OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of npj Climate and Atmospheric Science is 45. 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
Faint yet widespread glories reflect microphysics of marine clouds	241
A source-weighted Benthic minus Planktonic radiocarbon method for estimating pure ocean water age	123
A low-dimensional recursive deep learning model for El Niño-Southern Oscillation simulation	117
Three-stage response of the equatorial Pacific to CO₂ forcing controlled by shifting trade winds	117
Role of Pacific Ocean climate in regulating runoff in the source areas of water transfer projects on the Pacific Rim	111
Land water availability altered by historical land use and land cover change	104
A deep learning-based land-atmosphere coupled model for heatwave prediction	102
Underestimated role of sea surface temperature in sea spray aerosol formation and climate effects	100
Human-induced intensification of terrestrial water cycle in dry regions of the globe	97
Identifying mechanisms of tropical cyclone generated orographic precipitation with Doppler radar and rain gauge observations	95
Jet stream response to future Arctic sea ice loss not underestimated by climate models	94
Strengthening cold wakes lead to decreasing trend of tropical cyclone rainfall rates relative to background environmental rainfall rates	93
Stratospheric influences on surface ozone increase during the COVID-19 lockdown over northern China	91
East Asian Meiyu variability reflected in precipitation oxygen isotopes via western Pacific subtropical high	90
Recent weakening of carbon-water coupling in northern ecosystems	86
Atmospheric modes fiddling the simulated ENSO impact on tropical cyclone genesis over the Northwest Pacific	82
Biological enhancement of cloud droplet concentrations observed off East Antarctica	72
Distinct bimodal size distribution in number concentration and light absorption of sub-500 nm brown carbon particles	70
Drivers of mesoscale convective aggregation and spatial humidity variability in the tropical western Pacific	68
Projected Antarctic sea ice change contributes to increased occurrence of strong El Niño	68
Arctic stratospheric polar vortex collapse amplified South China extreme rainfall in April 2024	67
Importance of internal variability for climate model assessment	66
Unveiling the dynamics of sequential extreme precipitation-heatwave compounds in China	62
The slowdown of increasing groundwater storage in response to climate warming in the Tibetan Plateau	62
The subseasonal predictability of the western North Pacific subtropical high and the 2020 record-breaking event	60

Decadal-scale thermal memory of permafrost and climatic and topographic modulation on the Tibetan Plateau	60
Impact of water vapor on stratospheric temperature after the 2022 Hunga Tonga eruption: direct radiative cooling versus indirect warming by facilitating large particle formation	59
Asymmetric response of day-to-day temperature variability to CO₂ forcing over Northern Hemisphere mid–high latitudes	59
Important role of stratosphere-troposphere coupling in the Arctic mid-to-upper tropospheric warming in response to sea-ice loss	56
Potential tropical cyclone movement and intensification factors imaged by spaceborne SAR	55
Atmospheric organic aerosols: online molecular characterization and environmental impacts	54
Causes of accelerated High-Tide Flooding in the U.S. since 1950	54
Intensification of heatwaves in China in recent decades: Roles of climate modes	54
Reversed link between central pacific ENSO and Greenland–Barents sea ice	53
Occurrence of an unusual extensive ice-free feature within the pack ice of the central Weddell Sea, Antarctica	53
Enhanced North Pacific Victoria mode in a warming climate	52
Atmospheric deposition and lateral ocean transport enhance nitrogen supply to the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre	51
Unraveling non-monotonic responses of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation to post-2100 global warming	51
Madden–Julian Oscillation-induced extreme rainfalls constrained by global warming mitigation	51
Subpolar North Atlantic sea surface salinity as an AMOC mean state indicator	48
Modeling the infection risk and emergency evacuation from bioaerosol leakage around an urban vaccine factory	47
Basin-dependent response of Northern Hemisphere winter blocking frequency to CO2 removal	46
Long range transport of South and East Asian anthropogenic aerosols counteracting Arctic warming	46
Synchronous Eurasian heat extremes tied to boreal summer combined extratropical intraseasonal waves	46
Crucial role of sea surface temperature warming patterns in near-term high-impact weather and climate projection	45
Air quality—climate forcing double whammy from domestic firelighters	45