OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Weather and Climate Extremes is 29. 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
Teleconnections link to summer heat extremes in the south-central U.S.: Insights from CMIP5 and CMIP6 simulations	95
Interannual variability of moisture sources and isotopic composition of Meiyu-Baiu rainfall in southwestern Japan: Importance of Asian monsoon moisture for extreme rainfall events	81
Projected increase in windstorm severity and contribution from sting jets over the UK and Ireland	73
High-resolution projections of extreme heat and thermal stress in southeastern U.S.	66
Human influence on the unprecedented 2022 extreme dragon boat water event in South China: Insights from historical and projected perspectives	61
Evaluation of CMIP6 models in simulating seasonal extreme precipitation over Ethiopia	57
Mesoscale convective systems and contributions to flood cases in Southern West Africa (SWA): A systematic review	53
Dynamical systems methods to understand projected heatwave intensification	49
Sociodemographic vulnerability to cold and stormy weather in relation to health and life	48
The enhanced integration of proven techniques to quantify the uncertainty of forecasting extreme flood events based on numerical weather prediction models	44
Statistics of Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Activity over North China during 2009–2023	42
What is the probability that a drought will break in Australia?	42
Mesoscale patterns associated with two distinct heatwave events in coastal Santa Barbara, California, and their impact on local fire risk conditions	38
The spatiotemporal characteristics of extreme drought events in China from 1961 to 2022 via a copula function	38
Divergent human impacts on multi-scale hydrological drought across the conterminous United States	37
Assessing the escalating human-perceived heatwaves in a warming world: The case of China	36
Attribution and projection of anthropogenic suppression on frost extremes in China	36
Changes of extreme precipitation in the Philippines, projected from the CMIP6 multi-model ensemble	35
The role of extreme precipitation in driving the humidification of northwest China from 1961 to 2020	35
Assessing the maximum potential cooling benefits of irrigation in Australia during the “Angry Summer” of 2012/2013	35
The opposite trends in precipitation total and extremes during two rain-seasons across Ethiopia, the Water Tower of Africa	34
The role of soil moisture-temperature coupling for the 2018 Northern European heatwave in a subseasonal forecast	34
Corrigendum to “Human-induced climate change increased 2021–2022 drought severity in horn of Africa”[Weather and Climate Extremes (47), March 2025, 100745]	34
Future changes of socioeconomic exposure to potential landslide hazards over mainland China	32
Evaporative demand drought index for monitoring and analyzing drought conditions in arid regions of Asia and Africa	32

Non-uniform changes of daily precipitation in China: Observations and simulations	31
Flash flood detection and susceptibility mapping in the Monsoon period by integration of optical and radar satellite imagery using an improvement of a sequential ensemble algorithm	29
Anthropogenic influence has intensified the severity of summer compound hot and drought events over xinjiang, China	29
Automatized spatio-temporal detection of drought impacts from newspaper articles using natural language processing and machine learning	29