OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Geophysical Research Letters is 61. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Warmer and Drier Fire Seasons Contribute to Increases in Area Burned at High Severity in Western US Forests From 1985 to 2017	284
Increase in Compound Drought and Heatwaves in a Warming World	170
Record‐Breaking Meiyu Rainfall Around the Yangtze River in 2020 Regulated by the Subseasonal Phase Transition of the North Atlantic Oscillation	163
Global Propagation of Ionospheric Disturbances Associated With the 2022 Tonga Volcanic Eruption	157
Enhanced Meiyu‐Baiu Rainfall in Early Summer 2020: Aftermath of the 2019 Super IOD Event	139
A Unified Clumped Isotope Thermometer Calibration (0.5–1,100°C) Using Carbonate‐Based Standardization	139
Hydrogen Wettability of Sandstone Reservoirs: Implications for Hydrogen Geo‐Storage	135
Stereo Plume Height and Motion Retrievals for the Record‐Setting Hunga Tonga‐Hunga Ha'apai Eruption of 15 January 2022	119
On the Covariation of Chlorophyll Fluorescence and Photosynthesis Across Scales	118
The Hunga Tonga‐Hunga Ha'apai Hydration of the Stratosphere	115
The 15 January 2022 Hunga Tonga Eruption History as Inferred From Ionospheric Observations	114
Satellite and Ocean Data Reveal Marked Increase in Earth’s Heating Rate	114
Numerical Simulation of Atmospheric Lamb Waves Generated by the 2022 Hunga‐Tonga Volcanic Eruption	112
Worldwide Signature of the 2022 Tonga Volcanic Tsunami	110
Rapid Characterization of Large Volcanic Eruptions: Measuring the Impulse of the Hunga Tonga Ha’apai Explosion From Teleseismic Waves	101
Mapping Forest Height and Aboveground Biomass by Integrating ICESat‐2, Sentinel‐1 and Sentinel‐2 Data Using Random Forest Algorithm in Northwest Himalayan Foothills of India	97
Rapid Conjugate Appearance of the Giant Ionospheric Lamb Wave Signatures in the Northern Hemisphere After Hunga‐Tonga Volcano Eruptions	94
Annual Mean Arctic Amplification 1970–2020: Observed and Simulated by CMIP6 Climate Models	92
Differing Mechanisms of New Particle Formation at Two Arctic Sites	87
Five Decades of Observed Daily Precipitation Reveal Longer and More Variable Drought Events Across Much of the Western United States	86
The Longest 2020 Meiyu Season Over the Past 60 Years: Subseasonal Perspective and Its Predictions	86
How Does El Niño–Southern Oscillation Change Under Global Warming—A First Look at CMIP6	84
Changing Lengths of the Four Seasons by Global Warming	82
Moisture Sources and Transport for Extreme Precipitation Over Henan in July 2021	80
Relativistic Electron Microbursts as High‐Energy Tail of Pulsating Aurora Electrons	79

Warming and Freshening of the Pacific Inflow to the Arctic From 1990‐2019 Implying Dramatic Shoaling in Pacific Winter Water Ventilation of the Arctic Water Column	79
The Extreme Positive Indian Ocean Dipole of 2019 and Associated Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall Response	78
Using Machine Learning to Analyze Physical Causes of Climate Change: A Case Study of U.S. Midwest Extreme Precipitation	76
Global Changes in 20‐Year, 50‐Year, and 100‐Year River Floods	76
Impacts of the January 2022 Tonga Volcanic Eruption on the Ionospheric Dynamo: ICON‐MIGHTI and Swarm Observations of Extreme Neutral Winds and Currents	75
Do CMIP6 Climate Models Simulate Global or Regional Compound Events Skillfully?	73
Rapidly Evolving Controls of Landslides After a Strong Earthquake and Implications for Hazard Assessments	73
Systematic Climate Model Biases in the Large‐Scale Patterns of Recent Sea‐Surface Temperature and Sea‐Level Pressure Change	73
Where Are Global Vegetation Greening and Browning Trends Significant?	73
Long‐Term (1979‐Present) Total Water Storage Anomalies Over the Global Land Derived by Reconstructing GRACE Data	72
Historical and Projected Changes in the Southern Hemisphere Surface Westerlies	72
Distributed Global Debris Thickness Estimates Reveal Debris Significantly Impacts Glacier Mass Balance	72
Subsurface Multi‐Physical Monitoring of a Reservoir Landslide With the Fiber‐Optic Nerve System	71
Spatial Patterns and Drivers of Nonperennial Flow Regimes in the Contiguous United States	71
Trends in Global Tropical Cyclone Activity: 1990–2021	70
The Recent Emergence of Arctic Amplification	70
Subsurface Evolution and Persistence of Marine Heatwaves in the Northeast Pacific	70
Atlantic Deep Water Formation Occurs Primarily in the Iceland Basin and Irminger Sea by Local Buoyancy Forcing	70
Holocene Monsoon Change and Abrupt Events on the Western Chinese Loess Plateau as Revealed by Accurately Dated Stalagmites	70
Increasing Synchronous Fire Danger in Forests of the Western United States	69
Mars Climate Sounder Observation of Mars' 2018 Global Dust Storm	69
The Seasonal and Regional Transition to an Ice‐Free Arctic	68
Space‐Borne Cloud‐Native Satellite‐Derived Bathymetry (SDB) Models Using ICESat‐2 And Sentinel‐2	68
New Precise Dating of the India‐Asia Collision in the Tibetan Himalaya at 61 Ma	67
A Shorter, Sharper Rainy Season Amplifies California Wildfire Risk	67
Coseismic and Early Postseismic Deformation Due to the 2021 M7.4 Maduo (China) Earthquake	66
Global Increases in Compound Flood‐Hot Extreme Hazards Under Climate Warming	65
Surface Melt and Runoff on Antarctic Ice Shelves at 1.5°C, 2°C, and 4°C of Future Warming	65
Record Low Antarctic Sea Ice Cover in February 2022	65
Persistent Stratospheric Warming Due to 2019–2020 Australian Wildfire Smoke	64
The TSIS‐1 Hybrid Solar Reference Spectrum	63
Variation in Concentration and Sources of Black Carbon in a Megacity of China During the COVID‐19 Pandemic	63
Compound Extremes Drive the Western Oregon Wildfires of September 2020	62
Chinese Regulations Are Working—Why Is Surface Ozone Over Industrialized Areas Still High? Applying Lessons From Northeast US Air Quality Evolution	61
Global Ocean Mass Change From GRACE and GRACE Follow‐On and Altimeter and Argo Measurements	61
Observed Impacts of COVID‐19 on Urban CO₂ Emissions	61
A Multivariate Flash Drought Indicator for Identifying Global Hotspots and Associated Climate Controls	61