OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of npj Climate and Atmospheric Science is 40. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Underestimated role of sea surface temperature in sea spray aerosol formation and climate effects	170
Publisher Correction: An oceanic pathway for Madden–Julian Oscillation influence on Maritime Continent Tropical Cyclones	151
Faint yet widespread glories reflect microphysics of marine clouds	150
Causes of accelerated High-Tide Flooding in the U.S. since 1950	139
Drivers of mesoscale convective aggregation and spatial humidity variability in the tropical western Pacific	125
Land water availability altered by historical land use and land cover change	99
Projected Antarctic sea ice change contributes to increased occurrence of strong El Niño	92
The slowdown of increasing groundwater storage in response to climate warming in the Tibetan Plateau	85
Arctic stratospheric polar vortex collapse amplified South China extreme rainfall in April 2024	84
A low-dimensional recursive deep learning model for El Niño-Southern Oscillation simulation	80
A multiscale model for El Niño complexity	76
The subseasonal predictability of the western North Pacific subtropical high and the 2020 record-breaking event	72
Potential tropical cyclone movement and intensification factors imaged by spaceborne SAR	70
Recent weakening of carbon-water coupling in northern ecosystems	66
Impact of water vapor on stratospheric temperature after the 2022 Hunga Tonga eruption: direct radiative cooling versus indirect warming by facilitating large particle formation	64
Biological enhancement of cloud droplet concentrations observed off East Antarctica	61
Strengthening cold wakes lead to decreasing trend of tropical cyclone rainfall rates relative to background environmental rainfall rates	60
Atmospheric modes fiddling the simulated ENSO impact on tropical cyclone genesis over the Northwest Pacific	60
Identifying mechanisms of tropical cyclone generated orographic precipitation with Doppler radar and rain gauge observations	59
Atmospheric organic aerosols: online molecular characterization and environmental impacts	57
Importance of internal variability for climate model assessment	56
Distinct bimodal size distribution in number concentration and light absorption of sub-500 nm brown carbon particles	55
A source-weighted Benthic minus Planktonic radiocarbon method for estimating pure ocean water age	55
Important role of stratosphere-troposphere coupling in the Arctic mid-to-upper tropospheric warming in response to sea-ice loss	54
Intensification of heatwaves in China in recent decades: Roles of climate modes	53

Stratospheric influences on surface ozone increase during the COVID-19 lockdown over northern China	49
Human-induced intensification of terrestrial water cycle in dry regions of the globe	48
Role of Pacific Ocean climate in regulating runoff in the source areas of water transfer projects on the Pacific Rim	47
Unveiling the dynamics of sequential extreme precipitation-heatwave compounds in China	47
Dipolar hydroclimate pattern changes in southwest China during the last deglaciation	46
An oceanic pathway for Madden–Julian Oscillation influence on Maritime Continent Tropical Cyclones	44
Air quality—climate forcing double whammy from domestic firelighters	44
Isotopic source signatures of stratospheric CO inferred from in situ vertical profiles	44
Extreme Tibetan Plateau cooling caused by tropical volcanism	43
High-latitude vegetation changes will determine future plant volatile impacts on atmospheric organic aerosols	43
Unexpected HCHO transnational transport: influence on the temporal and spatial distribution of HCHO in Tibet from 2013 to 2021 based on satellite	42
Long range transport of South and East Asian anthropogenic aerosols counteracting Arctic warming	42
How different is tropical cyclone precipitation over land and ocean?	41
Subpolar North Atlantic sea surface salinity as an AMOC mean state indicator	40
An improved multiphase chemistry mechanism for methylamines: significant dimethylamine cloud production	40