Environmental Research Letters

Papers
(The TQCC of Environmental Research Letters is 11. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
The warming winter accelerated methane emissions during subsequent rice growing season from paddy fields608
Evaluation of the VOC pollution pattern and emission characteristics during the Beijing resurgence of COVID-19 in summer 2020 based on the measurement of PTR-ToF-MS238
Little evidence of avoided yield loss in US corn when short-term forecasts correctly predict extreme heat214
Modulation of the impact of winter-mean warm Arctic-cold Eurasia pattern on Eurasian cold extremes by the subseasonal variability213
Modulation of the cold tongue mode (CTM) in tropical cyclone genesis over the western North Pacific during 1975–2021179
End of term for Daniel Kammen, Editor-in-Chief, Environmental Research Letters168
Exploring the emergence and changing dynamics of a new integrated rice-crawfish farming system in China165
Quantifying vehicle restriction related PM2.5 reduction using field observations in an isolated urban basin154
Seasonal variation in near-surface seasonally thawed active layer and permafrost soil microbial communities154
Lagged effect of Southern Annular Mode on chlorophyll-a in the mid-latitude South Pacific and Indian Oceans145
Different characteristics of two surges in Weigeledangxiong Glacier, northeastern Tibetan Plateau130
Impact of volcanic eruptions on extratropical atmospheric circulations: review, revisit and future directions124
Concurrent hot extremes and high ultraviolet radiation in summer over the Yangtze Plain and their possible impact on surface ozone116
The potential influence of falling ice radiative effects on Central-Pacific El Niño variability under progressive global warming112
Foreign yield shocks and domestic price variability: the case of maize in developing countries109
Fine-resolution estimation for urban surface water pollution susceptibility with multi-modal earth observation data106
Modelling future coastal water pollution: impacts of point sources, socio-economic developments & multiple pollutants104
Mitigation of non-CO2 greenhouse gases from Indian agriculture sector104
Characterizing multi-pollutant emission impacts of sulfur reduction strategies from coal power plants96
Unappreciated healthcare inequality against PM2.5-related mortality risk90
Unpacking satellite pixels: UAVs reveal fine-scale drivers of land surface phenology in a winter rainfall shrubland89
Mitigating a century of European renewable variability with transmission and informed siting88
Hydrological sustainability of international virtual water trade86
Joint strategic energy and river basin planning to reduce dam impacts on rivers in Myanmar85
Element specification in small lakes of the Kola Peninsula: geochemical and technogenic factors82
Finding and fixing food system emissions: the double helix of science and policy81
Sustainable water reuse for water security80
Assessing the robustness and implications of econometric estimates of climate sensitivity77
Arctic sea ice melting has produced distinct sea ice-atmosphere coupled patterns76
Estimated climate impact of replacing agriculture as the primary food production system75
Citizen science and geomorphology: the citizenMorph pilot system for observing and reporting data on landforms75
Warm-season net CO2 uptake outweighs cold-season emissions over Alaskan North Slope tundra under current and RCP8.5 climate74
Distinguishing the main climatic drivers to the variability of gross primary productivity at global FLUXNET sites73
How has the North Pacific Gyre Oscillation affected peak season tropical cyclone genesis over the western North Pacific from 1965 to 2020?72
Attribution of production-stage methane emissions to assess spatial variability in the climate intensity of US natural gas consumption72
Increasing annual streamflow and groundwater storage in response to climate warming in the Yangtze River source region72
Amphibian collapses increased malaria incidence in Central America *71
Deep in the Sierra Nevada critical zone: saprock represents a large terrestrial organic carbon stock70
Impact of downward longwave radiative deficits on Antarctic sea-ice extent predictability during the sea ice growth period69
Evaluation of nitrogen loading in the last 80 years in an urbanized Asian coastal catchment through the reconstruction of severe contamination period67
Reframing conservation and development perspectives on bushmeat *66
Impact of anthropogenic warming on emergence of extreme precipitation over global land monsoon area64
The wiser healthcare net zero program: a partnership to address the carbon footprint of NSW Health hospitals64
Climate change mitigation policy for planetary health equity? An automated content analysis of countries’ nationally determined contribution reports63
Improving resource efficiency: an effective approach to achieve carbon neutrality63
Marine infrastructure support fewer producers and more filter feeders than natural habitats: a review and meta-analysis61
Do working forest easements work for conservation?61
Salinity challenges and adaptive strategies in salinization-affected coastal Bangladesh: Implications for agricultural sustainability and water resource management60
Rebalancing Regional and Remote Australia: a vision for a global carbon sink while creating sustainable communities60
Integrating hydrological parameters in wildfire risk assessment: a machine learning approach for mapping wildfire probability59
Assessing the sequestration time scales of some ocean-based carbon dioxide reduction strategies59
South Florida estuaries are warming faster than global oceans59
Sensors track mobilization of ‘chemical cocktails’ in streams impacted by road salts in the Chesapeake Bay watershed59
Understanding the combined impacts of weeds and climate change on crops59
Integrate health into decision-making to foster climate action58
Streamflow droughts aggravated by human activities despite management57
Green Sahara tipping points in transient climate model simulations of the Holocene56
Rising summer river water temperature across Canada: spatial patterns and hydroclimatic controls56
Response of moist and dry processes in atmospheric blocking to climate change56
Resolving the influence of local flows on urban heat amplification during heatwaves55
The effect of climate change on indicators of fire danger in the UK55
Evidence for unexpected net permafrost aggradation driven by local hydrology and climatic triggers55
Observational constraint on climate model projections of global compound hot–dry events and the socioeconomic risks under climate change55
Elevation-dependence of warming due to aerosol-induced snow darkening over the Himalayan-Tibetan region55
Identifying and assessing effectiveness of alternative low-effort nitrogen footprint reductions in small research institutions55
A review of mental health and wellbeing under climate change in small island developing states (SIDS)54
Agrivoltaic system design tools for managing trade-offs between energy production, crop productivity and water consumption54
The adaptive benefits of agricultural water markets in California54
Meeting U.S. greenhouse gas emissions goals with the international air pollution provision of the clean air act53
Identification of a spatial distribution threshold for the development of a solar radiation model using deep neural networks53
Cooling effects of increased green fodder area on native grassland in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau52
Reduction potentials for particulate emissions from household energy in India52
Distinct impacts of two types of El Niño events on northern winter high-latitude temperatures simulated by CMIP6 climate models52
Climate change critically affects the status of the land-system change planetary boundary51
Applying the hierarchy of controls to oil and gas development51
The role of hydrogen as long-duration energy storage and as an international energy carrier for electricity sector decarbonization51
Does location matter? Investigating the spatial and socio-economic drivers of residential energy use in Dar es Salaam51
Uncertainty in optimal fingerprinting is underestimated50
Interactions between concerns for the environment and other sources of concern in 31 European countries50
The trend shift caused by ecological restoration accelerates the vegetation greening of China’s drylands since the 1980s50
Understanding human–water feedbacks of interventions in agricultural systems with agent based models: a review50
Modest capacity of no-till farming to offset emissions over 21st century50
Non-parametric projections of national income distribution consistent with the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways50
Remote tropical central Pacific influence on driving sea surface temperature variability in the Northeast Pacific49
Society’s material stocks as carbon pool: an economy-wide quantification of global carbon stocks from 1900–201549
Temporal variations of the association between summer season heat exposure and hospitalizations for renal diseases in Queensland, Australia, 1995–201649
Elevated diversity of the supply chain boosts global food system resilience49
Helping the climate by replacing liquefied natural gas with liquefied hydrogen or ammonia?49
Assessment of radiative heating errors in Tropical Atmosphere Ocean array marine air temperature measurements48
Embedding stakeholders’ priorities into the low-emission development of the East African dairy sector48
Flight quotas outperform focused mitigation strategies in reducing the carbon footprint of academic travel48
Characterization and process understanding of tropical cyclone-induced floods derived from observations in Shenzhen, China48
Dramatic improvement of aerosol pollution status over the East Asian ocean: from the establishment of Japanese environmental quality standard for PM2.5 in 2009 to its achievement in 202147
Kelvin waves from the equatorial Indian Ocean modulate the nonlinear internal waves in the Andaman Sea47
Detecting the impact of climate change on tropical cyclones in Southern China47
Substantial increase in population exposure to multiple environmental burdens in sub-Saharan Africa (2000-2019)47
Navigating the ecosystem flood regulation service flows from subbasin to catchment in the Han River Basin47
Housing market dynamics of the post-Sandy Hudson estuary, Long Island Sound, and New Jersey coastline are explained by NFIP participation46
IPCC and the effectiveness of carbon sinks46
Policy collision: a framework to identify where polycentric, multi-objective sustainability solutions are needed46
Anomalous sea temperatures can impair coral reef fish recruitment46
Impact of plant-based meat alternatives on cattle inventories and greenhouse gas emissions45
Tree rings reveal changes in the temperature pattern in eastern China before and during the Anthropocene45
Efficient pathways to zero-carbon energy use by water supply utilities: an example from London, UK45
Untangling the importance of dynamic and thermodynamic drivers for wet and dry spells across the Tropical Andes45
Impacts of hot-dry conditions on hydropower production in Switzerland45
Emission savings through the COP26 declaration of deforestation could come at the expense of non-forest land conversion44
The fire weather in Europe: large-scale trends towards higher danger44
Does higher education affect pro-environmental behavior? Evidence from household waste recycling in Greece44
How environmental values influence trust and beliefs about societal oversight and need for regulation of the Australian cattle industry44
Social resilience to climate and water-related disasters in the Poyang Lake area (East China) over the past 2000 years44
Global methane pledge versus carbon dioxide emission reduction43
Urban vegetation cooling potential during heatwaves depends on background climate43
Canopy cover and microtopography control precipitation-enhanced thaw of ecosystem-protected permafrost43
Black carbon in the Southern Andean snowpack43
Complex linkages between agriculture and air pollution pose a major threat to food security in India43
Skilful decadal predictions of subpolar North Atlantic SSTs using CMIP model-analogues43
Ocean feedback on 50–80-day boreal winter intraseasonal oscillation in the Indian Ocean: comparison of atmospheric and coupled CESM2 simulations42
Do persons with low socioeconomic status have less access to greenspace? Application of accessibility index to urban parks in Seoul, South Korea42
Labrador Slope Water connects the subarctic with the Gulf Stream42
Optimal reservoir operation for transport timescales using an integrated methodology42
Healthy eating in globalized food environments: market access and consumer behavior in the Galápagos Islands of Ecuador42
Nighttime heat waves in the Euro-Mediterranean region: definition, characterisation, and seasonal prediction42
Cooperative food bank: a collective insurance regime to govern food insecurity and nitrogen pollution under risk42
Sustainable alternative futures for agriculture in India—the energy, emissions, and resource implications42
The impact of the Corona crisis on the environmental behaviors of different socioeconomic groups41
Old groundwater buffers the effects of a major drought in groundwater-dependent ecosystems of the eastern Sierra Nevada (CA)41
Untapped potential: leak reduction is the most cost-effective urban water management tool40
Widespread deepening of the active layer in northern permafrost regions from 2003 to 202040
Distributional consequences shape public support for the EU carbon border adjustment mechanism: evidence from four European countries40
Community forestry dominates the recent land greening amid climate change in Nepal40
Winter and spring climate explains a large portion of interannual variability and trend in western U.S. summer fire burned area40
PHEV! The PHysically-based Extreme Value distribution of river flows40
Tropical cyclone over the western Pacific triggers the record-breaking ‘21/7’ extreme rainfall in Henan, central-eastern China40
Accounting for internal migration in spatial population projections—a gravity-based modeling approach using the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways40
Contrasting East Asian climate extremes in 2020 and 2022 tied to zonal flow39
Uncertainty in streamflow measurements significantly impacts estimates of downstream nitrate export39
Weakening seasonality of Indo-Pacific warm pool size in a warming world since 195039
Methodology to assess the changing risk of yield failure due to heat and drought stress under climate change39
Short-term electricity load time series prediction by machine learning model via feature selection and parameter optimization using hybrid cooperation search algorithm39
Late monsoon threatens coral refugia in the Andaman Sea39
Social discounting, social costs of carbon, and their use in energy system models39
Drivers of household carbon footprints across EU regions, from 2010 to 201539
Communications about uncertainty in scientific climate-related findings: a qualitative systematic review39
In praise of cooking gas subsidies: transitional fuels to advance health and equity *39
Land use changes associated with declining honey bee health across temperate North America38
Carbon footprint patterns of domestic migrants in China and 1.5 °C mitigation pathways38
Unequal economic consequences of coastal hazards: hurricane impacts on North Carolina38
‘The moral of the story is…’: telling your environmental research story to policymakers38
The role of El Niño in modulating the effects of deforestation in the Maritime Continent38
Harvested winter rye energy cover crop: multiple benefits for North Central US38
Socio-environmental impacts of mineral mining and conflicts in Southern and West Africa: navigating reflexive governance for environmental justice38
Ambient temperature and hospitalizations for acute kidney injury in Queensland, Australia, 1995–201637
Synthesis reveals heterogeneous changes in the metabolism and emission of greenhouse gases of drying rivers37
Residential exposure to petroleum refining and stroke in the southern United States37
Probabilistic explanation for episodic ecological events37
The impact of future UK offshore wind farm distribution and climate change on generation performance and variability37
Future population exposure to Australian heatwaves37
AMI water meters deliver end-use water and financial savings in leaky households: experimental evidence from California37
The influence of land-use activities and regional drought on historical fire regimes of Buryatia, Siberia37
On the assessment of the wave modeling uncertainty in wave climate projections37
Interannual ENSO diversity, transitions, and projected changes in observations and climate models37
Impact of marine carbon removal on atmospheric CO236
Associations of long-term exposure to ambient sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide, ozone, and benzene with risk of incident chronic kidney disease in the UK36
Modelling the global photovoltaic potential on land and its sensitivity to climate change36
Achieving wheat self-sufficiency in Brazil36
Aligning incentives for carbon dioxide removal36
Analysis of the urban turbidity island effect: a case study in Beijing City, China36
Historical evaluation and future projections of compound heatwave and drought extremes over the conterminous United States in CMIP6 *36
Strategies for green industrial and innovation policy–an analysis of policy alignment, misalignment, and realignment around dominant designs in the EV sector *36
Soils, Science and Community ActioN (SoilSCAN): a citizen science tool to empower community-led land management change in East Africa35
Modulation of East Asian atmospheric rivers by the Pacific-Japan teleconnection pattern35
Wildfire activity is driving summertime air quality degradation across the western US: a model-based attribution to smoke source regions35
Distinct East Asian precipitation variability and predictability in coupled and uncoupled El Niño events35
A model comparison assessing the importance of lateral groundwater flows at the global scale35
Potentially underestimated gas flaring activities—a new approach to detect combustion using machine learning and NASA’s Black Marble product suite35
A potential for climate benign direct air CO2 capture with CO2-driven geothermal utilization and storage (DACCUS)35
Assumptions about prior fossil fuel inventories impact our ability to estimate posterior net CO2 fluxes that are needed for verifying national inventories35
Evaluating the contribution of methanotrophy kinetics to uncertainty in the soil methane sink35
Assessing environmental and market implications of steel decarbonisation strategies: a hybrid input-output model for the European union34
Fast in the pandemic, durable after droughts, inequal during economic downturn. A 20 year multi-dimensional retrospective analysis of water demand change in Southern California34
Climate-induced stressors to peace: a review of recent literature34
Afforestation affects rain-on-snow climatology over Norway34
Monetary compensation for changing forest management practices to increase water availability in Georgia, United States34
Reduced terrestrial evaporation increases atmospheric water vapor by generating cloud feedbacks34
Underestimated ammonia vehicular emissions in metropolitan city revealed by on-road mobile measurement34
Local, regional, and global adaptations to a compound pandemic-weather stress event34
Heat, humidity and health impacts: how causal diagrams can help tell the complex story34
Reply to Comment on ‘Egypt’s water budget deficit and suggested mitigation policies for the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam filling scenarios’34
A transiting temperate-subtropical mixed forest: carbon cycle projection and uncertainty33
Using precipitation sensitivity to temperature to adjust projected global runoff33
Mapping environmental suitability for anthrax reemergence in the Arctic33
The ‘conflict trap’ reduces economic growth in the shared socioeconomic pathways33
Observation of aerosol induced ‘lower tropospheric cooling’ over Indian core monsoon region33
What goes in must come out: the oceanic outgassing of anthropogenic carbon33
Climatological analysis of tropical cyclone impacts on hydrological extremes in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States33
Enhanced drought resistance of vegetation growth in cities due to urban heat, CO2 domes and O3 troughs32
Does Central Asian forest growth benefit from a warming-wetting climate? Insights from tree-ring records32
Enhanced solar and wind potential during widespread temperature extremes across the U.S. interconnected energy grids32
Estimated impacts of forest restoration scenarios on smoke exposures among outdoor agricultural workers in California32
Sustainable nutrition: a spatially explicit modeling approach for urban land use planning32
Escalating rainstorm-induced flood risks in the Yellow River Basin, China32
El Niño/Southern Oscillation response to a warmer world32
Augmenting the spatial resolution of climate-change temperature projections for city planners and local decision makers32
Technological diffusion trends suggest a more equitable future for rooftop solar in the United States32
Predicting future UK nighttime urban heat islands using observed short-term variability and regional climate projections32
Gender inequality in global water security32
Association between hydrometeorological conditions and infectious diarrhea in mainland China: a spatiotemporal modeling study32
On the persistence and related mechanisms for day–night compound humid heat extremes in the Northern Hemisphere32
Linking repeat lidar with Landsat products for large scale quantification of fire-induced permafrost thaw settlement in interior Alaska32
Anthropogenic–biogenic interaction amplifies warming from emission reduction over the southeastern US32
Separating internal and forced contributions to near term SST predictability in the CESM2-LE32
Rotational complexity across US counties is currently insufficient to observe yield gains in major crops32
Global protection from tropical cyclones by coastal ecosystems—past, present, and under climate change31
Spatiotemporal dynamics of landslide susceptibility under future climate change and land use scenarios31
Lidar-derived estimates of boreal shrub biomass in Southcentral Alaska31
Assessing the design of integrated methane sensing networks31
Effects of point and nonpoint source controls on total phosphorus load trends across the Chesapeake Bay watershed, USA31
The relationship between female and younger legislative representation and performance on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) *31
Slow post-fire carbon balance recovery despite increased net uptake rates in Alaskan tundra31
Understanding tropical cyclone persistence over land: a case study of cyclone Gulab31
Global patterns in vegetation accessible subsurface water storage emerge from spatially varying importance of individual drivers31
Comment on ‘Self-thinning forest understoreys reduce wildfire risk, even in a warming climate’31
Spatial integration for firm and load-following wind generation31
Southeast Asian biodiversity is a fifth lower in deforested versus intact forests31
Unveiling the pivotal influence of sea spray heat fluxes on hurricane rapid intensification31
Downscaling ERA5 wind speed data: a machine learning approach considering topographic influences31
Reducing energy consumption without compromising food security: the imperative that could transform agriculture30
Physical mechanisms for the dominant summertime high-latitude atmospheric teleconnection pattern and the related Northern Eurasian climates30
Predicting flood damage probability across the conterminous United States30
A physiological signal derived from sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence quantifies crop physiological response to environmental stresses in the U.S. Corn Belt30
Climate warming outweighs vegetation greening in intensifying flash droughts over China30
Nitrogen cycle impacts on CO2 fertilisation and climate forcing of land carbon stores30
New approach for predicting nitrification and its fraction of N2O emissions in global terrestrial ecosystems30
Role of external forcing in the time-varying trends of global-mean surface temperature under current and future climates29
Reply to Comment on ‘In complexity we trust: learning from the socialist calculation debate for ecosystem management’29
Strengthened impact of late autumn Arctic sea ice on Asian winter cold extremes after 1999/200029
Demand-side climate change mitigation: where do we stand and where do we go?29
Global estimates of suitable areas for marine algae farming29
Time of emergence of economic impacts of climate change29
How much methane removal is required to avoid overshooting 1.5 C?29
Early warning signals of changing resilience in the biogeochemistry and biology of a northern hardwood forest29
China’s power transformation may drastically change employment patterns in the power sector and its upstream supply chains29
Avoiding methane emission rate underestimates when using the divergence method29
Moderate Indian Ocean Dipole dominates spring fire weather conditions in southern Australia29
Flash droughts and their impacts—using newspaper articles to assess the perceived consequences of rapidly emerging droughts29
Characterizing the performances of different observational precipitation products and their uncertainties over Africa28
Shift of soil moisture-temperature coupling exacerbated 2022 compound hot-dry event in eastern China28
New ammonia demand: ammonia fuel as a decarbonization tool and a new source of reactive nitrogen28
Landscape-scale characterization of Arctic tundra vegetation composition, structure, and function with a multi-sensor unoccupied aerial system28
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