OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Climate is 43. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Improvements of the Daily Optimum Interpolation Sea Surface Temperature (DOISST) Version 2.1	346
Future Global Meteorological Drought Hot Spots: A Study Based on CORDEX Data	229
Why Is the Mediterranean a Climate Change Hot Spot?	189
Understanding Future Change of Global Monsoons Projected by CMIP6 Models	148
Changes in Annual Extremes of Daily Temperature and Precipitation in CMIP6 Models	135
A Global, Continental, and Regional Analysis of Changes in Extreme Precipitation	134
Why Has the Inner Tibetan Plateau Become Wetter since the Mid-1990s?	115
Response of Global Tropical Cyclone Activity to Increasing CO2: Results from Downscaling CMIP6 Models	107
Improved Estimates of Changes in Upper Ocean Salinity and the Hydrological Cycle	102
Isolating the Evolving Contributions of Anthropogenic Aerosols and Greenhouse Gases: A New CESM1 Large Ensemble Community Resource	95
An Overview of the Extratropical Storm Tracks in CMIP6 Historical Simulations	86
An Evaluation of the Performance of the Twentieth Century Reanalysis Version 3	83
The Arctic Surface Climate in CMIP6: Status and Developments since CMIP5	83
Severe Convective Storms across Europe and the United States. Part II: ERA5 Environments Associated with Lightning, Large Hail, Severe Wind, and Tornadoes	82
Weakening of Cold Halocline Layer Exposes Sea Ice to Oceanic Heat in the Eastern Arctic Ocean	80
From CMIP3 to CMIP6: Northern Hemisphere Atmospheric Blocking Simulation in Present and Future Climate	75
Vegetation Greening, Extended Growing Seasons, and Temperature Feedbacks in Warming Temperate Grasslands of China	74
Intermodel Spread in the Pattern Effect and Its Contribution to Climate Sensitivity in CMIP5 and CMIP6 Models	72
Statistical–Dynamical Downscaling Projections of Tropical Cyclone Activity in a Warming Climate: Two Diverging Genesis Scenarios	67
The Recent Decline and Recovery of Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall: Relative Roles of External Forcing and Internal Variability	66
Observed Temperature Changes in the Troposphere and Stratosphere from 1979 to 2018	66
The Interdecadal Shift of ENSO Properties in 1999/2000: A Review	66
Impact of the Indian Ocean Dipole on Evolution of the Subsequent ENSO: Relative Roles of Dynamic and Thermodynamic Processes	63
Representation of Southern Ocean Properties across Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Generations: CMIP3 to CMIP6	59
Stilling and Recovery of the Surface Wind Speed Based on Observation, Reanalysis, and Geostrophic Wind Theory over China from 1960 to 2017	55

Attribution of Extreme Precipitation with Updated Observations and CMIP6 Simulations	54
Arctic Warming Revealed by Multiple CMIP6 Models: Evaluation of Historical Simulations and Quantification of Future Projection Uncertainties	54
Future Changes and Controlling Factors of the Eight Regional Monsoons Projected by CMIP6 Models	53
Urbanization Enhanced Summertime Extreme Hourly Precipitation over the Yangtze River Delta	52
Thermal Responses to Antarctic Ice Shelf Melt in an Eddy-Rich Global Ocean–Sea Ice Model	52
Pattern Recognition Methods to Separate Forced Responses from Internal Variability in Climate Model Ensembles and Observations	52
Time Scales and Mechanisms for the Tropical Pacific Response to Global Warming: A Tug of War between the Ocean Thermostat and Weaker Walker	48
Evaluation of Leading Modes of Climate Variability in the CMIP Archives	48
Robustness of the Recent Global Atmospheric Reanalyses for Antarctic Near-Surface Wind Speed Climatology	47
Regional Dynamic Sea Level Simulated in the CMIP5 and CMIP6 Models: Mean Biases, Future Projections, and Their Linkages	47
Freeze–Thaw Changes of Seasonally Frozen Ground on the Tibetan Plateau from 1960 to 2014	46
Increasing Destructive Potential of Landfalling Tropical Cyclones over China	46
North Atlantic Modulation of Interdecadal Variations in Hot Drought Events over Northeastern China	46
Severe Convective Storms across Europe and the United States. Part I: Climatology of Lightning, Large Hail, Severe Wind, and Tornadoes	44
Origins of the Excessive Westward Extension of ENSO SST Simulated in CMIP5 and CMIP6 Models	44
Impact of Developing ENSO on Tibetan Plateau Summer Rainfall	44
A Drought Monitoring Method Based on Precipitable Water Vapor and Precipitation	44
Midlatitude Winter Extreme Temperature Events and Connections with Anomalies in the Arctic and Tropics	43