OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology is 4. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
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Quantifying the Effects of the KULM Radar on Local Report Climatology, Operational Metrics, and Casualty Impacts of Tornadoes	33
Skill Evaluation of Rainfall Forecasts for the Mining Chain over the Eastern Brazilian Amazon	30
Projecting Future Energy Production from Operating Wind Farms in North America. Part III: Variability	28
Monitoring Microscale Heat Stress Patterns in a Medium-Dense Urban Area with Green Spaces	25
PM10 Time Series Forecasting Using Variational Mode Decomposition Informer	23
A Gridded Monthly Precipitation Merged Rain Gauge and Satellite Analysis Dataset for the Tian Shan Range between 1981 and 2019	20
Observed Temperature and Moisture Advection Characteristics in the Southern Great Plains	19
Narrowing the Blind Zone of the GPM Dual-Frequency Precipitation Radar to Improve Shallow Precipitation Detection in Mountainous Areas	19
Why Does Japan’s South Foehn, “Jintsu-Oroshi,” Tend to Onset during the Night?: An Investigation Based on Two Case Studies	18
Retrieval of Boundary Layer Precipitable Water from GOES ABI Using Machine Learning Techniques	18
Investigations on Aerosol Constituents and Properties’ Variability: A Study Using Multisite, Multiyear Ground Data	18
The Prospective Application of Machine Learning in Turbulence Forecasting over China	18
An Analysis of the Lagged Relationship between Anomalies of Precipitation and Soil Moisture and Its Potential Role in Agricultural Drought Early Warning	17
Systematic Identification of Saharan Air Layer Events over the Tropical North Atlantic Ocean	17
Can Areawide Building Retrofitting Affect the Urban Microclimate? An LES Study for Berlin, Germany	16
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Evaluation of ERA5-Land and HARv2 Reanalysis Data at High Elevation in the Upper Dudh Koshi Basin (Everest Region, Nepal)	16
Quantification of Effects of Errors in the Cloud Properties on the Representation of the Surface Downward Shortwave Flux Based on MERRA-2 in Japan	16
Flash Drought Timing and Winter Wheat Productivity in the Southern Great Plains of the United States	15
Numerical Simulations of the Thermal Effect on Flow and Dispersion around an Isolated Building	15
Benchmarking Near-Surface Winds in the HRRR Analyses Using Multisource Observations over Complex Terrain in the Southeastern United States	15
Assimilation of Doppler Lidar–Derived Planetary Boundary Layer Height Measurements Using an Ensemble Kalman Filter: Case Studies during the PECAN Field Campaign	14
Characteristics of Extreme Daily Precipitation Events in the Hydropower Basin of Chongqing (1981–2023) during the Autumn Rainy Season	13

Journal Information and Table of Contents	13
The Changes in Heating and Cooling Energy Demand in Beijing and Shanghai under Global Warming	13
Historical Climate Trends over High Mountain Asia Derived from ERA5 Reanalysis Data	13
Vertical Motions in Orographic Cloud Systems over the Payette River Basin. Part IV: Controls on Supercooled Liquid Water Content and Cloud Droplet Number Concentrations	12
Standardized Anomaly Forest-Based Methods for Wind Speed Ensemble Postprocessing	12
Corrigendum	12
Journal Information and Table of Contents	11
The Influence of Drought on Heat Wave Intensity, Duration, and Exposure	11
AMS Publications Support for Open, Transparent, and Equitable Research	11
Evaluation, Calibration, and Application of Probabilistic 100-m Wind Speed Forecasts Produced by the WRF Ensemble Prediction System in Taiwan	10
Standardization of Dual-Doppler Radar–Derived Wind Fields during a Hurricane Landfall	10
Relationship between Synoptic Weather Patterns and Topography on Snowfall in the Idaho Mountainous Regions during the SNOWIE Project	10
A Statistical Downscaling Model Based on Multiway Functional Principal Component Analysis for Southern Australia Winter Rainfall	10
Journal Information and Table of Contents	10
Parameter Calibration to Improve the Prediction of Tropical Cyclones over the Bay of Bengal Using Machine Learning–Based Multiobjective Optimization	10
Inferring the Properties of Snow in Southern Ocean Shallow Convection and Frontal Systems Using Dual-Polarization C-Band Radar	10
Enhancing Drought Risk Assessment in the Punjab, Pakistan: A Copula-Based Modeling Approach for Future Projections	9
Influence of Stability and Surface Roughness on Turbulence during the Stable Atmospheric Variability and Transport (SAVANT) Field Campaign	9
The Impact of Atmospheric Circulation and Surface Roughness on Changes in Maximum Surface Wind Speed: A Preliminary Study over Northern China	9
Diagnostic Study of Seasonal Prediction of Malaria: A Case Study in Senegal, West Africa	9
Microclimatic Variability of Cold-Season Minimum Temperatures in Michigan, United States: A Study with Implications for Insect Mortality	9
Flash Drought Indicator Intercomparison in the United States	9
Journal Information and Table of Contents	9
Masthead	9
Assessing the Intensity Decay of U.S. Landfalling Tropical Cyclones: Long-Term Trends and Prediction Model Evaluations	9
Hyperlocal Observations Reveal Persistent Extreme Urban Heat in Southeast Florida	9
Evaluation of Reanalysis Estimates of Precipitation, Radiation, and Temperature over Benin (West Africa)	9
Do Fire Weather Conditions Significantly Affect Wildfires in Subtropical Forests in Taiwan?	8
Journal Information and Table of Contents	8
Statistical Downscaling in the Tropics and Midlatitudes: A Comparative Assessment over Two Representative Regions	8
Impacts of Multiscale Components of Initial Perturbations on Error Growth Characteristics and Ensemble Forecasting Skill	8
Corrigendum	8
Comparing Airborne and Along-Sidewall Ground-Based Measurements to Retrieve Thermal and PM10 Concentration Profiles in Two Alpine Valleys	8
Future Global River Ice in CMIP6 Models under Climate Change	8
Changes in Plant Hardiness Zones under Climate Change Scenarios in the South-Central United States	8
Future Changes in Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Affecting Hokkaido and Their Related Precipitation Based on Large-Ensemble Climate Simulations	8
Formulating Seasonal Hurricane Forecasts for Use in Hurricane Risk Models	8
Turbulent Heat Transfer Observed during a Low-Intensity Forest Understory Head Fire	8
Distinct Meteorological Mode Associated with High-PM2.5 Episodes in Seoul, South Korea	7
Synoptic-Scale Meteorological Patterns Associated with Heavy Rainfall in the Minnesota Region	7
Large-Eddy Simulations of the Tropical Cyclone Boundary Layer at Landfall in an Idealized Urban Environment	7
On the Radar Detection of Cloud Seeding Effects in Wintertime Orographic Cloud Systems	7
Temporal and Spatial Analysis of Freezing Rain Regimes over Eastern North America	7
Radar Retrieval Evaluation and Investigation of Dendritic Growth Layer Polarimetric Signatures in a Winter Storm	7
East Pacific ENSO Offers Early Predictive Signals for Harvest Yields	7
Exploring the Composited T-28 Hailstorm Penetration Dataset to Characterize Hail Properties within the Updraft and Downdraft Regions	7
Simpler and Faster: An Improved Heat Index	7
Reply to Pielke (2025)	7
A Gamma Parameterization for Precipitating Particle Size Distributions Containing Snowflake Aggregates Drawn from Five Field Experiments	7
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Relationship of Snow Microphysics and Precipitation Generation to Vertical Motions in Extratropical Cyclones: Results from IMPACTS	7
Validation of the Atmospheric Dispersion Model NAME against Long-Range Tracer Release Experiments	7
Automated and Objective Thunderstorm Identification and Tracking Using Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) Data	7
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Climatological Characteristics of Hydrometeors in Precipitating Clouds over Eastern China and Their Relationship with Precipitation Based on ERA5 Reanalysis	6
A Nonstationary Standardized Precipitation Index (NSPI) Using Bayesian Splines	6
Misreporting of Freezing Fog during Snowfall Conditions in U.S. METAR Observations	6
Validating GOES Radar Estimation via Machine Learning to Inform NWP (GREMLIN) Product over CONUS	6
Radar Survey of Hail-Producing Storms and Environments during the 2018–19 Severe-Weather Season in the Córdoba Region of Argentina	6
Do Not Use the ICAT Hurricane Loss “Dataset”: An Opportunity for Course Correction in Climate Science	6
Masthead	6
A Comparison of Channel Selection for the Assimilation of CrIS Radiances for NWP	6
Impacts of the Aerosol Representation in WRF-Solar Clear-Sky Irradiance Forecasts over CONUS	6
Macro- and Microphysical Properties of Atmospheric River Snowfall: Results from Two Instrument Sites	6
Improving Estimation of Specific Differential Phase and Assessing Differential Backscattering Phase	6
Improving the Modeled Variability Estimates of Offshore Winds in Northern Europe by Nudging ASCAT-Derived Winds	6
Exploring Global Climate Model Downscaling Based on Tile-Level Output	5
Developing a Predictive Department of Transportation Winter Severity Index	5
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Diagnosing Freezing Rain Events in Reanalysis and CMIP6 Climate Data	5
Climatology and Changes in Extratropical Cyclone Activity in the Southern Hemisphere during Austral Winters from 1948 to 2017	5
Regionalization, Decomposition, and Information Mining for Precipitation: A Novel Framework Based on Multivariate SOM Clustering and Multiscale Features	5
A Numerical Evaluation of the Impact of Operational Ground-Based Glaciogenic Cloud Seeding on Precipitation over the Wind River Range, Wyoming	5
Investigation of Hydrostatic Imbalance with Field Observations	5
Projection on Antarctic Temperature Extremes from the CMIP6 Multimodel Ensemble under Different Scenarios	5
Evaluation and Spatiotemporal Evolution of Surface Air Temperature Estimated by ERA5-Land Reanalysis Data in East China	5
Study on the Change in Freezing Depth in Heilongjiang Province and Its Response to Winter Half-Year Temperature	5
Novel Parameterization of Ice Cloud Effective Diameter from Collocated CALIOP-IIR and CloudSat Retrievals	5
Examining the Impact of Bias Correction Configurations on a Multivariate Meteorological Index: A Case Study of Heat Index Analysis in the Northeast United States	5
Challenges in Satellite Remote Sensing of Hail: Evaluating IR and Passive-Microwave Satellite Hail Retrievals Using Aqua Observations and a Deep Neural Network	5
Irrigated Agriculture Significantly Modifies Seasonal Boundary Layer Atmosphere and Lower-Tropospheric Convective Environment	5
Multiple Markov Chains for Categorial Drought Prediction on the U.S. Drought Monitor at Weekly Scale	5
Assessment of Caribbean Coastal Hazard Posed by Tropical Cyclones	5
United States Supercell Storms and Their Severity: A 14-Year Radar-Based Climatology	5
Development of Solar Irradiance Decomposition Models in Six Climatological Zones in South Africa	4
Complementarity between Two Global Satellite-Retrieved Irradiance Products: GSNO and NSRDB	4
Turbulence and Cloudiness in Cumulus Topped Marine Boundary Layers	4
Relationships between Environmental Parameters and Storm Observations in Po Valley: Are They Climate Change Invariant?	4
A Suggestion of Verification Method for Cloud Seeding Experimental Results via Analyses of Chemical Components of Precipitation	4
Observational Study of Wind Velocity and Structures during Supertyphoons and Convective Gales over Land Based on a 356-m-High Meteorological Gradient Tower	4
Applications of the World Wide Lightning Location Network (WWLLN) Thunder Hour Climatology	4
The Macro- and Microphysical Response Characteristics of the Multicell Hailstorm Hail-Suppression Operation: Case Study	4
The Observation-Based Index to Investigate the Role of the Lee Vortex in Enhancing Air Pollution over Northwestern Taiwan	4
A Comprehensive Evaluation of Mean and Extreme Climate for the Conformal Cubic Atmospheric Model (CCAM)	4
Comparative Assessment of LOCA2 and STAR-ESDM Downscaled Surface Temperature over the Conterminous United States	4
Application of Inverse Distance Weight Interpolation Taking into Account Anisotropy to the Reconstruction of Temperature Field	4
Spatiotemporal Changes in Frost Indicators in Southeastern Spain (1950–2020): Influence of the East Atlantic Index (EA)	4
Comparisons of Rainfall Microphysical Characteristics between the Southeastern Tibetan Plateau and Low-Altitude Areas	4
Temporal Trends in Agriculturally Relevant Climate Indicators across Nine Agroecosystems of Turkey	4
A Strong Cold Front Climatology for Eastern Colorado, 1950-2022	4
Development of an Extreme Wind-Driven Rain Climatology for the Southeastern United States Using 1-Min Rainfall and Peak Wind Speed Data	4
Projected Precipitation and Temperature Changes in Myanmar under SSP Scenarios Using CMIP6 Models	4