Nili Harnik – list of publications

 

Submitted/under revision:

Franzke C. and N. Harnik, 2021: Long-Term Trends of the Atmospheric Circulation and Moist Static Energy Budget in the JRA-55 Reanalysis. Under revision, J. Climate.

Published/accepted:

Schröttle, J., Suhas, D., Harnik, N. and Sukhatme, J. (2021), Turbulence and equatorial waves in moist and dry shallow-water flow, excited through mesoscale stochastic forcing. Q J R Meteorol Soc. Accepted Author Manuscript. https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.4220

 

Suhas, D.L., Sukhatme, J. & Harnik, N.(2021) Dry and moist atmospheric circulation with uniform sea-surface temperature. Q J R Meteorol Soc, 1– 22. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.4191

 

Silverman V, S. W. Lubis, N. Harnik, and K. Matthes, 2021: A synoptic view of the early winter mid-latitude QBO signal. J. Atmos Sci. 78, 3759-3780 link

Messori, G., Harnik, N., Madonna, E., Lachmy, O., and Faranda, D., 2021: A dynamical systems characterization of atmospheric jet regimes, Earth Syst. Dynam., 12, 233–251, https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-12-233-2021

Sandler D. and N. Harnik, 2020: Future Meridional Wind Trends Through the Lens of Subseasonal Teleconnections. Weather Clim. Dynam. 1, 427-443,  https://wcd.copernicus.org/articles/1/427/2020/ , 2020

Lachmy, O, and Harnik, N. 2020: Tropospheric jet variability in different flow regimes. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 146, 327– 347.

Baldwin, Mark P., T. Birner, G. Brasseur, J. Burrows, N. Butchart, R. Garcia, M. Geller, L. Gray, K. Hamilton, N. Harnik, M. I. Hegglin, U. Langematz, A. Robock, K. Sato, and A. A. Scaife, 2019:   100 Years of Progress in Understanding the Stratosphere and Mesosphere, Meteor. Monogr., 59, 27.1-27.62.

Cohen, Y., Durden, S. L., Harnik, N., & Heifetz, E.: 2019. Relating Observations of Gradient Nonbalance at the Top of Hurricanes With Their Warm Core Structures. Geophys. Res. Lett., 46, 11510– 11519.   Selected for Editor’s Highlight

Silverman, V., Harnik, N., Matthes, K., Lubis, S. W., and Wahl, S. 2018: Radiative effects of ozone waves on the Northern Hemisphere polar vortex and its modulation by the QBO, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 18, 6637–6659.

Lubis, S.W, Matthes, K., Harnik, N., Omrani, N.-E., and Wahl, S., 2018: Downward Wave Coupling between the Stratosphere and Troposphere under Future Anthropogenic Climate Change. J.Clim, 31, 4135-4155.

Messori, G., Caballero, R., Bouchet, F., Faranda, D., Grotjahn, R., Harnik, N., Jewson, S., Pinto, J.G., Rivière, G., Jewson, S., Woollings, T., Yiou, P. 2018: An interdisciplinary approach to the study of extreme weather events: large-scale atmospheric controls and insights from dynamical systems theory and statistical mechanics. Bull. Amer. Meteorol. Soc.,  99, ES81-ES85.

Ferreira, D., P. Cessi, H. Coxall, A. de Boer, H. A. Dijkstra, S. S. Drijfhout, T. Eldevik, N. Harnik, J. F. McManus, D. P. Marshall, J. Nilsson, F. Roquet, T. Schneider, R. C. Wills, 2018: Atlantic-Pacific asymmetry in deep water formation. Ann. Rev. of Earth and Plan. Sci., 46, 327-352.

Cohen, Y.,  N. Harnik, E. Heifetz, D. S. Nolan, D Tao, and F Zhang, 2017: On the Violation of Gradient Wind Balance at the top of Tropical Cyclones, Geophys. Res. Lett. 44, 8017–8026.

Lubis, S. W., Silverman, V., Matthes, K., Harnik, N., Omrani, N.-E., and Wahl, S., 2017: How does downward planetary wave coupling affect polar stratospheric ozone in the Arctic winter stratosphere? Atmos. Chem. Phys., 17, 2437-2458, https://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/17/2437/2017/.

Garfinkel, C.I. and N. Harnik, 2017: The Non-Gaussianity and Spatial Asymmetry of Temperature Extremes Relative to the Storm Track: The Role of Horizontal Advection. J. Climate, 30, 445–464, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0806.1

Harnik, N., G. Messori, R. Caballero, and S. B. Feldstein (2016), The Circumglobal North American wave pattern and its relation to cold events in eastern North America, Geophys. Res. Lett., 43, 11,015–11,023, doi:10.1002/2016GL070760.

Lachmy O. and N. Harnik, 2016: Wave and jet maintenance in different flow regimes. J. Atmos. Sci., 73 2465-2484. link  pdf

Lubis, S. W., K. Matthes, N-E Omrani, N. Harnik and S Wahl, 2016: Influence of the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation and Sea Surface Temperature Variability on Downward Wave Coupling in the Northern Hemisphere.  J. Atmos. Sci, 73, 1943-1965  link

Harnik N., Chaim Garfinkel, and O. Lachmy, 2016: ‘The Influence of Jet Regimes on  Extreme Weather events’. In, Dynamics and Predictability of Large-Scale, High-Impact Weather and Climate Events 2, 79. Ed. Li, J., R. Swinbank, H. Volkert and R. Grotjahn. Cambridge University Press link

Garfinkel C. I.,  V. Silverman, N. Harnik, C. Haspel, and Y. Riz, 2015: Stratospheric Response to Intraseasonal Changes in  Incoming Solar Radiation, JGR, 120, 7648-7660, doi: 10.1002/2015JD023244.

Adam O., Schneider T. and Harnik, N. 2014. Role of changes in mean temperatures vs. temperature gradients in the recent widening of the Hadley circulation.  J. Clim. 27, 7450–7461.pdf

Harnik, N., E. Galanti, O. Martius, and O. Adam, 2014. The anomalous merging of the African and North Atlantic jet streams during Northern Hemisphere winter of 2010. J. Clim. 27, 7319–7334. pdf

Harnik N., 2014: Extreme upper level cyclonic vorticity events in relation to the Southern Hemisphere jet stream. Geoph. Reas. Let.41, 4373-4380. pdf

Lachmy O. and N. Harnik, 2014: The Transition to a Subtropical Jet Regime and its Maintenance.  J. Atmos. Sci., 71, 1389-1409 pdf

Harnik, N., D. G. Dritschel, and E. Heifetz, 2014: On jet sharpening and the equilibration of asymmetric barotropic instability. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., in press. link  pdf

Adam, O. and N. Harnik, 2013: Idealized annually averaged Macroturbulent Hadley Circulation in a Shallow Water Model. J. Atmos. Sci., 70, 284-302.  pdf

H. Vitoshkin, E. Heifetz, A. Yu. Gelfgat and N. Harnik, 2012: On the role of vortex stretching in energy optimal growth of three dimensional perturbations on plane parallel shear flows. J. Fluid Mech, Available on CJO 2012 doi:10.1017/jfm.2012.285 pdf

Shaw, T. A., J. Perlwitz, N. Harnik, P. A. Newman, and S. Pawson, 2011: The impact of stratospheric ozone changes on downward wave coupling in the Southern Hemisphere. J. Clim., 24, 4210-4229 pdf

Harnik, N., J. Perlwitz and T. A. Shaw, 2011: Observed decadal changes in downward wave coupling between the stratosphere and troposphere in the Southern Hemisphere. J. Clim., 24, 4558-4569. pdf

Rabinovich A., O. M. Umurhan, N. Harnik, F. Lott, E. Heifetz, 2011: Vorticity inversion and action-at-a-distance instability in stably stratified shear flow. Under revision J. Fluid Mech. 670, 301-325 pdf file

Shaw, T. A., J. Perlwitz and N. Harnik, 2010: Downward wave coupling between the statosphere and troposphere: The importance of meridional wave guiding and comparison with zonal-mean coupling.  J. Climate, 23, 6365-6381.  pdf

Harnik N, R. Seager, N. Naik, M. Cane, and M. Ting, 2010. The role of linear wave refraction in the transient eddy-mean flow response to tropical Pacific SST anomalies.  Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 136: 2132–2146. doi: 10.1002/qj.688 pdf file

Seager R., N. Naik, M. Ting, M. A. Cane, N. Harnik and Y. Kushnir, 2010: Adjustment of the atmospheric circulation to tropical Pacific SST anomalies: Variability of transient eddy propagation in the Pacific-North America sector. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc. 136, 277-296.  pdf file

Ziv B., H. Saaroni, M. Romem, E. Heifetz, N. Harnik and A. Baharad, 2009: Analysis of Conveyor Belts in Winter Mediterranean Cyclones. Theor. App. Clim, DOI 10.1007/s00704-009-0150-9.  pdf file

Heifetz E., N. Harnik, T. Tamarin, 2009 Canonical Hamiltonian representation of pseudoenergy in shear flows using counter-propagating Rossby waves Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc. 135, 2161-2167.  pdf file

Orli Lachmy, Nili Harnik, 2009: A Wave Amplitude Transition in a Quasi-Linear Model with Radiative Forcing and Surface Drag J. Atmos. Sci. 66, 3479-3490. pdf file

Harnik, N., 2009: Observed stratospheric downward reflection and its relation to upward pulses of wave activity. J. Geophys. Res. 114, D08120, doi:10.1029/2008JD010493. pdf file 

Harnik N. and E. Heifetz, O.M. Umuhan, and F. Lott, 2008. A buoyancy-vorticity wave interaction approach to stratified shear flow. JAS, 65 2615-2630.  pdf file  

Harnik N. and E. Heifetz, 2007. Relating Over--Reflection and Wave Geometry to the Counter Propagating Rossby Wave Perspective: Toward a Deeper Mechanistic  Understanding of  Shear Instability.  J. Atmos. Sci.64 2238-61. pdf file

Seager, R., M. F. Ting, I. Held, Y. Kushnir, J. Lu, G. Vecchi, H. P. Huang, N. Harnik, A. Leetmaa, N. C. Lau, C. H. Li, J. Velez and N. Naik, 2007: Model projections of an imminent transition to a more arid climate in southwestern North America. Science, 316(5828): 1181-1184. link to paper

Seager, R., N. Harnik, Y. Kushnir, M. Ting, H.-P. Huang, and J. Velez, 2005. Mechanisms of ENSO-forcing of hemispherically symmetric precipitation variability. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor.  Soc. 131 1501-1528 link to paper

Harnik N., R, K. Scott, and J. Perlwitz, 2005:  Wave reflection and focusing prior to the major stratospheric warming of September 2002. JAS 62, 640-650.   pdf file

Perlwitz, J., and N. Harnik, 2004.  Downward coupling between the stratosphere and troposphere: The relative roles of wave and zonal mean processes. J. Clim. 17, 4902-4909 pdf file

Harnik, N., and E. K. M. Chang, 2004: The effects of variations in jet width on the growth of baroclinic waves: Implications for midwinter Pacific stormtrack variability. JAS 61, 23-40 pdf file 

Perlwitz, J., and N. Harnik, 2003: Observational Evidence of a Stratospheric Influence on the Troposphere by Planetary Wave Reflection. J. Clim  16  3011-3026. pdf file 

Seager, R., N. Harnik, Y. Kushnir, W. Robinson, and J. Miller, 2003: Mechanisms of hemispherically symmetric climate variability. J. Clim 16, 2960-2978.   pdf file  

Harnik, N. and E. K. M. Chang, 2003. Storm track variations as seen in radiosonde observations and reanalysis data. J.Climate 16, 480-495.  pdf file 

Harnik, N., 2002: The evolution of a stratospheric wave packet. JAS 59, 202-217.   pdf file

Harnik, N., and R. S. Lindzen, 2001: The effect of reflecting surfaces on the vertical structure and variability of stratospheric planetary waves. JAS 58, 2872-2894. pdf file

Harnik, N., and R. S. Lindzen, 1998: The effect of basic-state potential vorticity gradients on the growth of baroclinic waves and the height of the tropopause, JAS 55, 344-360.   pdf file

Unpublished: 

Harnik, N., and R. S. Lindzen, Are TOVS temperature retrievals capable of resolving the vertical structure of stratospheric planetary waves? pdf file

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