OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of npj Climate and Atmospheric Science is 42. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Projected Antarctic sea ice change contributes to increased occurrence of strong El Niño	178
Publisher Correction: An oceanic pathway for Madden–Julian Oscillation influence on Maritime Continent Tropical Cyclones	158
Faint yet widespread glories reflect microphysics of marine clouds	158
Land water availability altered by historical land use and land cover change	152
Drivers of mesoscale convective aggregation and spatial humidity variability in the tropical western Pacific	138
Biological enhancement of cloud droplet concentrations observed off East Antarctica	102
Potential tropical cyclone movement and intensification factors imaged by spaceborne SAR	96
Atmospheric organic aerosols: online molecular characterization and environmental impacts	90
The subseasonal predictability of the western North Pacific subtropical high and the 2020 record-breaking event	88
Human-induced intensification of terrestrial water cycle in dry regions of the globe	87
Identifying mechanisms of tropical cyclone generated orographic precipitation with Doppler radar and rain gauge observations	82
Atmospheric modes fiddling the simulated ENSO impact on tropical cyclone genesis over the Northwest Pacific	75
A source-weighted Benthic minus Planktonic radiocarbon method for estimating pure ocean water age	73
Causes of accelerated High-Tide Flooding in the U.S. since 1950	67
Unveiling the dynamics of sequential extreme precipitation-heatwave compounds in China	67
A multiscale model for El Niño complexity	66
Strengthening cold wakes lead to decreasing trend of tropical cyclone rainfall rates relative to background environmental rainfall rates	64
The slowdown of increasing groundwater storage in response to climate warming in the Tibetan Plateau	63
Role of Pacific Ocean climate in regulating runoff in the source areas of water transfer projects on the Pacific Rim	63
Importance of internal variability for climate model assessment	62
Intensification of heatwaves in China in recent decades: Roles of climate modes	60
Distinct bimodal size distribution in number concentration and light absorption of sub-500 nm brown carbon particles	58
Arctic stratospheric polar vortex collapse amplified South China extreme rainfall in April 2024	57
Recent weakening of carbon-water coupling in northern ecosystems	56
A low-dimensional recursive deep learning model for El Niño-Southern Oscillation simulation	55

Impact of water vapor on stratospheric temperature after the 2022 Hunga Tonga eruption: direct radiative cooling versus indirect warming by facilitating large particle formation	53
Underestimated role of sea surface temperature in sea spray aerosol formation and climate effects	52
Stratospheric influences on surface ozone increase during the COVID-19 lockdown over northern China	50
Important role of stratosphere-troposphere coupling in the Arctic mid-to-upper tropospheric warming in response to sea-ice loss	50
Isotopic source signatures of stratospheric CO inferred from in situ vertical profiles	49
Spatiotemporal characteristics of summer extreme precipitation over the Inner Tibetan Plateau in recent decades	46
Subpolar North Atlantic sea surface salinity as an AMOC mean state indicator	46
Stratospheric transport and tropospheric sink of solar geoengineering aerosol: a Lagrangian analysis	46
Early burst of Tibetan Plateau vortices increases extreme precipitation over Tibetan Plateau in early spring	46
Subtropical warming enhances North Pacific midlatitude winter storm track activity in recent decades	46
Enhancing sub-seasonal soil moisture forecasts through land initialization	45
Robust impact of tropical Pacific SST trends on global and regional circulation in boreal winter	45
Delayed coastal inundations caused by ocean dynamics post-Hurricane Matthew	43
Long range transport of South and East Asian anthropogenic aerosols counteracting Arctic warming	43
How different is tropical cyclone precipitation over land and ocean?	43
An improved multiphase chemistry mechanism for methylamines: significant dimethylamine cloud production	43
Basin-dependent response of Northern Hemisphere winter blocking frequency to CO2 removal	42