OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Weather and Climate Extremes is 30. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Evaluation of the CMIP6 multi-model ensemble for climate extreme indices	202
Evaluation of historical CMIP6 model simulations of extreme precipitation over contiguous US regions	105
Increases in summertime concurrent drought and heatwave in Eastern China	77
The record-breaking compound hot and dry 2018 growing season in Germany	69
Analysis of climate extremes indices over northeast Brazil from 1961 to 2014	66
Evaluation and comparison of CMIP6 and CMIP5 model performance in simulating the seasonal extreme precipitation in the Western North Pacific and East Asia	60
Increasing compound warm spells and droughts in the Mediterranean Basin	53
Characterization of long period return values of extreme daily temperature and precipitation in the CMIP6 models: Part 1, model evaluation	52
Improving the drought monitoring capability of VHI at the global scale via ensemble indices for various vegetation types from 2001 to 2018	52
Revisiting future extreme precipitation trends in the Mediterranean	51
Drought projections for Australia: Updated results and analysis of model simulations	42
Temperature and rainfall extremes change under current and future global warming levels across Indian climate zones	42
Atmospheric circulation influence on temperature and precipitation individual and compound daily extreme events: Spatial variability and trends over southern South America	41
Performance evaluation of ERA-5, JRA-55, MERRA-2, and CFS-2 reanalysis datasets, over diverse climate regions of Pakistan	41
Observed extreme precipitation trends and scaling in Central Europe	40
An assessment of long-term changes in mortalities due to extreme weather events in India: A study of 50 years’ data, 1970–2019	38
Global analysis of cyclone-induced compound precipitation and wind extreme events	37
The 2019 flash droughts in subtropical eastern Australia and their association with large-scale climate drivers	36
Spatio-temporal analysis of rainfall extremes in the flood-prone Nagavali and Vamsadhara Basins in eastern India	36
Compound precipitation and wind extremes over Europe and their relationship to extratropical cyclones	36
Exploring climate variability and its impact on drought occurrence: Evidence from Godavari Middle sub-basin, India	36
Changes in compound drought and hot extreme events in summer over populated eastern China	34
Climate change effects on hydrometeorological compound events over southern Norway	34
Climate extremes and agricultural commodity markets: A global economic analysis of regionally simulated events	34
Downscaling of climate extremes over South America – Part I: Model evaluation in the reference climate	33

Climate trends and variability at adaptation scale: Patterns and perceptions in an agricultural region of the Ethiopian Highlands	33
Determinants of farmers' perceptions of climate variability, mitigation, and adaptation strategies in the central highlands of Kenya	32
Hazardous weather affecting European airports: Climatological estimates of situations with limited visibility, thunderstorm, low-level wind shear and snowfall from ERA5	31
Characterization of long period return values of extreme daily temperature and precipitation in the CMIP6 models: Part 2, projections of future change	30
Future changes in heatwave severity, duration and frequency due to climate change for the most populous cities	30
Drought-related hot summers: A joint probability analysis in the Iberian Peninsula	30
A database for characteristics and variations of global compound dry and hot events	30