OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Climate of the Past is 7. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Continental shelf glaciations off Northeast Greenland since the Late Miocene	170
Do phenomenological dynamical paleoclimate models have physical similarity with Nature? Seemingly, not all of them do	76
Contrasting responses of summer precipitation to orbital forcing in Japan and China over the past 450 kyr	61
The weather diary of Georg Christoph Eimmart for Nuremberg, 1695–1704	60
Changing sources and burial of organic carbon in the Chukchi Sea sediments with retreating sea ice over recent centuries	46
Documentary evidence of urban droughts and their impact in the eastern Netherlands: the cases of Deventer and Zutphen, 1500–1795	44
Buoyancy forcing: a key driver of northern North Atlantic sea surface temperature variability across multiple timescales	32
Evaluating the 20th Century Reanalysis Version 3 with synoptic typing and an East Antarctic ice core accumulation record	31
Past Ocean surface density from planktonic foraminifera calcite δ ¹⁸ O	30
Cryosphere and ocean variability in Kane Basin since the 18th century: insights from two marine multi-proxy records	29
Growth and decay of the Iceland Ice Sheet through the last glacial cycle	26
Leeuwin Current dynamics over the last 60 kyr – relation to Australian ecosystem and Southern Ocean change	26
Deglacial records of terrigenous organic matter accumulation off the Yukon and Amur rivers based on lignin phenols and long-chain n -alkanes	26
Synchronizing ice-core and U ∕ Th timescales in the Last Glacial Maximum using Hulu Cave ¹⁴ C and new ¹⁰	24
Tropical temperature evolution across two glacial cycles derived from speleothem fluid inclusion microthermometry	24
The sensitivity of the Eocene–Oligocene Southern Ocean to the strength and position of wind stress	21
A continental reconstruction of hydroclimatic variability in South America during the past 2000 years	21
New age constraints for glacial terminations IV, III, and III.a based on western Mediterranean speleothem records	21
The climate in Poland (central Europe) in the first half of the last millennium, revisited	19
The Laurentide Ice Sheet in southern New England and New York during and at the end of the Last Glacial Maximum: a cosmogenic-nuclide chronology	19
A novel explainable deep learning framework for reconstructing South Asian palaeomonsoons	18
Climatic and tectonic controls on shallow-marine and freshwater diatomite deposition throughout the Palaeogene	18
Evaluating the 11-year solar cycle and short-term ¹⁰ Be deposition events with novel excess water samples from the East Greenland Ice-core Project (	18
The oxygen valve on hydrogen escape since the great oxidation event	18
Exploring the mechanisms of Devonian oceanic anoxia: impact of ocean dynamics, palaeogeography, and orbital forcing	17

Causes of the weak emergent constraint on climate sensitivity at the Last Glacial Maximum	17
A global Data Assimilation of Moisture Patterns from 21 000–0 BP (DAMP-21ka) using lake level proxy records	17
Impact of the Late Miocene Cooling on the loss of coral reefs in the Central Indo-Pacific	17
A Holocene history of climate, fire, landscape evolution, and human activity in northeastern Iceland	17
A 2000-year temperature reconstruction on the East Antarctic plateau from argon–nitrogen and water stable isotopes in the Aurora Basin North ice core	17
Predicting trends in atmospheric CO ₂ across the Mid-Pleistocene Transition using existing climate archives	16
East Greenland Ice Sheet retreat history from Scoresby Sund and Storstrømmen Glacier during the last deglaciation	16
Surface mass balance and climate of the Last Glacial Maximum Northern Hemisphere ice sheets: simulations with CESM2.1	16
Temporal variations of surface mass balance over the last 5000 years around Dome Fuji, Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica	16
A model intercomparison of radiocarbon-based marine reservoir ages during the last 55 kyr including abrupt changes in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation	16
Equilibrium line altitudes of alpine glaciers in Alaska suggest Last Glacial Maximum summer temperature was 2–5 °C lower than during the pre-industrial	16
Large-ensemble simulations of the North American and Greenland ice sheets at the Last Glacial Maximum with a coupled atmospheric general circulation–ice sheet model	16
Climate field reconstructions for the North Atlantic region of annual and seasonal resolution spanning CE 1241–1970	16
The Late Pliocene jet stream: Changes and drivers of the mean state and variability	15
The ST22 chronology for the Skytrain Ice Rise ice core – Part 1: A stratigraphic chronology of the last 2000 years	15
Hydroclimate Evolution Along Chile Over the Last 20 000 Years: insights from Leaf-Wax Hydrogen Isotope Records	15
A new global surface temperature reconstruction for the Last Glacial Maximum	15
A Bayesian approach to historical climatology for the Burgundian Low Countries in the 15th century	15
Decoupling of δ ¹⁸ O from surface temperature in Antarctica in an ensemble of historical simulations	14
Utilising a multi-proxy to model comparison to constrain the season and regionally heterogeneous impacts of the Mt Samalas 1257 eruption	14
Precise dating of deglacial Laptev Sea sediments via ¹⁴ C and authigenic ¹⁰ Be∕	14
Resilient Antarctic monsoonal climate prevented ice growth during the Eocene	14
Multiple thermal Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation thresholds in the intermediate complexity model Bern3D	13
Bottom water oxygenation changes in the southwestern Indian Ocean as an indicator for enhanced respired carbon storage since the last glacial inception	13
A five-century tree-ring record from Spain reveals recent intensification of western Mediterranean precipitation extremes	13
A major midlatitude hurricane in the Little Ice Age	13
Sensitivity of Heinrich-type ice-sheet surge characteristics to boundary forcing perturbations	13
North Atlantic Oscillation polarity during the past 3000 years derived from sediments of a large lowland lake, Schweriner See, in NE Germany	13
Estimating summer sea ice extent in the Weddell Sea during the early 19th century	13
The Eocene–Oligocene Transition in the Paratethys: boreal water ingression and its paleoceanographic implications	13
Reconstructing hydroclimate changes over the past 2500 years using speleothems from Pyrenean caves (NE Spain)	13
Newly recovered series of meteorological measurements in SW Greenland (Nuuk) in the period 1806–1813	12
Quantifying effects of Earth orbital parameters and greenhouse gases on mid-Holocene climate	12
North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) in the Paleoclimate Modelling Intercomparison Project (PMIP)	12
CO ₂ -driven and orbitally driven oxygen isotope variability in the Early Eocene	12
No detectable influence of the carbonate ion effect on changes in stable carbon isotope ratios ( δ ¹³ C) of shallow dwelli	12
Observation error estimation in climate proxies with data assimilation and innovation statistics	12
Cryptotephra in the East Antarctic Mount Brown South ice core	12
A comparison of South Pacific Antarctic sea ice and atmospheric circulation reconstructions since 1900	12
Northern Greenland transect stacked ice cores as a proxy for winter extreme events in Europe	12
Weather and climate and their human impacts and responses during the Thirty Years' War in central Europe	12
Integrating plant wax abundance and isotopes for paleo-vegetation and paleoclimate reconstructions: a multi-source mixing model using a Bayesian framework	11
Sea ice and productivity changes over the last glacial cycle in the Adélie Land region, East Antarctica, based on diatom assemblage variability	11
Vegetation and climate changes during the Early–Late Pliocene Transition ( ∼ 3.6 Ma) in the Burdur Basin (Southwestern Anatolia): a comparison with the Mediterranean	11
Towards quantitative reconstruction of past monsoon precipitation based on tetraether membrane lipids in Chinese loess	11
Refinement of the environmental and chronological context of the archeological site El Harhoura 2 (Rabat, Morocco) using paleoclimatic simulations	11
Assessment of the southern polar and subpolar warming in the PMIP4 last interglacial simulations using paleoclimate data syntheses	11
Mid-Holocene reinforcement of North Atlantic atmospheric circulation variability from a western Baltic lake sediment record	11
Eccentricity forcing on tropical ocean seasonality	11
Reconstructing atmospheric H ₂ over the past century from bi-polar firn air records	10

Can we reliably reconstruct the mid-Pliocene Warm Period with sparse data and uncertain models?	10
Orbitally forced environmental changes during the accumulation of a Pliensbachian (Lower Jurassic) black shale in northern Iberia	10
SCUBIDO: a Bayesian modelling approach to reconstruct palaeoclimate from multivariate lake sediment data	10
A 1.5-million-year record of orbital and millennial climate variability in the North Atlantic	10
Simulated ocean oxygenation during the interglacials MIS 5e and MIS 9e	10
Climate variability off Africa's southern Cape over the past 260 000 years	10
Precessional pacing of tropical ocean carbon export during the Late Cretaceous	10
Contrasts in the marine inorganic carbon chemistry of the Benguela Upwelling System since the Last Glacial Maximum	10
Seasonal variations in flooding inferred from lake sediments in Western Norway	10
Rapid topographic growth of Diancang Shan, southeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau, since 5.0–3.5 Ma	10
Mechanisms of hydrological responses to volcanic eruptions in the Asian monsoon and westerlies-dominated subregions	10
Evolution of winter precipitation in the Nile river watershed since the last glacial	9
New estimation of critical insolation–CO ₂ relationship for triggering glacial inception	9
Photic zone niche partitioning, stratification, and carbon cycling in the tropical Indian Ocean during the Piacenzian	9
Climatology of the Mount Brown South ice core site in East Antarctica: implications for the interpretation of a water isotope record	9
Drought reconstruction since 1796 CE based on tree-ring widths in the upper Heilongjiang (Amur) River basin in Northeast Asia and its linkage to Pacific Ocean climate variability	9
Persistent contamination in benthic-foraminifera-based Mg ∕ Ca thermometry using standard cleaning methods	9
Effects of Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) sea surface temperature and sea ice extent on the isotope–temperature slope at polar ice core sites	9
Tracing North Atlantic volcanism and seaway connectivity across the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM)	9
Carbonyl sulfide measurements from a South Pole ice core and implications for atmospheric variability since the last glacial period	9
Millennial hydrological variability in the continental northern Neotropics during Marine Isotope Stages (MISs) 3–2 (59–15 cal ka BP) inferred from sediments of Lake Petén Itzá, Guatemala	9
Technical note: An improved methodology for calculating the Southern Annular Mode index to aid consistency between climate studies	9
Riukojietna, a small low-altitude ice cap that may have persisted through the Holocene: evidence from combining cosmogenic multi-nuclide dating and lacustrine sediment records	8
50-year seasonal variability in East African droughts and floods recorded in central Afar lake sediments (Ethiopia) and their connections with the El Niño–Southern Oscillation	8
Perspective on ice age terminations from absolute chronologies provided by global speleothem records	8
The relative impacts of tropical Pacific teleconnections and local insolation on mid-Holocene precipitation over tropical South America	8
Weathering trends in the Norian through geochemical and rock magnetic analyses from the Pignola–Abriola section (Lagonegro Basin, Italy)	8
Insights into the Australian mid-Holocene climate using downscaled climate models	8
Using reduced-complexity volcanic aerosol and climate models to produce large ensemble simulations of Holocene temperature	8
The effect of uncertainties in natural forcing records on simulated temperature during the last millennium	8
Speleothem evidence for Late Miocene extreme Arctic amplification – an analogue for near-future anthropogenic climate change?	8
Subaqueous speleothems as archives of groundwater recharge on Australia's southern arid margin	8
Simulating global ice volume across the Mid-Pleistocene Transition with a ramp-like increase in the deglaciation threshold	8
Stable isotope evidence for long-term stability of large-scale hydroclimate in the Neogene North American Great Plains	8
Environmental controls of rapid terrestrial organic matter mobilization to the western Laptev Sea since the Last Deglaciation	8
Relative importance of the mechanisms triggering the Eurasian ice sheet deglaciation in the GRISLI2.0 ice sheet model	8
Comparison of the green-to-desert Sahara transitions between the Holocene and the last interglacial	8
Evidence for millennial-scale interactions between Hg cycling and hydroclimate from Lake Bosumtwi, Ghana	8
Pre-industrial temperature variability on the Swiss Plateau derived from the instrumental daily series of Bern and Zurich	8
Total air content measurements from the RECAP ice core	8
Public granaries as a source of proxy data on grain harvests and weather extremes for historical climatology	8
Holocene temperatures in southwestern Greenland controlled by topography, ice sheet proximity, and oceanic conditions	7
Biotic response of plankton communities to Middle to Late Miocene monsoon wind and nutrient flux changes in the Oman margin upwelling zone	7
Sustainability of regional Antarctic ice sheets under late Eocene seasonal atmospheric conditions	7
Abrupt warming and alpine glacial retreat through the last deglaciation in Alaska interrupted by modest Northern Hemisphere cooling	7
Quantitative reconstruction of deglacial bottom-water nitrate in marginal Pacific seas using the pore density of denitrifying benthic foraminifera	7
New isoprenoid GDGT index as a water mass and temperature proxy in the Southern Ocean	7
South American Summer Monsoon variability over the last millennium in paleoclimate records and isotope-enabled climate models	7
How unstable was the environment during the Penultimate Glacial in the South-Western Mediterranean? Vegetation, climate and human dynamics during MIS 6	7
Impact of the temperature-cloud phase relationship on the simulated Arctic warming during the Last Interglacial	7
Moss kill dates and modeled summer temperature track episodic snowline lowering and ice cap expansion in Arctic Canada through the Common Era	7
Thermal conditions on the coast of Labrador during the late 18th century	7
Compilation of Southern Ocean sea-ice records covering the last glacial-interglacial cycle (12–130 ka)	7
The spatio-temporal evolution of the Chongzhen drought (1627–1644) in China and its impact on famine	7
Simulation of a former ice field with Parallel Ice Sheet Model – Snežnik study case	7
Spatial and temporal variability in sea surface temperatures and monsoon dynamics in the northwestern Arabian Sea during the last 43 kyr	7
Glacial AMOC shoaling despite vigorous tidal dissipation: vertical stratification matters	7
Multi-century mean summer temperature variations in the Southern Rhaetian Alps reconstructed from Larix decidua blue intensity data	7