OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of npj Climate and Atmospheric Science is 11. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 500 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2019-08-01 to 2023-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Biomass waste utilisation in low-carbon products: harnessing a major potential resource	209
Half the world’s population are exposed to increasing air pollution	141
Improved calculation of warming-equivalent emissions for short-lived climate pollutants	133
Designing vegetation barriers for urban air pollution abatement: a practical review for appropriate plant species selection	114
‘Eastern African Paradox’ rainfall decline due to shorter not less intense Long Rains	63
Increased European heat waves in recent decades in response to shrinking Arctic sea ice and Eurasian snow cover	60
Lifecycle of light-absorbing carbonaceous aerosols in the atmosphere	59
Causes of large projected increases in hurricane precipitation rates with global warming	55
Australia’s Black Summer pyrocumulonimbus super outbreak reveals potential for increasingly extreme stratospheric smoke events	55
Anthropogenic warming and intraseasonal summer monsoon variability amplify the risk of future flash droughts in India	53
Decadal predictability of North Atlantic blocking and the NAO	50
Warming and drying over the central Himalaya caused by an amplification of local mountain circulation	49
The Cape Town “Day Zero” drought and Hadley cell expansion	47
Frequency of severe thunderstorms across Europe expected to increase in the 21st century due to rising instability	47
Increased rainfall stimulates permafrost thaw across a variety of Interior Alaskan boreal ecosystems	47
Future exacerbation of hot and dry summer monsoon extremes in India	46
Increased occurrence of high impact compound events under climate change	46
Business-as-usual will lead to super and ultra-extreme heatwaves in the Middle East and North Africa	43
Nowcasting lightning occurrence from commonly available meteorological parameters using machine learning techniques	42
Exploring dependence of COVID-19 on environmental factors and spread prediction in India	41
Future changes in monsoon duration and precipitation using CMIP6	40
Incorrect Asian aerosols affecting the attribution and projection of regional climate change in CMIP6 models	39
On the curious case of the recent decade, mid-spring precipitation deficit in central Europe	39
Estimating global mean sea-level rise and its uncertainties by 2100 and 2300 from an expert survey	38
Sea ice and atmospheric circulation shape the high-latitude lapse rate feedback	36

Historical total ozone radiative forcing derived from CMIP6 simulations	35
Ocean fertilization by pyrogenic aerosol iron	34
Global climatology and trends in convective environments from ERA5 and rawinsonde data	33
Serial clustering of extratropical cyclones: a review of where, when and why it occurs	32
Further improvement of warming-equivalent emissions calculation	32
Intraseasonal variability of global land monsoon precipitation and its recent trend	30
Using UNSEEN trends to detect decadal changes in 100-year precipitation extremes	30
Trends in United States large hail environments and observations	29
Sea-spray regulates sulfate cloud droplet activation over oceans	28
Indicate separate contributions of long-lived and short-lived greenhouse gases in emission targets	28
Amplified risk of spatially compounding droughts during co-occurrences of modes of natural ocean variability	26
Better monsoon precipitation in coupled climate models due to bias compensation	26
Stochastic nucleation processes and substrate abundance explain time-dependent freezing in supercooled droplets	25
Urban warming and future air-conditioning use in an Asian megacity: importance of positive feedback	25
Increasing heat and rainfall extremes now far outside the historical climate	24
Changes in temporal inequality of precipitation extremes over China due to anthropogenic forcings	24
Non-CO2 forcing changes will likely decrease the remaining carbon budget for 1.5 °C	24
Advanced risk-based event attribution for heavy regional rainfall events	24
The impacts of the atmospheric boundary layer on regional haze in North China	24
Seasonal to multi-year soil moisture drought forecasting	23
Robust observations of land-to-atmosphere feedbacks using the information flows of FLUXNET	23
Northern Hemisphere drought risk in a warming climate	22
Formation of secondary organic aerosols from anthropogenic precursors in laboratory studies	22
The growing importance of oceanic moisture sources for continental precipitation	22
Predicting global patterns of long-term climate change from short-term simulations using machine learning	21
Tropical storms trigger phytoplankton blooms in the deserts of north Indian Ocean	21
Significant ground-level ozone attributed to lightning-induced nitrogen oxides during summertime over the Mountain West States	20
A 3D study on the amplification of regional haze and particle growth by local emissions	20
Linking midlatitudes eddy heat flux trends and polar amplification	19
Co-benefits of reducing PM2.5 and improving visibility by COVID-19 lockdown in Wuhan	18
Large-scale controls of propagation of the Madden-Julian Oscillation	18
Role of synoptic activity on projected changes in upwelling-favourable winds at the ocean’s eastern boundaries	18
Impacts of Atlantic multidecadal variability on the tropical Pacific: a multi-model study	18
Atlantic Ocean influence on Middle East summer surface air temperature	18
Neglecting irrigation contributes to the simulated summertime warm-and-dry bias in the central United States	17
Seasonality and reduced nitric oxide titration dominated ozone increase during COVID-19 lockdown in eastern China	17
Global increase in wildfire potential from compound fire weather and drought	17
Drivers behind the summer 2010 wave train leading to Russian heatwave and Pakistan flooding	17
Connecting the dots: NOx emissions along a West Siberian natural gas pipeline	17
Author Correction: Estimating global mean sea-level rise and its uncertainties by 2100 and 2300 from an expert survey	17
NAO predictability from external forcing in the late 20th century	16
Sharp rises in large-scale, long-duration precipitation extremes with higher temperatures over Japan	16
Likelihood of unprecedented drought and fire weather during Australia’s 2019 megafires	16
Dynamics and characteristics of dry and moist heatwaves over East Asia	15
Mt. Everest’s highest glacier is a sentinel for accelerating ice loss	15
Formation and composition of the UTLS aerosol	15
Addressing nitrogenous gases from croplands toward low-emission agriculture	15
Global phosphorus dynamics in terms of phosphine	14
Amplification of synoptic to annual variability of West African summer monsoon rainfall under global warming	14
Seasonal climate forecast can inform the European agricultural sector well in advance of harvesting	14

A multiscale model for El Niño complexity	14
Dark air–liquid interfacial chemistry of glyoxal and hydrogen peroxide	13
A possible relation between Arctic sea ice and late season Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall extremes	13
Constraining Amazonian land surface temperature sensitivity to precipitation and the probability of forest dieback	13
Soil moisture signature in global weather balloon soundings	13
Diurnal self-aggregation	12
Recent frontiers of climate changes in East Asia at global warming of 1.5°C and 2°C	12
Record low sea ice extent in the Weddell Sea, Antarctica in April/May 2019 driven by intense and explosive polar cyclones	12
Beyond megacities: tracking air pollution from urban areas and biomass burning in Brazil	11
Human-caused long-term changes in global aridity	11
Ecological and societal effects of Central Asian streamflow variation over the past eight centuries	11
On the future zonal contrasts of equatorial Pacific climate: Perspectives from Observations, Simulations, and Theories	11
Contrasting response of hydrological cycle over land and ocean to a changing CO2 pathway	11
Implications for ozone control by understanding the survivor bias in observed ozone-volatile organic compounds system	11
Variations in sub-daily precipitation at centennial scale	11