OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Climate is 32. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Masthead	106
Blocking and General Circulation in GFDL Comprehensive Climate Models	87
Anomalous Characteristics of Water Vapor Budget on the Tibetan Plateau under the Influence of Tropical Cyclones over the Bay of Bengal during Early Summer	75
Proxy- and Model-Estimated Coupled Megadroughts in the Southwestern Regions of North and South America	71
Formation Mechanism for Persistent Heavy Rainfall in Southern China during the Onset of South China Sea Summer Monsoon	58
Global Land–Lake Thermal Contrast in a Warming World	53
Solar 11-Year Cycle-Modulated North–South Contrasting Patterns of Summer Precipitation in China	53
Deep Winter Mixed Layer Anchored by the Meandering Antarctic Circumpolar Current: Cross-Basin Variations	52
Topographic Trapping of the Leeuwin Current and Its Impact on the 2010/11 Ningaloo Niño	47
Understanding the Uncertainty in the West African Monsoon Precipitation Response to Increasing CO2	47
The Varying Earth’s Radiative Feedback Connected to the Ocean Energy Uptake: A Theoretical Perspective from Conceptual Frameworks	45
Seasonal and Geographical Variations in Fundamental Weather Patterns during Extreme Precipitation as Identified from Omega Equation Forcing	45
Reconstruction of Historical Site-Scale Dust Optical Depth (DOD) Time Series from Surface Dust Records and Satellite Retrievals in Northern China: Application to the Evaluation of DOD in CMIP6 Histori	44
Present Climate and Future Changes in the Annual Cycle of TC Activity in the WNP Investigated by HighResMIP GCMs	42
Changes of Intense Extratropical Cyclone Deepening Mechanisms in a Warmer Climate in Idealized Simulations	41
Uncertainties in the Projection of Dynamic Sea Level in CMIP6 and FGOALS-g3 Large Ensemble	39
Observational Constraint on the Climate Sensitivity to Atmospheric CO2 Concentrations Changes Derived from the 1971–2017 Global Energy Budget	37
Imprint of Diabatic Processes in the Waviness of the Jet Stream: An Analysis of Local Wave Activity Budget	37
Masthead	37
Opposing Shifts of the Hadley Cell Edge and Eddy-Driven Jet Latitude in the Last Glacial Maximum: A Parameter Sweep Study Using a Dynamical Core GCM	36
The Influence of Tropopause Potential Vorticity Circulation Forcing on the Development of the East Asian Cold Wave in December 2023	36
Impact of Tropical Cyclone Wind Forcing on the Global Climate in a Fully Coupled Climate Model	36
Impacts of Nudged Sea Surface Temperature on Tropical Precipitation, Moisture, and Vertical Velocity in an Earth System Model	36
How Do Stratospheric Perturbations Influence North American Weather Regime Predictions?	35
The Role of Precipitation and Salinity Effect in Multidecadal Changes and Long-Term Trend of the Indonesian Throughflow	35

An Improved Ensemble of Land Surface Air Temperatures Since 1880 Using Revised Pair-Wise Homogenization Algorithms Accounting for Autocorrelation	34
Contributions of Dust Source Regions to Ice Nucleating Particles in Mixed-Phase Clouds Simulated with a Global Climate–Aerosol Model	34
Journal Information and Table of Contents	34
Multimodel Evidence of Future Tropical Atlantic Precipitation Change Modulated by AMOC Decline	33
Crucial Role of Mesoscale Convective Systems in the Vertical Mass, Water, and Energy Transports of the South Asian Summer Monsoon	33
The Role of Climate and Vegetation in Regulating Drought–Heat Extremes	33
An Observational Estimate of the Pattern Effect on Climate Sensitivity: The Importance of the Eastern Tropical Pacific and Land Areas	33
Relative Contributions of Sea Surface Temperature and Atmospheric Nonlinearities to ENSO Asymmetrical Rainfall Response	32
North Atlantic Ocean–Originated Multicentennial Oscillation of the AMOC: A Coupled Model Study	32
A Bayesian Attribution Analysis of Extreme Temperature Changes at Global and Regional Scales	32