 1996.
13. Levin, Z. and E. Ganor, The effects of desert particles on cloud and rain formation in the eastern Mediterranean. In Impact of Desert Dust Across The Mediterranean, Ed. S. Guerzoni and R. Chester, Kluwer Academic Pub. 77-86, 1996.
14. Ganor, E., Z. Levin and R. Van Grieken, Composition of individual aerosol particles above the Israeli Mediterranean coast during the summer time. Atmos. Environ., 32, 1631-1642, 1998.
15. Wurzler, S. C., Z. Levin and T. G. Reisin: Cloud processing of dust particles and subsequent effects on drop size distributions. J. Aerosol. Sci., 28, S427-S428, 1997.
16. Krichak, S. O., P. Alpert and Z. Levin: Numerical simulation of Hazardous weather conditions during the November 2, 1994 East Mediterranean cyclone development. INM/WMO Inter. Symposium on Cyclones and Hazardous Weather in the Mediterranean, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, -51, 1997.
17. Reisin, T., Y. Yin, Z. Levin and S. Tzivion: Development of giant drops and high reflectivity cores in Hawaiian clouds: Numerical simulation using a kinematic model with detailed microphysics. Atmos. Res. 45, 275-297, 1998.
18. Altaratz, O., Z. Levin and Y. Yair: Positive gflashes in thunderstorms in Israel. Bull. Israel. Met. Soc., 5, 27-37, (HEBREW), 1998.
19. Yair, Y., Z. Levin and S. Tzivion: Model interpretation of Jovian lightning activity and the Galileo probe results. J. Geophys. Res., 103, 14157-14166, 1998.
20. Yair, Y., Z. Levin and O. Altaratz: Lightning phenomenology in the Tel-Aviv area from 1989 to 1996. Jour. Geophys. Res., 103, 9015-9025, 1998.
21. Reisin, T. G., Y. Yin, Z. Levin and S. Tzivion: Numerical simulations of the microphysical structure of Hawaiian clouds: results for an idealized parcel model and a kinematic model with detailed microphysics. World Meteor. Org. Report of the Forth Inter. Cloud Modeling workshop, Aug. 1996. WMP Report 29, 13-18, 1998.
22. Tzivion, S. Z. Levin and T. G. Reisin: The dependence of cloud model simulations on the numerical method used in the calculation of microphysical processes. World Meteor. Org. Report of the Forth Inter. Cloud Modeling workshop, Aug. 1996. WMP Report 29, 89-94, 1998.
23. Gershon, H. T. Reisin and Z. Levin: High resolution simulation of the circulation and the haze formation in the Dead Sea Valley using RAMS. Proc. Symposium on Regional Weather Prediction on parallel computer environment. Eds. G. Kllos, V. Kotroni and K. Lagouvardos. Univer. of Athens, Greece, 343- 348, 1998.
24. Yin, Y., Z. Levin, T. G. Reisin and S. Tzivion: The effects of giant cloud condensation nuclei on the development of precipitation in convective clouds - A numerical study. Atmos. Res. Accepted for publication, 1999.
25. Yin, Y., Z. Levin, T. G. Reisin and S. Tzivion: On the influence of the size distribution of cloud condensation nuclei on the development of cloud and precipitation. Proc. Of the Conf. On Cloud Physics, Everett, Washington, 530-533, 1998.
26. Reisin, T. G., Z. Levin, S. Tzivion and Y. Yin: Numerical simulations of the formation of giant drops in Hawaiian clouds using a kinematic model with detailed microphysics. Proc. Of the Conf. On Cloud Physics, Everett, Washington, 502-503, 1998.
27. Levin, Z., S. Wurzler and T. Reisin: Modification of mineral dust particles by cloud processing and subsequent effects on drop size distributions. Proc. Of the Conf. On Cloud Physics, Everett, Washington. 504-505, 1998.
28. Tzivion, S., T. G. Reisin and Z. Levin: A new formulation of the method of moments for calculating the kinetic collection equation: more accurate with less bins. Proc. Of the Conf. On Cloud, Everett, Washington. 142-143, 1998.
29. Yin, Y., Z. Levin, T. G. Reisin and S. Tzivion: South African seeding experiment: numerical simulations on the sensitivity to particles spectra. The 14th Conf. On Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification, Everett, Washington. 604-607, 1998.
30. Yin, Y., Z. Levin, T. G. Reisin and S. Tzivion: Model simulation of the effect of cloud seeding on the evolution of radar-derived properties. The 14th Conf. On Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification, Everett, Washington. 630-631, 1998.
31. Levin, Z., Aerosol-cloud-climate interactions and their potential effects on rain and lightning formation. Invited paper Inter. School of quantum Electronics, 25th Course: Observational data and Mechanisms of climate. Proc. in press. Erice, Italy, 21-27 Nov., 1998.
32. Yin, Y. Z. Levin, T. G. Reisin aS. Tzivion: A numerical evaluation of seeding with hygroscopic flares: sensitivity to seeding time , seeding height, seeding amounts, size of particles and environmental shear. WMO 7th confer. On Weather Mod. Chiang Mai, Thailand, 69-72, 1999.
33. Levin, Z. Y. Yin, T. Reisin and S. Tzivion: Comparison of the effects of hygroscopic and glaciogenic seeding on the evolution of the spectra of cloud and precipitation particles in convective clouds: a numerical study. WMO 7th confer. On Weather Mod. Chiang Mai, Thailand, 73-75, 1999.
34. List, R., K.R. Gabriel, B.A. Silverman, Z. Levin and T. Karacostas: The rain enhancement experiment in Puglia, Italy: Statistical evaluation. J. Appl. Meteor., 38, 281-289, 1999.
35. Wurzler, S., T. G. Reisin and Z. Levin: Modification of mineral dust particles by cloud processing and subsequent effects on drop size distributions. J. Geophys. Res., In Press, 1999.
36. Tzivion, S., T. G. Reisin and Z. Levin: A numerical solution of the kinetic collection equation using high spectral grid resolution: A proposed reference. J. Computational Physics. 148, 527-544, 1999.
37. Yair, Y., O. Altaratz and Z. Levin: Two types of PGF-producing clouds in winter thunderstorms in Israel. Proc. Of the 11th Intern. Confer. On Atmos. Electr. Alabama, 460-463, 1999.
38. Altaratz, O., Z. Levin and Y. Yair: Electrical and radar observations of thunderstorms in the eastern Mediterranean. Proc. Of the 11th Intern. Confer. On Atmos. Electr. Alabama, 468-471, 1999.
39. Tzivion, S., T. G. Reisin and Z. Levin: Numerical simulation of a Super Power Energy Tower. J. Fluid Dynamics, In press, 2000.
40. Yin, Y., Z. Levin, T. G. Reisin and S. Tzivion: Seeding convective clouds with hygroscopic flares; Numerical simulations using a cloud model with detailed microphysics. J. Apply. Meteor. In press, 2000.

 
 
 
 
 

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Last Updated: Monday, Feb. 6, 2000.