OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Weather and Climate Extremes is 30. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Interannual variability of moisture sources and isotopic composition of Meiyu-Baiu rainfall in southwestern Japan: Importance of Asian monsoon moisture for extreme rainfall events	84
Projected increase in windstorm severity and contribution from sting jets over the UK and Ireland	80
Evaluation of CMIP6 models in simulating seasonal extreme precipitation over Ethiopia	75
Mesoscale convective systems and contributions to flood cases in Southern West Africa (SWA): A systematic review	73
Teleconnections link to summer heat extremes in the south-central U.S.: Insights from CMIP5 and CMIP6 simulations	64
Nonstationary seasonal model for daily mean temperature distribution bridging bulk and tails	60
Human influence on the unprecedented 2022 extreme dragon boat water event in South China: Insights from historical and projected perspectives	58
Dynamical systems methods to understand projected heatwave intensification	53
Sociodemographic vulnerability to cold and stormy weather in relation to health and life	52
Assessing the escalating human-perceived heatwaves in a warming world: The case of China	47
The spatiotemporal characteristics of extreme drought events in China from 1961 to 2022 via a copula function	43
What is the probability that a drought will break in Australia?	43
Mesoscale patterns associated with two distinct heatwave events in coastal Santa Barbara, California, and their impact on local fire risk conditions	41
Changes of extreme precipitation in the Philippines, projected from the CMIP6 multi-model ensemble	39
Tower-observed structural evolution of the low-level boundary layer before, during, and after gust front passage in a coastal area at low latitude	36
Statistics of Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Activity over North China during 2009–2023	35
Non-uniform changes of daily precipitation in China: Observations and simulations	34
The enhanced integration of proven techniques to quantify the uncertainty of forecasting extreme flood events based on numerical weather prediction models	34
Anthropogenic influence has intensified the severity of summer compound hot and drought events over xinjiang, China	33
Assessing the maximum potential cooling benefits of irrigation in Australia during the “Angry Summer” of 2012/2013	33
Future changes of socioeconomic exposure to potential landslide hazards over mainland China	33
Corrigendum to “Human-induced climate change increased 2021–2022 drought severity in horn of Africa”[Weather and Climate Extremes (47), March 2025, 100745]	32
The role of extreme precipitation in driving the humidification of northwest China from 1961 to 2020	32
The opposite trends in precipitation total and extremes during two rain-seasons across Ethiopia, the Water Tower of Africa	32
Flash flood detection and susceptibility mapping in the Monsoon period by integration of optical and radar satellite imagery using an improvement of a sequential ensemble algorithm	31

Evaporative demand drought index for monitoring and analyzing drought conditions in arid regions of Asia and Africa	31
Automatized spatio-temporal detection of drought impacts from newspaper articles using natural language processing and machine learning	30
Distinguishing environmental controls on strong vs. extreme wind gusts	30
The role of soil moisture-temperature coupling for the 2018 Northern European heatwave in a subseasonal forecast	30
High-resolution time-lagged ensemble prediction for landfall intensity of Super Typhoon Haiyan (2013) using a cloud-resolving model	30