Abadi I., Torfstein A., Friesem D.E., Languut D., Jin M., Rabinovitch R., Steiner T., Zurro D., Gur-Arieh S., Ovadia A., Goring-Morris A.N. (2024) Heinrich event 2 (ca. 24 ka BP) as a chrono-climatic anchor for the appearance of Epipaleolithic backed bladelets microlith industries in the Southern Levant. Quaternary Science Reviews 332 108649. pdf, link
Bradbury H.J., Torfstein A., Wong K. and Turchyn A.V. (2018) The calcium isotope systematics of the late Quaternary Dead Sea. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 19, 4260-4273. pdf
Brill E., Torfstein A., Yaniv R. and Hochman A. (2026) Hydroclimatic Variability and Weather-Type Characteristics in the Levant During the Last Interglacial. Climate of the Past 22, 339–355. link, pdf, Crisis-Response, Science Magazine
Erel Y., Goldstein S.L., Torfstein A., Palchan D., Ben-Israel M. and Stein M. (2017) Isotopic tracers of dust and loess in the Levant, in: Enzel and Bar-Yosef eds., Quaternary Environments, Climate Change and Humans in the Levant, Cambridge University Press. pdf
Goldsmith Y., Cohen O., Stein M., Torfstein A., Kiro Y., Kushnir Y., Bartov Y., Ben-Moshe L., Frumkin A., Lensky N., Keinan J., Gonen L. and Enzel Y. (2023) Holocene humid periods of the Levant – evidence from Dead Sea lake-levels. Quaternary Science Reviews 318, 108312. pdf, link
Goldsmith Y., Xu H., Torfstein A., Lan J., Song Y., Zhang J., Zhou K., Cheng J. and Enzel Y. (2022) Abrupt contraction of the Indo-East Asian monsoons ended the Holocene Humid Period. Geophysical Research Letters 49, e2022GL100137. link
Goldstein S.L., Kiro Y., Torfstein A., Kitagawa H., Tierney J. and Stein M. (2020) Revised chronology of the ICDP Dead Sea deep drill core relates drier-wetter-drier climate cycles to insolation over the past 220 kyr. Quaternary Science Reviews 244, 106460. pdf
Hartman A., Torfstein A. and Almogi-Labin A. (2020) Climate swings in the northern Red Sea over the last 150,000 years from εNd and Mg/Ca of marine sediments. Quaternary Science Reviews 231, 106205. link, pdf
Moshe N., Katz O., Torfstein A., Kanari M., Masque P. and Hyams-Kaphzan O. (2024) Glacial-Holocene variability in sediment accumulation and erosion along submarine blind canyons: a case study from the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. Marine Geology 469, 107217. pdf, link
Neugebauer I., Brauer A., Schwab M.J., Waldmann N.D., Enzel Y., Kitagawa H., Torfstein A., Frank U., Dulski P., Agnon A., Ariztegui D., Ben-Avraham Z., Goldstein S.L. and Stein M. (2014) Lithology of the long sediment record recovered by the ICDP Dead Sea Deep Drilling Project (DSDDP). Quaternary Science Reviews 102, p. 149-165. pdf
Palchan D. and Torfstein A. (2019) A drop in Sahara dust fluxes records the northern limits of the African Humid Period. Nature Communications 10:3803. link
Stein M., Torfstein A., Gavrieli I. and Yechieli Y. (2010) Abrupt aridities and salt deposition in the post-glacial Dead Sea and their North Atlantic connection. Quaternary Science Reviews 29, p. 567-575. pdf
Stein M., Lazar B., Torfstein A. and Goldstein S.L. (2017) Chronologies of the late Quaternary coral reefs and lake sediments from the Red Sea and Dead Sea Rift Valley, in: Enzel and Bar-Yosef eds., Quaternary Environments, Climate Change and Humans in the Levant, Cambridge University Press. pdf
Tierney J.E., Torfstein A. and Bhattacharya T. (2022) Late Quaternary hydroclimate of the Levant: the leaf wax record from the Dead Sea. Quaternary Science Reviews 289, 107613.pdf, link
Torfstein A. (2024) The Quaternary climate of Israel. In: Landscapes and Landforms of Israel, pp. 49-71, Springer International Publishing. pdf, link
Torfstein A. and Steinberg J. (2020) The Oligo-Miocene closure of the Tethys Ocean and evolution of the proto-Mediterranean Sea. Scientific Reports 10, 13817. link
Torfstein A. (2019) Climate cycles in the southern Levant and their global climatic connections. Quaternary Science Reviews 221, 105881. pdf
Torfstein A., Goldstein S.L. and Stein M. (2018) Evidence for enhanced Saharan dust input to the Levant during Heinrich stadials. Quaternary Science Reviews 102, p. 149-165. pdf
Torfstein A. and Turchyn A.V. (2017) Rates and cycles of microbial sulfate reduction in the hyper-saline Dead Sea over the last 200 kyrs from sedimentary d34S and d18O(SO4). Frontiers in Earth Science 5, 62. pdf, link
Torfstein A. (2017) The Amora Formation, Dead Sea Basin, in: Enzel and Bar-Yosef eds., Quaternary Environments, Climate Change and Humans in the Levant, Cambridge University Press. pdf
Torfstein A. and Enzel Y. (2017) Dead Sea lake level changes and Levant paleoclimate, in: Enzel and Bar-Yosef eds., Quaternary Environments, Climate Change and Humans in the Levant, Cambridge University Press. pdf
Torfstein A., Goldstein S.L., Stein M., Kushnir Y., Enzel Y. and Haug G. (2015) Dead Sea drawdown and monsoonal influences in the Levant during the last interglacial. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 412, p. 235-244. pdf
Torfstein A., Goldstein S.L., Stein M., Kushnir Y., Enzel Y. and Haug G. (2015) Response to comment on “Dead Sea drawdown and monsoonal influences in the Levant during the last interglacial [EPSL, 412, 235-244, 2015]”. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 427, p. 306-308. pdf
Torfstein A., Hammerschmidt K., Friedriechsen H., Starinsky A. and Kolodny Y. (2013) Helium isotopes in the Dead Sea Transform waters. Chemical Geology 352, p. 188-201. pdf
Torfstein A., Goldstein S.L., Stein M. and Enzel Y. (2013) Impacts of Abrupt Climate Changes in the Levant from last glacial Dead Sea levels. Quaternary Science Reviews 69, p. 1-7. pdf
Torfstein A., Goldstein S.L., Kagan E. and Stein M. (2013) Integrated multi-site U-Th chronology of the last glacial Lake Lisan. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 104, p. 210-231. pdf
Torfstein A., Hasse-Schramm A., Waldmann N., Kolodny Y. and Stein M. (2009) U-series and oxygen isotope chronology of the mid-Pleistocene Lake Amora (Dead Sea basin). Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 73, p. 2603-2630. pdf
Torfstein A., Gavrieli I., Katz A., Kolodny Y. and Stein M. (2008) Gypsum as a monitor of the paleo- limnological-hydrological conditions in Lake Lisan and the Dead Sea. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 72, p. 2491-2509. pdf
Torfstein A., Gavrieli I. and Stein M. (2005) The sources and evolution of sulfur in the hypersaline Lake Lisan (paleo-Dead Sea). Earth and Planetary Science Letters 236, p. 61-77. pdf
Waldmann N., Torfstein A. and Stein M. (2010) Northward migration of monsoon activity across the Saharo-Arabian desert belt during the last interglacial: evidence from the Levant. Geology 38, p. 567-570. pdf
Miscellaneous Publications
Torfstein A. and Stein M. (2023) The Dead Sea Basin lakes as unique archives of regional Quaternary hydroclimate: A voyage between the Sedom Lagoon and the Holocene Dead Sea, Annual Meeting, Israel Geological Society, Ein Gedi, Field trip guide (In Hebrew). pdf
Torfstein A. (2012) The history of the ancient Dead Sea lakes, Melakh Haaretz, special series dedicated to Dead Sea studies (In Hebrew). pdf
Torfstein A. (2008) Brine freshwater interplay and effects on the evolution of saline lakes: The Dead Sea Rift terminal lakes, Geological Survey of Israel, Report GSI/20/2008. pdf
Torfstein A., Kagen E., Stein M. and Agnon A. (2007) Paleo-seismology and paleo- limnology in the Dead Sea Basin during the Quaternary: new studies of the Amora, Lisan and Ze’elim Formations, Annual Meeting, Israel Geological Society, Neve Zohar, Field trip guide, p. 105-132 (In Hebrew). pdf