OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Earth System Dynamics is 11. 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
Atmospheric teleconnections between the Arctic and the Baltic Sea region as simulated by CESM1-LE	250
Disentangling the climate divide with emotional patterns: a network-based mindset reconstruction approach	220
A methodology for the spatiotemporal identification of compound hazards: wind and precipitation extremes in Great Britain (1979–2019)	169
Towards robust community assessments of the Earth's climate sensitivity	134
Atmospheric rivers in CMIP5 climate ensembles downscaled with a high-resolution regional climate model	134
Possible role of anthropogenic climate change in the record-breaking 2020 Lake Victoria levels and floods	133
Tracing the Snowball bifurcation of aquaplanets through time reveals a fundamental shift in critical-state dynamics	101
Considerations for determining warm-water coral reef tipping points	89
Interannual land cover and vegetation variability based on remote sensing data in the HTESSEL land surface model: implementation and effects on simulated water dynamics	72
Seasonal discharge response to temperature-driven changes in evaporation and snow processes in the Rhine Basin	70
Carbon cycle and climate feedbacks under CO₂ and non-CO₂ overshoot pathways	69
Balanced estimate and uncertainty assessment of European climate change using the large EURO-CORDEX regional climate model ensemble	66
Exploring the coupled ocean and atmosphere system with a data science approach applied to observations from the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition	64
The sensitivity of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation to volcanic aerosol spatial distribution in the MPI Grand Ensemble	59
Stable stadial and interstadial states of the last glacial's climate identified in a combined stable water isotope and dust record from Greenland	56
Complex network analysis of fine particulate matter (PM_2.5): transport and clustering	55
Are physiological and ecosystem-level tipping points caused by ocean acidification? A critical evaluation	51
The global impact of the transport sectors on the atmospheric aerosol and the resulting climate effects under the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs)	47
A quantitative assessment of air–sea heat flux trends from ERA5 since 1950 in the North Atlantic basin	43
Regime-oriented causal model evaluation of Atlantic–Pacific teleconnections in CMIP6	42
The perfect storm? Co-occurring climate extremes in East Africa	39
Fire weather compromises forestation-reliant climate mitigation pathways	32
Extending MESMER-X: a spatially resolved Earth system model emulator for fire weather and soil moisture	31
A missing link in the carbon cycle: phytoplankton light absorption under RCP emission scenarios	31
Multiscale fractal dimension analysis of a reduced order model of coupled ocean–atmosphere dynamics	30

First comprehensive assessment of industrial-era land heat uptake from multiple sources	30
Improving the prediction of the Madden–Julian Oscillation of the ECMWF model by post-processing	29
Indices of extremes: geographic patterns of change in extremes and associated vegetation impacts under climate intervention	29
Impact of volcanic eruptions on CMIP6 decadal predictions: a multi-model analysis	28
Climatology and trends of concurrent temperature extremes in the global extratropics	27
Tipping points in coupled human–environment system models: a review	27
Carbon budget concept and its deviation through the pulse response lens	26
Impact of Greenland Ice Sheet disintegration on atmosphere and ocean disentangled	25
Detecting the human fingerprint in the summer 2022 western–central European soil drought	25
MIROC6 Large Ensemble (MIROC6-LE): experimental design and initial analyses	25
Carbon dioxide removal via macroalgae open-ocean mariculture and sinking: an Earth system modeling study	24
Future water storage changes over the Mediterranean, Middle East, and North Africa in response to global warming and stratospheric aerosol intervention	23
Salinity dynamics of the Baltic Sea	21
Wind speed stilling and its recovery due to internal climate variability	21
Robust increase of Indian monsoon rainfall and its variability under future warming in CMIP6 models	21
An enhanced Standardized Precipitation–Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI) drought-monitoring method integrating land surface characteristics	20
Early opportunity signals of a tipping point in the UK's second-hand electric vehicle market	18
Reliability of resilience estimation based on multi-instrument time series	18
Performance-based sub-selection of CMIP6 models for impact assessments in Europe	17
Applying global warming levels of emergence to highlight the increasing population exposure to temperature and precipitation extremes	17
Solar radiation modification challenges decarbonization with renewable solar energy	16
Chaotic oceanic excitation of low-frequency polar motion variability	16
Evaluation of global teleconnections in CMIP6 climate projections using complex networks	16
A 20-year satellite-reanalysis-based climatology of extreme precipitation characteristics over the Sinai Peninsula	16
Classification of synoptic circulation patterns with a two-stage clustering algorithm using the modified structural similarity index metric (SSIM)	16
Modelling sea-level fingerprints of glaciated regions with low mantle viscosity	15
Climate-controlled root zone parameters show potential to improve water flux simulations by land surface models	15
CO₂ surface variability: from the stratosphere or not?	15
The Pareto effect in tipping social networks: from minority to majority	15
Sensitivity of land–atmosphere coupling strength to changing atmospheric temperature and moisture over Europe	15
Dynamic savanna burning emission factors based on satellite data using a machine learning approach	14
Distribution-based pooling for combination and multi-model bias correction of climate simulations	14
The impacts of elevated CO₂ on forest growth, mortality, and recovery in the Amazon rainforest	14
Dakar Niño under global warming investigated by a high-resolution regionally coupled model	14
How does the phytoplankton–light feedback affect the marine N₂O inventory?	14
Storylines of weather-induced crop failure events under climate change	14
The effects of diachronous surface uplift of the European Alps on regional climate and the oxygen isotopic composition of precipitation	14
Extrapolation is not enough: impacts of extreme land use change on wind profiles and wind energy according to regional climate models	13
ESD Ideas: A 6-year oscillation in the whole Earth system?	13
The aerosol pathway is crucial for observationally constraining climate sensitivity and anthropogenic forcing	13
Generalized stability landscape of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation	13
ESD Ideas: planetary antifragility: a new dimension in the definition of the safe operating space for humanity	13
Cross-scale causal information flow from the El Niño–Southern Oscillation to precipitation in eastern China	13
Accounting for surface waves improves gas flux estimation at high wind speed in a large lake	13
ESD Ideas: Exoplanet, origins of life and biosphere researchers offer a perspective fundamental to ensuring humanity's future	12
Dynamic regimes of the Greenland Ice Sheet emerging from interacting melt–elevation and glacial isostatic adjustment feedbacks	12
Lotka's wheel and the long arm of history: how does the distant past determine today's global rate of energy consumption?	11
Quantifying memory and persistence in the atmosphere–land and ocean carbon system	11
Continental heat storage: contributions from the ground, inland waters, and permafrost thawing	11