Objective/function

• Cloud Physics Laboratory focuses on the atmospheric aspects influencing cloud formation and precipitation processes by combining satellite and radar imaging, in-situ research flights, environmental and cloud modelling, modelling of severe storms, breezes, tropical cyclones, theoretical microphysics research, and climate research
• Cloud and storm simulation component

Research provided

• Research and methods to study cloud-aerosol interactions

• Nowcasting of severe convective storms

• Cloud seeding experiments

• Develop methods to modify hurricanes and severe convective storms

• Novel microphysical schemes for use in advanced cloud and mesoscale models

Advantages

• The Cloud Physics Experimental and Computational Laboratory develops technology that has revolutionized the field of cloud physics and weather modification

Client record

• All major research-granting foundations
• California Energy Commission
• Center for Climate Research, University of Tokyo
• EUMETSAT
• European Commission
• Israeli Ministry of Defense
• Israeli Water Commission
• NASA
• Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Available equipment

• Access to a variety of research satellites
• High-performance computer clusters

Staff

• Carynelisa Erlick, PhD
• Haim Gvirtzman, PhD
• Alexander Khain, PhD
• Haim-Zvi Krugliak, MS, Laboratory Manager
• Mark Pinsky, PhD
• Andrei Pokrovsky, PhD
• Daniel Rosenfeld, PhD

Contact

• Daniel Rosenfeld, PhD daniel.rosenfeld@huji.ac.il
• Alexander Khain, PhD khain@vms.huji.ac.il

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