Publications
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Articles in Refereed Journals
Salamon, A., Omira, R., Zohar, M., Baptista, A.M., (2024). Modern Outlook on the Source of the 551 AD Tsunamigenic Earthquake that Struck the Phoenician (Lebanon) Coast. Natural Hazards
David, L., Zohar, M., Shimshoni, I., (2023). Geo-referencing Entities Extracted from Old Drawings/Photos Using Computer Vision, Deep Learning and GIScience. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 12, 500. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi12120500. pdf file
Zohar, M., Salamon, A., Rapaport, C., (2023). How Expert Is the Crowd? Insights into Crowd Opinions on the Severity of Earthquake Damage. Data 2023, 8 (6), 108. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/data8060108 pdf file
Zohar, M., Gennosar, B., Avny, R., Tessler, N. Gal, A., (2023). Spatiotemporal analysis in high resolution of tweets associated with the November 2016 wildfire in Haifa (Israel). International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2023.103720 pdf file | virtual map
Negev, M., Zohar, M. & Paz, S., (2022) Multidimensional hazards, vulnerabilities, and perceived risks regarding climate change and Covid-19 at the city level: An empirical study from Haifa, Israel. Urban Climate 43. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2022.101146. pdf file
Zohar, M. (2022) A land without (a) people? The GIScience approach to estimating the mid-19th-century population of Ottoman Palestine. Applied Geography 141. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2022.102672. pdf file | map story
Zohar M. (2021). Geolocating tweets in Israel via spatial inspection of information inferred from tweet meta-fields. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2021.102593. pdf file
Zohar, M., Ben-Bassat, Y. (2021). Analyzing Ottoman routes in Greater Syria using historical GIS: the 1849 Saida map. Transactions in GIS. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/tgis.12788. pdf file
Zohar, M., Shimshoni, I. (2021). GIScience integrated with computer vision for the examination of old engravings and drawings. International Journal of Geographical Information Science DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13658816.2021.1874957. pdf file | appendix | video abstract | source code
Zohar, M. (2020). Advancing the historical geography of late Ottoman and British Mandate Palestine using GIScience: A review. Transactions in GIS. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/tgis.12667. pdf file
Zohar, M. (2020). Temporal and spatial patterns of seismic activity associated with the Dead Sea Transform (DST) during the past 3000 yr. Seismological Research Letters. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1785/0220190124. pdf file | appendix
Zohar, M., Erickson-Gini, T. (2020). The ‘Incense Road’ from Petra to Gaza: an analysis using GIS and Cost functions. International Journal of Geographical Information Science. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13658816.2019.1669795. pdf file | virtual map
Selzer, A., Zohar, M. (2019). “The ruins in the chemistry building are revised". The Hebrew university competes with the damages of the earthquake of July 1927, Cathedra, 171, 75-96 (in Hebrew). pdf file
Zohar, M. (2019) Follow the road: Historical GIS for evaluating the development of routes in the Negev region during the 20th century. Journal of Cartography and Geographic Information Sciences, 46:6, 532-546 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/15230406.2019.1577176. pdf file | appendix
Zohar, M. (2017) A newly discovered historical earthquake or merely a chronological mistake? Report of Mary Eliza Rogers from October 10th, 1856. Journal of Seismology, 21(5), 1285-1290. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10950-017-9686-9. pdf file
Zohar, M., Salamon, A., & Rubin, R. (2017) Spatial and temporal patterns of earthquake damage in Israel and its close surroundings, Tectonophysics, 696–697, 1–13. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2016.12.015. pdf file
Zohar, M. (2017) A city hit by an earthquake: An HGIS approach to reconstructing the damage in Tiberias (Israel) in 1837, International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 31(1) 81-99. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13658816.2016.1188933. pdf file | appendix | virtual map
Kidron, G., Zohar, M. (2016) Factors controlling the formation of coppice dunes (Nebkhas) in the Negev Desert, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 41(7), 918-927. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.3875. pdf file
Zohar, M., Salamon, A, & Rubin, R. (2016) Reappraised list of historical earthquakes in Israel and its close surroundings, Journal of Seismology, 20(3), 971-985. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10950-016-9575-7. pdf file | appendix
Hsi-Hsien, W., Shohet, M. I., Skibniewski, M. J., Shapira, S., Levy, R., Levi, T., Salamon, A., & Zohar, M. (2015). Assessment of casualty and economic losses from earthquakes using semi-empirical model. Procedia Engineering, 123, 599-605. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proeng.2015.10.113. pdf file
Zohar, M., Rubin, R., & Salamon, A. (2015). Why is the minaret so short? Evidence on earthquake damage in Mt. Zion. Palestine Exploration Quarterly, 147(3), 230-246. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1179/1743130114Y.0000000016. pdf file
Kidron, G., & Zohar, M. (2014). Wind speed determines the transitions from biocrust-stabilized to active dunes, Aeolian Research, 15, 261-267. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aeolia.2014.04.006. pdf file
Zohar, M., Rubin, R., & Salamon, A. (2014). Earthquake damage and repair: New evidence from Jerusalem on the 1927 Jericho Earthquake. Seismological Research Letters, 85 (4), 912-922. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1785/0220140009. pdf file | appendix
Kidron, G., Zohar, M., & Starinsky, A. (2014). Spatial distribution of dust deposition within a small drainage basin: Implications for loess deposits in the Negev Desert. Sedimentology, 61 (7), 1908-1922. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.12121. pdf file
Zohar, M., & Marco, S. (2012). Re-estimating the epicenter of the 1927 Jericho earthquake using spatial distribution of intensity data. Journal of Applied Geophysics, 82, 19-29. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jappgeo.2012.03.004. pdf file
Kidron, G., & Zohar, M. (2010). Spatial evaporation patterns within a small drainage basin in the Negev Desert. Journal of Hydrology, 380 (3-4), 376-385. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2009.11.012. pdf file
Chapters in Scientific Books
Greenbaum, N., Schwartz, U., Zohar, M., Lekach, Y. (2023) Sediment evacuation and emptying of Makhetesh Hatzera Erosion Cirque, Negev Desert, Israel. In Landscapes and Landforms of Israel. Editors: Frumkin, A. & Shtuber, N., Springer
Articles in Conference Proceedings
Zohar, M. (2022). Spatial approaches for analyzing historical earthquakes associated with the Dead Sea Transform. 9th International Conference on Civil Protection & New Technologies. Thessaloniki, Greece, 29 Sep – 01 Oct
Negev, M., Levine, H., Zohar, T., Nouman, H., Zohar, M., & Paz, S. (2020). Developing urban resilience in Haifa: preparedness to climate change in health and welfare agencies. European Journal of Public Health, 30 (Supplement_5), ckaa166-094. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckaa166.094
Shohet, M., Hsi‐Hsien, W., Levy, R., Shapira, S., Levi, O., Levi, T., Salamon, A., Bar‐Dayan, Y., Zohar, M., Vilnay, O., Aharonson‐Daniel, L., (2014). Earthquake Casualty Loss Assessment in a Major City of Israel‐ the Case of Tiberias. Conference proceeding, 2014 European Seismological Commission 34rd Assembly, Istanbul, Turkey, 24-28 Aug. pdf file
Zohar, M., Shimshoni, I., & Khateb, F. (2020). GIScience Integrated with Computer Vision for the Interpretation and Analysis of Old Paintings. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management - Volume 1: GISTAM, Prague, Czech Republic, SCITEPRESS – Science and Technology Publications, 233-239. pdf file