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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Continental shelf glaciations off Northeast Greenland since the Late Miocene	163
Do phenomenological dynamical paleoclimate models have physical similarity with Nature? Seemingly, not all of them do	73
Contrasting responses of summer precipitation to orbital forcing in Japan and China over the past 450 kyr	59
The warm winter paradox in the Pliocene northern high latitudes	56
The weather diary of Georg Christoph Eimmart for Nuremberg, 1695–1704	43
Changing sources and burial of organic carbon in the Chukchi Sea sediments with retreating sea ice over recent centuries	39
Documentary evidence of urban droughts and their impact in the eastern Netherlands: the cases of Deventer and Zutphen, 1500–1795	35
Buoyancy forcing: a key driver of northern North Atlantic sea surface temperature variability across multiple timescales	30
Deglacial records of terrigenous organic matter accumulation off the Yukon and Amur rivers based on lignin phenols and long-chain n -alkanes	29
Evaluating the 20th Century Reanalysis Version 3 with synoptic typing and an East Antarctic ice core accumulation record	28
Past Ocean surface density from planktonic foraminifera calcite δ ¹⁸ O	26
Growth and decay of the Iceland Ice Sheet through the last glacial cycle	25
Cryosphere and ocean variability in Kane Basin since the 18th century: insights from two marine multi-proxy records	25
New age constraints for glacial terminations IV, III, and III.a based on western Mediterranean speleothem records	24
Leeuwin Current dynamics over the last 60 kyr – relation to Australian ecosystem and Southern Ocean change	23
The climate in Poland (central Europe) in the first half of the last millennium, revisited	23
Synchronizing ice-core and U ∕ Th timescales in the Last Glacial Maximum using Hulu Cave ¹⁴ C and new ¹⁰	23
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	20
A continental reconstruction of hydroclimatic variability in South America during the past 2000 years	20
Climatic and tectonic controls on shallow-marine and freshwater diatomite deposition throughout the Palaeogene	19
Tropical temperature evolution across two glacial cycles derived from speleothem fluid inclusion microthermometry	19
The oxygen valve on hydrogen escape since the great oxidation event	19
A novel explainable deep learning framework for reconstructing South Asian palaeomonsoons	19
The sensitivity of the Eocene–Oligocene Southern Ocean to the strength and position of wind stress	19
A 2000-year temperature reconstruction on the East Antarctic plateau from argon–nitrogen and water stable isotopes in the Aurora Basin North ice core	18

Exploring the mechanisms of Devonian oceanic anoxia: impact of ocean dynamics, palaeogeography, and orbital forcing	17
Impact of the Late Miocene Cooling on the loss of coral reefs in the Central Indo-Pacific	17
Evaluating the 11-year solar cycle and short-term ¹⁰ Be deposition events with novel excess water samples from the East Greenland Ice-core Project (	17
Causes of the weak emergent constraint on climate sensitivity at the Last Glacial Maximum	17
Hydroclimate Evolution Along Chile Over the Last 20 000 Years: insights from Leaf-Wax Hydrogen Isotope Records	16
A Holocene history of climate, fire, landscape evolution, and human activity in northeastern Iceland	16
Resilient Antarctic monsoonal climate prevented ice growth during the Eocene	16
A global Data Assimilation of Moisture Patterns from 21 000–0 BP (DAMP-21ka) using lake level proxy records	16
Surface mass balance and climate of the Last Glacial Maximum Northern Hemisphere ice sheets: simulations with CESM2.1	15
Predicting trends in atmospheric CO ₂ across the Mid-Pleistocene Transition using existing climate archives	15
East Greenland Ice Sheet retreat history from Scoresby Sund and Storstrømmen Glacier during the last deglaciation	15
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	15
A Bayesian approach to historical climatology for the Burgundian Low Countries in the 15th century	15
Temporal variations of surface mass balance over the last 5000 years around Dome Fuji, Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica	15
Equilibrium line altitudes of alpine glaciers in Alaska suggest Last Glacial Maximum summer temperature was 2–5 °C lower than during the pre-industrial	15
A model intercomparison of radiocarbon-based marine reservoir ages during the last 55 kyr including abrupt changes in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation	14
A five-century tree-ring record from Spain reveals recent intensification of western Mediterranean precipitation extremes	14
Climate field reconstructions for the North Atlantic region of annual and seasonal resolution spanning CE 1241–1970	14
Late Paleocene CO ₂ drawdown, climatic cooling and terrestrial denudation in the southwest Pacific	14
The Late Pliocene jet stream: Changes and drivers of the mean state and variability	14
A new global surface temperature reconstruction for the Last Glacial Maximum	14
The ST22 chronology for the Skytrain Ice Rise ice core – Part 1: A stratigraphic chronology of the last 2000 years	14
Sensitivity of Heinrich-type ice-sheet surge characteristics to boundary forcing perturbations	13
A major midlatitude hurricane in the Little Ice Age	13
Vegetation and climate changes during the Early–Late Pliocene Transition ( ∼ 3.6 Ma) in the Burdur Basin (Southwestern Anatolia): a comparison with the Mediterranean	13
Utilising a multi-proxy to model comparison to constrain the season and regionally heterogeneous impacts of the Mt Samalas 1257 eruption	13
Bottom water oxygenation changes in the southwestern Indian Ocean as an indicator for enhanced respired carbon storage since the last glacial inception	13
Multiple thermal Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation thresholds in the intermediate complexity model Bern3D	13
Newly recovered series of meteorological measurements in SW Greenland (Nuuk) in the period 1806–1813	13
The Eocene–Oligocene Transition in the Paratethys: boreal water ingression and its paleoceanographic implications	13
Decoupling of δ ¹⁸ O from surface temperature in Antarctica in an ensemble of historical simulations	13
Estimating summer sea ice extent in the Weddell Sea during the early 19th century	13
Reconstructing hydroclimate changes over the past 2500 years using speleothems from Pyrenean caves (NE Spain)	13
North Atlantic Oscillation polarity during the past 3000 years derived from sediments of a large lowland lake, Schweriner See, in NE Germany	13
Precise dating of deglacial Laptev Sea sediments via ¹⁴ C and authigenic ¹⁰ Be∕	13
CO ₂ -driven and orbitally driven oxygen isotope variability in the Early Eocene	12
Assessment of the southern polar and subpolar warming in the PMIP4 last interglacial simulations using paleoclimate data syntheses	12
Observation error estimation in climate proxies with data assimilation and innovation statistics	12
Sea ice and productivity changes over the last glacial cycle in the Adélie Land region, East Antarctica, based on diatom assemblage variability	12
No detectable influence of the carbonate ion effect on changes in stable carbon isotope ratios ( δ ¹³ C) of shallow dwelli	11
Weather and climate and their human impacts and responses during the Thirty Years' War in central Europe	11
Eccentricity forcing on tropical ocean seasonality	11
Towards quantitative reconstruction of past monsoon precipitation based on tetraether membrane lipids in Chinese loess	11
Mid-Holocene reinforcement of North Atlantic atmospheric circulation variability from a western Baltic lake sediment record	11
A comparison of South Pacific Antarctic sea ice and atmospheric circulation reconstructions since 1900	11
A 1.5-million-year record of orbital and millennial climate variability in the North Atlantic	11
Cryptotephra in the East Antarctic Mount Brown South ice core	11
Northern Greenland transect stacked ice cores as a proxy for winter extreme events in Europe	11
Refinement of the environmental and chronological context of the archeological site El Harhoura 2 (Rabat, Morocco) using paleoclimatic simulations	11
Quantifying effects of Earth orbital parameters and greenhouse gases on mid-Holocene climate	11

North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) in the Paleoclimate Modelling Intercomparison Project (PMIP)	11
Integrating plant wax abundance and isotopes for paleo-vegetation and paleoclimate reconstructions: a multi-source mixing model using a Bayesian framework	11
Reconstructing atmospheric H ₂ over the past century from bi-polar firn air records	10
Climate variability off Africa's southern Cape over the past 260 000 years	10
Precessional pacing of tropical ocean carbon export during the Late Cretaceous	10
Rapid topographic growth of Diancang Shan, southeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau, since 5.0–3.5 Ma	10
Simulated ocean oxygenation during the interglacials MIS 5e and MIS 9e	10
SCUBIDO: a Bayesian modelling approach to reconstruct palaeoclimate from multivariate lake sediment data	10
Mechanisms of hydrological responses to volcanic eruptions in the Asian monsoon and westerlies-dominated subregions	10
Can we reliably reconstruct the mid-Pliocene Warm Period with sparse data and uncertain models?	10
Contrasts in the marine inorganic carbon chemistry of the Benguela Upwelling System since the Last Glacial Maximum	10
Orbitally forced environmental changes during the accumulation of a Pliensbachian (Lower Jurassic) black shale in northern Iberia	10
Climatology of the Mount Brown South ice core site in East Antarctica: implications for the interpretation of a water isotope record	10
New estimation of critical insolation–CO ₂ relationship for triggering glacial inception	9
Photic zone niche partitioning, stratification, and carbon cycling in the tropical Indian Ocean during the Piacenzian	9
Using reduced-complexity volcanic aerosol and climate models to produce large ensemble simulations of Holocene temperature	9
Persistent contamination in benthic-foraminifera-based Mg ∕ Ca thermometry using standard cleaning methods	9
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	9
Evolution of winter precipitation in the Nile river watershed since the last glacial	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
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	9
Carbonyl sulfide measurements from a South Pole ice core and implications for atmospheric variability since the last glacial period	9
Environmental controls of rapid terrestrial organic matter mobilization to the western Laptev Sea since the Last Deglaciation	9
Technical note: An improved methodology for calculating the Southern Annular Mode index to aid consistency between climate studies	9
How unstable was the environment during the Penultimate Glacial in the South-Western Mediterranean? Vegetation, climate and human dynamics during MIS 6	8
Insights into the Australian mid-Holocene climate using downscaled climate models	8
Weathering trends in the Norian through geochemical and rock magnetic analyses from the Pignola–Abriola section (Lagonegro Basin, Italy)	8
Simulating global ice volume across the Mid-Pleistocene Transition with a ramp-like increase in the deglaciation threshold	8
Relative importance of the mechanisms triggering the Eurasian ice sheet deglaciation in the GRISLI2.0 ice sheet model	8
The effect of uncertainties in natural forcing records on simulated temperature during the last millennium	8
Tracing North Atlantic volcanism and seaway connectivity across the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM)	8
Total air content measurements from the RECAP ice core	8
Pre-industrial temperature variability on the Swiss Plateau derived from the instrumental daily series of Bern and Zurich	8
Improving temperature reconstructions from ice-core water-isotope records	8
Public granaries as a source of proxy data on grain harvests and weather extremes for historical climatology	8
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	8
Stable isotope evidence for long-term stability of large-scale hydroclimate in the Neogene North American Great Plains	8
Impact of terrestrial biosphere on the atmospheric CO ₂ concentration across Termination V	8
Influence of long-term changes in solar irradiance forcing on the Southern Annular Mode	7
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	7
Perspective on ice age terminations from absolute chronologies provided by global speleothem records	7
Sustainability of regional Antarctic ice sheets under late Eocene seasonal atmospheric conditions	7
Hydroclimatic variability and weather type characteristics in the Levant during the last interglacial	7
Spatial and temporal variability in sea surface temperatures and monsoon dynamics in the northwestern Arabian Sea during the last 43 kyr	7
Development of longitudinal dunes under Pangaean atmospheric circulation	7
The spatio-temporal evolution of the Chongzhen drought (1627–1644) in China and its impact on famine	7
Subaqueous speleothems as archives of groundwater recharge on Australia's southern arid margin	7
Comparison of the green-to-desert Sahara transitions between the Holocene and the last interglacial	7
Compilation of Southern Ocean sea-ice records covering the last glacial-interglacial cycle (12–130 ka)	7
Impact of the temperature-cloud phase relationship on the simulated Arctic warming during the Last Interglacial	7
Moss kill dates and modeled summer temperature track episodic snowline lowering and ice cap expansion in Arctic Canada through the Common Era	7
Biotic response of plankton communities to Middle to Late Miocene monsoon wind and nutrient flux changes in the Oman margin upwelling zone	7
The relative impacts of tropical Pacific teleconnections and local insolation on mid-Holocene precipitation over tropical South America	7
Simulation of a former ice field with Parallel Ice Sheet Model – Snežnik study case	7
Speleothem evidence for Late Miocene extreme Arctic amplification – an analogue for near-future anthropogenic climate change?	7
Evidence for millennial-scale interactions between Hg cycling and hydroclimate from Lake Bosumtwi, Ghana	7
South American Summer Monsoon variability over the last millennium in paleoclimate records and isotope-enabled climate models	7
New isoprenoid GDGT index as a water mass and temperature proxy in the Southern Ocean	7
Non-spherical microparticle shape in Antarctica during the last glacial period affects dust volume-related metrics	7