OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Weather and Climate Extremes 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Evaluation of the CMIP6 multi-model ensemble for climate extreme indices	208
Evaluation of historical CMIP6 model simulations of extreme precipitation over contiguous US regions	109
Increases in summertime concurrent drought and heatwave in Eastern China	79
The record-breaking compound hot and dry 2018 growing season in Germany	70
Analysis of climate extremes indices over northeast Brazil from 1961 to 2014	67
Evaluation and comparison of CMIP6 and CMIP5 model performance in simulating the seasonal extreme precipitation in the Western North Pacific and East Asia	62
Revisiting future extreme precipitation trends in the Mediterranean	56
Increasing compound warm spells and droughts in the Mediterranean Basin	55
Characterization of long period return values of extreme daily temperature and precipitation in the CMIP6 models: Part 1, model evaluation	55
Improving the drought monitoring capability of VHI at the global scale via ensemble indices for various vegetation types from 2001 to 2018	54
Drought projections for Australia: Updated results and analysis of model simulations	43
Atmospheric circulation influence on temperature and precipitation individual and compound daily extreme events: Spatial variability and trends over southern South America	42
Temperature and rainfall extremes change under current and future global warming levels across Indian climate zones	41
Performance evaluation of ERA-5, JRA-55, MERRA-2, and CFS-2 reanalysis datasets, over diverse climate regions of Pakistan	41
Observed extreme precipitation trends and scaling in Central Europe	41
An assessment of long-term changes in mortalities due to extreme weather events in India: A study of 50 years’ data, 1970–2019	40
The 2019 flash droughts in subtropical eastern Australia and their association with large-scale climate drivers	37
Exploring climate variability and its impact on drought occurrence: Evidence from Godavari Middle sub-basin, India	37
Global analysis of cyclone-induced compound precipitation and wind extreme events	37
Spatio-temporal analysis of rainfall extremes in the flood-prone Nagavali and Vamsadhara Basins in eastern India	37
Compound precipitation and wind extremes over Europe and their relationship to extratropical cyclones	36
Changes in compound drought and hot extreme events in summer over populated eastern China	35
Climate change effects on hydrometeorological compound events over southern Norway	34
Kerala floods in consecutive years - Its association with mesoscale cloudburst and structural changes in monsoon clouds over the west coast of India	34
Downscaling of climate extremes over South America – Part I: Model evaluation in the reference climate	33

Determinants of farmers' perceptions of climate variability, mitigation, and adaptation strategies in the central highlands of Kenya	33
Hazardous weather affecting European airports: Climatological estimates of situations with limited visibility, thunderstorm, low-level wind shear and snowfall from ERA5	33
Future changes in heatwave severity, duration and frequency due to climate change for the most populous cities	32
Climate trends and variability at adaptation scale: Patterns and perceptions in an agricultural region of the Ethiopian Highlands	32
Characterization of long period return values of extreme daily temperature and precipitation in the CMIP6 models: Part 2, projections of future change	31
A database for characteristics and variations of global compound dry and hot events	30
Drought-related hot summers: A joint probability analysis in the Iberian Peninsula	30
The role of spatial and temporal model resolution in a flood event storyline approach in western Norway	29
The new historical flood of 2021 in the Amazon River compared to major floods of the 21st century: Atmospheric features in the context of the intensification of floods	28
Quantifying CMIP6 model uncertainties in extreme precipitation projections	28
Characteristics of concurrent precipitation and wind speed extremes in China	28
Agricultural and food security impacts from the 2010 Russia flash drought	28
Recent nationwide climate change impact assessments of natural hazards in Japan and East Asia	27
Local early warning systems for drought – Could they add value to nationally disseminated seasonal climate forecasts?	27
Rapid rises in the magnitude and risk of extreme regional heat wave events in China	26
Human influence on the 2021 British Columbia floods	26
Implications of warming on western United States landfalling atmospheric rivers and their flood damages	24
Extreme wind projections over Europe from the Euro-CORDEX regional climate models	23
Modulating influence of drought on the synergy between heatwaves and dead fine fuel moisture content of bushfire fuels in the Southeast Australian region	23
Mapping future droughts under global warming across China: A combined multi-timescale meteorological drought index and SOM-Kmeans approach	23
Understanding compound hazards from a weather system perspective	23
Physical storylines of future European drought events like 2018 based on ensemble climate modelling	22
Reported weather shocks and rural household welfare: Evidence from panel data in Northeast Thailand and Central Vietnam	22
Contribution of mean climate to hot temperature extremes for present and future climates	22
Weather shocks, coping strategies and farmers’ income: A case of rural areas of district Multan, Punjab	22
Evaluation of extreme precipitation climate indices and their projected changes for Brazil: From CMIP3 to CMIP6	21
Less climatic resilience in the Arctic	21
Statistical downscaling and projection of future temperatures across the Loess Plateau, China	20
A novel ensemble learning for post-processing of NWP Model's next-day maximum air temperature forecast in summer using deep learning and statistical approaches	20
Increase in the frequency of extreme daily precipitation in the United Kingdom in autumn	20
Tracking Iberian heatwaves from a new perspective	20
Trends in climate extreme indices assessed in the Xingu river basin - Brazilian Amazon	19
European West Coast atmospheric rivers: A scale to characterize strength and impacts	18
Evaluating performance of 20 global and quasi-global precipitation products in representing drought events in Ethiopia I: Visual and correlation analysis	17
Characterizing extreme values of precipitation at very high resolution: An experiment over twenty European cities	17
Different mechanisms for daytime, nighttime, and compound heatwaves in southern China	17
Understanding the role of natural hazards in internal labour mobility in Australia	17
Evidence of a continent-wide shift of episodic rainfall in Australia	16
Investigating the merits of gauge and satellite rainfall data at local scales in Ghana, West Africa	16
A global perspective on the sub-seasonal clustering of precipitation extremes	16
Atmospheric moisture sources associated with extreme precipitation during the peak precipitation month	15
A counterfactual perspective on compound weather risk	15
Extreme-value analysis for the characterization of extremes in water resources: A generalized workflow and case study on New Mexico monsoon precipitation	14
South African drought, deconstructed	14
Multivariate and multi-temporal analysis of meteorological drought in the northeast of Thailand	14
Changes in observed rainfall and temperature extremes in the Upper Blue Nile Basin of Ethiopia	14
Rise in Northeast US extreme precipitation caused by Atlantic variability and climate change	14
Long-term trends in daily extreme air temperature indices in Ireland from 1885 to 2018	14
Future changes in extreme precipitation over the San Francisco Bay Area: Dependence on atmospheric river and extratropical cyclone events	13
Nonlinear effect of compound extreme weather events on ozone formation over the United States	13

High-resolution downscaling with interpretable deep learning: Rainfall extremes over New Zealand	13
Seasonal and aridity influences on the relationships between drought indices and hydrological variables over China	13
A comprehensive validation for GPM IMERG precipitation products to detect extremes and drought over mainland China	13
Tracking heatwave extremes from an event perspective	13
Understanding the variability of heatwave characteristics in southern Africa	13
Comparative climatology of outer tropical cyclone size using radial wind profiles	13
Understanding the hot season dynamics and variability across India	12
Combined role of ENSO and IOD on compound drought and heatwaves in Australia using two CMIP6 large ensembles	12
Investigating the potential of a global precipitation forecast to inform landslide prediction	12
Explaining recent trends in extreme precipitation in the Southwestern Alps by changes in atmospheric influences	12
Subseasonal processes of triple extreme heatwaves over the Yangtze River Valley in 2022	12
Implications of the Pacific meridional mode for summer precipitation extremes over China	11
Spatiotemporal characteristics of meteorological to hydrological drought propagation under natural conditions in China	11
Changes in hourly extreme precipitation in Victoria, Australia, from the observational record	11
Analog forecasting of tropical cyclone rainfall in the Philippines	11
Global cropland exposure to extreme compound drought heatwave events under future climate change	11
2019/2020 drought impacts on South America and atmospheric and oceanic influences	11
Excess Heat Factor climatology, trends, and exposure across European Functional Urban Areas	11
Estimating concurrent climate extremes: A conditional approach	11
Improved quantitative prediction of power outages caused by extreme weather events	11
Flash floods and landslides in the city of Recife, Northeast Brazil after heavy rain on May 25–28, 2022: Causes, impacts, and disaster preparedness	11
A typology of drought decision making: Synthesizing across cases to understand drought preparedness and response actions	11
Changes in extreme ocean wave heights under 1.5 °C, 2 °C, and 3 °C global warming	11