OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology is 3. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
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Skill Evaluation of Rainfall Forecasts for the Mining Chain over the Eastern Brazilian Amazon	27
Evaluation and Uncertainty of Radioxenon Transport with a Mesoscale Model after the February 2013 Underground Test in North Korea	25
Retrieval of Boundary Layer Precipitable Water from GOES ABI Using Machine Learning Techniques	23
Why Does Japan’s South Foehn, “Jintsu-Oroshi,” Tend to Onset during the Night?: An Investigation Based on Two Case Studies	20
The Heat Is On: Observations and Trends of Heat Stress Metrics during Florida Summers	19
Projecting Future Energy Production from Operating Wind Farms in North America. Part III: Variability	19
Can Areawide Building Retrofitting Affect the Urban Microclimate? An LES Study for Berlin, Germany	15
Fine-scale characteristics of summer precipitation over Cang Mountain	14
Quantifying the Effects of the KULM Radar on Local Report Climatology, Operational Metrics, and Casualty Impacts of Tornadoes	13
Narrowing the Blind Zone of the GPM Dual-Frequency Precipitation Radar to Improve Shallow Precipitation Detection in Mountainous Areas	13
A Gridded Monthly Precipitation Merged Rain Gauge and Satellite Analysis Dataset for the Tian Shan Range between 1981 and 2019	13
An Analysis of the Lagged Relationship between Anomalies of Precipitation and Soil Moisture and Its Potential Role in Agricultural Drought Early Warning	13
The Prospective Application of Machine Learning in Turbulence Forecasting over China	13
Evaluation of ERA5-Land and HARv2 Reanalysis Data at High Elevation in the Upper Dudh Koshi Basin (Everest Region, Nepal)	12
PM10 Time Series Forecasting Using Variational Mode Decomposition Informer	12
Drought Characteristics Encompassing Climate Indices in the Yangtze River Basin Using Nonstationary and Copula-Based Methods	11
Benchmarking near surface winds in the HRRR analyses using multi-source observations over complex terrain in the southeastern United States	11
Quantification of Effects of Errors in the Cloud Properties on the Representation of the Surface Downward Shortwave Flux Based on MERRA-2 in Japan	11
The Application of a Genetic Algorithm to the Optimization of a Mesoscale Model for Emergency Response	11
A Statistical Analysis of Extreme Hot Characteristics and their Relationships with Urbanization in Southern China during 1971–2020	11
Historical Climate Trends over High Mountain Asia Derived from ERA5 Reanalysis Data	11
The GPM-DPR Blind Zone Effect on Satellite-Based Radar Estimation of Precipitation over the Andes from a Ground-Based Ka-band Profiler Perspective	11
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Journal Information and Table of Contents	10
Numerical Simulations of the Thermal Effect on Flow and Dispersion around an Isolated Building	10
Flash Drought Timing and Winter Wheat Productivity in the Southern Great Plains of the United States	10
The Changes in Heating and Cooling Energy Demand in Beijing and Shanghai under Global Warming	10
Evaluation, Calibration, and Application of Probabilistic 100-m Wind Speed Forecasts Produced by the WRF Ensemble Prediction System in Taiwan	9
Journal Information and Table of Contents	9
AMS Publications Support for Open, Transparent, and Equitable Research	9
Parameter Calibration to Improve the Prediction of Tropical Cyclones over the Bay of Bengal Using Machine Learning–Based Multiobjective Optimization	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
Corrigendum	9
The Influence of Drought on Heat Wave Intensity, Duration, and Exposure	9
Inferring the Properties of Snow in Southern Ocean Shallow Convection and Frontal Systems Using Dual-Polarization C-Band Radar	8
The Climatological Rise in Winter Temperature- and Dewpoint-Based Thaw Events and Their Impact on Snow Depth on Mount Washington, New Hampshire	8
Relationship between Synoptic Weather Patterns and Topography on Snowfall in the Idaho Mountainous Regions during the SNOWIE Project	8
Influence of Stability and Surface Roughness on Turbulence during the Stable Atmospheric Variability and Transport (SAVANT) Field Campaign	8
Standardization of Dual-Doppler Radar–Derived Wind Fields during a Hurricane Landfall	8
Air Temperature Variability in High-Elevation Glacierized Regions: Observations from Six Catchments on the Tibetan Plateau	8
Two-Stage Artificial Intelligence Algorithm for Calculating Moisture-Tracking Atmospheric Motion Vectors	8
Conversion of the Knutson et al. (2020) Tropical Cyclone Climate Change Projections to Risk Model Baselines	8
Hyperlocal Observations Reveal Persistent Extreme Urban Heat in Southeast Florida	8
Microclimatic Variability of Cold-Season Minimum Temperatures in Michigan, United States: A Study with Implications for Insect Mortality	7
Impacts of Multiscale Components of Initial Perturbations on Error Growth Characteristics and Ensemble Forecasting Skill	7
Changes in Plant Hardiness Zones under Climate Change Scenarios in the South-Central United States	7
Diagnostic Study of Seasonal Prediction of Malaria: A Case Study in Senegal, West Africa	7
A Statistical Downscaling Model Based on Multiway Functional Principal Component Analysis for Southern Australia Winter Rainfall	7
Do Fire Weather Conditions Significantly Affect Wildfires in Subtropical Forests in Taiwan?	7
Evaluation of Reanalysis Estimates of Precipitation, Radiation, and Temperature over Benin (West Africa)	7
Future Global River Ice in CMIP6 Models under Climate Change	7
Flash Drought Indicator Intercomparison in the United States	7
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Journal Information and Table of Contents	7
Enhancing Drought Risk Assessment in the Punjab, Pakistan: A Copula-Based Modeling Approach for Future Projections	7
Future Changes in Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Affecting Hokkaido and Their Related Precipitation Based on Large-Ensemble Climate Simulations	6
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Statistical Downscaling in the Tropics and Midlatitudes: A Comparative Assessment over Two Representative Regions	6
Corrigendum	6
Arctic Maritime Cyclone Distribution and Trends in the ERA5 Reanalysis	6
Automated and Objective Thunderstorm Identification and Tracking Using Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) Data	6
Formulating Seasonal Hurricane Forecasts for Use in Hurricane Risk Models	6
Comparing Airborne and Along-Sidewall Ground-Based Measurements to Retrieve Thermal and PM10 Concentration Profiles in Two Alpine Valleys	6
Turbulence in The Marine Boundary Layer and Air Motions Below Stratocumulus Clouds at the ARM Eastern North Atlantic Site	6
Validation of the Atmospheric Dispersion Model NAME against Long-Range Tracer Release Experiments	5
Radar Retrieval Evaluation and Investigation of Dendritic Growth Layer Polarimetric Signatures in a Winter Storm	5
Exploring the Composited T-28 Hailstorm Penetration Dataset to Characterize Hail Properties within the Updraft and Downdraft Regions	5
An Algorithm for Detecting the Chesapeake Bay Breeze from Mesoscale NWP Model Output	5
Reply to Pielke (2025)	5
A Gamma Parameterization for Precipitating Particle Size Distributions Containing Snowflake Aggregates Drawn from Five Field Experiments	5
East Pacific ENSO Offers Early Predictive Signals for Harvest Yields	5
Large-Eddy Simulations of the Tropical Cyclone Boundary Layer at Landfall in an Idealized Urban Environment	5
Temporal and Spatial Analysis of Freezing Rain Regimes over Eastern North America	5

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Distinct Meteorological Mode Associated with High-PM2.5 Episodes in Seoul, South Korea	5
On the Radar Detection of Cloud Seeding Effects in Wintertime Orographic Cloud Systems	5
Relationship of Snow Microphysics and Precipitation Generation to Vertical Motions in Extratropical Cyclones: Results from IMPACTS	5
Climatology and Changes in Extratropical Cyclone Activity in the Southern Hemisphere during Austral Winters from 1948 to 2017	4
Irrigated Agriculture Significantly Modifies Seasonal Boundary Layer Atmosphere and Lower-Tropospheric Convective Environment	4
Radar Survey of Hail-Producing Storms and Environments during the 2018–19 Severe-Weather Season in the Córdoba Region of Argentina	4
Study on the Change in Freezing Depth in Heilongjiang Province and Its Response to Winter Half-Year Temperature	4
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A Numerical Evaluation of the Impact of Operational Ground-Based Glaciogenic Cloud Seeding on Precipitation over the Wind River Range, Wyoming	4
Multiple Markov Chains for Categorial Drought Prediction on the U.S. Drought Monitor at Weekly Scale	4
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Regionalization, Decomposition, and Information Mining for Precipitation: A Novel Framework Based on Multivariate SOM Clustering and Multiscale Features	4
Storm Surge, Blocking, and Cyclones: A Compound Hazards Analysis for the Northeast United States	4
Predicting Winter Wheat Heading Date: A Simple Model and Its Validation in Kansas	4
Impacts of the Aerosol Representation in WRF-Solar Clear-Sky Irradiance Forecasts over CONUS	4
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Climatological Characteristics of Hydrometeors in Precipitating Clouds over Eastern China and Their Relationship with Precipitation Based on ERA5 Reanalysis	4
A Comparison of Channel Selection for the Assimilation of CrIS Radiances for NWP	4
Desert Climate Regionalization for Joshua Tree National Park and Surrounding Areas Using New Climate Network Observations	4
Atlantic Coastal Sea Level Variability and Synoptic-Scale Meteorological Forcing	4
Do Not Use the ICAT Hurricane Loss “Dataset”: An Opportunity for Course Correction in Climate Science	4
The Perils of Regridding: Examples using a Global Precipitation Dataset	4
A Nonstationary Standardized Precipitation Index (NSPI) Using Bayesian Splines	4
Improving the Modeled Variability Estimates of Offshore Winds in Northern Europe by Nudging ASCAT-Derived Winds	4
Synoptic-Scale Meteorological Patterns Associated with Heavy Rainfall in the Minnesota Region	4
Improving Estimation of Specific Differential Phase and Assessing Differential Backscattering Phase	4
Observed and Modeled Urban Heat Island and Sea-Breeze Circulation Interactions: A Shanghai Case Study	4
Validating GOES Radar Estimation via Machine Learning to Inform NWP (GREMLIN) Product over CONUS	4
Novel Parameterization of Ice Cloud Effective Diameter from Collocated CALIOP-IIR and CloudSat Retrievals	4
Factors Responsible for the Increase of Winter Low Temperature Extremes from the Mid-1990s to the Early 2010s in Northern China	3
Observational Study of Wind Velocity and Structures during Supertyphoons and Convective Gales over Land Based on a 356-m-High Meteorological Gradient Tower	3
Development of an Extreme Wind-Driven Rain Climatology for the Southeastern United States Using 1-Min Rainfall and Peak Wind Speed Data	3
Exploring Global Climate Model Downscaling Based on Tile-Level Output	3
The Macro- and Microphysical Response Characteristics of the Multicell Hailstorm Hail-Suppression Operation: Case Study	3
Projection on Antarctic Temperature Extremes from the CMIP6 Multimodel Ensemble under Different Scenarios	3
Temporal Trends in Agriculturally Relevant Climate Indicators across Nine Agroecosystems of Turkey	3
Spatiotemporal Changes in Frost Indicators in Southeastern Spain (1950–2020): Influence of the East Atlantic Index (EA)	3
Unsupervised Clustering of Geostationary Satellite Cloud Properties for Estimating Precipitation Probabilities of Tropical Convective Clouds	3
A High-precision and Fast Solution Method of Gamma Raindrop Size Distribution based on 0-Moment and 3-Moment in South China	3
A Comprehensive Evaluation of Mean and Extreme Climate for the Conformal Cubic Atmospheric Model (CCAM)	3
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Developing a Predictive Department of Transportation Winter Severity Index	3
Investigation of Hydrostatic Imbalance with Field Observations	3
Misreporting of Freezing Fog during Snowfall Conditions in U.S. METAR Observations	3
Comparisons of Rainfall Microphysical Characteristics between the Southeastern Tibetan Plateau and Low-Altitude Areas	3
Relationships between Environmental Parameters and Storm Observations in Po Valley: Are They Climate Change Invariant?	3
A Methodology for Estimating the Energy and Moisture Budget of the Convective Boundary Layer Using Continuous Ground-Based Infrared Spectrometer Observations	3
Parameterized Tropical Cyclone Precipitation Model for Catastrophe Risk Assessment in China	3
A Suggestion of Verification Method for Cloud Seeding Experimental Results via Analyses of Chemical Components of Precipitation	3
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United States Supercell Storms and Their Severity: A 14-Year Radar-Based Climatology	3
Evaluation and Spatiotemporal Evolution of Surface Air Temperature Estimated by ERA5-Land Reanalysis Data in East China	3
Statistical Cluster Analysis of Global Aerosol Optical Depth for Simplified Atmospheric Modeling	3
The Observation-Based Index to Investigate the Role of the Lee Vortex in Enhancing Air Pollution over Northwestern Taiwan	3