OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Climate of the Past is 8. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The weather diary of Georg Christoph Eimmart for Nuremberg, 1695–1704	114
Buoyancy forcing: a key driver of northern North Atlantic sea surface temperature variability across multiple timescales	60
Changing sources and burial of organic carbon in the Chukchi Sea sediments with retreating sea ice over recent centuries	47
Contrasting responses of summer precipitation to orbital forcing in Japan and China over the past 450 kyr	44
Do phenomenological dynamical paleoclimate models have physical similarity with Nature? Seemingly, not all of them do	40
Documentary evidence of urban droughts and their impact in the eastern Netherlands: the cases of Deventer and Zutphen, 1500–1795	40
Deglacial records of terrigenous organic matter accumulation off the Yukon and Amur rivers based on lignin phenols and long-chain n-alkanes	36
Evaluating the 20th Century Reanalysis Version 3 with synoptic typing and an East Antarctic ice core accumulation record	32
The warm winter paradox in the Pliocene northern high latitudes	30
Reduced El Niño variability in the mid-Pliocene according to the PlioMIP2 ensemble	29
Abrupt climate changes and the astronomical theory: are they related?	27
New age constraints for glacial terminations IV, III, and III.a based on western Mediterranean speleothem records	25
Tropical temperature evolution across two glacial cycles derived from speleothem fluid inclusion microthermometry	24
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	23
A continental reconstruction of hydroclimatic variability in South America during the past 2000 years	23
The sensitivity of the Eocene–Oligocene Southern Ocean to the strength and position of wind stress	23
The climate in Poland (central Europe) in the first half of the last millennium, revisited	23
Leeuwin Current dynamics over the last 60 kyr – relation to Australian ecosystem and Southern Ocean change	22
Synchronizing ice-core and U ∕ Th timescales in the Last Glacial Maximum using Hulu Cave ¹⁴C and new ¹⁰Be measurements from Greenland and Antarctica	22
A novel explainable deep learning framework for reconstructing South Asian palaeomonsoons	21
A Holocene history of climate, fire, landscape evolution, and human activity in northeastern Iceland	20
A 2000-year temperature reconstruction on the East Antarctic plateau from argon–nitrogen and water stable isotopes in the Aurora Basin North ice core	20
Causes of the weak emergent constraint on climate sensitivity at the Last Glacial Maximum	19
Impact of the Late Miocene Cooling on the loss of coral reefs in the Central Indo-Pacific	19
Climatic and tectonic controls on shallow-marine and freshwater diatomite deposition throughout the Palaeogene	19

Exploring the mechanisms of Devonian oceanic anoxia: impact of ocean dynamics, palaeogeography, and orbital forcing	19
Evaluating the 11-year solar cycle and short-term ¹⁰Be deposition events with novel excess water samples from the East Greenland Ice-core Project (EGRIP)	19
A global Data Assimilation of Moisture Patterns from 21 000–0 BP (DAMP-21ka) using lake level proxy records	18
Predicting trends in atmospheric CO₂ across the Mid-Pleistocene Transition using existing climate archives	18
Surface mass balance and climate of the Last Glacial Maximum Northern Hemisphere ice sheets: simulations with CESM2.1	18
A Bayesian approach to historical climatology for the Burgundian Low Countries in the 15th century	17
The ST22 chronology for the Skytrain Ice Rise ice core – Part 1: A stratigraphic chronology of the last 2000 years	16
Equilibrium line altitudes of alpine glaciers in Alaska suggest Last Glacial Maximum summer temperature was 2–5 °C lower than during the pre-industrial	16
Late Paleocene CO₂ drawdown, climatic cooling and terrestrial denudation in the southwest Pacific	16
Large-ensemble simulations of the North American and Greenland ice sheets at the Last Glacial Maximum with a coupled atmospheric general circulation–ice sheet model	16
Simulated range of mid-Holocene precipitation changes from extended lakes and wetlands over North Africa	15
Temporal variations of surface mass balance over the last 5000 years around Dome Fuji, Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica	15
A new global surface temperature reconstruction for the Last Glacial Maximum	15
Resilient Antarctic monsoonal climate prevented ice growth during the Eocene	15
Decoupling of δ¹⁸O from surface temperature in Antarctica in an ensemble of historical simulations	14
Estimating summer sea ice extent in the Weddell Sea during the early 19th century	14
The Eocene–Oligocene Transition in the Paratethys: boreal water ingression and its paleoceanographic implications	14
Reconstructing hydroclimate changes over the past 2500 years using speleothems from Pyrenean caves (NE Spain)	14
A major midlatitude hurricane in the Little Ice Age	14
Utilising a multi-proxy to model comparison to constrain the season and regionally heterogeneous impacts of the Mt Samalas 1257 eruption	14
Multiple thermal Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation thresholds in the intermediate complexity model Bern3D	14
Early Holocene cold snaps and their expression in the moraine record of the eastern European Alps	14
Precise dating of deglacial Laptev Sea sediments via ¹⁴C and authigenic ¹⁰Be∕⁹Be – assessing local ¹⁴C reservoir ages	13
Secular and orbital-scale variability of equatorial Indian Ocean summer monsoon winds during the late Miocene	13
Orbital insolation variations, intrinsic climate variability, and Quaternary glaciations	13
Sensitivity of Heinrich-type ice-sheet surge characteristics to boundary forcing perturbations	13
Bottom water oxygenation changes in the southwestern Indian Ocean as an indicator for enhanced respired carbon storage since the last glacial inception	13
Weather and climate and their human impacts and responses during the Thirty Years' War in central Europe	12
CO₂-driven and orbitally driven oxygen isotope variability in the Early Eocene	12
Towards quantitative reconstruction of past monsoon precipitation based on tetraether membrane lipids in Chinese loess	12
Integrating plant wax abundance and isotopes for paleo-vegetation and paleoclimate reconstructions: a multi-source mixing model using a Bayesian framework	12
A comparison of South Pacific Antarctic sea ice and atmospheric circulation reconstructions since 1900	12
North Atlantic Oscillation polarity during the past 3000 years derived from sediments of a large lowland lake, Schweriner See, in NE Germany	12
Assessment of the southern polar and subpolar warming in the PMIP4 last interglacial simulations using paleoclimate data syntheses	12
Mid-Holocene reinforcement of North Atlantic atmospheric circulation variability from a western Baltic lake sediment record	12
Quantifying effects of Earth orbital parameters and greenhouse gases on mid-Holocene climate	12
Sea ice and productivity changes over the last glacial cycle in the Adélie Land region, East Antarctica, based on diatom assemblage variability	12
Refinement of the environmental and chronological context of the archeological site El Harhoura 2 (Rabat, Morocco) using paleoclimatic simulations	11
Glacier response to Holocene warmth inferred from in situ ¹⁰Be and ¹⁴C bedrock analyses in Steingletscher's forefield (central Swiss Alps)	11
Magnitude, frequency and climate forcing of global volcanism during the last glacial period as seen in Greenland and Antarctic ice cores (60–9 ka)	11
Eccentricity forcing on tropical ocean seasonality	11
No detectable influence of the carbonate ion effect on changes in stable carbon isotope ratios (δ¹³C) of shallow dwelling planktic foraminifera over the past 160 kyr	11
Observation error estimation in climate proxies with data assimilation and innovation statistics	11
Late Pleistocene glacial chronologies and paleoclimate in the northern Rocky Mountains	11
A 1.5-million-year record of orbital and millennial climate variability in the North Atlantic	11
Climate variability off Africa's southern Cape over the past 260 000 years	10
Simulated ocean oxygenation during the interglacials MIS 5e and MIS 9e	10
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	10
New estimation of critical insolation–CO₂ relationship for triggering glacial inception	10
Tracing North Atlantic volcanism and seaway connectivity across the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM)	10

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	10
Freshwater routing in eddy-permitting simulations of the last deglacial: the impact of realistic freshwater discharge	10
SCUBIDO: a Bayesian modelling approach to reconstruct palaeoclimate from multivariate lake sediment data	10
Rapid topographic growth of Diancang Shan, southeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau, since 5.0–3.5 Ma	10
Carbonyl sulfide measurements from a South Pole ice core and implications for atmospheric variability since the last glacial period	10
Mechanisms of hydrological responses to volcanic eruptions in the Asian monsoon and westerlies-dominated subregions	10
Public granaries as a source of proxy data on grain harvests and weather extremes for historical climatology	10
Contrasts in the marine inorganic carbon chemistry of the Benguela Upwelling System since the Last Glacial Maximum	10
Reconstructing atmospheric H₂ over the past century from bi-polar firn air records	10
Can we reliably reconstruct the mid-Pliocene Warm Period with sparse data and uncertain models?	10
Variability in Neogloboquadrina pachyderma stable isotope ratios from isothermal conditions: implications for individual foraminifera analysis	10
Insights into the Australian mid-Holocene climate using downscaled climate models	10
Precessional pacing of tropical ocean carbon export during the Late Cretaceous	10
Co-evolution of the terrestrial and aquatic ecosystem in the Holocene Baltic Sea	9
Persistent contamination in benthic-foraminifera-based Mg ∕ Ca thermometry using standard cleaning methods	9
Environmental controls of rapid terrestrial organic matter mobilization to the western Laptev Sea since the Last Deglaciation	9
Total air content measurements from the RECAP ice core	9
The effect of uncertainties in natural forcing records on simulated temperature during the last millennium	9
Impact of terrestrial biosphere on the atmospheric CO₂ concentration across Termination V	9
Stable isotope evidence for long-term stability of large-scale hydroclimate in the Neogene North American Great Plains	9
Effects of Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) sea surface temperature and sea ice extent on the isotope–temperature slope at polar ice core sites	9
Using reduced-complexity volcanic aerosol and climate models to produce large ensemble simulations of Holocene temperature	9
Technical note: An improved methodology for calculating the Southern Annular Mode index to aid consistency between climate studies	9
Climatology of the Mount Brown South ice core site in East Antarctica: implications for the interpretation of a water isotope record	9
Relative importance of the mechanisms triggering the Eurasian ice sheet deglaciation in the GRISLI2.0 ice sheet model	9
A multi-ice-core, annual-layer-counted Greenland ice-core chronology for the last 3800 years: GICC21	9
Expression of the “4.2 ka event” in the southern Rocky Mountains, USA	9
Orbitally forced environmental changes during the accumulation of a Pliensbachian (Lower Jurassic) black shale in northern Iberia	9
Holocene vegetation transitions and their climatic drivers in MPI-ESM1.2	9
Evolution of winter precipitation in the Nile river watershed since the last glacial	9
Pre-industrial temperature variability on the Swiss Plateau derived from the instrumental daily series of Bern and Zurich	9
50-year seasonal variability in East African droughts and floods recorded in central Afar lake sediments (Ethiopia) and their connections with the El Niño–Southern Oscillation	9
Preface: Advances in paleoclimate data synthesis and analysis of associated uncertainty: towards data–model integration to understand the climate	9
Weathering trends in the Norian through geochemical and rock magnetic analyses from the Pignola–Abriola section (Lagonegro Basin, Italy)	9
Simulation of a former ice field with Parallel Ice Sheet Model – Snežnik study case	8
Improving temperature reconstructions from ice-core water-isotope records	8
Reconstructing burnt area during the Holocene: an Iberian case study	8
Influence of long-term changes in solar irradiance forcing on the Southern Annular Mode	8
The spatio-temporal evolution of the Chongzhen drought (1627–1644) in China and its impact on famine	8
Speleothem evidence for Late Miocene extreme Arctic amplification – an analogue for near-future anthropogenic climate change?	8
Clumped isotope evidence for Early Jurassic extreme polar warmth and high climate sensitivity	8
Evaluating seasonal sea-ice cover over the Southern Ocean at the Last Glacial Maximum	8
Perspective on ice age terminations from absolute chronologies provided by global speleothem records	8
Biotic response of plankton communities to Middle to Late Miocene monsoon wind and nutrient flux changes in the Oman margin upwelling zone	8
Comparison of the green-to-desert Sahara transitions between the Holocene and the last interglacial	8
South American Summer Monsoon variability over the last millennium in paleoclimate records and isotope-enabled climate models	8
No evidence for tephra in Greenland from the historic eruption of Vesuvius in 79 CE: implications for geochronology and paleoclimatology	8
Subdaily meteorological measurements of temperature, direction of the movement of the clouds, and cloud cover in the Late Maunder Minimum by Louis Morin in Paris	8
Sustainability of regional Antarctic ice sheets under late Eocene seasonal atmospheric conditions	8
Subaqueous speleothems as archives of groundwater recharge on Australia's southern arid margin	8
Compilation of Southern Ocean sea-ice records covering the last glacial-interglacial cycle (12–130 ka)	8
Evidence for millennial-scale interactions between Hg cycling and hydroclimate from Lake Bosumtwi, Ghana	8