Gidon Eshel, Assistant Professor, Department of the Geophysical Sciences and the College

Book Reviews

Climate Development and History of the North Atlantic Realm, by Gerold Wefer et. al, Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 85(5), pp. 750-751, May 2004.

Strategic Ignorance: Why the Bush Administration Is Recklessly Destroying a Century of Environmental Progress, by Carl Pope and Paul Rauber, Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 48(3), summer 2005.

Publications in Preparation

Eshel, G., Adkins, J. F. and P. B. deMenocal, 2006: Spatiotemporal analyis of air-sea interactions off modern western North Africa. To be submitted to J. Clim.

Eshel, G. and N. Heavens, 2006: The bouyancy budget of the Red Sea boundary layer. To be submitted to Paleoceangraphy

Mogultay, I. and G. Eshel, 2006: Linear stability of a subtropical ocean-atmosphere thermal front. To be submitted to J. Atmos. Sci.

Recent Publications

Eshel, G. and P. A. Martin, 2006: Diet, Energy and Global Warming. In press, Earth Interactions.

Adkins, J. F., G. Eshel and P. B. deMenocal, 2005: The ``African Humid Period'' and the record of marine upwelling from excess ²³⁰Th in ODP hole 658C. Submitted to Paleoceangraphy

Punyasena, S. W., G. Eshel and J. C. McElwain, 2005: The greater influence of temperature over precipitation on the within-family abundance and richness of Neotropical plant families. Submitted to Global Ecology and Biogeography.

Eshel, G. and J. J. Bernstein, 2005: Relationship between large-scale atmospheric states, static stability and ground-level ozone in Illinois. In press, Water, Air & Soil Pollution

Eshel, G., 2005: Empirically evaluating divergence rates of atmospheric trajectories. In press, J. Atmos. Sci.

Eshel, G., Geophysical Data Analysis, to be published in November 2007 by the Princeton University Press.

Ziegler, A. M. and G. Eshel, P. M. Rees, T. A. Rothfus, D. B. Rowley and D. Sunderlin, 2003: Tracing the tropics across land and sea: Permian to present. Lethaia, 36, 227-254.

Eshel, G., 2003: North Atlantic thermal persistence and coherent evolution. J. Geophys. Res. (Oceans) 108 (C2), 3029, doi:10.1029/2001JC001180.

Eshel, G., 2003: Forecasting the North Atlantic Oscillation using Pacific surface pressure. Mon. Weath. Rev. 131, 854-861.

Eshel, G., 2002: Mediterranean climates. Israel J. Earth Sci. 51, 157-168

Eshel, G. and B. F. Farrell, 2001: Thermodynamics of eastern Mediterranean rainfall variability. J. Atmos. Sci. 58, 87-12.

Eshel, G. and B. F. Farrell, 2000: Forecasting eastern Mediterranean Droughts. Mon. Weath. Rev. 128, 3618-3630.

Eshel, G. and B. F. Farrell, 2000: Mechanisms of eastern Mediterranean rainfall variability. J. Atmos. Sci. 57, 3219-3232.

Eshel, G., D. P. Schrag and B. F. Farrell, 2000: Troposphere-planetary boundary Layer interactions and the evolution of surface density: Lessons from Red Sea corals. J. Climate 13, 339-351.

Archer, D. E., G. Eshel, A. Winguth, W. S. Broecker, R. T. Pierrehumbert, M. Tobis and R. Jacob, 2000: Atmospheric CO₂ sensitivity to the biological pump in the ocean. Glob. Biogeochem. Cyc. 14, 1219-1230.

Eshel, G. and N. Naik, 1997: Climatological coastal jet collision, intermediate water formation and the general circulation of the Red Sea. J. Phys. Oce. 27 (7), 1233-1257.

Eshel, G., Coupling of Deep Water Formation and the General Circulation: A Case Study of the Red Sea, Ph.D. Thesis, Columbia Univ., New York, 1996.

Cane, M.A., G. Eshel, and R.W. Buckland, 1994: Forecasting Zimbabwean maize yield using eastern equatorial Pacific sea surface temperature. Nature 370, 204-205.

Eshel, G., M.A. Cane, and M.B. Blumenthal, 1994: Modes of subsurface, intermediate, and deep water renewal in the Red Sea. J. Geophys. Res.