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Dr. Nili Harnik

Senior Lecturer

Deprtment of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences                              

Tel Aviv University

Tel Aviv, 69978, Israel                                               links:

Tel: +972-3-640-6359                                                               news

Fax: +972-3-640-9282                                                              AMS journals

harnik@tau.ac.il                                                       e-journals

                                                                                                 Geophysics Department Seminar

Research interests:

  • Shear instability, the mechanistics of perturbation growth on plane parallel shear flow
  • Wave-mean flow interactions in midlatitudes, storm track dynamics, eddy life cycles. Possible dynamical regimes in midlatitude circulation. 
  • Stratospheric dynamics: Planetary wave structure and variability. The effects of downward reflection on wave structure.
  • TMME- Tropical Modulation of Midlatitude Eddies - the effect of  ENSO on midlatitude circulation.
  • Mid latitude eddy life cycle dynamics. The effects of  basic state wave geometry on the life cycles (LC1 vs LC2), and possible consequences for larger scale circulation-  storm track structure and variability, the response of midlatitudes to El Nino.

 

I am also an adjunct researcher at the Climate Modeling group at Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University

 

Publications

 

Courses:

·        3rd year lab course: -  מעבדה שנה ג'  (fall 2010-11)

·        Theory of the General circulation of the atmosphere (spring)

·        Middle Atmosphere dynamics (spring)

·        Statistical observations of the atmosphere (fall 2008-9)

·        Statistical observations of midlatitude storms- seminar (fall 2007-8)

·        Intro to atmospheric dynamics (fall 2010-11)

 

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Personal

 

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