OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Climate is 32. 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
Masthead	122
Proxy- and Model-Estimated Coupled Megadroughts in the Southwestern Regions of North and South America	111
Deep Winter Mixed Layer Anchored by the Meandering Antarctic Circumpolar Current: Cross-Basin Variations	91
Understanding the Uncertainty in the West African Monsoon Precipitation Response to Increasing CO2	81
The Varying Earth’s Radiative Feedback Connected to the Ocean Energy Uptake: A Theoretical Perspective from Conceptual Frameworks	62
Masthead	56
Imprint of Diabatic Processes in the Waviness of the Jet Stream: An Analysis of Local Wave Activity Budget	56
Topographic Trapping of the Leeuwin Current and Its Impact on the 2010/11 Ningaloo Niño	52
Opposing Shifts of the Hadley Cell Edge and Eddy-Driven Jet Latitude in the Last Glacial Maximum: A Parameter Sweep Study Using a Dynamical Core GCM	50
Journal Information and Table of Contents	50
North Atlantic Ocean–Originated Multicentennial Oscillation of the AMOC: A Coupled Model Study	47
Comparison of CERES SYN1deg Radiative Fluxes with Those Derived from Observations at the ARM ENA Site	47
A Slower North Equatorial Countercurrent but Faster Equatorial Undercurrent in a Warming Climate	46
The Siberian Storm Track Weakens the Warm Arctic–Cold Eurasia Pattern	43
A Study on Impacts of Interbasin Coupling Strength on Climate Modes in the Tropical Indian and Pacific Oceans Using Linear Inverse Models	43
Multimodel Evidence of Future Tropical Atlantic Precipitation Change Modulated by AMOC Decline	42
Modulation by the QBO of the Relationship between the NAO and Northeast China Temperature in Late Winter	42
An Observational Estimate of the Pattern Effect on Climate Sensitivity: The Importance of the Eastern Tropical Pacific and Land Areas	41
Reconstruction of Historical Site-Scale Dust Optical Depth (DOD) Time Series from Surface Dust Records and Satellite Retrievals in Northern China: Application to the Evaluation of DOD in CMIP6 Histori	41
Systematic Differences between the Northern and Southern Hemispheres: Warm-Frontal Ice Water Path Linked to the Origin of Extratropical Cyclones	41
Uncertainty in Future Projections of Precipitation Decline over Mesopotamia	41
On the Influence of the Bay of Bengal’s Sea Surface Temperature Gradients on Rainfall of the South Asian Monsoon	38
A Bayesian Attribution Analysis of Extreme Temperature Changes at Global and Regional Scales	38
Global Land–Lake Thermal Contrast in a Warming World	38
How Do Stratospheric Perturbations Influence North American Weather Regime Predictions?	37

Australia’s Future Extratropical Cyclones	35
Pacific Extratropical Precursors and Dynamic Mechanism of Two Types of Summer ENSO: Continuing and Emerging ENSO	34
An Improved Ensemble of Land Surface Air Temperatures Since 1880 Using Revised Pair-Wise Homogenization Algorithms Accounting for Autocorrelation	34
The Response of Tropopause-Overshooting Convection over North America to Climate Change	33
Comments on “Mediterranean Drying by a Positive North Atlantic Oscillation Trend over the Last 65 Years Is an Extreme Outlier in the CMIP6 Multimodel Ensemble”	33
Changes of Intense Extratropical Cyclone Deepening Mechanisms in a Warmer Climate in Idealized Simulations	33
Atmospheric Rivers Linking Tropical Forcing to Winter Precipitation over Southern China	33
The Global Patterns of Instantaneous CO2 Forcing at the Top of the Atmosphere and the Surface	32
The Subseasonal Connection between the Land Surface and Great Plains Low-Level Jet	32
Seasonal and Geographical Variations in Fundamental Weather Patterns during Extreme Precipitation as Identified from Omega Equation Forcing	32