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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Faint yet widespread glories reflect microphysics of marine clouds	250
A source-weighted Benthic minus Planktonic radiocarbon method for estimating pure ocean water age	128
A low-dimensional recursive deep learning model for El Niño-Southern Oscillation simulation	122
Three-stage response of the equatorial Pacific to CO₂ forcing controlled by shifting trade winds	120
Land water availability altered by historical land use and land cover change	114
Underestimated role of sea surface temperature in sea spray aerosol formation and climate effects	113
Identifying mechanisms of tropical cyclone generated orographic precipitation with Doppler radar and rain gauge observations	106
Strengthening cold wakes lead to decreasing trend of tropical cyclone rainfall rates relative to background environmental rainfall rates	101
Jet stream response to future Arctic sea ice loss not underestimated by climate models	101
Decadal-scale thermal memory of permafrost and climatic and topographic modulation on the Tibetan Plateau	98
Asymmetric response of day-to-day temperature variability to CO₂ forcing over Northern Hemisphere mid–high latitudes	97
Impact of water vapor on stratospheric temperature after the 2022 Hunga Tonga eruption: direct radiative cooling versus indirect warming by facilitating large particle formation	97
Drivers of mesoscale convective aggregation and spatial humidity variability in the tropical western Pacific	97
East Asian Meiyu variability reflected in precipitation oxygen isotopes via western Pacific subtropical high	96
Recent weakening of carbon-water coupling in northern ecosystems	95
Atmospheric modes fiddling the simulated ENSO impact on tropical cyclone genesis over the Northwest Pacific	83
Biological enhancement of cloud droplet concentrations observed off East Antarctica	73
Distinct bimodal size distribution in number concentration and light absorption of sub-500 nm brown carbon particles	72
Human-induced intensification of terrestrial water cycle in dry regions of the globe	72
Important role of stratosphere-troposphere coupling in the Arctic mid-to-upper tropospheric warming in response to sea-ice loss	71
Causes of accelerated High-Tide Flooding in the U.S. since 1950	70
Role of Pacific Ocean climate in regulating runoff in the source areas of water transfer projects on the Pacific Rim	70
Unveiling the dynamics of sequential extreme precipitation-heatwave compounds in China	70
Importance of internal variability for climate model assessment	66
Projected Antarctic sea ice change contributes to increased occurrence of strong El Niño	65

Pacific Walker Circulation strengthened by tropospheric aerosol forcing	61
Stratospheric influences on surface ozone increase during the COVID-19 lockdown over northern China	61
The subseasonal predictability of the western North Pacific subtropical high and the 2020 record-breaking event	60
A deep learning-based land-atmosphere coupled model for heatwave prediction	59
Intensification of heatwaves in China in recent decades: Roles of climate modes	57
The slowdown of increasing groundwater storage in response to climate warming in the Tibetan Plateau	57
Atmospheric organic aerosols: online molecular characterization and environmental impacts	56
Potential tropical cyclone movement and intensification factors imaged by spaceborne SAR	56
Arctic stratospheric polar vortex collapse amplified South China extreme rainfall in April 2024	55
Seasonal and long-term dynamics in forest microclimate effects: global pattern and mechanism	54
Extreme Tibetan Plateau cooling caused by tropical volcanism	53
The South America Low-Level Jet: form, variability and large-scale forcings	53
Occurrence of an unusual extensive ice-free feature within the pack ice of the central Weddell Sea, Antarctica	50
Enhancing sub-seasonal soil moisture forecasts through land initialization	50
Isotopic source signatures of stratospheric CO inferred from in situ vertical profiles	49
Mechanisms behind the rapid rise of extreme heat discomfort days in South China	49
The influence of the Asian summer monsoon on volcanic aerosol transport in the UTLS region	47
Stratospheric transport and tropospheric sink of solar geoengineering aerosol: a Lagrangian analysis	46
Subtropical warming enhances North Pacific midlatitude winter storm track activity in recent decades	46
Madden–Julian Oscillation-induced extreme rainfalls constrained by global warming mitigation	45