OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Climate of the Past is 8. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The PMIP4 Last Glacial Maximum experiments: preliminary results and comparison with the PMIP3 simulations	130
The Eocene–Oligocene transition: a review of marine and terrestrial proxy data, models and model–data comparisons	112
The Pliocene Model Intercomparison Project Phase 2: large-scale climate features and climate sensitivity	109
DeepMIP: model intercomparison of early Eocene climatic optimum (EECO) large-scale climate features and comparison with proxy data	83
Large-scale features of Last Interglacial climate: results from evaluating the <i>lig127k</i> simulations for the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6)–Paleoclimate	79
Deep ocean temperatures through time	53
A 2600-year summer climate reconstruction in central Japan by integrating tree-ring stable oxygen and hydrogen isotopes	50
CHELSA-TraCE21k – high-resolution (1 km) downscaled transient temperature and precipitation data since the Last Glacial Maximum	50
A new global surface temperature reconstruction for the Last Glacial Maximum	41
The middle to late Eocene greenhouse climate modelled using the CESM 1.0.5	38
Magnitude, frequency and climate forcing of global volcanism during the last glacial period as seen in Greenland and Antarctic ice cores (60–9 ka)	34
Contribution of the coupled atmosphere–ocean–sea ice–vegetation model COSMOS to the PlioMIP2	30
Evaluating the large-scale hydrological cycle response within the Pliocene Model Intercomparison Project Phase 2 (PlioMIP2) ensemble	29
A multi-model CMIP6-PMIP4 study of Arctic sea ice at 127 ka: sea ice data compilation and model differences	28
Reconstructing the evolution of ice sheets, sea level, and atmospheric CO<sub>2</sub> during the past 3.6 million years	28
Climate indices in historical climate reconstructions: a global state of the art	27
Late Paleocene–early Eocene Arctic Ocean sea surface temperatures: reassessing biomarker paleothermometry at Lomonosov Ridge	26
Holocene vegetation transitions and their climatic drivers in MPI-ESM1.2	25
Evaluation of Arctic warming in mid-Pliocene climate simulations	24
Exploring a link between the Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum and Neotethys continental arc flare-up	24
A global climatology of the ocean surface during the Last Glacial Maximum mapped on a regular grid (GLOMAP)	24
Improving temperature reconstructions from ice-core water-isotope records	23
Mid-Pliocene Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation simulated in PlioMIP2	23
The unidentified eruption of 1809: a climatic cold case	23
A first chronology for the East Greenland Ice-core Project (EGRIP) over the Holocene and last glacial termination	22

Maastrichtian–Rupelian paleoclimates in the southwest Pacific – a critical re-evaluation of biomarker paleothermometry and dinoflagellate cyst paleoecology at Ocean Drilling Program Site 1172	22
New insights into the ∼ 74 ka Toba eruption from sulfur isotopes of polar ice cores	21
Long-term global ground heat flux and continental heat storage from geothermal data	19
Mid-Holocene Antarctic sea-ice increase driven by marine ice sheet retreat	19
Aridity synthesis for eight selected key regions of the global climate system during the last 60 000 years	19
Stalagmite carbon isotopes suggest deglacial increase in soil respiration in western Europe driven by temperature change	19
Simulation of the mid-Pliocene Warm Period using HadGEM3: experimental design and results from model–model and model–data comparison	19
Holocene palaeoceanography of the Northeast Greenland shelf	19
Sea ice dynamics in the Bransfield Strait, Antarctic Peninsula, during the past 240 years: a multi-proxy intercomparison study	18
The SP19 chronology for the South Pole Ice Core – Part 2: gas chronology, Δage, and smoothing of atmospheric records	18
Early Jurassic climate and atmospheric CO<sub>2</sub> concentration in the Sichuan paleobasin, southwestern China	18
Climate-driven desertification and its implications for the ancient Silk Road trade	17
Reconstructing Holocene temperatures in time and space using paleoclimate data assimilation	17
A 1.5-million-year record of orbital and millennial climate variability in the North Atlantic	17
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	17
Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) climate forcing and ocean dynamical feedback and their implications for estimating climate sensitivity	17
Orbital insolation variations, intrinsic climate variability, and Quaternary glaciations	17
No evidence for tephra in Greenland from the historic eruption of Vesuvius in 79 CE: implications for geochronology and paleoclimatology	17
In situ cosmogenic <sup>10</sup>Be–<sup>14</sup>C–<sup>26</sup>Al measurements from recently deglaciated bedrock as	16
A data–model approach to interpreting speleothem oxygen isotope records from monsoon regions	16
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	16
Climate, cryosphere and carbon cycle controls on Southeast Atlantic orbital-scale carbonate deposition since the Oligocene (30–0 Ma)	16
Abrupt climate changes and the astronomical theory: are they related?	16
Technical note: A new automated radiolarian image acquisition, stacking, processing, segmentation and identification workflow	15
OPTiMAL: a new machine learning approach for GDGT-based palaeothermometry	15
Continuous vegetation record of the Greater Cape Floristic Region (South Africa) covering the past 300 000 years (IODP U1479)	15
South American Summer Monsoon variability over the last millennium in paleoclimate records and isotope-enabled climate models	15
Mid-Pliocene West African Monsoon rainfall as simulated in the PlioMIP2 ensemble	15
Pliocene expansion of C<sub>4</sub> vegetation in the Core Monsoon Zone on the Indian Peninsula	15
Warm mid-Pliocene conditions without high climate sensitivity: the CCSM4-Utrecht (CESM 1.0.5) contribution to the PlioMIP2	15
Was there a volcanic-induced long-lasting cooling over the Northern Hemisphere in the mid-6th–7th century?	15
Antarctic sea ice over the past 130 000 years – Part 1: a review of what proxy records tell us	15
Aridification signatures from fossil pollen indicate a drying climate in east-central Tibet during the late Eocene	14
Vegetation change across the Drake Passage region linked to late Eocene cooling and glacial disturbance after the Eocene–Oligocene transition	14
The role of land cover in the climate of glacial Europe	14
Evaluation of oxygen isotopes and trace elements in planktonic foraminifera from the Mediterranean Sea as recorders of seawater oxygen isotopes and salinity	14
Younger Dryas ice margin retreat in Greenland: new evidence from southwestern Greenland	14
Atmospheric CO<sub>2</sub> estimates for the Miocene to Pleistocene based on foraminiferal <i>δ</i><sup>11</sup>B at	14
Evolution of mean ocean temperature in Marine Isotope Stage 4	14
A new perspective on permafrost boundaries in France during the Last Glacial Maximum	13
Land–sea temperature contrasts at the Last Interglacial and their impact on the hydrological cycle	13
Impact of Southern Ocean surface conditions on deep ocean circulation during the LGM: a model analysis	13
A multi-ice-core, annual-layer-counted Greenland ice-core chronology for the last 3800 years: GICC21	13
Simulation of ash clouds after a Laacher See-type eruption	13
Stable isotopes in cave ice suggest summer temperatures in east-central Europe are linked to Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation variability	12
FYRE Climate: a high-resolution reanalysis of daily precipitation and temperature in France from 1871 to 2012	12
Climatic, weather, and socio-economic conditions corresponding to the mid-17th-century eruption cluster	12
Evolution of continental temperature seasonality from the Eocene greenhouse to the Oligocene icehouse –a model–data comparison	12
Reduced El Niño variability in the mid-Pliocene according to the PlioMIP2 ensemble	12
Temperate Oligocene surface ocean conditions offshore of Cape Adare, Ross Sea, Antarctica	12

Snapshots of mean ocean temperature over the last 700 000 years using noble gases in the EPICA Dome C ice core	12
Precise timing of MIS 7 substages from the Austrian Alps	12
Extending and understanding the South West Western Australian rainfall record using a snowfall reconstruction from Law Dome, East Antarctica	12
Regional pollen-based Holocene temperature and precipitation patterns depart from the Northern Hemisphere mean trends	12
Atmospheric carbon dioxide variations across the middle Miocene climate transition	12
Holocene wildfire regimes in western Siberia: interaction between peatland moisture conditions and the composition of plant functional types	12
Evaluation of lipid biomarkers as proxies for sea ice and ocean temperatures along the Antarctic continental margin	12
El Niño–Southern Oscillation signal in a new East Antarctic ice core, Mount Brown South	12
PMIP4/CMIP6 last interglacial simulations using three different versions of MIROC: importance of vegetation	11
The warm winter paradox in the Pliocene northern high latitudes	11
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	11
Seasonal climate signals preserved in biochemical varves: insights from novel high-resolution sediment scanning techniques	11
Cryogenic cave carbonates in the Dolomites (northern Italy): insights into Younger Dryas cooling and seasonal precipitation	11
Humidity changes and possible forcing mechanisms over the last millennium in arid Central Asia	11
Millennial-scale atmospheric CO₂ variations during the Marine Isotope Stage 6 period (190–135 ka)	11
<i>crestr</i>: an R package to perform probabilistic climate reconstructions from palaeoecological datasets	11
Plio-Pleistocene Perth Basin water temperatures and Leeuwin Current dynamics (Indian Ocean) derived from oxygen and clumped-isotope paleothermometry	11
Early Holocene cold snaps and their expression in the moraine record of the eastern European Alps	10
The 1921 European drought: impacts, reconstruction and drivers	10
Technical note: Characterising and comparing different palaeoclimates with dynamical systems theory	10
Late Pleistocene glacial chronologies and paleoclimate in the northern Rocky Mountains	10
The 1600 CE Huaynaputina eruption as a possible trigger for persistent cooling in the North Atlantic region	10
Rapid and sustained environmental responses to global warming: the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum in the eastern North Sea	10
Unlocking weather observations from the Societas Meteorologica Palatina (1781–1792)	10
Impact of dust in PMIP-CMIP6 mid-Holocene simulations with the IPSL model	10
Dansgaard–Oeschger events in climate models: review and baseline Marine Isotope Stage 3 (MIS3) protocol	10
Deoxygenation dynamics on the western Nile deep-sea fan during sapropel S1 from seasonal to millennial timescales	10
Variations in mineralogy of dust in an ice core obtained from northwestern Greenland over the past 100 years	10
Comparison of the oxygen isotope signatures in speleothem records and iHadCM3 model simulations for the last millennium	10
Atlantic hurricane response to Saharan greening and reduced dust emissions during the mid-Holocene	10
Glacial to interglacial climate variability in the southeastern African subtropics (25–20° S)	10
A prequel to the Dantean Anomaly: the precipitation seesaw and droughts of 1302 to 1307 in Europe	10
Simulating Marine Isotope Stage 7 with a coupled climate–ice sheet model	10
Integrating plant wax abundance and isotopes for paleo-vegetation and paleoclimate reconstructions: a multi-source mixing model using a Bayesian framework	9
Driving mechanisms of organic carbon burial in the Early Cretaceous South Atlantic Cape Basin (DSDP Site 361)	9
Winter–spring warming in the North Atlantic during the last 2000 years: evidence from southwest Iceland	9
Simulated stability of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation during the Last Glacial Maximum	9
Southern Ocean bottom-water cooling and ice sheet expansion during the middle Miocene climate transition	9
The ST22 chronology for the Skytrain Ice Rise ice core – Part 1: A stratigraphic chronology of the last 2000 years	9
Documentary-based climate reconstructions in the Czech Lands 1501–2020 CE and their European context	9
A 406-year non-growing-season precipitation reconstruction in the southeastern Tibetan Plateau	9
Optimizing sampling strategies in high-resolution paleoclimate records	9
Plateaus and jumps in the atmospheric radiocarbon record – potential origin and value as global age markers for glacial-to-deglacial paleoceanography, a synthesis	9
Climate variability and grain production in Scania, 1702–1911	9
Ice core evidence for major volcanic eruptions at the onset of Dansgaard–Oeschger warming events	8
Arctic glaciers and ice caps through the Holocene:a circumpolar synthesis of lake-based reconstructions	8
Age and driving mechanisms of the Eocene–Oligocene transition from astronomical tuning of a lacustrine record (Rennes Basin, France)	8
Evaluating seasonal sea-ice cover over the Southern Ocean at the Last Glacial Maximum	8
A spectral approach to estimating the timescale-dependent uncertainty of paleoclimate records – Part 2: Application and interpretation	8
Influence of warming and atmospheric circulation changes on multidecadal European flood variability	8
On the phenomenon of the blue sun	8
Simulations of the Holocene climate in Europe using an interactive downscaling within the iLOVECLIM model (version 1.1)	8
Tree-ring-based spring precipitation reconstruction in the Sikhote-Alin' Mountain range	8
Unraveling the mechanisms and implications of a stronger mid-Pliocene Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) in PlioMIP2	8
Response of biological productivity to North Atlantic marine front migration during the Holocene	8
Seasonal aridity in the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool during the Late Glacial driven by El Niño-like conditions	8
The 852/3 CE Mount Churchill eruption: examining the potential climatic and societal impacts and the timing of the Medieval Climate Anomaly in the North Atlantic region	8
Million-year-scale alternation of warm–humid and semi-arid periods as a mid-latitude climate mode in the Early Jurassic (late Sinemurian, Laurasian Seaway)	8
Large-scale climate signals of a European oxygen isotope network from tree rings	8
Palaeo-environmental evolution of Central Asia during the Cenozoic: new insights from the continental sedimentary archive of the Valley of Lakes (Mongolia)	8
Central Europe, 1531–1540 CE: The driest summer decade of the past five centuries?	8
Climate and ice sheet evolutions from the last glacial maximum to the pre-industrial period with an ice-sheet–climate coupled model	8
Climate and ocean circulation in the aftermath of a Marinoan snowball Earth	8