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Baruch Ziv

Baruch Ziv
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The Open University of Israel Department of Natural Sciences 1 University Road, P. O. Box 808, Raanana 43107, Israel
Office:972-9-778-1771 Email:[email protected]

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Areas of Interest
  • Synoptic Meteorology
  • Climate
  • Climate change
  • Dynamic Meteorology
  • Synoptic Meteorology (focus: Mediterranean Cyclones)

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1974-1978
B.A. , Tel-Aviv University, Israel, Department of Physics
1983-1986
M.A., Tel-Aviv University, Israel, Department of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences 
1989-1994
Ph.D, Tel-Aviv University, Israel, Department of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences 

1968 - Israeli Meteorological Service, Weather Forecasting. Diploma: Weather forecaster.

1992 - Cambridge University, Cambridge, U.K., a summer school in "Geophysical and Environmental Fluid Dynamics".

1995-1996 - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Inst. of Earth Sciences, Post-Doc. Post doctoral project: Divergence patterns in time-varying jet streams. Supervisor: Prof. N. Paldor.

1984-Today
Tel Aviv University, Continuous teaching of a course on Synoptic Meteorology (now called "dynamics of Synoptic Systems")   in the department of Geophysics
1992-1996 & 2001-2015
The Open University of Israel, lecturer of “Introduction to Meteorology” in the department of Natural and Life Sciences 
1995-2007
Tel Aviv University, lecturer of “Applied Meteorology” in the department of Geophysics, later in the Department of Geography 
1996-2007
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, lecturer of courses “Weather Systems of the Mid Latitudes” and "Analysis of Synoptic Systems" in the Institute of Earth Sciences
1990-2015
Academic organizer of courses in Meteorology in the Open University of Israel
1990-2015
Academic organizer of courses in elementary physics in the Open University of Israel

1969-1989 - Senior weather forecaster in the Israeli Air Force

1985-1989 - Manager of the first Meteorological Satellite Receiving and Processing Center in Israel

2002-2003 - Forecaster of the MEIDEX project (of Tel-Aviv University), in the framework of the "Freestar" mission of Columbia STS-107 flight

2007-2012 - Head of the Physics section in the department of natural science, the Open University of Israel