OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of npj Climate and Atmospheric Science is 47. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Faint yet widespread glories reflect microphysics of marine clouds	283
A source-weighted Benthic minus Planktonic radiocarbon method for estimating pure ocean water age	140
A low-dimensional recursive deep learning model for El Niño-Southern Oscillation simulation	131
Three-stage response of the equatorial Pacific to CO₂ forcing controlled by shifting trade winds	127
Jet stream response to future Arctic sea ice loss not underestimated by climate models	117
Strengthening cold wakes lead to decreasing trend of tropical cyclone rainfall rates relative to background environmental rainfall rates	113
Drivers of mesoscale convective aggregation and spatial humidity variability in the tropical western Pacific	112
Asymmetric response of day-to-day temperature variability to CO₂ forcing over Northern Hemisphere mid–high latitudes	112
Impact of water vapor on stratospheric temperature after the 2022 Hunga Tonga eruption: direct radiative cooling versus indirect warming by facilitating large particle formation	109
Distinct bimodal size distribution in number concentration and light absorption of sub-500 nm brown carbon particles	108
Arctic stratospheric polar vortex collapse amplified South China extreme rainfall in April 2024	107
Early emergence of climate change in tropical rainforest temperature variability due to ENSO	106
Potential tropical cyclone movement and intensification factors imaged by spaceborne SAR	102
Modeled changes in lake ice phenology affect winter economic activities in Northeast China	91
Projected Antarctic sea ice change contributes to increased occurrence of strong El Niño	90
Pacific Walker Circulation strengthened by tropospheric aerosol forcing	82
A deep learning-based land-atmosphere coupled model for heatwave prediction	81
Stratospheric influences on surface ozone increase during the COVID-19 lockdown over northern China	79
East Asian Meiyu variability reflected in precipitation oxygen isotopes via western Pacific subtropical high	79
Important role of stratosphere-troposphere coupling in the Arctic mid-to-upper tropospheric warming in response to sea-ice loss	78
Role of Pacific Ocean climate in regulating runoff in the source areas of water transfer projects on the Pacific Rim	75
Human-induced intensification of terrestrial water cycle in dry regions of the globe	75
The slowdown of increasing groundwater storage in response to climate warming in the Tibetan Plateau	73
Facets of the tropical high-cloud feedback in a global storm-resolving model	70
The subseasonal predictability of the western North Pacific subtropical high and the 2020 record-breaking event	67

Biological enhancement of cloud droplet concentrations observed off East Antarctica	66
Atmospheric organic aerosols: online molecular characterization and environmental impacts	64
Atmospheric modes fiddling the simulated ENSO impact on tropical cyclone genesis over the Northwest Pacific	63
Causes of accelerated High-Tide Flooding in the U.S. since 1950	61
Weakening trend of Tibetan Plateau winter surface cold source driven by anthropogenic forcing in a warming climate	61
Identifying mechanisms of tropical cyclone generated orographic precipitation with Doppler radar and rain gauge observations	60
Underestimated role of sea surface temperature in sea spray aerosol formation and climate effects	59
Intensification of heatwaves in China in recent decades: Roles of climate modes	58
Land water availability altered by historical land use and land cover change	57
Importance of internal variability for climate model assessment	57
Unveiling the dynamics of sequential extreme precipitation-heatwave compounds in China	55
Decadal-scale thermal memory of permafrost and climatic and topographic modulation on the Tibetan Plateau	54
Recent weakening of carbon-water coupling in northern ecosystems	53
The South America Low-Level Jet: form, variability and large-scale forcings	53
Extreme Tibetan Plateau cooling caused by tropical volcanism	52
Isotopic source signatures of stratospheric CO inferred from in situ vertical profiles	50
Occurrence of an unusual extensive ice-free feature within the pack ice of the central Weddell Sea, Antarctica	50
Mechanisms behind the rapid rise of extreme heat discomfort days in South China	49
Stratospheric transport and tropospheric sink of solar geoengineering aerosol: a Lagrangian analysis	48
The influence of the Asian summer monsoon on volcanic aerosol transport in the UTLS region	48
Unraveling non-monotonic responses of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation to post-2100 global warming	47
Synchronous Eurasian heat extremes tied to boreal summer combined extratropical intraseasonal waves	47