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Hezi Gildor
Climate Modeling Group
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University
61 Route 9W
Palisades, NY 10964-8000

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Fax: 845-365-8736; Tel: 845-365-8901
Home: 845-353-0995


Current Research Interests:
1. The interaction between ocean biogeochemistry and the climate system.

2. Paleoclimate, climate dynamics.
 

Publications:
Gildor, H. and E. Tziperman, 2000. Sea ice as the glacial cycles' climate switch: role of seasonal and orbital forcing. Paleoceanography, 15, 605-615. download

Gildor, H.  and E. Tziperman, 2001. Physical mechanisms behind biogeochemical glacial-interglacial CO2 variations. Geophysical Research Letters, 27, 3077-3080. download ; (see also:  Science, 293, 6 July 2001).

Gildor, H. and E. Tziperman, 2001. A Sea-ice climate-switch mechanism for the 100 kyr glacial cycles. J. Geophysical Research, 106, C5, 9117-9133. download

Gildor, H. and M. Ghil, 2002. Phase relations between climate proxy records: Potential effect of seasonal precipitation changes. Geophysical Research Letters, 29, 10.1029/2001GL013781. download ; (see also EOS, 83(8), 19 February 2002, page 75)

Crosta, X., A. Shemesh, M.E. Salvignac, H. Gildor, and R. Yam, 2002. Late Quaternary variations of elemental ratio (C/Si and N/Si) in diatom-bound organic matter from the Southern Ocean, Deep Sea Research Part II, 49(9-10), 1939-1952.

Gildor, H. and  E. Tziperman and R. J. Toggweiler, 2002. The sea-ice switch mechanism and glacial-interglacial  CO 2 variations.  Global biogeochemical cycles, 16, 10.1029/2001GB001446. download

Tziperman, E.  and H. Gildor, 2002. The stabilization of the thermohaline circulation by the temperature-precipitation feedback. J. Physical Oceanography, 32, 2704-2714.  download

Tziperman, E. and H. Gildor, 2002. The mid-Pleistocene climate transition and the source of asymmetry between glaciation and deglaciation times. Paleoceanography, 18, 10.1029/2001PA000627, 2003. download

Gildor H., and M. Follows, 2002. Two-way interactions between ocean biota and climate mediated by biogeochemical cycles, special issue of the  Israel Journal of Chemistry  on Environmental Chemistry, 42, 15-27, 2002 . download

Gildor, H., A.H. Sobel, M.A. Cane, and R.N. Sambrotto, 2003. A role for ocean biota in tropical intraseasonal atmospheric variability, Geophys. Res. Lett., 30, 10.1029/2002GL016759, 2003.  download

Sobel, A.H. and H. Gildor 2003: A simple time-dependent model of SST hot spots, J. Climate, submitted. download

Timmermann, A., H. Gildor, M. Schulz, and E.Tziperman, Coherent resonant millennial-scale climate oscillations triggered by glacial meltwater pulses, J. Climate, in press.

Proceedings:
Gildor, H. and E. Tziperman, 2000. Sea-ice, the glacial cycles' climate switch, and inter-hemispheric thermohaline teleconnections. Annals of Glaciology, 33, 501-506, 2001.  Proceedings of International Glaciological Society meeting. Fairbanks, Alaska, U.S.A., 19-23 June 2000. download



 
 

Education
Ph. D: The Weizmann Institute of Science , Israel.  Adviser: Prof. Eli Tziperman .
M. Sc: The University of Tokyo , Japan.  Adviser: Prof. Toshio Yamagata .
B. Sc: Tel Aviv University , Israel.
 

Vitae
 

Noa, Nitai and Maya
 

NATO Advanced Study Institute, The Ocean Carbon Cycle and Climate, 5-16 August 2002, Ankara, Turkey. DRAFT of my lecture notes on Glacial-interglacial CO_2 variations is here
 

 Misc.