OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Geoscientific Model Development is 39. 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
The shared socio-economic pathway (SSP) greenhouse gas concentrations and their extensions to 2500	547
Harmonization of global land use change and management for the period 850–2100 (LUH2) for CMIP6	412
Overview of the Norwegian Earth System Model (NorESM2) and key climate response of CMIP6 DECK, historical, and scenario simulations	286
Root-mean-square error (RMSE) or mean absolute error (MAE): when to use them or not	252
Development of the MIROC-ES2L Earth system model and the evaluation of biogeochemical processes and feedbacks	249
The EC-Earth3 Earth system model for the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project 6	203
The global water resources and use model WaterGAP v2.2d: model description and evaluation	140
RainNet v1.0: a convolutional neural network for radar-based precipitation nowcasting	125
The Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model versions 5.3 and 5.3.1: system updates and evaluation	113
The Making of the New European Wind Atlas – Part 2: Production and evaluation	88
On the increased climate sensitivity in the EC-Earth model from CMIP5 to CMIP6	88
Evaluation of global ocean–sea-ice model simulations based on the experimental protocols of the Ocean Model Intercomparison Project phase 2 (OMIP-2)	87
Description and evaluation of aerosol in UKESM1 and HadGEM3-GC3.1 CMIP6 historical simulations	79
The making of the New European Wind Atlas – Part 1: Model sensitivity	76
HighResMIP versions of EC-Earth: EC-Earth3P and EC-Earth3P-HR – description, model computational performance and basic validation	70
Reduced Complexity Model Intercomparison Project Phase 1: introduction and evaluation of global-mean temperature response	69
Impact of horizontal resolution on global ocean–sea ice model simulations based on the experimental protocols of the Ocean Model Intercomparison Project phase 2 (OMIP-2)	68
Ocean biogeochemistry in the Norwegian Earth System Model version 2 (NorESM2)	67
Taiwan Earth System Model Version 1: description and evaluation of mean state	66
Evaluating the land-surface energy partitioning in ERA5	64
Quantitative assessment of fire and vegetation properties in simulations with fire-enabled vegetation models from the Fire Model Intercomparison Project	63
Development of the Community Water Model (CWatM v1.04) – a high-resolution hydrological model for global and regional assessment of integrated water resources management	63
Earth System Model Evaluation Tool (ESMValTool) v2.0 – an extended set of large-scale diagnostics for quasi-operational and comprehensive evaluation of Earth system models in CMIP	63
IPSL-CM5A2 – an Earth system model designed for multi-millennial climate simulations	56
GSTools v1.3: a toolbox for geostatistical modelling in Python	55

TempestExtremes v2.1: a community framework for feature detection, tracking, and analysis in large datasets	55
COSMO-CLM regional climate simulations in the Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment (CORDEX) framework: a review	54
BCC-CSM2-HR: a high-resolution version of the Beijing Climate Center Climate System Model	54
The IPCC Sixth Assessment Report WGIII climate assessment of mitigation pathways: from emissions to global temperatures	48
CLASSIC v1.0: the open-source community successor to the Canadian Land Surface Scheme (CLASS) and the Canadian Terrestrial Ecosystem Model (CTEM) – Part 1: Model framework and site-level performance	47
QuickSampling v1.0: a robust and simplified pixel-based multiple-point simulation approach	44
Further improvement of wet process treatments in GEOS-Chem v12.6.0: impact on global distributions of aerosols and aerosol precursors	42
SCOPE 2.0: a model to simulate vegetated land surface fluxes and satellite signals	41
Understanding each other's models: an introduction and a standard representation of 16 global water models to support intercomparison, improvement, and communication	40
GMD perspective: The quest to improve the evaluation of groundwater representation in continental- to global-scale models	40
A framework for ensemble modelling of climate change impacts on lakes worldwide: the ISIMIP Lake Sector	40
ClimateNet: an expert-labeled open dataset and deep learning architecture for enabling high-precision analyses of extreme weather	40
Coupled online learning as a way to tackle instabilities and biases in neural network parameterizations: general algorithms and Lorenz 96 case study (v1.0)	39
EC-Earth3-AerChem: a global climate model with interactive aerosols and atmospheric chemistry participating in CMIP6	39
REMIND2.1: transformation and innovation dynamics of the energy-economic system within climate and sustainability limits	39