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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
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Quantifying the Effects of the KULM Radar on Local Report Climatology, Operational Metrics, and Casualty Impacts of Tornadoes	27
Retrieval of Boundary Layer Precipitable Water from GOES ABI Using Machine Learning Techniques	25
Skill Evaluation of Rainfall Forecasts for the Mining Chain over the Eastern Brazilian Amazon	24
Why Does Japan’s South Foehn, “Jintsu-Oroshi,” Tend to Onset during the Night?: An Investigation Based on Two Case Studies	22
Narrowing the Blind Zone of the GPM Dual-Frequency Precipitation Radar to Improve Shallow Precipitation Detection in Mountainous Areas	21
Projecting Future Energy Production from Operating Wind Farms in North America. Part III: Variability	21
The Prospective Application of Machine Learning in Turbulence Forecasting over China	16
A Gridded Monthly Precipitation Merged Rain Gauge and Satellite Analysis Dataset for the Tian Shan Range between 1981 and 2019	15
PM10 Time Series Forecasting Using Variational Mode Decomposition Informer	15
Systematic Identification of Saharan Air Layer Events over the Tropical North Atlantic Ocean	14
Evaluation and Uncertainty of Radioxenon Transport with a Mesoscale Model after the February 2013 Underground Test in North Korea	14
An Analysis of the Lagged Relationship between Anomalies of Precipitation and Soil Moisture and Its Potential Role in Agricultural Drought Early Warning	14
The Heat Is On: Observations and Trends of Heat Stress Metrics during Florida Summers	14
Monitoring microscale heat stress patterns in a medium-dense urban area with green spaces	14
Masthead	13
Drought Characteristics Encompassing Climate Indices in the Yangtze River Basin Using Nonstationary and Copula-Based Methods	13
Can Areawide Building Retrofitting Affect the Urban Microclimate? An LES Study for Berlin, Germany	13
Evaluation of ERA5-Land and HARv2 Reanalysis Data at High Elevation in the Upper Dudh Koshi Basin (Everest Region, Nepal)	13
The Changes in Heating and Cooling Energy Demand in Beijing and Shanghai under Global Warming	12
Numerical Simulations of the Thermal Effect on Flow and Dispersion around an Isolated Building	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
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
Assimilation of Doppler Lidar–Derived Planetary Boundary Layer Height Measurements Using an Ensemble Kalman Filter: Case Studies during the PECAN Field Campaign	11

The Application of a Genetic Algorithm to the Optimization of a Mesoscale Model for Emergency Response	11
Flash Drought Timing and Winter Wheat Productivity in the Southern Great Plains of the United States	11
Benchmarking Near-Surface Winds in the HRRR Analyses Using Multisource Observations over Complex Terrain in the Southeastern United States	10
Journal Information and Table of Contents	10
Historical Climate Trends over High Mountain Asia Derived from ERA5 Reanalysis Data	10
The Influence of Drought on Heat Wave Intensity, Duration, and Exposure	9
AMS Publications Support for Open, Transparent, and Equitable Research	9
Standardized Anomaly Forest-Based Methods for Wind Speed Ensemble Postprocessing	9
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
Journal Information and Table of Contents	9
Relationship between Synoptic Weather Patterns and Topography on Snowfall in the Idaho Mountainous Regions during the SNOWIE Project	9
Corrigendum	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
Two-Stage Artificial Intelligence Algorithm for Calculating Moisture-Tracking Atmospheric Motion Vectors	9
A Statistical Downscaling Model Based on Multiway Functional Principal Component Analysis for Southern Australia Winter Rainfall	8
Air Temperature Variability in High-Elevation Glacierized Regions: Observations from Six Catchments on the Tibetan Plateau	8
Standardization of Dual-Doppler Radar–Derived Wind Fields during a Hurricane Landfall	8
Influence of Stability and Surface Roughness on Turbulence during the Stable Atmospheric Variability and Transport (SAVANT) Field Campaign	8
Inferring the Properties of Snow in Southern Ocean Shallow Convection and Frontal Systems Using Dual-Polarization C-Band Radar	8
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
Impacts of Multiscale Components of Initial Perturbations on Error Growth Characteristics and Ensemble Forecasting Skill	7
Diagnostic Study of Seasonal Prediction of Malaria: A Case Study in Senegal, West Africa	7
Assessing the Intensity Decay of U.S. Landfalling Tropical Cyclones: Long-Term Trends and Prediction Model Evaluations	7
The Impact of Atmospheric Circulation and Surface Roughness on Changes in Maximum Surface Wind Speed: A Preliminary Study over Northern China	7
Comparing Airborne and Along-Sidewall Ground-Based Measurements to Retrieve Thermal and PM10 Concentration Profiles in Two Alpine Valleys	7
Evaluation of Reanalysis Estimates of Precipitation, Radiation, and Temperature over Benin (West Africa)	7
Hyperlocal Observations Reveal Persistent Extreme Urban Heat in Southeast Florida	7
Masthead	7
Enhancing Drought Risk Assessment in the Punjab, Pakistan: A Copula-Based Modeling Approach for Future Projections	7
Changes in Plant Hardiness Zones under Climate Change Scenarios in the South-Central United States	6
Corrigendum	6
Journal Information and Table of Contents	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
Do Fire Weather Conditions Significantly Affect Wildfires in Subtropical Forests in Taiwan?	6
Future Global River Ice in CMIP6 Models under Climate Change	6
Arctic Maritime Cyclone Distribution and Trends in the ERA5 Reanalysis	6
Turbulent Heat Transfer Observed during a Low-Intensity Forest Understory Head Fire	6
Masthead	6
Large-Eddy Simulations of the Tropical Cyclone Boundary Layer at Landfall in an Idealized Urban Environment	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
Formulating Seasonal Hurricane Forecasts for Use in Hurricane Risk Models	6
Masthead	6
Temporal and Spatial Analysis of Freezing Rain Regimes over Eastern North America	6
Validation of the Atmospheric Dispersion Model NAME against Long-Range Tracer Release Experiments	6
Automated and Objective Thunderstorm Identification and Tracking Using Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) Data	5
Observed and Modeled Urban Heat Island and Sea-Breeze Circulation Interactions: A Shanghai Case Study	5

Exploring the Composited T-28 Hailstorm Penetration Dataset to Characterize Hail Properties within the Updraft and Downdraft Regions	5
Desert Climate Regionalization for Joshua Tree National Park and Surrounding Areas Using New Climate Network Observations	5
Macro- and Microphysical Properties of Atmospheric River Snowfall: Results from Two Instrument Sites	5
A Numerical Evaluation of the Impact of Operational Ground-Based Glaciogenic Cloud Seeding on Precipitation over the Wind River Range, Wyoming	5
Synoptic-Scale Meteorological Patterns Associated with Heavy Rainfall in the Minnesota Region	5
Relationship of Snow Microphysics and Precipitation Generation to Vertical Motions in Extratropical Cyclones: Results from IMPACTS	5
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
Do Not Use the ICAT Hurricane Loss “Dataset”: An Opportunity for Course Correction in Climate Science	5
A Nonstationary Standardized Precipitation Index (NSPI) Using Bayesian Splines	5
Masthead	5
Reply to Pielke (2025)	5
An Algorithm for Detecting the Chesapeake Bay Breeze from Mesoscale NWP Model Output	5
Radar Retrieval Evaluation and Investigation of Dendritic Growth Layer Polarimetric Signatures in a Winter Storm	5
Climatological Characteristics of Hydrometeors in Precipitating Clouds over Eastern China and Their Relationship with Precipitation Based on ERA5 Reanalysis	5
Radar Survey of Hail-Producing Storms and Environments during the 2018–19 Severe-Weather Season in the Córdoba Region of Argentina	5
Impacts of the Aerosol Representation in WRF-Solar Clear-Sky Irradiance Forecasts over CONUS	5
Predicting Winter Wheat Heading Date: A Simple Model and Its Validation in Kansas	4
Climatology and Changes in Extratropical Cyclone Activity in the Southern Hemisphere during Austral Winters from 1948 to 2017	4
Novel Parameterization of Ice Cloud Effective Diameter from Collocated CALIOP-IIR and CloudSat Retrievals	4
Misreporting of Freezing Fog during Snowfall Conditions in U.S. METAR Observations	4
A Comparison of Channel Selection for the Assimilation of CrIS Radiances for NWP	4
Atlantic Coastal Sea Level Variability and Synoptic-Scale Meteorological Forcing	4
Irrigated Agriculture Significantly Modifies Seasonal Boundary Layer Atmosphere and Lower-Tropospheric Convective Environment	4
Multiple Markov Chains for Categorial Drought Prediction on the U.S. Drought Monitor at Weekly Scale	4
Masthead	4
Evaluation and Spatiotemporal Evolution of Surface Air Temperature Estimated by ERA5-Land Reanalysis Data in East China	4
Improving the Modeled Variability Estimates of Offshore Winds in Northern Europe by Nudging ASCAT-Derived Winds	4
United States Supercell Storms and Their Severity: A 14-Year Radar-Based Climatology	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
Validating GOES Radar Estimation via Machine Learning to Inform NWP (GREMLIN) Product over CONUS	4
Improving Estimation of Specific Differential Phase and Assessing Differential Backscattering Phase	4
Masthead	4
Study on the Change in Freezing Depth in Heilongjiang Province and Its Response to Winter Half-Year Temperature	4
Assessment of Caribbean Coastal Hazard Posed by Tropical Cyclones	4
Masthead	3
Regional Differences in Summertime Extremely High Temperature in Japan due to Global Warming	3
A Methodology for Estimating the Energy and Moisture Budget of the Convective Boundary Layer Using Continuous Ground-Based Infrared Spectrometer Observations	3
Assessing tropical cyclone risks to China’s high-speed rail network	3
Atmospheric Drivers Associated with Extreme Snow Ablation and Discharge Events in the Susquehanna River Basin: A Climatology	3
A Comprehensive Evaluation of Mean and Extreme Climate for the Conformal Cubic Atmospheric Model (CCAM)	3
Development of an Extreme Wind-Driven Rain Climatology for the Southeastern United States Using 1-Min Rainfall and Peak Wind Speed Data	3
The Observation-Based Index to Investigate the Role of the Lee Vortex in Enhancing Air Pollution over Northwestern Taiwan	3
Comparisons of Rainfall Microphysical Characteristics between the Southeastern Tibetan Plateau and Low-Altitude Areas	3
Developing a Predictive Department of Transportation Winter Severity Index	3
Temporal Trends in Agriculturally Relevant Climate Indicators across Nine Agroecosystems of Turkey	3
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Parameterized Tropical Cyclone Precipitation Model for Catastrophe Risk Assessment in China	3
Extending the Heat Index	3
Evaluating the Performance of Cool Pavement in San Antonio, Texas, as an Urban Heat Mitigation Measure	3
Dynamically Downscaled Projections of Phenological Changes across the Contiguous United States	3
Assessing the WRF-Solar Model Performance Using Satellite-Derived Irradiance from the National Solar Radiation Database	3
Relationships between Environmental Parameters and Storm Observations in Po Valley: Are They Climate Change Invariant?	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
Statistical Cluster Analysis of Global Aerosol Optical Depth for Simplified Atmospheric Modeling	3
Exploring Global Climate Model Downscaling Based on Tile-Level Output	3
Projection on Antarctic Temperature Extremes from the CMIP6 Multimodel Ensemble under Different Scenarios	3
Assessing Flash Characteristics in Lightning-Initiated Wildfire Events between 1995 and 2020 within the Contiguous United States	3
Characteristics of Temperature and Humidity Inversions Based on High-Resolution Radiosonde Observations at Three Arctic Stations	3
Stalling North Atlantic Tropical Cyclones	3
Dynamic and Thermodynamic Factors Involved in Future Changes in Extreme Summertime Precipitation in Japan Projected by Convection-Permitting Regional Climate Model Simulations	3
Quantifying the Thermodynamic Impacts on the Atmospheric Boundary Layer due to the Sea Breeze in the Coastal Houston Region	3
Unsupervised Clustering of Geostationary Satellite Cloud Properties for Estimating Precipitation Probabilities of Tropical Convective Clouds	3
Application of Inverse Distance Weight Interpolation Taking into Account Anisotropy to the Reconstruction of Temperature Field	3
A Suggestion of Verification Method for Cloud Seeding Experimental Results via Analyses of Chemical Components of Precipitation	3
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The Macro- and Microphysical Response Characteristics of the Multicell Hailstorm Hail-Suppression Operation: Case Study	3
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Investigation of Hydrostatic Imbalance with Field Observations	3