OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Climate is 42. 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
Improvements of the Daily Optimum Interpolation Sea Surface Temperature (DOISST) Version 2.1	332
Future Global Meteorological Drought Hot Spots: A Study Based on CORDEX Data	225
Why Is the Mediterranean a Climate Change Hot Spot?	181
Understanding Future Change of Global Monsoons Projected by CMIP6 Models	142
Changes in Annual Extremes of Daily Temperature and Precipitation in CMIP6 Models	133
Impact of Model Resolution on Tropical Cyclone Simulation Using the HighResMIP–PRIMAVERA Multimodel Ensemble	131
A Global, Continental, and Regional Analysis of Changes in Extreme Precipitation	125
Why Has the Inner Tibetan Plateau Become Wetter since the Mid-1990s?	113
Response of Global Tropical Cyclone Activity to Increasing CO2: Results from Downscaling CMIP6 Models	105
Improved Estimates of Changes in Upper Ocean Salinity and the Hydrological Cycle	99
Isolating the Evolving Contributions of Anthropogenic Aerosols and Greenhouse Gases: A New CESM1 Large Ensemble Community Resource	94
An Overview of the Extratropical Storm Tracks in CMIP6 Historical Simulations	83
An Evaluation of the Performance of the Twentieth Century Reanalysis Version 3	81
Severe Convective Storms across Europe and the United States. Part II: ERA5 Environments Associated with Lightning, Large Hail, Severe Wind, and Tornadoes	80
Weakening of Cold Halocline Layer Exposes Sea Ice to Oceanic Heat in the Eastern Arctic Ocean	79
The Arctic Surface Climate in CMIP6: Status and Developments since CMIP5	79
Vegetation Greening, Extended Growing Seasons, and Temperature Feedbacks in Warming Temperate Grasslands of China	73
From CMIP3 to CMIP6: Northern Hemisphere Atmospheric Blocking Simulation in Present and Future Climate	71
Intermodel Spread in the Pattern Effect and Its Contribution to Climate Sensitivity in CMIP5 and CMIP6 Models	70
Statistical–Dynamical Downscaling Projections of Tropical Cyclone Activity in a Warming Climate: Two Diverging Genesis Scenarios	66
Observed Temperature Changes in the Troposphere and Stratosphere from 1979 to 2018	65
The Interdecadal Shift of ENSO Properties in 1999/2000: A Review	64
The Recent Decline and Recovery of Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall: Relative Roles of External Forcing and Internal Variability	63
Impact of the Indian Ocean Dipole on Evolution of the Subsequent ENSO: Relative Roles of Dynamic and Thermodynamic Processes	62
Representation of Southern Ocean Properties across Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Generations: CMIP3 to CMIP6	58

Dynamics, Variability, and Change in Seasonal Precipitation Reconstructions for North America	57
Arctic Warming Revealed by Multiple CMIP6 Models: Evaluation of Historical Simulations and Quantification of Future Projection Uncertainties	54
Stilling and Recovery of the Surface Wind Speed Based on Observation, Reanalysis, and Geostrophic Wind Theory over China from 1960 to 2017	54
Attribution of Extreme Precipitation with Updated Observations and CMIP6 Simulations	53
Future Changes and Controlling Factors of the Eight Regional Monsoons Projected by CMIP6 Models	52
Urbanization Enhanced Summertime Extreme Hourly Precipitation over the Yangtze River Delta	51
Pattern Recognition Methods to Separate Forced Responses from Internal Variability in Climate Model Ensembles and Observations	51
Thermal Responses to Antarctic Ice Shelf Melt in an Eddy-Rich Global Ocean–Sea Ice Model	50
Time Scales and Mechanisms for the Tropical Pacific Response to Global Warming: A Tug of War between the Ocean Thermostat and Weaker Walker	48
North Atlantic Modulation of Interdecadal Variations in Hot Drought Events over Northeastern China	46
Freeze–Thaw Changes of Seasonally Frozen Ground on the Tibetan Plateau from 1960 to 2014	45
Evaluation of Leading Modes of Climate Variability in the CMIP Archives	45
Robustness of the Recent Global Atmospheric Reanalyses for Antarctic Near-Surface Wind Speed Climatology	45
How Robust is the Asian Precipitation–ENSO Relationship during the Industrial Warming Period (1901–2017)?	44
Regional Dynamic Sea Level Simulated in the CMIP5 and CMIP6 Models: Mean Biases, Future Projections, and Their Linkages	44
Midlatitude Winter Extreme Temperature Events and Connections with Anomalies in the Arctic and Tropics	43
Increasing Destructive Potential of Landfalling Tropical Cyclones over China	43
The Climatology of Lower Tropospheric Temperature Inversions in China from Radiosonde Measurements: Roles of Black Carbon, Local Meteorology, and Large-Scale Subsidence	42
Origins of the Excessive Westward Extension of ENSO SST Simulated in CMIP5 and CMIP6 Models	42