Scientific Publications 2015-2020
Chapters in collective volumes (in books and proceedings)
1. Dragila, M. I.; Nachshon, U., Weisbrod, N., 2015. Fractures as Advective Conduits at the Earth Atmosphere Interface. In: Dynamics of Fluids and Transport in Fractured Rock, Geophysical Monograph Series (?). Faybishenko, P.A. and J. Gale (eds.), American Geophysical Union, (peer reviewed).
2. Chen, A., Weisbrod, N., in press. Assessment of Anthropogenic Impact on the Environmental Flows of Semi-Arid Watersheds: The Case Study of the Lower Jordan River. "Integrated Water Resources Management: Concept, Research and Implementation" Borchardt D, Bogardi J, Ibisch R (Eds), Environmental Sciences book series Springer.
3. Haakan K., Kemna A., Furman A., Mizrahi G., Weisbrod, N., 2015: Integrated hydrogeophysical monitoring and modelling of soil aquifer treatment for improved recharge management. German-Israeli Cooperation in Water Technology Research Status Conference 2015 – Berlin, Germany.
Refereed articles and refereed letters in scientific journals (peer reviewed)
1. Zentner, E., Gerstl, Z., Weisbrod, N., Lev, O., Pankratov, I., Russo, D., Gasser, G., Voloshenko-Rosin, A., and Ronen, D., 2015. Deep penetration of PPCPs through the vadose zone of effluent irrigated land. Vadose Zone Journal. doi:10.2136/vzj2014.09.0115
2. Zhang, W., Tang, X., Weisbrod, N., Zhao, P., Reid, B. J., 2015. Field study of subsurface fracture flow and colloid transport. J. Hydrology, 524, 476-488.
3. Zentner, E., Weisbrod, N., Gerstl, Z., Gasser, G., Ronen, D., 2015. Puddles - a trigger for heterogeneous chemical influx into the unsaturated zone. Chemosphere, 134, 217-223.
4. Nachshon, U., Weisbrod N., 2015. Beyond the salt crust: on combined evaporation and subflorescent salt precipitation in porous media. Transport in Porous Media. (DOI) 10.1007/s11242-015-0514-9.
5. Shukri, N., Or, D., Weisbrod N., Prat, M., 2015. Drying Porous Media. Transport in Porous Media. (DOI) 10.1007/s11242-015-0577-7.
6. Ouaknin H., Meyouhas Y., Weisbrod N., Furman A., 2015. Use and calibration of an assimilated TDR probe in a Perspex wall on various soils. Vadose Zone Journal. 14: 12- DOI: 10.2136/vzj2014.06.0086
7. Tran, E., Klein-BenDavid, O., Teutsch, N., Weisbrod, N., 2015. Influence of intrinsic colloid formation on migration of cerium through fractured carbonate rock. Environmental Science & Technology. 49 (22), pp 13275–13282. DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b03383.
8. Weisbrod, N., Yechieli Y., Shandalov, S., Lansky N., 2016. On the viscosity of hyper saline solutions: the Dead Sea case study. J. Hydrology 532 (46-51). DOI:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2015.11.036
9. Tran, E., Klein-BenDavid, O., Teutsch, N., Weisbrod, N., 2016. Influence of heteroaggregation processes between intrinsic colloids and carrier colloids on Cerium(III) mobility through fractured carbonate rocks. Water Research 100 (88-97). DOI:10.1016/j.watres.2016.04.075
10. Mizrahi, G., Furman, A., Weisbrod, N., 2016. Infiltration under confined air conditions: Impact of inclined soil surface Vadose Zone Journal. 15(9), doi:10.2136/vzj2016.04.0034
11. Wei Zhang, W., Tang X., Xian, Q., Weisbrod, N., Yang, J; Wang, H., 2016. A field study of colloid transport in surface and subsurface flows. J. Hydrology. 542, 101–114.
12. Haaken, K., Furman, A., Weisbrod, N., Kemna, A., 2016. Time-lapse electrical imaging of water infiltration in the context of soil aquifer treatment. Vadose Zone Journal. 15(11), doi:10.2136/vzj2016.04.0028
13. Levintal, E., Dragila I. M., Kamai, T., Weisbrod, N., 2017. Free and forced gas convection in highly permeable, dry porous media. Agricultural Forest and Meteorology. DOI:.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2016.10.001
14. Ganot, Y., Holtzman, R., Weisbrod, N., Katz, Y., Kurtzman, D., 2017. Monitoring and modeling infiltration-recharge dynamics of managed aquifer recharge with desalinated seawater. Hydrology and Earth System Science, hess-2016-613.
15. Haquin, G., Yungrais, Z., Ilzycer, D., Zafrir, H., Weisbrod, N., 2017. Detailed effects of particle size and surface area on 222Rn emanation of a phosphate rock. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 180, 77-81.
16. Cohen, M., Weisbrod, N., 2018. Transport of Iron nanoparticles through natural discrete fractures. Water Research, 129 (1-9), 375-383. doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2017.11.019
17. Ganot, Y., Holtzman, R., Weisbrod, N., Russak, A., Katz, Y., Kurtzman, D., 2018. Geochemical processes during managed aquifer recharge with desalinated seawater. Water Resources Research 54(2), 978-994. https://doi.org/10.1002/ 2017WR021798
18. Ouaknin H., Weisbrod N., Furman A., 2018. Sampling at high spatial and temporal resolutions with an experimental chamber. European Journal of Soil Science. DOI: 10.1111/ejss.12686
19. Nachshon, U., Weisbrod, N., Katzir, R., Nasser, 2018. NaCl crust architecture and its impact on evaporation – three dimensional insights. Geophysical Research Letters, DOI: 10.1029/2018GL078363
20. Tran, E., Teutsch, N., Klein-BenDavid, O., Weisbrod, N., 2018. Uranium and Cesium sorption to bentonite colloids under carbonate-rich environments: Implications for radionuclide transport. Science of the Total Environment, 643, 260-269.
21. Cohen, M., Weisbrod, N., 2018. Field scale mobility and transport manipulation of carbon-supported nanoscale zero-valent iron (nZVI) in fractured media. Environmental Science & Technology.
22. Levital, E., Lensky, N., Mushkin, A., Weisbrod, N., 2018. Pipes to Earth’s subsurface: The role of atmospheric conditions in controlling air transport through boreholes and shafts. Earth System Dynamics , 9, 1141-1153, 2018 doi.org/10.5194/esd-9-1141-2018
23. Levital, E., Dragila, M. Lensky, N., Weisbrod, N., 2018. Mechanisms controlling air stratification within a large diameter borehole and atmospheric exchange. Journal Geophysical Research – Earth Surface. doi. 10.1029/2018JF004729
24. Ganot, Y., Holtzman, R., Weisbrod, N., Berenstein, A., Siebner, H., Katz, Y., Kurtzman, D., 2018. Managed aquifer recharge with reverse-osmosis desalinated seawater: modeling the spreading in groundwater using stable water isotopes. Hydrology and Earth System Science, hess-2018-341.
25. Levital, E., Dragila, N., Weisbrod, N., 2019. Impact of wind speed and soil permeability on aeration time in the upper vadose zone. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology., 269-270, 294-304, doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformat.2019.02.009.
26. Levital, E., Dragila, N., Kamai, T., Weisbrod, N., 2019: Measurement of gas diffusion coefficient in highly permeable porous media. Vadose Zone Hydrology. 18:180164. doi:10.2136/vzj2018.08.0164
27. Friedlander, L., Weisbrod N., Garb, Y., 2019. Climatic and soil-mineralogical controls on the mobility of trace metal contamination released by informal electronic waste (e-waste) processing. Chemosphere, 232, 130-139. doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2019.05.093.
28. Liu, Y., Weisbrod, N., Yakirevich, A., 2019. Comparative study of methods for delineating the wellhead protection area in an unconfined coastal aquifer. Water, 11, 1168; doi:10.3390/w11061168.
29. Tran, E., Teutsch, N., Klein-Ben David, O., Kersting, A., Zavarin, M., Weisbrod, N., 2019. Radionuclide transport in brackish water through chalk fractures. Water Research 163, doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2019.114886.
30. Karnieli, A., Stein, A., Panov, N., Weisbrod, N., Tal, A., 2019. Was drought really the trigger behind the Syrian civil war in 2011? Water, 11, 1564; doi:10.3390/w11081564.
31. Cohen, M., Yakirevich, A., Weisbrod, N., 2019. The Role of Stabilizer Concentration in the Mobility of Carbon-Supported Nano Zerovalent Iron (nZVI) in Fractured Media. Water Resources Research, [Paper #2019WR025553R].
32. Ben Moshe ,S., Weisbrod, N., Barquero, F., Sallwey, J., Furman, A., 2019. On the role of operational dynamics in biogeochemical efficiency of a soil aquifer treatment system, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. hess-2019-371
33. Levital, E., Dragila, N., Kamai, T., Weisbrod, N., 2020. The role of atmospheric conditions in CO2 and radon emissions from an abandoned water well. Science of the Total Environment, 722, doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.137857
34. Tran, E., Reimus, P., Klein-BenDavid, O., Teutsch, N., Zavarin, M., Kersting, A., Weisbrod, N., 2020. Mobility of Radionuclides in Fractured Carbonate Rocks: Lessons from a Field-Scale Transport Experiment. Environmental Science & Technology https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.0c03008.
35. Bogler, A., Packman, A., Furman, A., Gross, A., Kushmaro, A., Ronen, A., Dagotm C., Hillm C., Vaizel-Ohayon, D., Morgenroth, E., Bertuzzo , E., Wells, G., Raanan Kiperwas, H., Horn, H., Negev, I., Zucker, I., Bar-Or, I., Moran-Gilad, J., Balcazar, J., Bibby, K., Elimelech, M., Weisbrod, N., Nir, O., Sued, O., Gillor, O., Alvarez , P., Crameri, S., Arnon, S., Walker, S., Yaron, S., Nguyen, T. H., Berchenko, Y., Hu, Y., Ronen, Z., Bar-Zeev E.,2020. Rethinking wastewater risks and monitoring in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Nature Sustainability, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-020-00605-2.
36. Levintal, E., Dragila, M. I., Lensky, N. G., Weisbrod, N., 2020. Borehole diameter controls thermal‐induced convection and evaporation from a shallow water table. Geophysical Research Letters, 47, e2020GL089411. https://doi.org/ 10.1029/2020GL089411
37. Zafrir, H., Barbosa, S., Levintal, E., Weisbrod, N., Ben Horin, Y., Zalevsky, Z., 2020. The impact of temperature, pressure and tectonic driving forces on radon and CO2 flow within the subsurface porous media -a dozen-year research summary. Frontiers in Earth Science, 8, p. 433.
38. Tran, E., Zavarin, M., Kersting, A., Klein-BenDavid, O., Teutsch, N., Weisbrod, N., in press. Colloid-facilitated transport of 238Pu, 233U and 137Cs through fractured chalk: Laboratory experiments, modelling, and implications for nuclear waste disposal. Science of the Total Environment.rg/10.1038/s41893-020-00605-2.