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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

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	24
Retrieval of Boundary Layer Precipitable Water from GOES ABI Using Machine Learning Techniques	21
The Prospective Application of Machine Learning in Turbulence Forecasting over China	20
The Heat Is On: Observations and Trends of Heat Stress Metrics during Florida Summers	18
Why Does Japan’s South Foehn, “Jintsu-Oroshi,” Tend to Onset during the Night?: An Investigation Based on Two Case Studies	18
Projecting Future Energy Production from Operating Wind Farms in North America. Part III: Variability	17
Fine-scale characteristics of summer precipitation over Cang Mountain	15
Narrowing the Blind Zone of the GPM Dual-Frequency Precipitation Radar to Improve Shallow Precipitation Detection in Mountainous Areas	14
Can Areawide Building Retrofitting Affect the Urban Microclimate? An LES Study for Berlin, Germany	13
An Analysis of the Lagged Relationship between Anomalies of Precipitation and Soil Moisture and Its Potential Role in Agricultural Drought Early Warning	12
Urban Heat Islands during Heat Waves: A Comparative Study between Boston and Phoenix	12
A Gridded Monthly Precipitation Merged Rain Gauge and Satellite Analysis Dataset for the Tian Shan Range between 1981 and 2019	12
Evaluation of ERA5-Land and HARv2 Reanalysis Data at High Elevation in the Upper Dudh Koshi Basin (Everest Region, Nepal)	11
Masthead	11
Historical Climate Trends over High Mountain Asia Derived from ERA5 Reanalysis Data	10
The GPM-DPR Blind Zone Effect on Satellite-Based Radar Estimation of Precipitation over the Andes from a Ground-Based Ka-band Profiler Perspective	10
Quantification of Effects of Errors in the Cloud Properties on the Representation of the Surface Downward Shortwave Flux Based on MERRA-2 in Japan	10
Drought Characteristics Encompassing Climate Indices in the Yangtze River Basin Using Nonstationary and Copula-Based Methods	10
Important factors in the tracking of tropical cyclones in operational models	10
Numerical Simulations of the Thermal Effect on Flow and Dispersion around an Isolated Building	10
The Changes in Heating and Cooling Energy Demand in Beijing and Shanghai under Global Warming	10
The Application of a Genetic Algorithm to the Optimization of a Mesoscale Model for Emergency Response	10

A Statistical Analysis of Extreme Hot Characteristics and their Relationships with Urbanization in Southern China during 1971–2020	10
Parameter Calibration to Improve the Prediction of Tropical Cyclones over the Bay of Bengal Using Machine Learning–Based Multiobjective Optimization	9
Evaluation, Calibration, and Application of Probabilistic 100-m Wind Speed Forecasts Produced by the WRF Ensemble Prediction System in Taiwan	9
AMS Publications Support for Open, Transparent, and Equitable Research	9
Journal Information and Table of Contents	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
Hyperlocal Observations Reveal Persistent Extreme Urban Heat in Southeast Florida	8
Influence of Stability and Surface Roughness on Turbulence during the Stable Atmospheric Variability and Transport (SAVANT) Field Campaign	8
Conversion of the Knutson et al. (2020) Tropical Cyclone Climate Change Projections to Risk Model Baselines	8
Inferring the Properties of Snow in Southern Ocean Shallow Convection and Frontal Systems Using Dual-Polarization C-Band Radar	8
The Influence of Drought on Heat Wave Intensity, Duration, and Exposure	8
Standardization of Dual-Doppler Radar–Derived Wind Fields during a Hurricane Landfall	8
Two-Stage Artificial Intelligence Algorithm for Calculating Moisture-Tracking Atmospheric Motion Vectors	8
Corrigendum	8
Classifying planetary cloudiness with an updated set of MODIS Cloud Regimes	7
Flash Drought Indicator Intercomparison in the United States	7
Microclimatic Variability of Cold-Season Minimum Temperatures in Michigan, United States: A Study with Implications for Insect Mortality	7
A Statistical Downscaling Model Based on Multiway Functional Principal Component Analysis for Southern Australia Winter Rainfall	7
Relationship between Synoptic Weather Patterns and Topography on Snowfall in the Idaho Mountainous Regions during the SNOWIE Project	7
Arctic Maritime Cyclone Distribution and Trends in the ERA5 Reanalysis	7
The Climatological Rise in Winter Temperature- and Dewpoint-Based Thaw Events and Their Impact on Snow Depth on Mount Washington, New Hampshire	7
Air Temperature Variability in High-Elevation Glacierized Regions: Observations from Six Catchments on the Tibetan Plateau	7
Evaluation of Reanalysis Estimates of Precipitation, Radiation, and Temperature over Benin (West Africa)	7
Examining the Impacts of Great Lakes Temperature Perturbations on Simulated Precipitation in the Northeastern United States	7
Masthead	6
Corrigendum	6
Changes in Plant Hardiness Zones under Climate Change Scenarios in the South-Central United States	6
Do Fire Weather Conditions Significantly Affect Wildfires in Subtropical Forests in Taiwan?	6
Statistical Downscaling in the Tropics and Midlatitudes: A Comparative Assessment over Two Representative Regions	6
Future Changes in Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Affecting Hokkaido and Their Related Precipitation Based on Large-Ensemble Climate Simulations	6
Comparing Airborne and Along-Sidewall Ground-Based Measurements to Retrieve Thermal and PM10 Concentration Profiles in Two Alpine Valleys	6
Diagnostic Study of Seasonal Prediction of Malaria: A Case Study in Senegal, West Africa	6
Examining Cloud Macrophysical Changes over the Pacific for 2007–2017 Using CALIPSO, CloudSat, and MODIS Observations	6
Impacts of Multiscale Components of Initial Perturbations on Error Growth Characteristics and Ensemble Forecasting Skill	6
Enhancing Drought Risk Assessment in the Punjab, Pakistan: A Copula-Based Modeling Approach for Future Projections	6
Masthead	5
Life cycle resolved observation of radiative properties of mesoscale convective systems	5
Reply to Pielke (2025)	5
Masthead	5
Turbulence in The Marine Boundary Layer and Air Motions Below Stratocumulus Clouds at the ARM Eastern North Atlantic Site	5
Future Global River Ice in CMIP6 Models under Climate Change	5
East Pacific ENSO Offers Early Predictive Signals for Harvest Yields	5
Relationship of Snow Microphysics and Precipitation Generation to Vertical Motions in Extratropical Cyclones: Results from IMPACTS	5
On the Radar Detection of Cloud Seeding Effects in Wintertime Orographic Cloud Systems	5
A Gamma Parameterization for Precipitating Particle Size Distributions Containing Snowflake Aggregates Drawn from Five Field Experiments	5
An Algorithm for Detecting the Chesapeake Bay Breeze from Mesoscale NWP Model Output	5
Distinct Meteorological Mode Associated with High-PM2.5 Episodes in Seoul, South Korea	5
Observed and Modeled Urban Heat Island and Sea-Breeze Circulation Interactions: A Shanghai Case Study	5
Validation of the Atmospheric Dispersion Model NAME against Long-Range Tracer Release Experiments	5
Large-Eddy Simulations of the Tropical Cyclone Boundary Layer at Landfall in an Idealized Urban Environment	5

Exploring the Composited T-28 Hailstorm Penetration Dataset to Characterize Hail Properties within the Updraft and Downdraft Regions	5
Synoptic-Scale Meteorological Patterns Associated with Heavy Rainfall in the Minnesota Region	5
Automated and Objective Thunderstorm Identification and Tracking Using Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) Data	5
Radar Retrieval Evaluation and Investigation of Dendritic Growth Layer Polarimetric Signatures in a Winter Storm	5
Do Not Use the ICAT Hurricane Loss “Dataset”: An Opportunity for Course Correction in Climate Science	4
Masthead	4
Storm Surge, Blocking, and Cyclones: A Compound Hazards Analysis for the Northeast United States	4
Improving the Modeled Variability Estimates of Offshore Winds in Northern Europe by Nudging ASCAT-Derived Winds	4
Climatological Characteristics of Hydrometeors in Precipitating Clouds over Eastern China and Their Relationship with Precipitation Based on ERA5 Reanalysis	4
Atlantic Coastal Sea Level Variability and Synoptic-Scale Meteorological Forcing	4
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Multiple Markov Chains for Categorial Drought Prediction on the U.S. Drought Monitor at Weekly Scale	4
Validating GOES Radar Estimation via Machine Learning to Inform NWP (GREMLIN) Product over CONUS	4
Irrigated Agriculture Significantly Modifies Seasonal Boundary Layer Atmosphere and Lower-Tropospheric Convective Environment	4
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Improving Estimation of Specific Differential Phase and Assessing Differential Backscattering Phase	4
Study on the Change in Freezing Depth in Heilongjiang Province and Its Response to Winter Half-Year Temperature	4
The Perils of Regridding: Examples using a Global Precipitation Dataset	4
A Nonstationary Standardized Precipitation Index (NSPI) Using Bayesian Splines	4
Climatology and Changes in Extratropical Cyclone Activity in the Southern Hemisphere during Austral Winters from 1948 to 2017	4
Radar Survey of Hail-Producing Storms and Environments during the 2018–19 Severe-Weather Season in the Córdoba Region of Argentina	4
Spatiotemporal Changes in Frost Indicators in Southeastern Spain (1950–2020): Influence of the East Atlantic Index (EA)	4
Regionalization, Decomposition, and Information Mining for Precipitation: A Novel Framework Based on Multivariate SOM Clustering and Multiscale Features	4
A Comparison of Channel Selection for the Assimilation of CrIS Radiances for NWP	4
Predicting Winter Wheat Heading Date: A Simple Model and Its Validation in Kansas	4
Desert Climate Regionalization for Joshua Tree National Park and Surrounding Areas Using New Climate Network Observations	4
A Numerical Evaluation of the Impact of Operational Ground-Based Glaciogenic Cloud Seeding on Precipitation over the Wind River Range, Wyoming	4
Polarimetric Observations and Simulations of Sublimating Snow: Implications for Nowcasting	4
Impacts of the Aerosol Representation in WRF-Solar Clear-Sky Irradiance Forecasts over CONUS	4
Novel Parameterization of Ice Cloud Effective Diameter from Collocated CALIOP-IIR and CloudSat Retrievals	4
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Dynamically Downscaled Projections of Phenological Changes across the Contiguous United States	3
Changes in Tornado Climatology Accompanying the Enhanced Fujita Scale	3
Characteristics of Temperature and Humidity Inversions Based on High-Resolution Radiosonde Observations at Three Arctic Stations	3
The Observation-Based Index to Investigate the Role of the Lee Vortex in Enhancing Air Pollution over Northwestern Taiwan	3
Investigation of Hydrostatic Imbalance with Field Observations	3
Exploring Global Climate Model Downscaling Based on Tile-Level Output	3
Development of an Extreme Wind-Driven Rain Climatology for the Southeastern United States Using 1-Min Rainfall and Peak Wind Speed Data	3
A Suggestion of Verification Method for Cloud Seeding Experimental Results via Analyses of Chemical Components of Precipitation	3
Assessing Flash Characteristics in Lightning-Initiated Wildfire Events between 1995 and 2020 within the Contiguous United States	3
Parameterized Tropical Cyclone Precipitation Model for Catastrophe Risk Assessment in China	3
A High-precision and Fast Solution Method of Gamma Raindrop Size Distribution based on 0-Moment and 3-Moment in South China	3
Relationships between Environmental Parameters and Storm Observations in Po Valley: Are They Climate Change Invariant?	3
Statistical Cluster Analysis of Global Aerosol Optical Depth for Simplified Atmospheric Modeling	3
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A Comprehensive Evaluation of Mean and Extreme Climate for the Conformal Cubic Atmospheric Model (CCAM)	3
Comparisons of Rainfall Microphysical Characteristics between the Southeastern Tibetan Plateau and Low-Altitude Areas	3
Dynamic and Thermodynamic Factors Involved in Future Changes in Extreme Summertime Precipitation in Japan Projected by Convection-Permitting Regional Climate Model Simulations	3
Unsupervised Clustering of Geostationary Satellite Cloud Properties for Estimating Precipitation Probabilities of Tropical Convective Clouds	3
Factors Responsible for the Increase of Winter Low Temperature Extremes from the Mid-1990s to the Early 2010s in Northern China	3
A Methodology for Estimating the Energy and Moisture Budget of the Convective Boundary Layer Using Continuous Ground-Based Infrared Spectrometer Observations	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
Temporal Trends in Agriculturally Relevant Climate Indicators across Nine Agroecosystems of Turkey	3
Projection on Antarctic Temperature Extremes from the CMIP6 Multimodel Ensemble under Different Scenarios	3
The Macro- and Microphysical Response Characteristics of the Multicell Hailstorm Hail-Suppression Operation: Case Study	3