OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Climate of the Past is 7. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Water level change of Lake Machang in eastern China over 1814–1902 CE	134
Do phenomenological dynamical paleoclimate models have physical similarity with Nature? Seemingly, not all of them do	75
Accumulation rates over the past 260 years archived in Elbrus ice core, Caucasus	61
Last-millennium volcanic forcing and climate response using SO₂ emissions	47
Climatic impacts on mortality in pre-industrial Sweden	44
Climatic variations during the Holocene inferred from radiocarbon and stable carbon isotopes in speleothems from a high-alpine cave	32
Deglacial and Holocene sea-ice and climate dynamics in the Bransfield Strait, northern Antarctic Peninsula	30
Holocene climate and oceanography of the coastal Western United States and California Current System	29
Contrasts in the marine inorganic carbon chemistry of the Benguela Upwelling System since the Last Glacial Maximum	29
The climate and vegetation of Europe, northern Africa, and the Middle East during the Last Glacial Maximum (21 000 yr BP) based on pollen data	28
The unidentified eruption of 1809: a climatic cold case	27
Warming drove the expansion of marine anoxia in the equatorial Atlantic during the Cenomanian leading up to Oceanic Anoxic Event 2	27
Freshwater routing in eddy-permitting simulations of the last deglacial: the impact of realistic freshwater discharge	26
Effects of weather and climate on fluctuations of grain prices in southwestern Bohemia, 1725–1824 CE	25
Paleocene–Eocene age glendonites from the Mid-Norwegian Margin – indicators of cold snaps in the hothouse?	22
Response of coastal California hydroclimate to the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum	22
Hydroclimatic anomalies detected by a sub-decadal diatom oxygen isotope record of the last 220 years from Lake Khamra, Siberia	21
Late Pleistocene glacial terminations accelerated by proglacial lakes	21
Can we reliably reconstruct the mid-Pliocene Warm Period with sparse data and uncertain models?	20
Contrasting responses of summer precipitation to orbital forcing in Japan and China over the past 450 kyr	20
Documentary evidence of urban droughts and their impact in the eastern Netherlands: the cases of Deventer and Zutphen, 1500–1795	19
The triple oxygen isotope composition of phytoliths, a new proxy of atmospheric relative humidity: controls of soil water isotope composition, temperature, CO₂ concentration and relative	18
A data–model approach to interpreting speleothem oxygen isotope records from monsoon regions	18
Diagnosing the controls on desert dust emissions through the Phanerozoic	18
Parallel between the isotopic composition of coccolith calcite and carbon levels across Termination II: developing a new paleo-CO₂ probe	17

Calendar effects on surface air temperature and precipitation based on model-ensemble equilibrium and transient simulations from PMIP4 and PACMEDY	17
Continuous vegetation record of the Greater Cape Floristic Region (South Africa) covering the past 300 000 years (IODP U1479)	17
Humidity changes and possible forcing mechanisms over the last millennium in arid Central Asia	17
Reduced El Niño variability in the mid-Pliocene according to the PlioMIP2 ensemble	17
Terrestrial carbon isotope stratigraphy and mammal turnover during post-PETM hyperthermals in the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, USA	16
A pseudoproxy assessment of why climate field reconstruction methods perform the way they do in time and space	16
Quantifying and reducing researcher subjectivity in the generation of climate indices from documentary sources	16
Abrupt climate changes and the astronomical theory: are they related?	16
Stratigraphic templates for ice core records of the past 1.5 Myr	16
Greenhouse gases modulate the strength of millennial-scale subtropical rainfall, consistent with future predictions	16
The warm winter paradox in the Pliocene northern high latitudes	16
Prospects for dendroanatomy in paleoclimatology – a case study on Picea engelmannii from the Canadian Rockies	16
On the climatic influence of CO₂ forcing in the Pliocene	15
Dynamics of the Great Oxidation Event from a 3D photochemical–climate model	15
Using a process-based dendroclimatic proxy system model in a data assimilation framework: a test case in the Southern Hemisphere over the past centuries	15
Changing sources and burial of organic carbon in the Chukchi Sea sediments with retreating sea ice over recent centuries	15
Glacial state of the global carbon cycle: time-slice simulations for the last glacial maximum with an Earth-system model	15
Modelling feedbacks between the Northern Hemisphere ice sheets and climate during the last glacial cycle	15
Spring onset and seasonality patterns during the Late Glacial period in the eastern Baltic region	15
Buoyancy forcing: a key driver of northern North Atlantic sea surface temperature variability across multiple timescales	14
Late Aptian paleoclimate reconstruction of the Brazilian equatorial margin: inferences from palynology	14
The weather diaries of the Kirch family: Leipzig, Guben, and Berlin (1677–1774)	14
Precipitation reconstructions for Paris based on the observations by Louis Morin, 1665–1713 CE	14
Duration and ice thickness of a Late Holocene outlet glacier advance near Narsarsuaq, southern Greenland	14
Summer surface air temperature proxies point to near-sea-ice-free conditions in the Arctic at 127 ka	14
A transient coupled general circulation model (CGCM) simulation of the past 3 million years	14
Reconstructing atmospheric H₂ over the past century from bi-polar firn air records	14
The Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation is responsible for the linkage of decadal changes in precipitation and moisture in arid central Asia and the humid Asian monsoon region during the last millennium	13
The weather diary of Georg Christoph Eimmart for Nuremberg, 1695–1704	13
State-dependent impact of major volcanic eruptions observed in ice-core records of the last glacial period	13
A past and present perspective on the European summer vapor pressure deficit	13
Aerosol uncertainties in tropical precipitation changes for the mid-Pliocene warm period	13
Bayesian multi-proxy reconstruction of early Eocene latitudinal temperature gradients	13
A global compilation of diatom silica oxygen isotope records from lake sediment – trends and implications for climate reconstruction	12
Processes, spatial patterns, and impacts of the 1743 extreme-heat event in northern China: from the perspective of historical documents	12
Mid-Holocene climate at mid-latitudes: assessing the impact of Saharan greening	12
Deglacial records of terrigenous organic matter accumulation off the Yukon and Amur rivers based on lignin phenols and long-chain n-alkanes	12
Rapid topographic growth of Diancang Shan, southeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau, since 5.0–3.5 Ma	12
El Niño–Southern Oscillation signal in a new East Antarctic ice core, Mount Brown South	12
Modelling Mediterranean ocean biogeochemistry of the Last Glacial Maximum	12
On the tuning of plateaus in atmospheric and oceanic ¹⁴C records to derive calendar chronologies of deep-sea cores and records of ¹⁴C marine reservoir age changes	12
Model and proxy evidence for coordinated changes in the hydroclimate of distant regions over the Last Millennium	11
Patterns of changing surface climate variability from the Last Glacial Maximum to present in transient model simulations	11
Millennial variations in atmospheric CO₂ during the early Holocene (11.7–7.4 ka)	11
CHELSA-TraCE21k – high-resolution (1 km) downscaled transient temperature and precipitation data since the Last Glacial Maximum	11
New age constraints for glacial terminations IV, III, and III.a based on western Mediterranean speleothem records	11
Spatial variability of marine-terminating ice sheet retreat in the Puget Lowland	10
A novel conceptual model for Dansgaard–Oeschger event dynamics based on ice-core data	10
Reconstruction of drought and long-rain chronologies since the 17th century in central Japan using intra-annual tree-ring oxygen isotope ratios and documentary records	10
Deglacial climate changes as forced by different ice sheet reconstructions	10

Signals of Holocene climate transition amplified by anthropogenic land-use changes in the westerly–Indian monsoon realm	10
Technical note: An improved methodology for calculating the Southern Annular Mode index to aid consistency between climate studies	10
Climate and ice sheet dynamics in Patagonia throughout marine isotope stages 2 and 3	10
Reassessing long-standing meteorological records: an example using the national hottest day in Ireland	10
Climate and ice sheet evolutions from the last glacial maximum to the pre-industrial period with an ice-sheet–climate coupled model	10
Documentary evidence of droughts in Sweden between the Middle Ages and ca. 1800 CE	10
Public granaries as a source of proxy data on grain harvests and weather extremes for historical climatology	10
Viticulture extension in response to global climate change drivers – lessons from the past and future projections	10
Evolution of winter precipitation in the Nile river watershed since the last glacial	10
Dynamic interaction between lakes, climate, and vegetation across northern Africa during the mid-Holocene	10
Milankovitch, the father of paleoclimate modeling	10
A sub-fossil coral Sr∕Ca record documents northward shifts of the Tropical Convergence Zone in the eastern Indian Ocean	9
Climatology of the Mount Brown South ice core site in East Antarctica: implications for the interpretation of a water isotope record	9
Climate reconstructions based on GDGT and pollen surface datasets from Mongolia and Baikal area: calibrations and applicability to extremely cold–dry environments over the Late Holocene	9
Controls on Early Cretaceous South Atlantic Ocean circulation and carbon burial – a climate model–proxy synthesis	9
A global climatology of the ocean surface during the Last Glacial Maximum mapped on a regular grid (GLOMAP)	9
Using data and models to infer climate and environmental changes during the Little Ice Age in tropical West Africa	9
Is it possible to estimate aerosol optical depth from historic colour paintings?	9
Can machine-learning algorithms improve upon classical palaeoenvironmental reconstruction models?	9
Evolution of continental temperature seasonality from the Eocene greenhouse to the Oligocene icehouse –a model–data comparison	9
Mid-Holocene monsoons in South and Southeast Asia: dynamically downscaled simulations and the influence of the Green Sahara	9
Orbitally forced environmental changes during the accumulation of a Pliensbachian (Lower Jurassic) black shale in northern Iberia	9
A spectral approach to estimating the timescale-dependent uncertainty of paleoclimate records – Part 2: Application and interpretation	9
Leeuwin Current dynamics over the last 60 kyr – relation to Australian ecosystem and Southern Ocean change	9
Antarctic sea ice over the past 130 000 years – Part 1: a review of what proxy records tell us	9
ClimeApp: data processing tool for monthly, global climate data from the ModE-RA palaeo-reanalysis, 1422 to 2008 CE	9
The Laurentide Ice Sheet in southern New England and New York during and at the end of the Last Glacial Maximum: a cosmogenic-nuclide chronology	9
Evaluation of lipid biomarkers as proxies for sea ice and ocean temperatures along the Antarctic continental margin	9
New estimation of critical insolation–CO₂ relationship for triggering glacial inception	9
A continental reconstruction of hydroclimatic variability in South America during the past 2000 years	9
Accurately calibrated X-ray fluorescence core scanning (XRF-CS) record of Ti ∕ Al reveals Early Pleistocene aridity and humidity variability over North Africa and its close relationship to low-latitud	9
Synchronizing ice-core and U ∕ Th timescales in the Last Glacial Maximum using Hulu Cave ¹⁴C and new ¹⁰Be measurements from Greenland and Antarctica	8
Tracing North Atlantic volcanism and seaway connectivity across the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM)	8
The climate in Poland (central Europe) in the first half of the last millennium, revisited	8
Drought reconstruction since 1796 CE based on tree-ring widths in the upper Heilongjiang (Amur) River basin in Northeast Asia and its linkage to Pacific Ocean climate variability	8
Miocene Antarctic Ice Sheet area adapts significantly faster than volume to CO₂-induced climate change	8
Carbonyl sulfide measurements from a South Pole ice core and implications for atmospheric variability since the last glacial period	8
Rejuvenating the ocean: mean ocean radiocarbon, CO₂ release, and radiocarbon budget closure across the last deglaciation	8
Effects of Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) sea surface temperature and sea ice extent on the isotope–temperature slope at polar ice core sites	8
Sensitivity of Neoproterozoic snowball-Earth inceptions to continental configuration, orbital geometry, and volcanism	8
Millennial hydrological variability in the continental northern Neotropics during Marine Isotope Stages (MISs) 3–2 (59–15 cal ka BP) inferred from sediments of Lake Petén Itzá, Guatemala	8
Extreme springs in Switzerland since 1763 in climate and phenological indices	8
Towards spatio-temporal comparison of simulated and reconstructed sea surface temperatures for the last deglaciation	8
Impact of dust in PMIP-CMIP6 mid-Holocene simulations with the IPSL model	8
Methane, ethane, and propane production in Greenland ice core samples and a first isotopic characterization of excess methane	8
A paleoprecipitation and paleotemperature reconstruction of the Last Interglacial in the southeastern Alps	8
Mechanisms of hydrological responses to volcanic eruptions in the Asian monsoon and westerlies-dominated subregions	8
Did the Bronze Age deforestation of Europe affect its climate? A regional climate model study using pollen-based land cover reconstructions	8
The role of atmospheric CO₂ in controlling sea surface temperature change during the Pliocene	8
Air temperature changes in SW Greenland in the second half of the 18th century	8
Northern Hemisphere atmospheric pattern enhancing Eastern Mediterranean Transient-type events during the past 1000 years	8
Holocene vegetation transitions and their climatic drivers in MPI-ESM1.2	7
crestr: an R package to perform probabilistic climate reconstructions from palaeoecological datasets	7
Frequency of large volcanic eruptions over the past 200 000 years	7
The sensitivity of the Eocene–Oligocene Southern Ocean to the strength and position of wind stress	7
Reorganization of Atlantic Waters at sub-polar latitudes linked to deep-water overflow in both glacial and interglacial climate states	7
Extending and understanding the South West Western Australian rainfall record using a snowfall reconstruction from Law Dome, East Antarctica	7
Long-term trends in diatom diversity and palaeoproductivity: a 16 000-year multidecadal record from Lake Baikal, southern Siberia	7
Seasonal aridity in the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool during the Late Glacial driven by El Niño-like conditions	7
Carbon accumulation rates of Holocene peatlands in central–eastern Europe document the driving role of human impact over the past 4000 years	7
Hydrological change in southern Australia over 1750 years: a bivalve oxygen isotope record from the Coorong Lagoon	7
Millennial variability of terrigenous transport to the central–southern Peruvian margin during the last deglaciation (18–13 kyr BP)	7
Investigating stable oxygen and carbon isotopic variability in speleothem records over the last millennium using multiple isotope-enabled climate models	7
Variability in Neogloboquadrina pachyderma stable isotope ratios from isothermal conditions: implications for individual foraminifera analysis	7
Co-evolution of the terrestrial and aquatic ecosystem in the Holocene Baltic Sea	7
Precessional pacing of tropical ocean carbon export during the Late Cretaceous	7
Insights into the Australian mid-Holocene climate using downscaled climate models	7
The first firn core from Peter I Island – capturing climate variability across the Bellingshausen Sea	7
Estimating biases during detection of leads and lags between climate elements across Dansgaard–Oeschger events	7
A 334-year coral record of surface temperature and salinity variability in the greater Agulhas Current region	7
Evaluation of the distributions of hydroxylated glycerol dibiphytanyl glycerol tetraethers (GDGTs) in Holocene Baltic Sea sediments for reconstruction of sea surface temperature: the effect of changi	7
Enhanced moisture delivery into Victoria Land, East Antarctica, during the early Last Interglacial: implications for West Antarctic Ice Sheet stability	7