OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Weather and Climate Extremes is 13. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Interannual variability of moisture sources and isotopic composition of Meiyu-Baiu rainfall in southwestern Japan: Importance of Asian monsoon moisture for extreme rainfall events	84
Projected increase in windstorm severity and contribution from sting jets over the UK and Ireland	80
Evaluation of CMIP6 models in simulating seasonal extreme precipitation over Ethiopia	75
Mesoscale convective systems and contributions to flood cases in Southern West Africa (SWA): A systematic review	73
Teleconnections link to summer heat extremes in the south-central U.S.: Insights from CMIP5 and CMIP6 simulations	64
Nonstationary seasonal model for daily mean temperature distribution bridging bulk and tails	60
Human influence on the unprecedented 2022 extreme dragon boat water event in South China: Insights from historical and projected perspectives	58
Dynamical systems methods to understand projected heatwave intensification	53
Sociodemographic vulnerability to cold and stormy weather in relation to health and life	52
Assessing the escalating human-perceived heatwaves in a warming world: The case of China	47
What is the probability that a drought will break in Australia?	43
The spatiotemporal characteristics of extreme drought events in China from 1961 to 2022 via a copula function	43
Mesoscale patterns associated with two distinct heatwave events in coastal Santa Barbara, California, and their impact on local fire risk conditions	41
Changes of extreme precipitation in the Philippines, projected from the CMIP6 multi-model ensemble	39
Tower-observed structural evolution of the low-level boundary layer before, during, and after gust front passage in a coastal area at low latitude	36
Statistics of Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Activity over North China during 2009–2023	35
The enhanced integration of proven techniques to quantify the uncertainty of forecasting extreme flood events based on numerical weather prediction models	34
Non-uniform changes of daily precipitation in China: Observations and simulations	34
Assessing the maximum potential cooling benefits of irrigation in Australia during the “Angry Summer” of 2012/2013	33
Future changes of socioeconomic exposure to potential landslide hazards over mainland China	33
Anthropogenic influence has intensified the severity of summer compound hot and drought events over xinjiang, China	33
The role of extreme precipitation in driving the humidification of northwest China from 1961 to 2020	32
The opposite trends in precipitation total and extremes during two rain-seasons across Ethiopia, the Water Tower of Africa	32
Corrigendum to “Human-induced climate change increased 2021–2022 drought severity in horn of Africa”[Weather and Climate Extremes (47), March 2025, 100745]	32
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	31

Evaporative demand drought index for monitoring and analyzing drought conditions in arid regions of Asia and Africa	31
The role of soil moisture-temperature coupling for the 2018 Northern European heatwave in a subseasonal forecast	30
High-resolution time-lagged ensemble prediction for landfall intensity of Super Typhoon Haiyan (2013) using a cloud-resolving model	30
Automatized spatio-temporal detection of drought impacts from newspaper articles using natural language processing and machine learning	30
Distinguishing environmental controls on strong vs. extreme wind gusts	30
Evaluation of extreme temperature events in the Iberian Peninsula based on Copernicus CERRA reanalysis	29
Meteotsunamis in the northern Baltic Sea and their relation to synoptic patterns	27
A new conceptual model for understanding and predicting life-threatening rainfall extremes	27
More active and severe heatwaves in the Northern Hemisphere during La Niña developing summers	26
Temperature and moisture transport during atmospheric blocking patterns around the Antarctic Peninsula	25
Identical hierarchy of physical drought types for climate change signals and uncertainty	25
Assessing livelihood vulnerability in flood-prone communities through systems thinking and the sustainable livelihood framework: A case study of Rajanpur district, Pakistan	25
Long-term warming and interannual variability contributions’ to marine heatwaves in the Mediterranean	24
Subsurface marine heat waves and coral bleaching in the southern red sea linked to remote forcing	24
Characteristics and causes of Taiwan's extreme rainfall in 2022 January and February	24
An objective approach to predict the spatial property of anomalous rain-belt of Meiyu	24
Attributing a deadly landslide disaster in Southeastern Brazil to human-induced climate change	23
Co-occurring wintertime flooding and extreme wind over Europe, from daily to seasonal timescales	22
Assessing the effects of compound events of temperature and air pollution on weekly mortality in Spain using random forests	22
Estimating tornado occurrence and tornado wind hazard in China	22
A component-based approximation for trend detection of intense rainfall in the Spanish Mediterranean coast	21
Global cropland exposure to extreme compound drought heatwave events under future climate change	21
Increasing WNP tropical cyclone-related extreme precipitation over East Asia during boreal summer associated with PDO shift	20
Corrigendum to “Assessing the potential for crop albedo enhancement in reducing heatwave frequency, duration, and intensity under future climate change” [Weather Clim. Extrem. 35 (2022) 100415]	20
Application of the Davies four-stage conceptual model for life-threatening rainfall extremes on the April 2024 United Arab Emirates and Oman floods	20
More than three-fold increase in compound soil and air dryness across Europe by the end of 21st century	20
Quantifying CMIP6 model uncertainties in extreme precipitation projections	20
Conditional attribution of cold extremes in Canada: The role of atmospheric circulation in a changing climate	20
Naming droughts: Historical perspectives on the scientific coining of “the Tinderbox Drought”	20
Joint estimation of trend in bulk and extreme daily precipitation in Switzerland	19
Identifying key drivers of heatwaves: A novel spatio-temporal framework for extreme event detection	19
Time of emergence in climate extremes corresponding to Köppen-Geiger classification	19
Attribution of the 2024 record-breaking precipitation event in Southern Denmark to human-induced climate change	19
40-Year statistics of warm-season extreme hourly precipitation over North China	19
Convective environments leading to microburst, macroburst and downburst events across the United States	18
Filtering CMIP6 models in the Euro-Mediterranean based on a circulation patterns approach	18
Evaluation and joint projection of temperature and precipitation extremes across Canada based on hierarchical Bayesian modelling and large ensembles of regional climate simulations	18
A dual-branch typhoon-induced wave height forecasting network with tail-aware extreme value optimization	18
Modelling the effects of rainstorm adaptation strategies on maize yield among rural farmers in Ekiti State, Nigeria	18
Moisture sources for the unprecedented precipitation event in the heart of Taklimakan desert	18
Air-sea coupling influence on projected changes in major Atlantic hurricane events	18
Mechanisms of two types of summer persistent extreme precipitation events in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau	18
A spatially adaptive multi-resolution generative algorithm: Application to simulating flood wave propagation	18
Regional drivers and characteristics of multi-year droughts	17
Future projection of East Asian atmospheric rivers in high-resolution climate models	17
Imputation of missing values in environmental time series by D-vine copulas	17
Application of nonstationary extreme value analysis in the coastal environment – A systematic literature review	17
Drought attribution of climate drivers using machine learning techniques	17
Land-atmosphere coupling amplified the record-breaking heatwave at altitudes above 5000 meters on the Tibetan Plateau in July 2022	17
Simulation of an intense tropical cyclone in the conformal cubic atmospheric model and its sensitivity to horizontal resolution	17

Assessing the predictability of the marine heatwave in the Yellow Sea during the summer of 2018 based on a deterministic forecast model	17
Projected future changes in water availability and dry spells in Japan: Dynamic and thermodynamic climate impacts	17
Climate-induced changes to provisioning ecosystem services in rural socioecosystems in Mexico	17
Impacts of the local temperature anomalies over Mongolian Plateau on heavy rainfall events in north China during July 2023	17
Long-term trend analysis of extreme climate in Sarawak tropical peatland under the influence of climate change	17
Attributing heavy rainfall event in Berchtesgadener Land to recent climate change – Further rainfall intensification projected for the future	16
Corrigendum to “Increasing extreme flood risk under future climate change scenarios in South Korea” [Weather Clim. Extrem. 39 (2023) 1–12, 100552]	16
Impact of the false intensification and recovery on the hydrological drought internal propagation	16
Future projection of extreme precipitation using a pseudo-global warming method: A case study of the 2013 Alberta flooding event	16
Compound extreme hourly rainfall preconditioned by heatwaves most likely in the mid-latitudes	16
Corrigendum to “Simulating the Western North America heatwave of 2021 with analogue importance sampling” [Weather Clim. Extrem. 43 (2024) 100651]	16
Climate extremes and their impacts on agriculture across the Eastern Corn Belt Region of the U.S.	16
A comprehensive risk assessment of Chinese high-speed railways affected by multiple meteorological hazards	16
Understanding decision-maker needs for extreme event attribution science	16
Hotter summers, heavier showers: Global warming and its impact on Swiss short-duration rainfall extremes	16
What drives the compound drought and heat events? A dynamic perspective	15
Discrepancies in changes in precipitation characteristics over the contiguous United States based on six daily gridded precipitation datasets	15
Observational analysis of long-term streamflow response to flash drought in the Mississippi River Basin	15
Combined role of ENSO and IOD on compound drought and heatwaves in Australia using two CMIP6 large ensembles	15
Stratosphere-troposphere coupling during stratospheric extremes in the 2022/23 winter	15
Decadal to centennial extreme precipitation disaster gaps — Long-term variability and implications for extreme value modelling	15
Estimation of skew surge uncertainties when predicting tides in the past	15
A pseudo global warming based system to study how climate change affects high impact rainfall events	15
Improved Regional Frequency Analysis of rainfall data	15
The future of extreme meteorological fire danger under climate change scenarios for Iberia	15
Quantifying moisture and sensible heat flux anomalies for compound drought and heat wave events in the Iberian Peninsula	14
Convection-permitting WRF simulation of extreme winds in Canada: Present and future scenarios	14
Changes in the mean and extreme temperature in the Yangtze River Basin over the past 120 years	14
Emergent constraints on future extreme precipitation intensification: from global to continental scales	14
How explosive volcanic eruptions reshape daily precipitation distributions	14
Seasonal prediction of summer extreme precipitation over the Yangtze River based on random forest	14
Corrigendum “Multiscale drivers of catastrophic heavy rainfall event in early August 2022 in South Korea” [Weather and Climate Extremes, 44, 2024, 1–16/10068]	14
Irreversibility of extreme precipitation intensity in global monsoon areas under multiple carbon neutrality scenarios	13
Contribution of land-atmosphere coupling in 2022 CONUS compound drought-heatwave events and implications for forecasting	13
The role of heavy rainfall in drought in Australia	13
How persistent and hazardous will extreme temperature events become in a warming Portugal?	13
Changes in atmospheric circulation amplify extreme snowfall fueled by Arctic sea ice loss over high-latitude land	13
Thermodynamic and dynamic effects of anomalous dragon boat water over South China in 2022	13
Typhoon strength rising in the past four decades	13
Analysis of precipitation-related climatic conditions in European plain regions	13
Deep learning model for heavy rainfall nowcasting in South Korea	13
Who is the major player for 2022 China extreme heat wave? Western Pacific Subtropical high or South Asian high?	13
Seasonality in atmospheric circulation patterns leading to wet and dry seasons in southeast Australia and implications for droughts	13
Analysis of extreme wind gusts using a high-resolution Australian Regional Reanalysis	13
Modulation of North Atlantic extratropical cyclones and extreme weather in Europe during North American cold spells	13