OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Agricultural and Forest Meteorology is 43. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Satellite-based soybean yield forecast: Integrating machine learning and weather data for improving crop yield prediction in southern Brazil	200
Grain yield prediction of rice using multi-temporal UAV-based RGB and multispectral images and model transfer – a case study of small farmlands in the South of China	146
Integrating Multi-Source Data for Rice Yield Prediction across China using Machine Learning and Deep Learning Approaches	127
Representativeness of Eddy-Covariance flux footprints for areas surrounding AmeriFlux sites	125
Redefining droughts for the U.S. Corn Belt: The dominant role of atmospheric vapor pressure deficit over soil moisture in regulating stomatal behavior of Maize and Soybean	90
A near real-time deep learning approach for detecting rice phenology based on UAV images	90
Increasing Tibetan Plateau terrestrial evapotranspiration primarily driven by precipitation	90
Attribution of climate and human activities to vegetation change in China using machine learning techniques	86
Tree mortality of European beech and Norway spruce induced by 2018-2019 hot droughts in central Germany	86
Impact of recent vegetation greening on temperature and precipitation over China	85
Tree cooling effects and human thermal comfort under contrasting species and sites	83
Dynamic wheat yield forecasts are improved by a hybrid approach using a biophysical model and machine learning technique	71
Contributions of climate change, elevated atmospheric CO2 and human activities to ET and GPP trends in the Three-North Region of China	70
An LSTM neural network for improving wheat yield estimates by integrating remote sensing data and meteorological data in the Guanzhong Plain, PR China	69
Diffuse solar radiation and canopy photosynthesis in a changing environment	65
Moving beyond the incorrect but useful paradigm: reevaluating big-leaf and multilayer plant canopies to model biosphere-atmosphere fluxes – a review	65
Value of sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence for quantifying hydrological states and fluxes: Current status and challenges	62
Evolution of light use efficiency models: Improvement, uncertainties, and implications	62
Spatio-temporal assessment of beech growth in relation to climate extremes in Slovenia – An integrated approach using remote sensing and tree-ring data	61
Effect of shrub encroachment on land surface temperature in semi-arid areas of temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere	61
Warming and precipitation addition interact to affect plant spring phenology in alpine meadows on the central Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau	61
Effects of disturbance patterns and deadwood on the microclimate in European beech forests	60
Environmental and biophysical controls of evapotranspiration from Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests (Caatinga) in the Brazilian Semiarid	59
NIRv and SIF better estimate phenology than NDVI and EVI: Effects of spring and autumn phenology on ecosystem production of planted forests	56
The role of climate change and vegetation greening on evapotranspiration variation in the Yellow River Basin, China	54

Vapour pressure deficit and solar radiation are the major drivers of transpiration of balsam fir and black spruce tree species in humid boreal regions, even during a short-term drought	52
GRACE satellite-based drought index indicating increased impact of drought over major basins in China during 2002–2017	51
Monitoring drought impacts on crop productivity of the U.S. Midwest with solar-induced fluorescence: GOSIF outperforms GOME-2 SIF and MODIS NDVI, EVI, and NIRv	50
Estimation of actual evapotranspiration and its components in an irrigated area by integrating the Shuttleworth-Wallace and surface temperature-vegetation index schemes using the particle swarm optimi	50
Warmer spring alleviated the impacts of 2018 European summer heatwave and drought on vegetation photosynthesis	50
Regional contributions to interannual variability of net primary production and climatic attributions	49
Fluctuations of CO2 in Free-Air CO2 Enrichment (FACE) depress plant photosynthesis, growth, and yield	47
Temperature-based grapevine sugar ripeness modelling for a wide range of Vitis vinifera L. cultivars	47
The potential of remote sensing-based models on global water-use efficiency estimation: An evaluation and intercomparison of an ecosystem model (BESS) and algorithm (MODIS) using site level and upscal	47
Shift in the trend of browning in Southwestern Tibetan Plateau in the past two decades	47
Response of vegetation to drought in the Tibetan Plateau: Elevation differentiation and the dominant factors	47
Responses of vegetation greenness and carbon cycle to extreme droughts in China	46
Influence of growing season temperature and precipitation anomalies on crop yield in the southeastern United States	44
Vegetation structural change and CO2 fertilization more than offset gross primary production decline caused by reduced solar radiation in China	44
Inter-individual variability in spring phenology of temperate deciduous trees depends on species, tree size and previous year autumn phenology	44
Impacts of 1.5 and 2.0°C global warming on rice production across China	44
Machine learning in crop yield modelling: A powerful tool, but no surrogate for science	43
Modification of surface energy balance during springtime: The relative importance of biophysical and meteorological changes	43
Spatiotemporal patterns of maize drought stress and their effects on biomass in the Northeast and North China Plain from 2000 to 2019	43