OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology is 4. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Masthead	45
Quantifying the Effects of the KULM Radar on Local Report Climatology, Operational Metrics, and Casualty Impacts of Tornadoes	33
Masthead	33
Retrieval of Boundary Layer Precipitable Water from GOES ABI Using Machine Learning Techniques	27
Skill Evaluation of Rainfall Forecasts for the Mining Chain over the Eastern Brazilian Amazon	25
Why Does Japan’s South Foehn, “Jintsu-Oroshi,” Tend to Onset during the Night?: An Investigation Based on Two Case Studies	24
Projecting Future Energy Production from Operating Wind Farms in North America. Part III: Variability	23
Systematic Identification of Saharan Air Layer Events over the Tropical North Atlantic Ocean	21
Can Areawide Building Retrofitting Affect the Urban Microclimate? An LES Study for Berlin, Germany	20
PM10 Time Series Forecasting Using Variational Mode Decomposition Informer	17
Evaluation of ERA5-Land and HARv2 Reanalysis Data at High Elevation in the Upper Dudh Koshi Basin (Everest Region, Nepal)	16
Monitoring Microscale Heat Stress Patterns in a Medium-Dense Urban Area with Green Spaces	16
A Gridded Monthly Precipitation Merged Rain Gauge and Satellite Analysis Dataset for the Tian Shan Range between 1981 and 2019	16
The Heat Is On: Observations and Trends of Heat Stress Metrics during Florida Summers	15
An Analysis of the Lagged Relationship between Anomalies of Precipitation and Soil Moisture and Its Potential Role in Agricultural Drought Early Warning	15
Observed Temperature and Moisture Advection Characteristics in the Southern Great Plains	15
The Prospective Application of Machine Learning in Turbulence Forecasting over China	15
Narrowing the Blind Zone of the GPM Dual-Frequency Precipitation Radar to Improve Shallow Precipitation Detection in Mountainous Areas	14
Investigations on Aerosol Constituents and Properties’ Variability: A study using multi-site, multi-year ground data	14
Quantification of Effects of Errors in the Cloud Properties on the Representation of the Surface Downward Shortwave Flux Based on MERRA-2 in Japan	13
The Application of a Genetic Algorithm to the Optimization of a Mesoscale Model for Emergency Response	13
Drought Characteristics Encompassing Climate Indices in the Yangtze River Basin Using Nonstationary and Copula-Based Methods	13
Numerical Simulations of the Thermal Effect on Flow and Dispersion around an Isolated Building	13
Masthead	13
The Changes in Heating and Cooling Energy Demand in Beijing and Shanghai under Global Warming	12

The GPM-DPR Blind Zone Effect on Satellite-Based Radar Estimation of Precipitation over the Andes from a Ground-Based Ka-band Profiler Perspective	12
Flash Drought Timing and Winter Wheat Productivity in the Southern Great Plains of the United States	11
Corrigendum	11
Historical Climate Trends over High Mountain Asia Derived from ERA5 Reanalysis Data	11
Journal Information and Table of Contents	11
Assimilation of Doppler Lidar–Derived Planetary Boundary Layer Height Measurements Using an Ensemble Kalman Filter: Case Studies during the PECAN Field Campaign	11
Benchmarking Near-Surface Winds in the HRRR Analyses Using Multisource Observations over Complex Terrain in the Southeastern United States	11
Evaluation, Calibration, and Application of Probabilistic 100-m Wind Speed Forecasts Produced by the WRF Ensemble Prediction System in Taiwan	10
Relationship between Synoptic Weather Patterns and Topography on Snowfall in the Idaho Mountainous Regions during the SNOWIE Project	9
Parameter Calibration to Improve the Prediction of Tropical Cyclones over the Bay of Bengal Using Machine Learning–Based Multiobjective Optimization	9
AMS Publications Support for Open, Transparent, and Equitable Research	9
Standardized Anomaly Forest-Based Methods for Wind Speed Ensemble Postprocessing	9
Inferring the Properties of Snow in Southern Ocean Shallow Convection and Frontal Systems Using Dual-Polarization C-Band Radar	9
The Influence of Drought on Heat Wave Intensity, Duration, and Exposure	9
A Statistical Downscaling Model Based on Multiway Functional Principal Component Analysis for Southern Australia Winter Rainfall	9
Standardization of Dual-Doppler Radar–Derived Wind Fields during a Hurricane Landfall	9
Vertical Motions in Orographic Cloud Systems over the Payette River Basin. Part IV: Controls on Supercooled Liquid Water Content and Cloud Droplet Number Concentrations	9
Journal Information and Table of Contents	9
Assessing the Intensity Decay of U.S. Landfalling Tropical Cyclones: Long-Term Trends and Prediction Model Evaluations	8
The Impact of Atmospheric Circulation and Surface Roughness on Changes in Maximum Surface Wind Speed: A Preliminary Study over Northern China	8
Influence of Stability and Surface Roughness on Turbulence during the Stable Atmospheric Variability and Transport (SAVANT) Field Campaign	8
Hyperlocal Observations Reveal Persistent Extreme Urban Heat in Southeast Florida	8
Air Temperature Variability in High-Elevation Glacierized Regions: Observations from Six Catchments on the Tibetan Plateau	8
Changes in Plant Hardiness Zones under Climate Change Scenarios in the South-Central United States	7
Microclimatic Variability of Cold-Season Minimum Temperatures in Michigan, United States: A Study with Implications for Insect Mortality	7
Future Global River Ice in CMIP6 Models under Climate Change	7
Journal Information and Table of Contents	7
Arctic Maritime Cyclone Distribution and Trends in the ERA5 Reanalysis	7
Flash Drought Indicator Intercomparison in the United States	7
Diagnostic Study of Seasonal Prediction of Malaria: A Case Study in Senegal, West Africa	7
Future Changes in Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Affecting Hokkaido and Their Related Precipitation Based on Large-Ensemble Climate Simulations	7
Turbulent Heat Transfer Observed during a Low-Intensity Forest Understory Head Fire	7
Statistical Downscaling in the Tropics and Midlatitudes: A Comparative Assessment over Two Representative Regions	7
Evaluation of Reanalysis Estimates of Precipitation, Radiation, and Temperature over Benin (West Africa)	7
Masthead	7
Formulating Seasonal Hurricane Forecasts for Use in Hurricane Risk Models	7
Do Fire Weather Conditions Significantly Affect Wildfires in Subtropical Forests in Taiwan?	7
Corrigendum	7
Automated and Objective Thunderstorm Identification and Tracking Using Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) Data	6
Radar Retrieval Evaluation and Investigation of Dendritic Growth Layer Polarimetric Signatures in a Winter Storm	6
Comparing Airborne and Along-Sidewall Ground-Based Measurements to Retrieve Thermal and PM10 Concentration Profiles in Two Alpine Valleys	6
Masthead	6
Temporal and Spatial Analysis of Freezing Rain Regimes over Eastern North America	6
Reply to Pielke (2025)	6
On the Radar Detection of Cloud Seeding Effects in Wintertime Orographic Cloud Systems	6
An Algorithm for Detecting the Chesapeake Bay Breeze from Mesoscale NWP Model Output	6
Enhancing Drought Risk Assessment in the Punjab, Pakistan: A Copula-Based Modeling Approach for Future Projections	6
East Pacific ENSO Offers Early Predictive Signals for Harvest Yields	6
A Gamma Parameterization for Precipitating Particle Size Distributions Containing Snowflake Aggregates Drawn from Five Field Experiments	6
Synoptic-Scale Meteorological Patterns Associated with Heavy Rainfall in the Minnesota Region	6

Exploring the Composited T-28 Hailstorm Penetration Dataset to Characterize Hail Properties within the Updraft and Downdraft Regions	6
Validation of the Atmospheric Dispersion Model NAME against Long-Range Tracer Release Experiments	6
Impacts of Multiscale Components of Initial Perturbations on Error Growth Characteristics and Ensemble Forecasting Skill	6
Masthead	6
Distinct Meteorological Mode Associated with High-PM2.5 Episodes in Seoul, South Korea	6
Macro- and Microphysical Properties of Atmospheric River Snowfall: Results from Two Instrument Sites	5
Radar Survey of Hail-Producing Storms and Environments during the 2018–19 Severe-Weather Season in the Córdoba Region of Argentina	5
Novel Parameterization of Ice Cloud Effective Diameter from Collocated CALIOP-IIR and CloudSat Retrievals	5
United States Supercell Storms and Their Severity: A 14-Year Radar-Based Climatology	5
Improving Estimation of Specific Differential Phase and Assessing Differential Backscattering Phase	5
Masthead	5
A Nonstationary Standardized Precipitation Index (NSPI) Using Bayesian Splines	5
Impacts of the Aerosol Representation in WRF-Solar Clear-Sky Irradiance Forecasts over CONUS	5
Validating GOES Radar Estimation via Machine Learning to Inform NWP (GREMLIN) Product over CONUS	5
Misreporting of Freezing Fog during Snowfall Conditions in U.S. METAR Observations	5
Masthead	5
Relationship of Snow Microphysics and Precipitation Generation to Vertical Motions in Extratropical Cyclones: Results from IMPACTS	5
Desert Climate Regionalization for Joshua Tree National Park and Surrounding Areas Using New Climate Network Observations	5
Do Not Use the ICAT Hurricane Loss “Dataset”: An Opportunity for Course Correction in Climate Science	5
Large-Eddy Simulations of the Tropical Cyclone Boundary Layer at Landfall in an Idealized Urban Environment	5
A Comparison of Channel Selection for the Assimilation of CrIS Radiances for NWP	5
Climatological Characteristics of Hydrometeors in Precipitating Clouds over Eastern China and Their Relationship with Precipitation Based on ERA5 Reanalysis	5
Masthead	5
Observed and Modeled Urban Heat Island and Sea-Breeze Circulation Interactions: A Shanghai Case Study	5
Multiple Markov Chains for Categorial Drought Prediction on the U.S. Drought Monitor at Weekly Scale	4
Assessment of Caribbean Coastal Hazard Posed by Tropical Cyclones	4
Atlantic Coastal Sea Level Variability and Synoptic-Scale Meteorological Forcing	4
Spatiotemporal Changes in Frost Indicators in Southeastern Spain (1950–2020): Influence of the East Atlantic Index (EA)	4
Complementarity between Two Global Satellite-Retrieved Irradiance Products: GSNO and NSRDB	4
A Suggestion of Verification Method for Cloud Seeding Experimental Results via Analyses of Chemical Components of Precipitation	4
Temporal Trends in Agriculturally Relevant Climate Indicators across Nine Agroecosystems of Turkey	4
Projection on Antarctic Temperature Extremes from the CMIP6 Multimodel Ensemble under Different Scenarios	4
Comparisons of Rainfall Microphysical Characteristics between the Southeastern Tibetan Plateau and Low-Altitude Areas	4
A Numerical Evaluation of the Impact of Operational Ground-Based Glaciogenic Cloud Seeding on Precipitation over the Wind River Range, Wyoming	4
Improving the Modeled Variability Estimates of Offshore Winds in Northern Europe by Nudging ASCAT-Derived Winds	4
Diagnosing freezing rain events in reanalysis and CMIP6 climate data	4
Regionalization, Decomposition, and Information Mining for Precipitation: A Novel Framework Based on Multivariate SOM Clustering and Multiscale Features	4
The Macro- and Microphysical Response Characteristics of the Multicell Hailstorm Hail-Suppression Operation: Case Study	4
The Observation-Based Index to Investigate the Role of the Lee Vortex in Enhancing Air Pollution over Northwestern Taiwan	4
Investigation of Hydrostatic Imbalance with Field Observations	4
Exploring Global Climate Model Downscaling Based on Tile-Level Output	4
Irrigated Agriculture Significantly Modifies Seasonal Boundary Layer Atmosphere and Lower-Tropospheric Convective Environment	4
Evaluation and Spatiotemporal Evolution of Surface Air Temperature Estimated by ERA5-Land Reanalysis Data in East China	4
Study on the Change in Freezing Depth in Heilongjiang Province and Its Response to Winter Half-Year Temperature	4
Climatology and Changes in Extratropical Cyclone Activity in the Southern Hemisphere during Austral Winters from 1948 to 2017	4
Developing a Predictive Department of Transportation Winter Severity Index	4
Observational Study of Wind Velocity and Structures during Supertyphoons and Convective Gales over Land Based on a 356-m-High Meteorological Gradient Tower	4
Statistical Cluster Analysis of Global Aerosol Optical Depth for Simplified Atmospheric Modeling	4
Challenges in Satellite Remote Sensing of Hail: Evaluating IR and Passive-Microwave Satellite Hail Retrievals Using Aqua Observations and a Deep Neural Network	4
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