OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology is 5. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
An Observational Case Study of Synergies between an Intense Heat Wave and the Urban Heat Island in Beijing	40
Evaluation of Global Reanalysis Land Surface Wind Speed Trends to Support Wind Energy Development Using In Situ Observations	33
Deep-Learning-Based Gridded Downscaling of Surface Meteorological Variables in Complex Terrain. Part I: Daily Maximum and Minimum 2-m Temperature	32
Deep-Learning-Based Gridded Downscaling of Surface Meteorological Variables in Complex Terrain. Part II: Daily Precipitation	30
Evapotranspiration Climatology of Indiana Using In Situ and Remotely Sensed Products	28
Application of a Hybrid ARIMA–SVR Model Based on the SPI for the Forecast of Drought—A Case Study in Henan Province, China	26
Development and Interpretation of a Neural-Network-Based Synthetic Radar Reflectivity Estimator Using GOES-R Satellite Observations	26
Sensitivity of Wind Turbine Array Downstream Effects to the Parameterization Used in WRF	23
Tropical and Extratropical Cyclone Detection Using Deep Learning	22
Mechanisms Associated with Daytime and Nighttime Heat Waves over the Contiguous United States	20
RAS-NAAD: 40-yr High-Resolution North Atlantic Atmospheric Hindcast for Multipurpose Applications (New Dataset for the Regional Mesoscale Studies in the Atmosphere and the Ocean)	20
Interaction of Urban Heat Island Effects and Land–Sea Breezes during a New York City Heat Event	20
Simulation of Flow Fields in Complex Terrain with WRF-LES: Sensitivity Assessment of Different PBL Treatments	20
Dynamics of Diurnal Precipitation Differences and Their Spatial Variations in China	20
Lightning Variability in Dynamically Downscaled Simulations of Alaska’s Present and Future Summer Climate	20
A Hybrid Downscaling Approach for Future Temperature and Precipitation Change	19
Metrics for evaluating tropical cyclones in climate data	19
Impact of Urbanization on the Simulation of Extreme Rainfall in the City of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia	19
NORA3: A Nonhydrostatic High-Resolution Hindcast of the North Sea, the Norwegian Sea, and the Barents Sea	18
Impacts of Anthropogenic Heat Flux and Urban Land-Use Change on Frontal Rainfall near Coastal Regions: A Case Study of a Rainstorm over the Pearl River Delta, South China	18
Characterizing the Uncertainty and Assessing the Value of Gap-Filled Daily Rainfall Data in Hawaii	18
Complex Meteorology over a Complex Mining Facility: Assessment of Topography, Land Use, and Grid Spacing Modifications in WRF	18
An Investigation of the Precipitation Net Effect on the Particulate Matter Concentration in a Narrow Valley: Role of Lower-Troposphere Stability	17
Urban Heat Islands during Heat Waves: A Comparative Study between Boston and Phoenix	17
A Novel Deep Learning Model by BiGRU with Attention Mechanism for Tropical Cyclone Track Prediction in the Northwest Pacific	16

Variability in Wind Energy Generation across the Contiguous United States	15
Geographical Characteristics of Raindrop Size Distribution in the Southern Parts of South Korea	15
Complementing Optical Remote Sensing with Synthetic Aperture Radar Observations of Hail Damage Swaths to Agricultural Crops in the Central United States	15
Trend Analysis of Multiple Extreme Hourly Precipitation Time Series in the Southeastern United States	15
Bias-Corrected CMIP5-Derived Single-Forcing Future Wind-Wave Climate Projections toward the End of the Twenty-First Century	15
The Role of Cloud Size and Environmental Moisture in Shallow Cumulus Precipitation	14
Spatial Trends of Extreme Precipitation Events in the Paraná River Basin	14
Commercial-Aircraft-Based Observations for NWP: Global Coverage, Data Impacts, and COVID-19	14
Incorporating features from the Stochastic Time-Inverted Lagrangian Transport (STILT) model into the Hybrid Single-Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory (HYSPLIT) model: a unified dispersion model	14
Data-driven analysis of climate change in Saudi Arabia: trends in temperature extremes and human comfort indicators	13
Cirrus Cloud Top-of-the-Atmosphere Net Daytime Forcing in the Alaskan Subarctic from Ground-Based MPLNET Monitoring	13
A Statistical–Dynamical Methodology to Downscale Regional Climate Projections to Urban Scale	13
Polarimetric Relations for Snow Estimation—Radar Verification	13
A Polarimetric Radar Analysis of Ice Microphysical Processes in Melting Layers of Winter Storms Using S-Band Quasi-Vertical Profiles	13
Synergetic Use of the WSR-88D Radars, GOES-R Satellites, and Lightning Networks to Study Microphysical Characteristics of Hurricanes	13
Empirical–Statistical Downscaling of Austral Summer Precipitation over South America, with a Focus on the Central Peruvian Andes and the Equatorial Amazon Basin	13
Sensitivity of 89–190-GHz Microwave Observations to Ice Particle Scattering	12
The Perils of Regridding: Examples using a Global Precipitation Dataset	12
Mountain-Wave Turbulence Encounter of the Research Aircraft HALO above Iceland	12
Evaluating Winter Precipitation over the Western Himalayas in a High-Resolution Indian Regional Reanalysis Using Multisource Climate Datasets	12
Trends in Winter Warm Spells in the Central England Temperature Record	11
A Statistical–Dynamical Downscaling for the Urban Heat Island and Building Energy Consumption—Analysis of Its Uncertainties	11
A Dual-Frequency Radar Retrieval of Two Parameters of the Snowfall Particle Size Distribution Using a Neural Network	11
Utilizing Objective Drought Severity Thresholds to Improve Drought Monitoring	11
Predicting Urban Surface Roughness Aerodynamic Parameters Using Random Forest	11
A Fog Climatology at Abu Dhabi International Airport	11
Observation and Simulation of a Bifurcating Thunderstorm over Beijing	11
Reproducibility of Surface Wind and Tracer Transport Simulations over Complex Terrain Using 5-, 3-, and 1-km-Grid Models	10
Enhancements in Day-Ahead Forecasts of Solar Irradiation with Machine Learning: A Novel Analysis with the Japanese Mesoscale Model	10
Snowfall-Rate Retrieval for K- and W-Band Radar Measurements Designed in Hyytiälä, Finland, and Tested at Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard, Norway	10
Evaluation of Monin–Obukhov and Bulk Richardson Parameterizations for Surface–Atmosphere Exchange	10
Use of Sentinel-1 C-Band SAR Images for Convective System Surface Wind Pattern Detection	10
Turbulence in The Marine Boundary Layer and Air Motions Below Stratocumulus Clouds at the ARM Eastern North Atlantic Site	10
Aviation Turbulence Forecasting at Upper Levels with Machine Learning Techniques Based on Regression Trees	10
The Megacity Lagos and Three Decades of Urban Heat Island Growth	10
Assessing the WRF-Solar Model Performance Using Satellite-Derived Irradiance from the National Solar Radiation Database	9
Comparison of Local, Regional, and Scaling Models for Rainfall Intensity–Duration–Frequency Analysis	9
Satellite-Based Regionalization of Solar Irradiation in Vietnam by k-Means Clustering	9
Modeling and Parameter Estimation of Hurricane Wind Fields with Asymmetry	9
Cold Pools Observed during EUREC4A: Detection and Characterization from Atmospheric Soundings	9
Evaluation of Orographic Cloud Seeding Using a Bin Microphysics Scheme: Three-Dimensional Simulation of Real Cases	9
Thermal Signatures of Peri-Urban Landscapes	8
Long Memory and Time Trends in Particulate Matter Pollution (PM2.5 and PM10) in the 50 U.S. States	8
HailTrack—Improving Radar-Based Hailfall Estimates by Modeling Hail Trajectories	8
Polarimetric Observations and Simulations of Sublimating Snow: Implications for Nowcasting	8
Quantifying the Contribution of Urbanization to Summer Extreme High-Temperature Events in the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei Urban Agglomeration	8
Dynamical Downscaling for Southeast Alaska: Historical Climate and Future Projections	8
A Method of Using WRF-Simulated Surface Temperature to Estimate Daily Evapotranspiration	8
Assessing Heavy Precipitation Risk Associated with Tropical Cyclones in China	8
Hydrometeor Shape Variability in Snowfall as Retrieved from Polarimetric Radar Measurements	8

Synergy of Satellite- and Ground-Based Observations for Continuous Monitoring of Atmospheric Stability, Liquid Water Path, and Integrated Water Vapor: Theoretical Evaluations Using Reanalysis and Neur	8
WRF Modeling of Deep Convection and Hail for Wind Power Applications	7
Trends and projection of heavy snowfall in Hokkaido, Japan as an application of self-organizing map	7
Spatiotemporal Pattern Mining of Drought in the Last 40 Years in China Based on the SPEI and Space–Time Cube	7
Classifying planetary cloudiness with an updated set of MODIS Cloud Regimes	7
Constructing High-Resolution, Bias-Corrected Climate Products: A Comparison of Methods	7
Microphysical Insights into Ice Pellet Formation Revealed by Fully Polarimetric Ka-Band Doppler Radar	7
A 33-yr Mei-Yu-Season Climatology of Shear Lines over the Yangtze–Huai River Basin in Eastern China	7
Seasonal and Interannual Variations in the Surface Energy Fluxes of a Rice–Wheat Rotation in Eastern China	7
Analysis of Extreme Wind Speed Estimates in the Northern South China Sea	6
Overview and Applications of the New York State Mesonet Profiler Network	6
CYGNSS Observations and Analysis of Low-Latitude Extratropical Cyclones	6
Detection and Tracking of Tropical Convective Storms Based on Globally Gridded Precipitation Measurements: Algorithm and Survey over the Tropics	6
The Heat Is On: Observations and Trends of Heat Stress Metrics during Florida Summers	6
Variations in Friction Velocity with Wind Speed and Height for Moderate-to-Strong Onshore Winds Based on Measurements from a Coastal Tower	6
Making the Output of Seasonal Climate Models More Palatable to Agriculture: A Copula-Based Postprocessing Method	6
Impact of Urbanization on the Nature of Precipitation at Toronto, Ontario, Canada	6
Multifractal Analysis of Rainfall-Rate Datasets Obtained by Radar and Numerical Model: The Case Study of Typhoon Bolaven (2012)	6
Using Indicators of ENSO, IOD, and SAM to Improve Lead Time and Accuracy of Tropical Cyclone Outlooks for Australia	6
Extending the Heat Index	6
Investigating Long-Range Seasonal Predictability of East African Short Rains: Influence of the Mascarene High on the Indian Ocean Walker Cell	6
Surface Urban Heat and Cool Islands and Their Drivers: An Observational Study in Nanjing, China	6
Differential Credibility Assessment for Statistical Downscaling	5
Observations of Sweep–Ejection Dynamics for Heat and Momentum Fluxes during Wildland Fires in Forested and Grassland Environments	5
Applications of Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in Winter Precipitation-Type Forecasts	5
Assessment of Planetary Boundary Layer Parameterizations and Urban Heat Island Comparison: Impacts and Implications for Tracer Transport	5
Incorporating Multiyear Temperature Predictions for Water Resources Planning	5
An Adaptive Tracking Algorithm for Convection in Simulated and Remote Sensing Data	5
Growing-Season Synoptic and Phenological Controls on Heat Fluxes over Forest and Cropland Sites in the Midwest U.S. Corn Belt	5
Analysis of Precipitation Data Using Innovative Trend Pivot Analysis Method and Trend Polygon Star Concept: A Case Study of Soan River Basin, Potohar Pakistan	5
Diurnal Black-Sky Surface Albedo Parameterization of Snow	5
Testing Passive Microwave-Based Hail Retrievals Using GPM DPR Ku-Band Radar	5
Assessment of Temperature and Specific Humidity Inversions and Their Relationships in Three Global Reanalysis Products over the Arctic Ocean	5
Observed and Modeled Urban Heat Island and Sea-Breeze Circulation Interactions: A Shanghai Case Study	5
Meteorological Downscaling with WRF Model, Version 4.0, and Comparative Evaluation of Planetary Boundary Layer Schemes over a Complex Coastal Airshed	5
Major Over- and Underestimation of Drought Found in NOAA’s Climate Divisional SPI Dataset	5
Application of Unsupervised Learning Techniques to Identify Atlantic Tropical Cyclone Rapid Intensification Environments	5
The Impact of Elevation Sidelobe Contamination on Radar Data Quality for Operational Interpretation	5
Microphysical Characteristics and Evolution of Seeded Orographic Clouds	5
Important factors in the tracking of tropical cyclones in operational models	5
Evaluation of ERA5-Land and HARv2 Reanalysis Data at High Elevation in the Upper Dudh Koshi Basin (Everest Region, Nepal)	5
Cloud-Precipitation Hybrid Regimes and their Projection onto IMERG Precipitation Data	5
An Assessment of Winter Orographic Precipitation and Cloud-Seeding Potential in Wyoming	5
Projecting Future Energy Production from Operating Wind Farms in North America. Part I: Dynamical Downscaling	5
Air Temperature Variability in High-Elevation Glacierized Regions: Observations from Six Catchments on the Tibetan Plateau	5
Developing and Validating Heat Exposure Products Using the U.S. Climate Reference Network	5
El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Impact on Tea Production and Rainfall in South India	5
Recent climate variability around the Kerguelen Islands (Southern Ocean) seen through weather regimes	5