Scientific Publications
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Refereed articles and refereed letters in scientific journals (peer reviewed)
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1. Nativ, R. and Weisbrod, N., 1994: Hydraulic connections among subaquifers of the Coastal Plain Aquifer, Israel. Ground Water 6, 997-1008.
2. Nativ, R. and Weisbrod, N., 1994: Management of a multilayered coastal aquifer - the Israeli case. Water Resources Management 8, 297-311.
3. Weisbrod, N., Ronen, D. and Nativ, R., 1996: A new method for sampling groundwater colloids under natural gradient flow conditions. Environmental Science & Technology 30, 3094-3099
4. Weisbrod, N., Nativ, R., Ronen, D. and Adar, E., 1998: On the variability of fracture surfaces in unsaturated chalk. Water Resources Research 34 (8), 1881-1887.
5. Weisbrod, N., Nativ, R., Adar, E. and Ronen, D., 1999: Impact of intermittent flow of rainwater and wastewater on coated and uncoated fractures in chalk. Water Resources Research 35, 3211-3222.
6. Dahan, O., Nativ, R., Adar, E. A., Berkowitz, B. and Weisbrod, N., 2000: On fracture structure and preferential flow in unsaturated chalk. Ground Water 38 (3), 444-451.
7. Weisbrod, N., Nativ, R., Adar, E. and Ronen, D., 2000: Salt accumulation and flushing in unsaturated fractures in an arid environment. Ground Water 38 (3), 452-461
8. Weisbrod, N., Nativ, R., Adar, E., Ronen, D. and Ben-Nun, A., 2000: The impact of coating and weathering on the properties of chalk fracture surfaces. Journal of Geophysical Research B12, 27, 853-864. (# citations 14; IF 3.021; JR 21/170 in Geosciences; Q1)
9. Weisbrod, N., Dahan, O. and Adar, E. A., 2002: Particle transport in unsaturated fractured chalk under arid conditions. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology 56, 117-136.
10. Blume, T., Weisbrod, N. and Selker, J. S., 2002: Permeability changes in layered sediments: Impact of particle release. Ground Water 40 (5), 466-474.
11. Niemet, R. M., Rockhold, M. L., Weisbrod, N. and Selker, J. S., 2002: Relationships between gas-liquid interfacial surface area, liquid saturation and light transmission in variably saturated porous media. Water Resources Research 38 (8), 10-1-10-12.
12. Weisbrod, N., Niemet, R. M. and Selker, J. S., 2002: Imbibition of saline solutions into dry and prewetted porous media. Advances in Water Resources 25 (7), 841-855.
13. Weisbrod, N., Niemet, R. M., McGinnis, T. and Selker, J. S., 2003: Water vapor transport in the vicinity of imbibing saline solutions: homogenous and layered systems. Water Resources Research 39 (6) 1145, doi: 10.1029/2002WR001539.
14. Weisbrod, N., Niemet, R. M. and Selker, J. S., 2003: A light transmission technique for the evaluation of colloidal transport and dynamics in porous media. Environmental Science & Technology 37, 3694-3700.
15. Dragila, M. I. and Weisbrod, N., 2003: Parameters affecting maximum fluid transport in large aperture fractures. Advances in Water Resources 26 (12), 1219-1228.
16. Dragila, M. I. and Weisbrod, N., 2004: Fluid motion through an unsaturated fracture junction. Water Resources Research 40, W02402, doi: 10.1029/2003WR002356.
17. Weisbrod, N., Niemet, R. M., Rockhold, M. L., McGinnis, T. and Selker, J. S., 2004: Migration of saline solutions into variably saturated porous media. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology 72, 109-133.
18. Dragila, M. I. and Weisbrod, N., 2004: Flow in rivulet menisci corners. Vadose Zone Journal 3, 1439-1442.
19. Degen, A. and Weisbrod, N., 2004: Can the pastoral nomads return to their traditional livelihood of raising livestock in the Registan desert of southern Afghanistan? Journal of Nomadic Peoples 8 (2), 214-229.
20. Blume, T., Weisbrod, N. and Selker, J. S., 2005: On the critical salt concentrations for particle detachment in homogeneous sand and heterogeneous Hanford sediments. Geoderma 124, 121-132.
21. Wiel-Shafran, A., Gross, A., Ronen, Z., Weisbrod, N. and Adar E., 2005: Effects of surfactants originating from reuse of greywater on capillary rise in the soil. Water Science & Technology 52 (10-11), 157-166.
22. Weisbrod, N. and Dragila, M. I., 2006: Potential impact of convective fracture venting on salt-crust buildup and groundwater salinization in arid environments. Journal of Arid Environments 65, 386-399.
23. Wiel-Shafran, A., Ronen, Z., Weisbrod, N., Adar, E. and Gross, A. 2006: Changes in soil properties following irrigation with surfactant-rich greywater. Ecological Engineering, 26, 348-354.
24. Zvikelsky, O., and Weisbrod, N. 2006: Impact of particle size on colloid transport in discrete fractures, Water Resources Research 42, W12S08, doi:10.1029/2006WR004873.
25. Burns, E. R., Dragila, M. I., Selker, J. S., Guenther, R. B. Parlange, J. Y. and WeisbrodC, N. 2007: Buckingham-Darcy Law for flow of variable strength salt solutions in variably saturated porous media. Advances in Water Resources, 30, 469-482.
26. Shani, C., Weisbrod, N., Yakirevich A., 2008: Colloid transport through saturated sand columns: influence of physical and chemical surface properties on deposition. Colloid and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, 316, 142-150.
27. Sorek, A., Atzmon, N., Dahan, O., Gerstl, Z., Kutischin, L., Laor, Y., Mingelgrin, U., Nasser, A., Ronen, D., Tsechansky, L., Weisbrod, N., Graber, E.R., 2008: Phytoscreening: The use of trees for discovering subsurface contamination by VOCs. Environmental Science & Technology, 42 (2), 536–542, 2008. 10.1021/es072014b.
28. Mishurov, M., Yakirevich, A. and Weisbrod N., 2008: Colloid transport in a heterogeneous partially saturated sand column. Environmental Science & Technology 42 (4), 1066–1071, 2008. 10.1021/es071780f.
29. Travis, M., Weisbrod, N. and Gross A., 2008: Accumulation of oil and grease in soils irrigated with greywater and the potential effect on soil water repellency. Science of the Total Environment, 394, 68-74.
30. Nachshon, U., Weisbrod, N., Dragila M., 2008: Quantification of convection through fractures – Laboratory study. Vadose Zone Journal 7(3), 1-9.
31. Gal, H., Ronen, Z., Weisbrod, N., Dahan, O., Nativ, R., 2008: Perchlorate Biodegradation in Contaminated Soils and the Deep Unsaturated Zone. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 40 (7), 1751-1757.
32. Zvikelsky, O., Weisbrod, N., Avraham, D. A 2008: Comparison between the transport of artificial and natural colloids in natural discrete fractures. J. Colloid and Interface Science 323, 286-292.
33. Magal, E., Weisbrod, N., Yakirevich, A., and Yechieli, Y., 2008: The use of fluorescent dyes as tracers in highly saline groundwater. J. Hydrology DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2008.05.035).
34. Weisbrod, N., Dragila, M.I. Nachshon U., Pillersdorf, M., 2009: Falling through the cracks: the role of fractures in earth-atmosphere gas exchange. Geophysical Research Letters. 36, L02401, DOI:10.1029/2008GL036096.
35. Kamai, T., N. Weisbrod, and M. I. Dragila, 2009: Impact of ambient temperature on evaporation from surface-exposed fractures, Water Resources Research, 45, W02417, DOI:10.1029/2008WR007354. (# citations 6; IF 2.957; JR 3/78 in Water Resources; Q1)
36. Tang, X. and Weisbrod, N., 2009: Colloid-facilitated transport of Pb in natural discrete fractures. Environmental Pollution, 157, 2266-2274, DOI:10.1016/j.envpol.2009.03.034.
37. Sagi-Ben Moshe, S., Ronen, Z., Dahan, O., Weisbrod, N., Groisman, L., Adar, E. M. and Nativ, R., 2009: Sequential biodegradation of TNT, RDX and HMX in a mixture. Environmental Pollution, 157, 2231-2238, DOI:10.1016/j.envpol.2009.04.012.
38. Weisbrod, N., McGinnis, T., Niemet, R. M., Rockhold, M. L. and Selker, J. S., 2009: Effective darcy-scale contact angles in porous media imbibing solutions of various surface tensions. Water Resources Research. 45, W00D39, DOI:10.1029/2008WR006957.
39. Gal, H., Weisbrod, N., Dahan, O and Ronen, Z., 2009: Perchlorate accumulation and migration in the deep vadose zone in a semiarid region. Journal of Hydrology, 378, 142-149, DOI:10.1016/j.hydrol.2009.09.018.
40. Ronen, D., Weiner-Lev, H., Graber, E., Dahan, O. and Weisbrod N., 2010. Simultaneous counter-flow of chlorinated volatile organic compounds across the saturated – unsaturated interface region of an aquifer. Water Research, 44, 2107-2112, DOI:10.1016/j.watres.2009.12.016.
41. Tang, X. and Weisbrod, N., 2010. Soluble and Colloidal transport of Cs in natural discrete fractures. Journal of Environmental Quality, 39(3) 1066-1076, DOI:10.2134/jeq2009.0345.
42. Travis, M.J., Wiel-Shafran, A., Weisbrod , N., Adar, E., Gross, A., 2010. Greywater reuse for irrigation: effect on soil properties. Science of the Total Environment, 408, 2501-2508, DOI:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.03.005.
43. Magal E, Weisbrod, N., Yakirevich A., Kurtzman D. and Yechieli, Y., 2010. Line source field tracer experiment for assessment of high groundwater velocity. Groundwater. DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.2010.00707.x
44. Kurtzman, D., Netzer, L., Weisbrod, N., Graber, E.R., and Ronen, D., 2010. Steady-state homogeneous approximations of vertical velocity from open-borehole and packed-off EC profiles. Groundwater. DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.2010.00720.x
45. Sagi-Ben Moshe, S., Z. Ronen, O. Dahan, A. Bernstein, N. Weisbrod, F. Gelman and E. Adar., 2010. Isotopic evidence and quantification assessment of in-situ RDX biodegradation in the deep unsaturated zone. Soil Biology Biochemistry. V. 42, 8, 1253 – 1262.
46. Netzer, L., Weisbrod, N., Kurtzman, D., Nasser, A., Graber, E., Ronen, D., 2010. Observations on vertical variability in groundwater quality: Implications for aquifer management. Water Resources Management. DOI: 10.1007/s11269-010-9746-1.
47. Nachshon, U., N. Weisbrod, M. I. Dragila, and A. Grader 2011. Combined evaporation and salt precipitation in homogeneous and heterogeneous porous media, Water Resources Research, 47, W03513, DOI: 10.1029/2010WR009677.
48. Magal, E., Weisbrod N., Yakirevich A., Yechieli Y., 2011. Transport of colloids in porous media: Impact of hyper saline solutions, Water Research, 45, 3521-3532, DOI: 10.1016/j.waters.2011.04.021.
49. Hunkeler, D., Aravena, R., Weisbrod, N., Nasser, A., Netzer, L., Ronen, D., 2011. Carbon and chlorine ratios of chlorinated ethenes migrating through a thick unsaturated zone of a sandy aquifer, Environmental Science & Technology 45 (19), pp 8247–8253 DOI: 10.1021/es201415k.
50. Travis, M., Gross, A., Weisbrod N., 2011. Enhanced transport of oil droplets in saturated and unsaturated sand columns, Environmental Science & Technology 45 (21), pp 9205–9211 DOI: 10.1021/es104040k.
51. Nachshon U, Shahraeeni E., Or D., Dragila M.I., Weisbrod N., 2011. Infrared thermography of evaporative fluxes and dynamics of salt deposition on heterogeneous porous surfaces. Water Resources Research, 47, 12, doi:10.1029/2011WR010776.
52. Travis, M., Weisbrod N., Gross, A., 2012. Decentralized wetland-based treatment of oil-rich farm wastewater for reuse in an arid environment. Ecological Engineering, 39 81– 89, doi:10.1016/j.ecoleng.2011.11.008.
53. Sagi-Ben Moshe, S. O. Dahan, N. Weisbrod, A. Bernstein, E. Adar and Z. Ronen., 2012. Biodegradation of explosives mixture under different water-content conditions. Journal of Hazardous Material doi:10.1016/j.jhazmat.2011.12.029.
54. Kurtzman D., Netzer L., Weisbrod N., Nasser A., Graber E. R., and Ronen, D., 2012. Characterization of deep aquifer dynamics using principle component analysis of sequential multilevel data. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 16, 761-771.
55. Nachshon, U., M. I. Dragila, and N. Weisbrod, 2012. From atmospheric winds to fracture ventilation: Cause and effect, J. Geophys. Res. Biogeosciences, doi:10.1029/2011JG001898.
56. Weisbrod, N., C. Alon-Mordish, E. Konen, and Y. Yechieli, 2012. Dynamic dissolution of halite rock during flow of diluted saline solutions, Geophys. Res. Lett., doi:10.1029/2012GL051306.
57. Ganot Y., Dragila, M., Weisbrod, N., 2012. Impact of thermal convection on air circulation in a mammalian burrow under arid conditions, J. Arid Environment, 84, 51-62, doi: 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2012.04.003.
58. Kuznetsov, M. Yakirevich, A. Y. Pachepsky, A. Sorek, S. and Weisbrod, N. 2012, Quasi 3D modeling of water flow in vadose zone and groundwater, J. Hydrology, 450-451, 140-149.
59. Zhang, W., Tang, X., Weisbrod, N., Guan, Z., 2012. A Review of colloid transport in fractured rocks. J. Mountain Science, 9: 770-787, DOI: 10.1007/s11629-012-2443-1.
60. Yakirevich, A., N. Weisbrod, M. Kuznetsov, C. A. Rivera Villarreyes I. Benavente, A. M. Chavez D. Ferrando., 2013. Modeling the impact of solute recycling on groundwater salinization under irrigated lands: a study of the Alto Piura aquifer, Peru. J. Hydrology, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2012.12.029.
61. Weisbrod, N., Meron, H., Walker, S. and Gitis, V., 2013. Virus transport in a discrete fracture. Water Research, 47, 1888-1898 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2013.01.009.
62. Gabai, R., Shalev, E., Yechieli, Y., Sagy, A., Weisbrod, N., 2013. The permeability of fault zones: A case study from the Dead Sea rift. Hydrogeology Journal.
63. Abramson A., Ben Ami M., Weisbrod N., 2013. Adapting Enzyme-Based Microbial Water Quality Analysis to Remote Areas in Low-Income Countries. Environmental Science & Technology, 47, 10494-10501. dx.doi.org/10.1021/es402175n.
64. Ganot Y., Dragila, M., Weisbrod, N., 2014. Governing mechanisms of CO2 flux across the earth-atmosphere boundary in high permeability soils. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 184, 12-24, DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2013.09.001.
65. Ben Neriah, A., , Assouline S., Shavit, U., Weisbrod N., 2014. Impact of ambient conditions on evaporation in drying soils. Water Resources Research 50, 6696-6712, doi: 10.1002/2014WR015523.
66. Russo, D., Laufer, A., Gerstel, Z., Ronen, D., Weisbrod, N., Zentner, E., 2014. On the mechanism of field-scale solute transport: Insights from numerical simulations and field observations. Water Resources Research, 50(9), 7484–7504, DOI: 10.1002/2014WR015514 .
67. 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
68. 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.
69. 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.
70. 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.
71. Shukri, N., Or, D., Weisbrod N., Prat, M., 2015. Drying Porous Media. Transport in Porous Media. (DOI) 10.1007/s11242-015-0577-7.
72. Wuaknin 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.
73. 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.
74. Weisbrod, N., Yechieli Y., Shandalov, S., Lansky N., 2016. On the viscosity of hyper saline solutions: the Dead Sea case study. J. Hydrology 532, pp 46-51. DOI:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2015.11.036.
75. 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
76. Mizrahi, G., Furman, A., Weisbrod, N., 2016. Infiltration under confined air conditions: Impact of inclined soil surface. Vadose Zone Journal. DOI: 10.2136/vzj2016.04.0034
77. 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.
78. 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
79. 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
80. 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.
81. 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.
82. Cohen, M., Weisbrod, N., 2018. Transport of Iron nanoparticles through natural discrete fractures. Water Research, 129 (1-9). doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2017.11.019
83. 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. https://doi.org/10.1002/ 2017WR021798
84. 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
85. 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
86. 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.
87. 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.
88. Levintal, 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. DOI.org/10.5194/esd-9-1141-2018
89. Levintal, 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
90. 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.
91. Levintal, 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.
92. Levintal, 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
93. 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.
94. 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.
95. 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.
96. 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.
97. 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, 2019WR025553R .
98. Ben Moshe ,S., Weisbrod, N., Barquero, F., Sallwey, J., Furman, A., 2020. On the role of operational dynamics in biogeochemical efficiency of a soil aquifer treatment system, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. hess-2019-371
99. 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
100. 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.
101. 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.
102. 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
103. 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.
104. Brooks, J., Weisbrod, N., Bar-Zev, E., 2020. Revisiting soil aquifer treatment: Improving biodegradation and filtration efficiency using a highly porous material. Water, 12, 3593. doi:10.3390/w12123593.
105. Tran, E., Zavarin, M., Kersting, A., Klein-BenDavid, O., Teutsch, N., Weisbrod, N., 2021. 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, 143818. doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.143818.
106. Ben Moshe, S., Weisbrod, N., Furman, A., 2021. Optimization of soil aquifer treatment (SAT) operation using a reactive transport model. Vadose Zone Journal, DOI: 10.1002/vzj2.20095
107. Levintal, E., Lee Kang, K., Larson, L., Winkelman, E., Nackley, L., Weisbrod, N., Selker, J.S., Udell, C.J., 2021. eGreenhouse: Robotically positioned, low-cost, open-source CO2 analyzer and sensor device for greenhouse applications. HardwareX, 9, e00193, ISSN 2468-0672, doi.org/10.1016/j.ohx.2021.e00193.
108. Grinshpan, M., Furman, A., Dahlke, HE., Raveh, E., Weisbrod, N., 2021. From managed aquifer recharge to soil aquifer treatment on agricultural soils: Concepts and challenges. Agricultural Water Management 255, 106991
109. Haquin, G., Zafrir, H., Ilzycer, D., Weisbrod, N., 2021. Monte Carlo modeling of scintillation detectors for continuous underground radon monitoring, Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 237, 106693, ISSN 0265-931X, doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvrad.2021.106693.
110. Grinshpan, M., Turkeltaub, T., Furman, A., Raveh, E., Weisbrod, N., 2022. On the Use of Orchards to Support Soil Aquifer Treatment Systems. Agricultural Water Management 260, 106991.
111. Turkeltaub, T., Furman, A., Manheim, R, Weisbrod, N., 2022. Continuous monitoring of a soil aquifer treatment system's physico-chemical conditions to optimize operational performance. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 26(6) 1565-1578.
112. Haquin, G., Zafrir, H., Ilzycer, D., Weisbrod, N., 2022. Effect of atmospheric temperature on underground radon: A laboratory experiment, Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 253-254, 106992. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvrad.2022.106992.
113. Borgman, O., Be’er A., Weisbrod, N., 2022. Direct visualization of colloid transport over natural heterogeneous and artificial smooth rock surfaces, Journal Contaminant Hydrology, 251, 104067. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jconhyd.2022.104067
114. Turkeltaub, T., Manheim, R., Furman, A., Weisbrod, N., 2023. Elucidating the relationship between gaseous O2 and redox potential in a soil aquifer treatment system using data driven approaches and an oxygen diffusion model. J. Hydrology, 129168. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2023.129168
115. Arad, I., Ziner, A., Ben Moshe, S., Weisbrod, N., Furman, A., 2023: Improving soil aquifer treatment efficiency using air injection into the subsurface. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 27(13) 2509-2522.
116. Turkeltaub, T, Weisbrod, N., Zavarin, M., Chang, E., Kersting, A. B., Teutsch, N., Roded, S., Tran, E.L., Geller, Y., Gerera, Y., Klein-BenDavid., O., 2024: Radionuclide transport in fractured chalk under abrupt changes in salinity. Science of the Total Environment, 912, doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.168636
Chapters in collective volumes (in books and proceedings)
1. Weisbrod, N., Ronen, D., Nativ, R., Klein, E. and Freedman, Y., 1995: Groundwater colloidal particles obtained under natural gradient flow conditions. In: Proc. of the 209th ACS National Meeting, Anaheim, California, Vol. 35, 1, 566-569.
2. Nativ, R., Adar, E., Dahan, O., Weisbrod, N., Berkowitz, B. and Ronen, D., 1999: Water flow and solute transport in porous fractured chalk. In: Proc. of Dynamics of Fluids in Fractured Rocks: Concept and Recent Advances, Berkeley, USA, pp. 76-78.
3. Weisbrod, N., Dahan, O., Nativ, R. and Adar, E. M., 2002: Fracture flow in the vadose zone: impact of particle release. In: Proc. of International Workshop on Colloids and Colloid-Facilitated Transport of Contaminants in Soils and Sediments, Denmark, pp. 85-92.
4. Weisbrod, N., Niemet, M. and Selker, J. S., 2002: Exploration of colloidal transport using a light transmission technique. In: Proc. of International Workshop on Colloids and Colloid-Facilitated Transport of Contaminants in Soils and Sediments, Denmark, pp. 51-58.
5. Dragila, M. I. and Weisbrod, N., 2004: Flow across an unsaturated fracture intersection. In: Proc. of the Second international Symposium on Dynamics of Fluids in Fractured Rocks, Berkeley, USA, pp. 27-33.
6. Shafran, A. W., Gross, A., Ronen, Z., Weisbrod, N. and Adar, E., 2004: Effects of surfactants originating from reuse of greywater on capillary rise in the soil. IWA Biennial International conference, Marrakech, Morocco.
7. Fischer, C., Weisbrod, N. and Yakirevich A., 2005: Colloid transport and deposition in natural sand. In: Proc. of the 5th International Symposium on Aquifer Recharge (ISMAR5), Berlin, Germany, pp. 348-353 (peer reviewed).
8. Weisbrod, N., Pillersdorf, M., Dragila, M., Graham, C., Cassidy, J. and Cooper, C.A., 2005: Evaporation from fractures exposed at land surface: Impact of gas-phase convection on salt accumulation. In: Dynamics of Fluids and Transport in Fractured Rock, Geophysical Monograph Series 162, B. Faybishenko, P.A. Witherspoon and J. Gale (eds.), American Geophysical Union, pp. 151-164 (peer reviewed; 5 citations).
9. Weisbrod, N. and Zvikelski, O., 2005: Colloid transport in discrete fractures. In: Proc. of the special conference "Water is Life", 40 years for Israel- Germany relationships, Jerusalem, Israel (invited).
10. Dragila, M., and Weisbrod, N., 2007: Convective Venting of Porous Media Fractures. In: Proc. of the 2nd International Conference of Porous Media and is Applications in Science and Engineering ICPM2, Kauai, Hawaii, USA
11. Travis, M., Weisbrod, N., Gross, A., 2007: Oil and grease accumulation in soils irrigated with greywater and the potential effect on soil water repellency. In: Proc. of the ECO-TECH 07, Kalmer, Sweden.
12. Fujimaki, H., Amano, T., Weisbrod, N., Lazarovich, N., Inoue, M., 2007: Salt accumulation in the upper root zone under subsurface drip irrigation. In: Proc. of the Annual joint research symposium in Arid-Land Research, Tottori University, Tottori, Japan.
13. Travis, M.J., Weisbrod, N., Gross, A., 2007. Oil and grease in soils irrigated with greywater and the potential effect on soil water repellency. In: Kaczala, F., Juanga, J., Hogland, W., Marques, M. (Eds.), Eco-Tech 2007, 6th International Conference on Technologies for Waste and Wastewater Treatment, Energy from Waste, Remediation of Contaminated Sites, and Emissions Related to Climate. University of Kalmar, Kalmar, Sweden, pp. 457-466 (peer reviewed).
14. Travis, M.J., Wiel-Shafran, A., Gross, A., Weisbrod, N., Abramson, A., Adar, E., 2008. Changes in soil properties following irrigation with greywater. In: Totolo, O. (Ed.), Water Resource Management. ACTA Press, Gabarone, Botswana (peer reviewed).
15. Sagi-Ben Moshe, S., Ronen, Z., Dahan, O., Weisbrod, N., Nativ, R., 2008: Biodegradation of explosives mixture in soil, In: Proc. ConSoil. F&U confirm, Leipzig, Germany, Milan, Italy, pp. E 453-462 (peer reviewed).
16. Weisbrod N., Dragila M., Nachshon, U., Pillersdorf, M., 2009: The role of cavities in earth-atmosphere interactions. In: From Head Water to the Ocean: Hydrological Cahnges and Watershed Management. Taniguchi, M., Burnett W.C., Fukushima, Y., Haigh, M. and Y. Umezawa, (Eds), Tayler & Francis Group, London, UK, pp. 9-15 (peer reviewed).
17. Travis, M.J., Weisbrod, N., Gross, A., 2011. Onsite treatment of concentrated oil-rich farm wastewater in an arid environment. In: SmallWat11, 3rd International Congress: Wastewater in Small Communities, Seville, Spain.
18. Nachshon, U., Weisbrod, N., Dragila, M.I., Ganot, Y., 2011: The importance of advective fluxes to gas transport across the Earth-atmosphere interface: the role of thermal convection. In: Global Warming / Book 1, Chapter 16, EDS. Elias Carayannis, InTech - Open Access Publisher (peer reviewed).
19. Weisbrod, N., Nachshon, U., Dragila, M. I., Grader, A., 2014. Micro-CT analysis to explore salt precipitation impact on porous media permeability. In: Transport and Reactivity of Solutions in Confined Hydrosystems. Mercury L., Tas, N., Zilberband, M (Eds), Springer, The Netherlands, p. 227-237, Chapter 20 (Invited chapter; peer reviewed).
20. 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).
21. Chen, A., Weisbrod, N., 2015. 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.
22. Tran, E., Weisbrod N., 2021. Colloid and colloid facilitated transport in fractured chalk. In: Many facets of Israel’s hydrogeology, Yechieli Y and Kafri U, Eds. Springer Hydrogeology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51148-7_22
Unrefereed professional articles and publications
1. Weisbrod, N., Desert Hydrology, In: Water: Science and Issues, ed. E. Julius Dasch. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2003, pp. 242-246.
2. Weisbrod, N., From the bottom of the earth: Does the earth "breathe" through cavities. Galileo, October 2010, 28-33 (In Hebrew).
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Refereed articles and refereed letters in scientific journals (peer reviewed)
__Underlined are students under my supervision at the time the work was done.
1. Nativ, R. and Weisbrod, N., 1994: Hydraulic connections among subaquifers of the Coastal Plain Aquifer, Israel. Ground Water 6, 997-1008.
2. Nativ, R. and Weisbrod, N., 1994: Management of a multilayered coastal aquifer - the Israeli case. Water Resources Management 8, 297-311.
3. Weisbrod, N., Ronen, D. and Nativ, R., 1996: A new method for sampling groundwater colloids under natural gradient flow conditions. Environmental Science & Technology 30, 3094-3099
4. Weisbrod, N., Nativ, R., Ronen, D. and Adar, E., 1998: On the variability of fracture surfaces in unsaturated chalk. Water Resources Research 34 (8), 1881-1887.
5. Weisbrod, N., Nativ, R., Adar, E. and Ronen, D., 1999: Impact of intermittent flow of rainwater and wastewater on coated and uncoated fractures in chalk. Water Resources Research 35, 3211-3222.
6. Dahan, O., Nativ, R., Adar, E. A., Berkowitz, B. and Weisbrod, N., 2000: On fracture structure and preferential flow in unsaturated chalk. Ground Water 38 (3), 444-451.
7. Weisbrod, N., Nativ, R., Adar, E. and Ronen, D., 2000: Salt accumulation and flushing in unsaturated fractures in an arid environment. Ground Water 38 (3), 452-461
8. Weisbrod, N., Nativ, R., Adar, E., Ronen, D. and Ben-Nun, A., 2000: The impact of coating and weathering on the properties of chalk fracture surfaces. Journal of Geophysical Research B12, 27, 853-864. (# citations 14; IF 3.021; JR 21/170 in Geosciences; Q1)
9. Weisbrod, N., Dahan, O. and Adar, E. A., 2002: Particle transport in unsaturated fractured chalk under arid conditions. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology 56, 117-136.
10. Blume, T., Weisbrod, N. and Selker, J. S., 2002: Permeability changes in layered sediments: Impact of particle release. Ground Water 40 (5), 466-474.
11. Niemet, R. M., Rockhold, M. L., Weisbrod, N. and Selker, J. S., 2002: Relationships between gas-liquid interfacial surface area, liquid saturation and light transmission in variably saturated porous media. Water Resources Research 38 (8), 10-1-10-12.
12. Weisbrod, N., Niemet, R. M. and Selker, J. S., 2002: Imbibition of saline solutions into dry and prewetted porous media. Advances in Water Resources 25 (7), 841-855.
13. Weisbrod, N., Niemet, R. M., McGinnis, T. and Selker, J. S., 2003: Water vapor transport in the vicinity of imbibing saline solutions: homogenous and layered systems. Water Resources Research 39 (6) 1145, doi: 10.1029/2002WR001539.
14. Weisbrod, N., Niemet, R. M. and Selker, J. S., 2003: A light transmission technique for the evaluation of colloidal transport and dynamics in porous media. Environmental Science & Technology 37, 3694-3700.
15. Dragila, M. I. and Weisbrod, N., 2003: Parameters affecting maximum fluid transport in large aperture fractures. Advances in Water Resources 26 (12), 1219-1228.
16. Dragila, M. I. and Weisbrod, N., 2004: Fluid motion through an unsaturated fracture junction. Water Resources Research 40, W02402, doi: 10.1029/2003WR002356.
17. Weisbrod, N., Niemet, R. M., Rockhold, M. L., McGinnis, T. and Selker, J. S., 2004: Migration of saline solutions into variably saturated porous media. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology 72, 109-133.
18. Dragila, M. I. and Weisbrod, N., 2004: Flow in rivulet menisci corners. Vadose Zone Journal 3, 1439-1442.
19. Degen, A. and Weisbrod, N., 2004: Can the pastoral nomads return to their traditional livelihood of raising livestock in the Registan desert of southern Afghanistan? Journal of Nomadic Peoples 8 (2), 214-229.
20. Blume, T., Weisbrod, N. and Selker, J. S., 2005: On the critical salt concentrations for particle detachment in homogeneous sand and heterogeneous Hanford sediments. Geoderma 124, 121-132.
21. Wiel-Shafran, A., Gross, A., Ronen, Z., Weisbrod, N. and Adar E., 2005: Effects of surfactants originating from reuse of greywater on capillary rise in the soil. Water Science & Technology 52 (10-11), 157-166.
22. Weisbrod, N. and Dragila, M. I., 2006: Potential impact of convective fracture venting on salt-crust buildup and groundwater salinization in arid environments. Journal of Arid Environments 65, 386-399.
23. Wiel-Shafran, A., Ronen, Z., Weisbrod, N., Adar, E. and Gross, A. 2006: Changes in soil properties following irrigation with surfactant-rich greywater. Ecological Engineering, 26, 348-354.
24. Zvikelsky, O., and Weisbrod, N. 2006: Impact of particle size on colloid transport in discrete fractures, Water Resources Research 42, W12S08, doi:10.1029/2006WR004873.
25. Burns, E. R., Dragila, M. I., Selker, J. S., Guenther, R. B. Parlange, J. Y. and WeisbrodC, N. 2007: Buckingham-Darcy Law for flow of variable strength salt solutions in variably saturated porous media. Advances in Water Resources, 30, 469-482.
26. Shani, C., Weisbrod, N., Yakirevich A., 2008: Colloid transport through saturated sand columns: influence of physical and chemical surface properties on deposition. Colloid and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, 316, 142-150.
27. Sorek, A., Atzmon, N., Dahan, O., Gerstl, Z., Kutischin, L., Laor, Y., Mingelgrin, U., Nasser, A., Ronen, D., Tsechansky, L., Weisbrod, N., Graber, E.R., 2008: Phytoscreening: The use of trees for discovering subsurface contamination by VOCs. Environmental Science & Technology, 42 (2), 536–542, 2008. 10.1021/es072014b.
28. Mishurov, M., Yakirevich, A. and Weisbrod N., 2008: Colloid transport in a heterogeneous partially saturated sand column. Environmental Science & Technology 42 (4), 1066–1071, 2008. 10.1021/es071780f.
29. Travis, M., Weisbrod, N. and Gross A., 2008: Accumulation of oil and grease in soils irrigated with greywater and the potential effect on soil water repellency. Science of the Total Environment, 394, 68-74.
30. Nachshon, U., Weisbrod, N., Dragila M., 2008: Quantification of convection through fractures – Laboratory study. Vadose Zone Journal 7(3), 1-9.
31. Gal, H., Ronen, Z., Weisbrod, N., Dahan, O., Nativ, R., 2008: Perchlorate Biodegradation in Contaminated Soils and the Deep Unsaturated Zone. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 40 (7), 1751-1757.
32. Zvikelsky, O., Weisbrod, N., Avraham, D. A 2008: Comparison between the transport of artificial and natural colloids in natural discrete fractures. J. Colloid and Interface Science 323, 286-292.
33. Magal, E., Weisbrod, N., Yakirevich, A., and Yechieli, Y., 2008: The use of fluorescent dyes as tracers in highly saline groundwater. J. Hydrology DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2008.05.035).
34. Weisbrod, N., Dragila, M.I. Nachshon U., Pillersdorf, M., 2009: Falling through the cracks: the role of fractures in earth-atmosphere gas exchange. Geophysical Research Letters. 36, L02401, DOI:10.1029/2008GL036096.
35. Kamai, T., N. Weisbrod, and M. I. Dragila, 2009: Impact of ambient temperature on evaporation from surface-exposed fractures, Water Resources Research, 45, W02417, DOI:10.1029/2008WR007354. (# citations 6; IF 2.957; JR 3/78 in Water Resources; Q1)
36. Tang, X. and Weisbrod, N., 2009: Colloid-facilitated transport of Pb in natural discrete fractures. Environmental Pollution, 157, 2266-2274, DOI:10.1016/j.envpol.2009.03.034.
37. Sagi-Ben Moshe, S., Ronen, Z., Dahan, O., Weisbrod, N., Groisman, L., Adar, E. M. and Nativ, R., 2009: Sequential biodegradation of TNT, RDX and HMX in a mixture. Environmental Pollution, 157, 2231-2238, DOI:10.1016/j.envpol.2009.04.012.
38. Weisbrod, N., McGinnis, T., Niemet, R. M., Rockhold, M. L. and Selker, J. S., 2009: Effective darcy-scale contact angles in porous media imbibing solutions of various surface tensions. Water Resources Research. 45, W00D39, DOI:10.1029/2008WR006957.
39. Gal, H., Weisbrod, N., Dahan, O and Ronen, Z., 2009: Perchlorate accumulation and migration in the deep vadose zone in a semiarid region. Journal of Hydrology, 378, 142-149, DOI:10.1016/j.hydrol.2009.09.018.
40. Ronen, D., Weiner-Lev, H., Graber, E., Dahan, O. and Weisbrod N., 2010. Simultaneous counter-flow of chlorinated volatile organic compounds across the saturated – unsaturated interface region of an aquifer. Water Research, 44, 2107-2112, DOI:10.1016/j.watres.2009.12.016.
41. Tang, X. and Weisbrod, N., 2010. Soluble and Colloidal transport of Cs in natural discrete fractures. Journal of Environmental Quality, 39(3) 1066-1076, DOI:10.2134/jeq2009.0345.
42. Travis, M.J., Wiel-Shafran, A., Weisbrod , N., Adar, E., Gross, A., 2010. Greywater reuse for irrigation: effect on soil properties. Science of the Total Environment, 408, 2501-2508, DOI:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.03.005.
43. Magal E, Weisbrod, N., Yakirevich A., Kurtzman D. and Yechieli, Y., 2010. Line source field tracer experiment for assessment of high groundwater velocity. Groundwater. DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.2010.00707.x
44. Kurtzman, D., Netzer, L., Weisbrod, N., Graber, E.R., and Ronen, D., 2010. Steady-state homogeneous approximations of vertical velocity from open-borehole and packed-off EC profiles. Groundwater. DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.2010.00720.x
45. Sagi-Ben Moshe, S., Z. Ronen, O. Dahan, A. Bernstein, N. Weisbrod, F. Gelman and E. Adar., 2010. Isotopic evidence and quantification assessment of in-situ RDX biodegradation in the deep unsaturated zone. Soil Biology Biochemistry. V. 42, 8, 1253 – 1262.
46. Netzer, L., Weisbrod, N., Kurtzman, D., Nasser, A., Graber, E., Ronen, D., 2010. Observations on vertical variability in groundwater quality: Implications for aquifer management. Water Resources Management. DOI: 10.1007/s11269-010-9746-1.
47. Nachshon, U., N. Weisbrod, M. I. Dragila, and A. Grader 2011. Combined evaporation and salt precipitation in homogeneous and heterogeneous porous media, Water Resources Research, 47, W03513, DOI: 10.1029/2010WR009677.
48. Magal, E., Weisbrod N., Yakirevich A., Yechieli Y., 2011. Transport of colloids in porous media: Impact of hyper saline solutions, Water Research, 45, 3521-3532, DOI: 10.1016/j.waters.2011.04.021.
49. Hunkeler, D., Aravena, R., Weisbrod, N., Nasser, A., Netzer, L., Ronen, D., 2011. Carbon and chlorine ratios of chlorinated ethenes migrating through a thick unsaturated zone of a sandy aquifer, Environmental Science & Technology 45 (19), pp 8247–8253 DOI: 10.1021/es201415k.
50. Travis, M., Gross, A., Weisbrod N., 2011. Enhanced transport of oil droplets in saturated and unsaturated sand columns, Environmental Science & Technology 45 (21), pp 9205–9211 DOI: 10.1021/es104040k.
51. Nachshon U, Shahraeeni E., Or D., Dragila M.I., Weisbrod N., 2011. Infrared thermography of evaporative fluxes and dynamics of salt deposition on heterogeneous porous surfaces. Water Resources Research, 47, 12, doi:10.1029/2011WR010776.
52. Travis, M., Weisbrod N., Gross, A., 2012. Decentralized wetland-based treatment of oil-rich farm wastewater for reuse in an arid environment. Ecological Engineering, 39 81– 89, doi:10.1016/j.ecoleng.2011.11.008.
53. Sagi-Ben Moshe, S. O. Dahan, N. Weisbrod, A. Bernstein, E. Adar and Z. Ronen., 2012. Biodegradation of explosives mixture under different water-content conditions. Journal of Hazardous Material doi:10.1016/j.jhazmat.2011.12.029.
54. Kurtzman D., Netzer L., Weisbrod N., Nasser A., Graber E. R., and Ronen, D., 2012. Characterization of deep aquifer dynamics using principle component analysis of sequential multilevel data. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 16, 761-771.
55. Nachshon, U., M. I. Dragila, and N. Weisbrod, 2012. From atmospheric winds to fracture ventilation: Cause and effect, J. Geophys. Res. Biogeosciences, doi:10.1029/2011JG001898.
56. Weisbrod, N., C. Alon-Mordish, E. Konen, and Y. Yechieli, 2012. Dynamic dissolution of halite rock during flow of diluted saline solutions, Geophys. Res. Lett., doi:10.1029/2012GL051306.
57. Ganot Y., Dragila, M., Weisbrod, N., 2012. Impact of thermal convection on air circulation in a mammalian burrow under arid conditions, J. Arid Environment, 84, 51-62, doi: 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2012.04.003.
58. Kuznetsov, M. Yakirevich, A. Y. Pachepsky, A. Sorek, S. and Weisbrod, N. 2012, Quasi 3D modeling of water flow in vadose zone and groundwater, J. Hydrology, 450-451, 140-149.
59. Zhang, W., Tang, X., Weisbrod, N., Guan, Z., 2012. A Review of colloid transport in fractured rocks. J. Mountain Science, 9: 770-787, DOI: 10.1007/s11629-012-2443-1.
60. Yakirevich, A., N. Weisbrod, M. Kuznetsov, C. A. Rivera Villarreyes I. Benavente, A. M. Chavez D. Ferrando., 2013. Modeling the impact of solute recycling on groundwater salinization under irrigated lands: a study of the Alto Piura aquifer, Peru. J. Hydrology, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2012.12.029.
61. Weisbrod, N., Meron, H., Walker, S. and Gitis, V., 2013. Virus transport in a discrete fracture. Water Research, 47, 1888-1898 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2013.01.009.
62. Gabai, R., Shalev, E., Yechieli, Y., Sagy, A., Weisbrod, N., 2013. The permeability of fault zones: A case study from the Dead Sea rift. Hydrogeology Journal.
63. Abramson A., Ben Ami M., Weisbrod N., 2013. Adapting Enzyme-Based Microbial Water Quality Analysis to Remote Areas in Low-Income Countries. Environmental Science & Technology, 47, 10494-10501. dx.doi.org/10.1021/es402175n.
64. Ganot Y., Dragila, M., Weisbrod, N., 2014. Governing mechanisms of CO2 flux across the earth-atmosphere boundary in high permeability soils. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 184, 12-24, DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2013.09.001.
65. Ben Neriah, A., , Assouline S., Shavit, U., Weisbrod N., 2014. Impact of ambient conditions on evaporation in drying soils. Water Resources Research 50, 6696-6712, doi: 10.1002/2014WR015523.
66. Russo, D., Laufer, A., Gerstel, Z., Ronen, D., Weisbrod, N., Zentner, E., 2014. On the mechanism of field-scale solute transport: Insights from numerical simulations and field observations. Water Resources Research, 50(9), 7484–7504, DOI: 10.1002/2014WR015514 .
67. 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
68. 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.
69. 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.
70. 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.
71. Shukri, N., Or, D., Weisbrod N., Prat, M., 2015. Drying Porous Media. Transport in Porous Media. (DOI) 10.1007/s11242-015-0577-7.
72. Wuaknin 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.
73. 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.
74. Weisbrod, N., Yechieli Y., Shandalov, S., Lansky N., 2016. On the viscosity of hyper saline solutions: the Dead Sea case study. J. Hydrology 532, pp 46-51. DOI:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2015.11.036.
75. 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
76. Mizrahi, G., Furman, A., Weisbrod, N., 2016. Infiltration under confined air conditions: Impact of inclined soil surface. Vadose Zone Journal. DOI: 10.2136/vzj2016.04.0034
77. 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.
78. 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
79. 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
80. 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.
81. 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.
82. Cohen, M., Weisbrod, N., 2018. Transport of Iron nanoparticles through natural discrete fractures. Water Research, 129 (1-9). doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2017.11.019
83. 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. https://doi.org/10.1002/ 2017WR021798
84. 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
85. 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
86. 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.
87. 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.
88. Levintal, 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. DOI.org/10.5194/esd-9-1141-2018
89. Levintal, 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
90. 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.
91. Levintal, 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.
92. Levintal, 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
93. 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.
94. 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.
95. 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.
96. 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.
97. 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, 2019WR025553R .
98. Ben Moshe ,S., Weisbrod, N., Barquero, F., Sallwey, J., Furman, A., 2020. On the role of operational dynamics in biogeochemical efficiency of a soil aquifer treatment system, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. hess-2019-371
99. 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
100. 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.
101. 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.
102. 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
103. 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.
104. Brooks, J., Weisbrod, N., Bar-Zev, E., 2020. Revisiting soil aquifer treatment: Improving biodegradation and filtration efficiency using a highly porous material. Water, 12, 3593. doi:10.3390/w12123593.
105. Tran, E., Zavarin, M., Kersting, A., Klein-BenDavid, O., Teutsch, N., Weisbrod, N., 2021. 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, 143818. doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.143818.
106. Ben Moshe, S., Weisbrod, N., Furman, A., 2021. Optimization of soil aquifer treatment (SAT) operation using a reactive transport model. Vadose Zone Journal, DOI: 10.1002/vzj2.20095
107. Levintal, E., Lee Kang, K., Larson, L., Winkelman, E., Nackley, L., Weisbrod, N., Selker, J.S., Udell, C.J., 2021. eGreenhouse: Robotically positioned, low-cost, open-source CO2 analyzer and sensor device for greenhouse applications. HardwareX, 9, e00193, ISSN 2468-0672, doi.org/10.1016/j.ohx.2021.e00193.
108. Grinshpan, M., Furman, A., Dahlke, HE., Raveh, E., Weisbrod, N., 2021. From managed aquifer recharge to soil aquifer treatment on agricultural soils: Concepts and challenges. Agricultural Water Management 255, 106991
109. Haquin, G., Zafrir, H., Ilzycer, D., Weisbrod, N., 2021. Monte Carlo modeling of scintillation detectors for continuous underground radon monitoring, Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 237, 106693, ISSN 0265-931X, doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvrad.2021.106693.
110. Grinshpan, M., Turkeltaub, T., Furman, A., Raveh, E., Weisbrod, N., 2022. On the Use of Orchards to Support Soil Aquifer Treatment Systems. Agricultural Water Management 260, 106991.
111. Turkeltaub, T., Furman, A., Manheim, R, Weisbrod, N., 2022. Continuous monitoring of a soil aquifer treatment system's physico-chemical conditions to optimize operational performance. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 26(6) 1565-1578.
112. Haquin, G., Zafrir, H., Ilzycer, D., Weisbrod, N., 2022. Effect of atmospheric temperature on underground radon: A laboratory experiment, Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 253-254, 106992. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvrad.2022.106992.
113. Borgman, O., Be’er A., Weisbrod, N., 2022. Direct visualization of colloid transport over natural heterogeneous and artificial smooth rock surfaces, Journal Contaminant Hydrology, 251, 104067. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jconhyd.2022.104067
114. Turkeltaub, T., Manheim, R., Furman, A., Weisbrod, N., 2023. Elucidating the relationship between gaseous O2 and redox potential in a soil aquifer treatment system using data driven approaches and an oxygen diffusion model. J. Hydrology, 129168. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2023.129168
115. Arad, I., Ziner, A., Ben Moshe, S., Weisbrod, N., Furman, A., 2023: Improving soil aquifer treatment efficiency using air injection into the subsurface. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 27(13) 2509-2522.
116. Turkeltaub, T, Weisbrod, N., Zavarin, M., Chang, E., Kersting, A. B., Teutsch, N., Roded, S., Tran, E.L., Geller, Y., Gerera, Y., Klein-BenDavid., O., 2024: Radionuclide transport in fractured chalk under abrupt changes in salinity. Science of the Total Environment, 912, doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.168636
Chapters in collective volumes (in books and proceedings)
1. Weisbrod, N., Ronen, D., Nativ, R., Klein, E. and Freedman, Y., 1995: Groundwater colloidal particles obtained under natural gradient flow conditions. In: Proc. of the 209th ACS National Meeting, Anaheim, California, Vol. 35, 1, 566-569.
2. Nativ, R., Adar, E., Dahan, O., Weisbrod, N., Berkowitz, B. and Ronen, D., 1999: Water flow and solute transport in porous fractured chalk. In: Proc. of Dynamics of Fluids in Fractured Rocks: Concept and Recent Advances, Berkeley, USA, pp. 76-78.
3. Weisbrod, N., Dahan, O., Nativ, R. and Adar, E. M., 2002: Fracture flow in the vadose zone: impact of particle release. In: Proc. of International Workshop on Colloids and Colloid-Facilitated Transport of Contaminants in Soils and Sediments, Denmark, pp. 85-92.
4. Weisbrod, N., Niemet, M. and Selker, J. S., 2002: Exploration of colloidal transport using a light transmission technique. In: Proc. of International Workshop on Colloids and Colloid-Facilitated Transport of Contaminants in Soils and Sediments, Denmark, pp. 51-58.
5. Dragila, M. I. and Weisbrod, N., 2004: Flow across an unsaturated fracture intersection. In: Proc. of the Second international Symposium on Dynamics of Fluids in Fractured Rocks, Berkeley, USA, pp. 27-33.
6. Shafran, A. W., Gross, A., Ronen, Z., Weisbrod, N. and Adar, E., 2004: Effects of surfactants originating from reuse of greywater on capillary rise in the soil. IWA Biennial International conference, Marrakech, Morocco.
7. Fischer, C., Weisbrod, N. and Yakirevich A., 2005: Colloid transport and deposition in natural sand. In: Proc. of the 5th International Symposium on Aquifer Recharge (ISMAR5), Berlin, Germany, pp. 348-353 (peer reviewed).
8. Weisbrod, N., Pillersdorf, M., Dragila, M., Graham, C., Cassidy, J. and Cooper, C.A., 2005: Evaporation from fractures exposed at land surface: Impact of gas-phase convection on salt accumulation. In: Dynamics of Fluids and Transport in Fractured Rock, Geophysical Monograph Series 162, B. Faybishenko, P.A. Witherspoon and J. Gale (eds.), American Geophysical Union, pp. 151-164 (peer reviewed; 5 citations).
9. Weisbrod, N. and Zvikelski, O., 2005: Colloid transport in discrete fractures. In: Proc. of the special conference "Water is Life", 40 years for Israel- Germany relationships, Jerusalem, Israel (invited).
10. Dragila, M., and Weisbrod, N., 2007: Convective Venting of Porous Media Fractures. In: Proc. of the 2nd International Conference of Porous Media and is Applications in Science and Engineering ICPM2, Kauai, Hawaii, USA
11. Travis, M., Weisbrod, N., Gross, A., 2007: Oil and grease accumulation in soils irrigated with greywater and the potential effect on soil water repellency. In: Proc. of the ECO-TECH 07, Kalmer, Sweden.
12. Fujimaki, H., Amano, T., Weisbrod, N., Lazarovich, N., Inoue, M., 2007: Salt accumulation in the upper root zone under subsurface drip irrigation. In: Proc. of the Annual joint research symposium in Arid-Land Research, Tottori University, Tottori, Japan.
13. Travis, M.J., Weisbrod, N., Gross, A., 2007. Oil and grease in soils irrigated with greywater and the potential effect on soil water repellency. In: Kaczala, F., Juanga, J., Hogland, W., Marques, M. (Eds.), Eco-Tech 2007, 6th International Conference on Technologies for Waste and Wastewater Treatment, Energy from Waste, Remediation of Contaminated Sites, and Emissions Related to Climate. University of Kalmar, Kalmar, Sweden, pp. 457-466 (peer reviewed).
14. Travis, M.J., Wiel-Shafran, A., Gross, A., Weisbrod, N., Abramson, A., Adar, E., 2008. Changes in soil properties following irrigation with greywater. In: Totolo, O. (Ed.), Water Resource Management. ACTA Press, Gabarone, Botswana (peer reviewed).
15. Sagi-Ben Moshe, S., Ronen, Z., Dahan, O., Weisbrod, N., Nativ, R., 2008: Biodegradation of explosives mixture in soil, In: Proc. ConSoil. F&U confirm, Leipzig, Germany, Milan, Italy, pp. E 453-462 (peer reviewed).
16. Weisbrod N., Dragila M., Nachshon, U., Pillersdorf, M., 2009: The role of cavities in earth-atmosphere interactions. In: From Head Water to the Ocean: Hydrological Cahnges and Watershed Management. Taniguchi, M., Burnett W.C., Fukushima, Y., Haigh, M. and Y. Umezawa, (Eds), Tayler & Francis Group, London, UK, pp. 9-15 (peer reviewed).
17. Travis, M.J., Weisbrod, N., Gross, A., 2011. Onsite treatment of concentrated oil-rich farm wastewater in an arid environment. In: SmallWat11, 3rd International Congress: Wastewater in Small Communities, Seville, Spain.
18. Nachshon, U., Weisbrod, N., Dragila, M.I., Ganot, Y., 2011: The importance of advective fluxes to gas transport across the Earth-atmosphere interface: the role of thermal convection. In: Global Warming / Book 1, Chapter 16, EDS. Elias Carayannis, InTech - Open Access Publisher (peer reviewed).
19. Weisbrod, N., Nachshon, U., Dragila, M. I., Grader, A., 2014. Micro-CT analysis to explore salt precipitation impact on porous media permeability. In: Transport and Reactivity of Solutions in Confined Hydrosystems. Mercury L., Tas, N., Zilberband, M (Eds), Springer, The Netherlands, p. 227-237, Chapter 20 (Invited chapter; peer reviewed).
20. 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).
21. Chen, A., Weisbrod, N., 2015. 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.
22. Tran, E., Weisbrod N., 2021. Colloid and colloid facilitated transport in fractured chalk. In: Many facets of Israel’s hydrogeology, Yechieli Y and Kafri U, Eds. Springer Hydrogeology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51148-7_22
Unrefereed professional articles and publications
1. Weisbrod, N., Desert Hydrology, In: Water: Science and Issues, ed. E. Julius Dasch. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2003, pp. 242-246.
2. Weisbrod, N., From the bottom of the earth: Does the earth "breathe" through cavities. Galileo, October 2010, 28-33 (In Hebrew).