Naftali Cohen

Address

Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences

New York University

251 Mercer St., Rm #906

New York NY, 10012

Cell: 917-273-7881

naftalic@gmail.com

Educational Background

· Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, Courant Institute, New York University, 2009 - Present

· M.Sc. in Atmospheric Science, The Hebrew University, Israel, 2008

· B.Sc. in Atmospheric Science and Chemistry, The Hebrew University, Israel, 2006

Employment

· 2009 - present: Courant Institute, New York University, Research Assistant

· 2006 - 2008: The Hebrew University, Israel, Research Assistant

· 2004 - 2008: The Hebrew University, Israel, Community-Youth, Supervisor of the Chemistry and Earth-Sciences departments and professional instructor

· 1998 - 2002: IDF

Teaching Experience

· Spring 2013: Analysis I, TA, Courant Institute

· Fall 2012: Analysis II, TA, Courant Institute

· Fall 2012: Analysis I, TA, Courant Institute

· Spring 2012: ODE, TA, Courant Institute

· Fall 2010: Calculus I, TA, Courant Institute

· Fall 2008: Environmental Remote Sensing, TA, The Hebrew University

· Spring 2008: Introduction to Climate, TA, The Hebrew University

· Spring 2008: Climate Change, TA, The Hebrew University

· 2004 -2008: Chemistry and Meteorology for 6th - 9th grade students, Instructor, The Community-Youth of The Hebrew University, Israel

Academic Visits

· August 2012: Dynamical Core Model Intercomparison Project (DCMIP) Summer School, NCAR, Boulder, Colorado, USA

· July 2008: WRF-Var and WRF-Chem tutorials, NCAR , Boulder, Colorado, USA

Awards and Scholarships

· GSAS MacCracken fellowship, 2009-2013

· Cancun, Mexico, ICCP fellowship, 2008

· Institute of Earth Sciences, The Hebrew University, Israel, Excellence fellowship, 2007-2008

· The Jewish Agency for Israel, Reserve fellowship, 2006

· The Hebrew University, Israel, Dean’s list of excellence, 2004-2005

· Ministry of Education, Israel, Fellowship, 2004

Publications

· On the evolution of the potential vorticity. A new perspective on the rule of the Eliassen-Palm flux divergence and the downward control principle

N. Cohen, O. Bühler and E.P.Gerber, 2013, (in preparation)

· PV mixing and segregating in the stratospheric “surf zone” and a simple constraint on the wave forcing

N. Cohen, E.P.Gerber and O. Bühler, 2013, (in preparation)

· Compensation between resolved and unresolved wave driving in the Stratosphere: Implications for downward control

N. Cohen, E.P.Gerber and O. Bühler, 2013, Journal of the Atmospheric sciences (revised)

· Effects of aerosols on lightning and intensity of landfalling hurricanes

N. Cohen, A. Khain, 2009, Chapter in the book: Hurricanes and Climate Change, Elsner and Jagger

· Possible aerosol effects on lightning activity and structure of hurricanes

Khain A., N. Cohen, B. Lynn and A. Pokrovsky, 2008, Journal of the Atmospheric sciences

· Possible aerosol effects on lightning activity and structure of hurricanes,

N. Cohen, 2008, M.Sc. thesis

Proceedings

The possible role of small aerosol particles on deep maritime convection and lightning over the ocean

Khain, N. Cohen and A. Pokrovsky, 2008, Proc. The 15th International Conference on Clouds and Precipitation, Cancun, Mexico

Effects of aerosols on lightning and structure of tropical cyclones

Khain, A. P., N. Cohen, Y. Segal, B. Lynn, and D. Rosenfeld, 2007, Proc. IUGG XXIV, Perugia, Italy, International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences, 986

Talks

· Courant Institute, NY, Student Seminar, February 2013: Old ideas-New perspectives

· Princeton University, AOS days, June 2012: Stratospheric interactions between resolved and unresolved waves

· Courant Institute, NY, Student Seminar, February 2012: On the generalized Lagrangian mean theory and the TEM equations

· University of Frankfurt/Main, Frankfurt, Germany, November 2011: Stratospheric interactions between resolved and unresolved waves

· Max-Planck Institute, Hamburg, Germany, November 2011: Stratospheric interactions between resolved and unresolved waves

· Woods Hole, GCC meeting, October 2011: Stratospheric interactions between resolved and unresolved waves

· Courant Institute, NY, Student Seminar, October 2011: Stratospheric interactions between resolved and unresolved waves

· MIT, Cambridge , MA, AOS days, June 2011: A modeling framework to study interaction between resolved and parameterized waves

· Spokane ,WA, The 18th Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics, June 2011: A modeling framework to study interaction between resolved and parameterized waves

· Courant Institute, NY, Student Seminar, May 2011: Toward studying the dynamics of unresolved gravity waves in a GCM

· Courant Institute, NY, Student Seminar, November 2010: The momentum flux of internal waves for simple harmonic time dependent flows

· University of Maryland, AOS days, May 2010: On the momentum flux of internal waves for different stratified shear flows

· Courant Institute, NY, Student Seminar, April 2010: On the momentum flux of internal waves for different stratified shear flows

· Courant Institute, NY, cSplash, April 2010: Sunrise, sunset, and local time calculations

· Courant Institute, NY, Student Seminar, October 2009 : On aerosols lightning and hurricanes

· Cancun, Mexico, The 15th International Conference on Clouds and Precipitation, June 2008: Effects of aerosols on lightning and intensity of hurricanes (Poster)

· Be'er-Sheba University, Israel, Israeli Association for Aerosol Research meeting, December 2007: Possible aerosol effects on lightning activity and structure of hurricanes

· The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, Seminar, December 2007: On possible aerosol effects on lightning activity and structure of landfalling hurricanes