OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Climate of the Past is 9. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The PMIP4 Last Glacial Maximum experiments: preliminary results and comparison with the PMIP3 simulations	103
The Pliocene Model Intercomparison Project Phase 2: large-scale climate features and climate sensitivity	92
Large-scale features and evaluation of the PMIP4-CMIP6 <i>midHolocene</i> simulations	90
The Eocene–Oligocene transition: a review of marine and terrestrial proxy data, models and model–data comparisons	89
Large-scale features of Last Interglacial climate: results from evaluating the <i>lig127k</i> simulations for the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6)–Paleoclimate	73
Global mean surface temperature and climate sensitivity of the early Eocene Climatic Optimum (EECO), Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), and latest Paleocene	72
DeepMIP: model intercomparison of early Eocene climatic optimum (EECO) large-scale climate features and comparison with proxy data	70
Influence of temporally varying weatherability on CO<sub>2</sub>-climate coupling and ecosystem change in the late Paleozoic	66
Comparison of past and future simulations of ENSO in CMIP5/PMIP3 and CMIP6/PMIP4 models	55
Lessons from a high-CO<sub>2</sub> world: an ocean view from ∼ 3 million years ago	46
Bipolar volcanic synchronization of abrupt climate change in Greenland and Antarctic ice cores during the last glacial period	44
Deep ocean temperatures through time	41
A 2600-year summer climate reconstruction in central Japan by integrating tree-ring stable oxygen and hydrogen isotopes	39
The origin of Asian monsoons: a modelling perspective	35
The middle to late Eocene greenhouse climate modelled using the CESM 1.0.5	34
Paleogeographic controls on the evolution of Late Cretaceous ocean circulation	34
An empirical evaluation of bias correction methods for palaeoclimate simulations	34
Extratropical cyclones over the North Atlantic and western Europe during the Last Glacial Maximum and implications for proxy interpretation	33
Magnitude, frequency and climate forcing of global volcanism during the last glacial period as seen in Greenland and Antarctic ice cores (60–9 ka)	31
Climatic information archived in ice cores: impact of intermittency and diffusion on the recorded isotopic signal in Antarctica	31
Paleobotanical proxies for early Eocene climates and ecosystems in northern North America from middle to high latitudes	28
Teleconnections and relationship between the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and the Southern Annular Mode (SAM) in reconstructions and models over the past millennium	28
CHELSA-TraCE21k – high-resolution (1 km) downscaled transient temperature and precipitation data since the Last Glacial Maximum	28
A new global surface temperature reconstruction for the Last Glacial Maximum	28
Cretaceous oceanic anoxic events prolonged by phosphorus cycle feedbacks	27

A multi-model CMIP6-PMIP4 study of Arctic sea ice at 127 ka: sea ice data compilation and model differences	27
Climate impacts on vegetation and fire dynamics since the last deglaciation at Moossee (Switzerland)	26
Climate indices in historical climate reconstructions: a global state of the art	24
Contribution of the coupled atmosphere–ocean–sea ice–vegetation model COSMOS to the PlioMIP2	23
Reconstructing the evolution of ice sheets, sea level, and atmospheric CO<sub>2</sub> during the past 3.6 million years	23
Evaluating the large-scale hydrological cycle response within the Pliocene Model Intercomparison Project Phase 2 (PlioMIP2) ensemble	23
Holocene vegetation transitions and their climatic drivers in MPI-ESM1.2	23
Exploring a link between the Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum and Neotethys continental arc flare-up	22
Late Paleocene–early Eocene Arctic Ocean sea surface temperatures: reassessing biomarker paleothermometry at Lomonosov Ridge	22
Evaluation of Arctic warming in mid-Pliocene climate simulations	21
Pliocene Model Intercomparison Project (PlioMIP2) simulations using the Model for Interdisciplinary Research on Climate (MIROC4m)	21
A first chronology for the East Greenland Ice-core Project (EGRIP) over the Holocene and last glacial termination	21
Droughts in the area of Poland in recent centuries in the light of multi-proxy data	21
Mid-Pliocene Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation simulated in PlioMIP2	20
CMIP6/PMIP4 simulations of the mid-Holocene and Last Interglacial using HadGEM3: comparison to the pre-industrial era, previous model versions and proxy data	19
The unidentified eruption of 1809: a climatic cold case	19
Greenland temperature and precipitation over the last 20 000 years using data assimilation	19
Dansgaard–Oeschger-like events of the penultimate climate cycle: the loess point of view	19
Stripping back the modern to reveal the Cenomanian–Turonian climate and temperature gradient underneath	19
A global climatology of the ocean surface during the Last Glacial Maximum mapped on a regular grid (GLOMAP)	18
Sea ice dynamics in the Bransfield Strait, Antarctic Peninsula, during the past 240 years: a multi-proxy intercomparison study	18
Long-term global ground heat flux and continental heat storage from geothermal data	17
A 424-year tree-ring-based Palmer Drought Severity Index reconstruction of <i>Cedrus deodara</i> D. Don from the Hindu Kush range of Pakistan: linkages to ocean oscillation	17
A new multivariable benchmark for Last Glacial Maximum climate simulations	17
Holocene palaeoceanography of the Northeast Greenland shelf	17
Elevated CO<sub>2</sub>, increased leaf-level productivity, and water-use efficiency during the early Miocene	17
Reconstructions of droughts in Germany since 1500 – combining hermeneutic information and instrumental records in historical and modern perspectives	17
Mid-Holocene Antarctic sea-ice increase driven by marine ice sheet retreat	17
Stalagmite carbon isotopes suggest deglacial increase in soil respiration in western Europe driven by temperature change	17
Climate, cryosphere and carbon cycle controls on Southeast Atlantic orbital-scale carbonate deposition since the Oligocene (30–0 Ma)	16
Cryptotephra from the Icelandic Veiðivötn 1477 CE eruption in a Greenland ice core: confirming the dating of volcanic events in the 1450s CE and assessing the eruption's climatic impact	16
Statistical reconstruction of daily precipitation and temperature fields in Switzerland back to 1864	16
Life and death in the Chicxulub impact crater: a record of the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum	16
Early Jurassic climate and atmospheric CO<sub>2</sub> concentration in the Sichuan paleobasin, southwestern China	16
The SP19 chronology for the South Pole Ice Core – Part 2: gas chronology, Δage, and smoothing of atmospheric records	16
Surface-circulation change in the southwest Pacific Ocean across the Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum: inferences from dinoflagellate cysts and biomarker paleothermometry	16
Aridity synthesis for eight selected key regions of the global climate system during the last 60 000 years	15
OPTiMAL: a new machine learning approach for GDGT-based palaeothermometry	15
Simulation of the mid-Pliocene Warm Period using HadGEM3: experimental design and results from model–model and model–data comparison	15
Can morphological features of coccolithophores serve as a reliable proxy to reconstruct environmental conditions of the past?	14
Reconstruction of Holocene oceanographic conditions in eastern Baffin Bay	14
Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) climate forcing and ocean dynamical feedback and their implications for estimating climate sensitivity	14
An 83 000-year-old ice core from Roosevelt Island, Ross Sea, Antarctica	14
In situ cosmogenic <sup>10</sup>Be–<sup>14</sup>C–<sup>26</sup>Al measurements from recently deglaciated bedrock as	14
Maastrichtian–Rupelian paleoclimates in the southwest Pacific – a critical re-evaluation of biomarker paleothermometry and dinoflagellate cyst paleoecology at Ocean Drilling Program Site 1172	14
A data–model approach to interpreting speleothem oxygen isotope records from monsoon regions	14
Relationships between low-temperature fires, climate and vegetation during three late glacials and interglacials of the last 430 kyr in northeastern Siberia reconstructed from monosaccharide anhydride	14
A Bayesian framework for emergent constraints: case studies of climate sensitivity with PMIP	14
New insights into the ∼ 74 ka Toba eruption from sulfur isotopes of polar ice cores	14
Investigating interdecadal salinity changes in the Baltic Sea in a 1850–2008 hindcast simulation	13

Technical note: A new automated radiolarian image acquisition, stacking, processing, segmentation and identification workflow	13
Younger Dryas ice margin retreat in Greenland: new evidence from southwestern Greenland	13
No evidence for tephra in Greenland from the historic eruption of Vesuvius in 79 CE: implications for geochronology and paleoclimatology	13
A spectral approach to estimating the timescale-dependent uncertainty of paleoclimate records – Part 1: Theoretical concept	13
Climate-driven desertification and its implications for the ancient Silk Road trade	13
Aridification signatures from fossil pollen indicate a drying climate in east-central Tibet during the late Eocene	13
Orbital insolation variations, intrinsic climate variability, and Quaternary glaciations	13
Early Eocene vigorous ocean overturning and its contribution to a warm Southern Ocean	13
Sea surface temperature in the Indian sector of the Southern Ocean over the Late Glacial and Holocene	12
Pliocene expansion of C<sub>4</sub> vegetation in the Core Monsoon Zone on the Indian Peninsula	12
The role of land cover in the climate of glacial Europe	12
Snapshots of mean ocean temperature over the last 700 000 years using noble gases in the EPICA Dome C ice core	12
The importance of input data quality and quantity in climate field reconstructions – results from the assimilation of various tree-ring collections	12
Improving temperature reconstructions from ice-core water-isotope records	12
Abrupt climate changes and the astronomical theory: are they related?	12
Climate reconstructions based on GDGT and pollen surface datasets from Mongolia and Baikal area: calibrations and applicability to extremely cold–dry environments over the Late Holocene	12
Dynamics of primary productivity in the northeastern Bay of Bengal over the last 26 000 years	12
Evaluation of lipid biomarkers as proxies for sea ice and ocean temperatures along the Antarctic continental margin	12
Evaluation of oxygen isotopes and trace elements in planktonic foraminifera from the Mediterranean Sea as recorders of seawater oxygen isotopes and salinity	12
Continuous vegetation record of the Greater Cape Floristic Region (South Africa) covering the past 300 000 years (IODP U1479)	12
Was there a volcanic-induced long-lasting cooling over the Northern Hemisphere in the mid-6th–7th century?	11
Impact of Southern Ocean surface conditions on deep ocean circulation during the LGM: a model analysis	11
Simulation of ash clouds after a Laacher See-type eruption	11
Vegetation change across the Drake Passage region linked to late Eocene cooling and glacial disturbance after the Eocene–Oligocene transition	11
Mid-Pliocene West African Monsoon rainfall as simulated in the PlioMIP2 ensemble	11
Unlocking weather observations from the Societas Meteorologica Palatina (1781–1792)	11
Atmospheric carbon dioxide variations across the middle Miocene climate transition	11
Land–sea temperature contrasts at the Last Interglacial and their impact on the hydrological cycle	11
Reconstructing Holocene temperatures in time and space using paleoclimate data assimilation	11
Climatic, weather, and socio-economic conditions corresponding to the mid-17th-century eruption cluster	10
Antarctic sea ice over the past 130 000 years – Part 1: a review of what proxy records tell us	10
Humidity changes and possible forcing mechanisms over the last millennium in arid Central Asia	10
Millennial-scale atmospheric CO<sub>2</sub> variations during the Marine Isotope Stage 6 period (190–135 ka)	10
FYRE Climate: a high-resolution reanalysis of daily precipitation and temperature in France from 1871 to 2012	10
Sensitivity of mid-Pliocene climate to changes in orbital forcing and PlioMIP's boundary conditions	10
PMIP4/CMIP6 last interglacial simulations using three different versions of MIROC: importance of vegetation	10
Evolution of continental temperature seasonality from the Eocene greenhouse to the Oligocene icehouse –a model–data comparison	10
Technical note: Characterising and comparing different palaeoclimates with dynamical systems theory	10
An overview on isotopic divergences – causes for instability of tree-ring isotopes and climate correlations	10
The 1600 CE Huaynaputina eruption as a possible trigger for persistent cooling in the North Atlantic region	10
Holocene wildfire regimes in western Siberia: interaction between peatland moisture conditions and the composition of plant functional types	10
A multi-ice-core, annual-layer-counted Greenland ice-core chronology for the last 3800 years: GICC21	10
A new perspective on permafrost boundaries in France during the Last Glacial Maximum	10
Impact of dust in PMIP-CMIP6 mid-Holocene simulations with the IPSL model	10
Reduced El Niño variability in the mid-Pliocene according to the PlioMIP2 ensemble	10
Mysteriously high Δ<sup>14</sup>C of the glacial atmosphere: influence of <sup>14</sup>C production and carbon cycle changes	10
Plio-Pleistocene Perth Basin water temperatures and Leeuwin Current dynamics (Indian Ocean) derived from oxygen and clumped-isotope paleothermometry	10
Differing pre-industrial cooling trends between tree rings and lower-resolution temperature proxies	10
Evolution of mean ocean temperature in Marine Isotope Stage 4	10
Glacier response to Holocene warmth inferred from in situ <sup>10</sup>Be and <sup>14</sup>C bedrock analyses in Steingletscher's forefield (cen	9
A 1.5-million-year record of orbital and millennial climate variability in the North Atlantic	9
Surface and subsurface Labrador Shelf water mass conditions during the last 6000 years	9
Atmospheric CO<sub>2</sub> estimates for the Miocene to Pleistocene based on foraminiferal <i>δ</i><sup>11</sup>B at	9
Historical droughts in the Qing dynasty (1644–1911) of China	9
Climate records in ancient Chinese diaries and their application in historical climate reconstruction – a case study of <i>Yunshan Diary</i>	9
Extending and understanding the South West Western Australian rainfall record using a snowfall reconstruction from Law Dome, East Antarctica	9
Southern Ocean bottom-water cooling and ice sheet expansion during the middle Miocene climate transition	9
Stable isotopes in cave ice suggest summer temperatures in east-central Europe are linked to Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation variability	9
Warm mid-Pliocene conditions without high climate sensitivity: the CCSM4-Utrecht (CESM 1.0.5) contribution to the PlioMIP2	9
Early Holocene cold snaps and their expression in the moraine record of the eastern European Alps	9
Precise timing of MIS 7 substages from the Austrian Alps	9
<i>crestr</i>: an R package to perform probabilistic climate reconstructions from palaeoecological datasets	9
Sampling density and date along with species selection influence spatial representation of tree-ring reconstructions	9
Volcanism and climate change as drivers in Holocene depositional dynamic of Laguna del Maule (Andes of central Chile – 36° S)	9
A prequel to the Dantean Anomaly: the precipitation seesaw and droughts of 1302 to 1307 in Europe	9
Variations in mineralogy of dust in an ice core obtained from northwestern Greenland over the past 100 years	9
Seasonal climate signals preserved in biochemical varves: insights from novel high-resolution sediment scanning techniques	9
Cryogenic cave carbonates in the Dolomites (northern Italy): insights into Younger Dryas cooling and seasonal precipitation	9
Seasonal reconstructions coupling ice core data and an isotope-enabled climate model – methodological implications of seasonality, climate modes and selection of proxy data	9
Atlantic hurricane response to Saharan greening and reduced dust emissions during the mid-Holocene	9