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Affiliation:
Dr.
Department of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences &
The Porter School of Environmental Studies
Ramat Aviv 69978, Israel
t: 972-3-6405089; f: 972-3-6409282; e: galanti@tau.ac.il
Areas of Interest:
Physics of the ocean; Climate dynamics and prediction; Interaction between human activities and the climate systems; Now-casting of lightning activity and extreme weather
Courses:
o 'The oceans and mankind – between struggle and cooperation' – The Porter School of Environmental Studies, Tel Aviv University. 2008-present
o 'Introduction to Climatology' - The department of Geography and Human Environment, Tel Aviv University. 2008-present
o 'Environmental Issues in Israel – field trips course' – The Porter School of Environmental Studies, Tel Aviv University. 2010-present
o 'Master students forum' – The Porter School of Environmental Studies, Tel Aviv University. 2010
o 'Introduction to Climate' – Israel Maritime College, Michmoret. 2006.
Education:
Postdoctoral
Research Scientist -Department of Geophysics,
Postdoctoral
Research Scientist -International Research Institute for Climate Prediction.
Ph.D. Physical Oceanography – Weizmann Institute of Science. March 2003.
B.Sc. Geophysics and
planetary sciences,
Employment:
Research Coordinator
– The
Researcher -
Department of Geophysics,
Fellow -
Awards:
Rieger-JNF fellowship for Environmental studies. 1999-2001.
Publications:
Galanti, E. and E. Tziperman, 2000. On ENSO’s phase locking to the seasonal cycle in the fast SST, fast wave, and mixed mode regimes. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 57, 2936-2950.
Harrison, M. J., A. Rosati, B. J. Soden, E. Galanti, and E. Tziperman, 2002: An examination of air-sea coupling for ENSO simulation and prediction. monthly Weather Review, 130 (3), 723-732.
Galanti, E., E. Tziperman, M. Harrison, A. Rosati, R. Giering, Z. Sirkes, 2002. The equatorial thermocline outcropping -A seasonal control on the tropical Pacific ocean-atmosphere instability. Journal of Climate, 15 (19), 2721-2739.
Galanti, E., and E. Tzipermann, 2003: A Mid-Latitude -ENSO teleconnection mechanism via baroclinically unstable long Rossby waves. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 33 (9), 1877-1888.
Galanti, E., E. Tziperman, M. Harrison, A. Rosati, and Z. Sirkes, 2003: A study of ENSO prediction using a hybrid-coupled model and the adjoint method for data assimilation. monthly Weather Review, 131 (11), 2748-2764.
Galanti, E., 2003: Dynamics and predictability of ENSO -a study using a hybrid-coupled model and the adjoint method. Ph.D. Thesis.
N.Haikin, N., I. Mahrer, T. Reisin, E.Galanti, P. Alpert, 2009: A high resolution study of Atmospheric dispersion over a coastal urban area with complex terrain. Air Pollution Modeling and Its Application XX, 75-80. Springer.
Kohn, M., E. Galanti, C. Price, K. Lagouvardos and V. Kotroni, 2011: Now-Casting Thunderstorms in the Mediterranean Region using Lightning Data, Atmos. Res., 100, 489-502.
Price, C., Y. Yair, A. Mugnai, K. Lagouvardos, M. C. Llasat, S. Michaelides, U. Dayan, S. Dietrich, E. Galanti, L. Garrote, N. Harats, D. Katsanos, M. Kohn, V. Kotroni, M. Llasat-Botija, B. Lynn, L. Mediero, E. Morin , K. Nicolaides, S. Rozalis, K. Savvidou, B. Ziv, 2011: The FLASH Project: Using lightning data to better understand and predict flash floods, Environ. Sci. & Policy, in press.
Price, C., Y. Yair, A. Mugnai, K. Lagouvardos, M. C. Llasat, S. Michaelides, U. Dayan, S. Dietrich, E. Galanti, L. Garrote, N. Harats, D. Katsanos, M. Kohn, V. Kotroni, M. Llasat-Botija, B. Lynn, L. Mediero, E. Morin , K. Nicolaides, S. Rozalis, K. Savvidou, B. Ziv, 2011: Using lightning data to better understand and predict flash floods in the Mediterranean. Submitted to Surveys in Geophysics
N.Haikin, N, T. Reisin, E.Galanti., I. Mahrer, P. Alpert, 2010: Observations of a Coastal Complex Terrain Boundary-Layer over a Meso-gama Domain. submitted to Boundary-Layer Meteorology.
Other:
Translation to Hebrew of the book 'The planets', by Dava Sobel