OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Weather and Climate Extremes is 14. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Teleconnections link to summer heat extremes in the south-central U.S.: Insights from CMIP5 and CMIP6 simulations	95
Interannual variability of moisture sources and isotopic composition of Meiyu-Baiu rainfall in southwestern Japan: Importance of Asian monsoon moisture for extreme rainfall events	81
Projected increase in windstorm severity and contribution from sting jets over the UK and Ireland	73
High-resolution projections of extreme heat and thermal stress in southeastern U.S.	66
Human influence on the unprecedented 2022 extreme dragon boat water event in South China: Insights from historical and projected perspectives	61
Evaluation of CMIP6 models in simulating seasonal extreme precipitation over Ethiopia	57
Mesoscale convective systems and contributions to flood cases in Southern West Africa (SWA): A systematic review	53
Dynamical systems methods to understand projected heatwave intensification	49
Sociodemographic vulnerability to cold and stormy weather in relation to health and life	48
The enhanced integration of proven techniques to quantify the uncertainty of forecasting extreme flood events based on numerical weather prediction models	44
What is the probability that a drought will break in Australia?	42
Statistics of Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Activity over North China during 2009–2023	42
Mesoscale patterns associated with two distinct heatwave events in coastal Santa Barbara, California, and their impact on local fire risk conditions	38
The spatiotemporal characteristics of extreme drought events in China from 1961 to 2022 via a copula function	38
Divergent human impacts on multi-scale hydrological drought across the conterminous United States	37
Assessing the escalating human-perceived heatwaves in a warming world: The case of China	36
Attribution and projection of anthropogenic suppression on frost extremes in China	36
Assessing the maximum potential cooling benefits of irrigation in Australia during the “Angry Summer” of 2012/2013	35
Changes of extreme precipitation in the Philippines, projected from the CMIP6 multi-model ensemble	35
The role of extreme precipitation in driving the humidification of northwest China from 1961 to 2020	35
Corrigendum to “Human-induced climate change increased 2021–2022 drought severity in horn of Africa”[Weather and Climate Extremes (47), March 2025, 100745]	34
The opposite trends in precipitation total and extremes during two rain-seasons across Ethiopia, the Water Tower of Africa	34
The role of soil moisture-temperature coupling for the 2018 Northern European heatwave in a subseasonal forecast	34
Evaporative demand drought index for monitoring and analyzing drought conditions in arid regions of Asia and Africa	32
Future changes of socioeconomic exposure to potential landslide hazards over mainland China	32

Non-uniform changes of daily precipitation in China: Observations and simulations	31
Automatized spatio-temporal detection of drought impacts from newspaper articles using natural language processing and machine learning	29
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	29
Anthropogenic influence has intensified the severity of summer compound hot and drought events over xinjiang, China	29
Distinguishing environmental controls on strong vs. extreme wind gusts	28
Identical hierarchy of physical drought types for climate change signals and uncertainty	27
More active and severe heatwaves in the Northern Hemisphere during La Niña developing summers	27
High-resolution time-lagged ensemble prediction for landfall intensity of Super Typhoon Haiyan (2013) using a cloud-resolving model	26
Evaluation of extreme temperature events in the Iberian Peninsula based on Copernicus CERRA reanalysis	26
Assessing livelihood vulnerability in flood-prone communities through systems thinking and the sustainable livelihood framework: A case study of Rajanpur district, Pakistan	26
Meteotsunamis in the northern Baltic Sea and their relation to synoptic patterns	25
Subsurface marine heat waves and coral bleaching in the southern red sea linked to remote forcing	25
Temperature and moisture transport during atmospheric blocking patterns around the Antarctic Peninsula	24
A new conceptual model for understanding and predicting life-threatening rainfall extremes	24
Characteristics and causes of Taiwan's extreme rainfall in 2022 January and February	23
Estimating tornado occurrence and tornado wind hazard in China	23
An objective approach to predict the spatial property of anomalous rain-belt of Meiyu	23
Assessing the effects of compound events of temperature and air pollution on weekly mortality in Spain using random forests	23
Co-occurring wintertime flooding and extreme wind over Europe, from daily to seasonal timescales	22
Long-term warming and interannual variability contributions’ to marine heatwaves in the Mediterranean	22
A component-based approximation for trend detection of intense rainfall in the Spanish Mediterranean coast	22
Global cropland exposure to extreme compound drought heatwave events under future climate change	22
Attributing a deadly landslide disaster in Southeastern Brazil to human-induced climate change	22
Long-term observed changes in air temperature extremes over Romania (1901-2023)	21
Attribution of the 2024 record-breaking precipitation event in Southern Denmark to human-induced climate change	21
Conditional attribution of cold extremes in Canada: The role of atmospheric circulation in a changing climate	21
Naming droughts: Historical perspectives on the scientific coining of “the Tinderbox Drought”	21
Regional compound drought and heatwave events over China and evaluation of ERA5-Land dataset based on classification approach	21
Increasing WNP tropical cyclone-related extreme precipitation over East Asia during boreal summer associated with PDO shift	20
Application of the Davies four-stage conceptual model for life-threatening rainfall extremes on the April 2024 United Arab Emirates and Oman floods	20
Identifying key drivers of heatwaves: A novel spatio-temporal framework for extreme event detection	20
High-Tide Flooding Frequency Projections: An Urgent Challenge for China Coastline	20
Time of emergence in climate extremes corresponding to Köppen-Geiger classification	20
Joint estimation of trend in bulk and extreme daily precipitation in Switzerland	20
More than three-fold increase in compound soil and air dryness across Europe by the end of 21st century	20
40-Year statistics of warm-season extreme hourly precipitation over North China	20
Mechanisms of two types of summer persistent extreme precipitation events in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau	19
A spatially adaptive multi-resolution generative algorithm: Application to simulating flood wave propagation	19
Air-sea coupling influence on projected changes in major Atlantic hurricane events	19
A dual-branch typhoon-induced wave height forecasting network with tail-aware extreme value optimization	19
Impacts of the local temperature anomalies over Mongolian Plateau on heavy rainfall events in north China during July 2023	19
Moisture sources for the unprecedented precipitation event in the heart of Taklimakan desert	19
Modelling the effects of rainstorm adaptation strategies on maize yield among rural farmers in Ekiti State, Nigeria	19
Large-scale drivers and ocean-land feedbacks contributing to extreme precipitation during the January 2021 South Kalimantan flood, Indonesia	19
Simulation of an intense tropical cyclone in the conformal cubic atmospheric model and its sensitivity to horizontal resolution	18
Filtering CMIP6 models in the Euro-Mediterranean based on a circulation patterns approach	18
Future projection of East Asian atmospheric rivers in high-resolution climate models	18
Convective environments leading to microburst, macroburst and downburst events across the United States	18
Assessing the predictability of the marine heatwave in the Yellow Sea during the summer of 2018 based on a deterministic forecast model	18
A comprehensive risk assessment of Chinese high-speed railways affected by multiple meteorological hazards	18

Long-term trend analysis of extreme climate in Sarawak tropical peatland under the influence of climate change	18
Imputation of missing values in environmental time series by D-vine copulas	18
Drought attribution of climate drivers using machine learning techniques	18
Future projection of extreme precipitation using a pseudo-global warming method: A case study of the 2013 Alberta flooding event	18
Regional drivers and characteristics of multi-year droughts	18
Application of nonstationary extreme value analysis in the coastal environment – A systematic literature review	17
Attributing heavy rainfall event in Berchtesgadener Land to recent climate change – Further rainfall intensification projected for the future	17
Projected future changes in water availability and dry spells in Japan: Dynamic and thermodynamic climate impacts	17
Climate extremes and their impacts on agriculture across the Eastern Corn Belt Region of the U.S.	17
Predicting tropical cyclone rainfall through perceptual-based identification of similar atmospheric fields	17
Understanding decision-maker needs for extreme event attribution science	17
Hotter summers, heavier showers: Global warming and its impact on Swiss short-duration rainfall extremes	17
Attributing and projecting record-shattering September tropical night events in East Asia	16
Corrigendum to “Simulating the Western North America heatwave of 2021 with analogue importance sampling” [Weather Clim. Extrem. 43 (2024) 100651]	16
Decadal to centennial extreme precipitation disaster gaps — Long-term variability and implications for extreme value modelling	16
Land-atmosphere coupling amplified the record-breaking heatwave at altitudes above 5000 meters on the Tibetan Plateau in July 2022	16
Compound extreme hourly rainfall preconditioned by heatwaves most likely in the mid-latitudes	16
Observational analysis of long-term streamflow response to flash drought in the Mississippi River Basin	16
Corrigendum to “Increasing extreme flood risk under future climate change scenarios in South Korea” [Weather Clim. Extrem. 39 (2023) 1–12, 100552]	16
Climate-induced changes to provisioning ecosystem services in rural socioecosystems in Mexico	16
Stratosphere-troposphere coupling during stratospheric extremes in the 2022/23 winter	15
Combined role of ENSO and IOD on compound drought and heatwaves in Australia using two CMIP6 large ensembles	15
How explosive volcanic eruptions reshape daily precipitation distributions	15
The future of extreme meteorological fire danger under climate change scenarios for Iberia	15
What drives the compound drought and heat events? A dynamic perspective	15
Corrigendum “Multiscale drivers of catastrophic heavy rainfall event in early August 2022 in South Korea” [Weather and Climate Extremes, 44, 2024, 1–16/10068]	15
A pseudo global warming based system to study how climate change affects high impact rainfall events	15
Convection-permitting WRF simulation of extreme winds in Canada: Present and future scenarios	15
Estimation of skew surge uncertainties when predicting tides in the past	14
Emergent constraints on future extreme precipitation intensification: from global to continental scales	14
Changes in the mean and extreme temperature in the Yangtze River Basin over the past 120 years	14
Quantifying moisture and sensible heat flux anomalies for compound drought and heat wave events in the Iberian Peninsula	14
Seasonal prediction of summer extreme precipitation over the Yangtze River based on random forest	14
Irreversibility of extreme precipitation intensity in global monsoon areas under multiple carbon neutrality scenarios	14
Thermodynamic and dynamic effects of anomalous dragon boat water over South China in 2022	14
Who is the major player for 2022 China extreme heat wave? Western Pacific Subtropical high or South Asian high?	14
Contribution of land-atmosphere coupling in 2022 CONUS compound drought-heatwave events and implications for forecasting	14