OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of npj Climate and Atmospheric Science is 45. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Faint yet widespread glories reflect microphysics of marine clouds	187
Distinct bimodal size distribution in number concentration and light absorption of sub-500 nm brown carbon particles	179
Land water availability altered by historical land use and land cover change	179
The subseasonal predictability of the western North Pacific subtropical high and the 2020 record-breaking event	176
Potential tropical cyclone movement and intensification factors imaged by spaceborne SAR	113
A source-weighted Benthic minus Planktonic radiocarbon method for estimating pure ocean water age	103
Causes of accelerated High-Tide Flooding in the U.S. since 1950	100
A multiscale model for El Niño complexity	94
Stratospheric influences on surface ozone increase during the COVID-19 lockdown over northern China	88
Importance of internal variability for climate model assessment	84
Arctic stratospheric polar vortex collapse amplified South China extreme rainfall in April 2024	79
A low-dimensional recursive deep learning model for El Niño-Southern Oscillation simulation	77
Projected Antarctic sea ice change contributes to increased occurrence of strong El Niño	75
Drivers of mesoscale convective aggregation and spatial humidity variability in the tropical western Pacific	75
Identifying mechanisms of tropical cyclone generated orographic precipitation with Doppler radar and rain gauge observations	72
Important role of stratosphere-troposphere coupling in the Arctic mid-to-upper tropospheric warming in response to sea-ice loss	72
Jet stream response to future Arctic sea ice loss not underestimated by climate models	71
Atmospheric organic aerosols: online molecular characterization and environmental impacts	70
Impact of water vapor on stratospheric temperature after the 2022 Hunga Tonga eruption: direct radiative cooling versus indirect warming by facilitating large particle formation	70
Atmospheric modes fiddling the simulated ENSO impact on tropical cyclone genesis over the Northwest Pacific	69
Strengthening cold wakes lead to decreasing trend of tropical cyclone rainfall rates relative to background environmental rainfall rates	66
Underestimated role of sea surface temperature in sea spray aerosol formation and climate effects	59
Unveiling the dynamics of sequential extreme precipitation-heatwave compounds in China	59
The slowdown of increasing groundwater storage in response to climate warming in the Tibetan Plateau	58
Biological enhancement of cloud droplet concentrations observed off East Antarctica	58

Role of Pacific Ocean climate in regulating runoff in the source areas of water transfer projects on the Pacific Rim	57
Intensification of heatwaves in China in recent decades: Roles of climate modes	55
Recent weakening of carbon-water coupling in northern ecosystems	54
Isotopic source signatures of stratospheric CO inferred from in situ vertical profiles	53
Human-induced intensification of terrestrial water cycle in dry regions of the globe	53
Quantifying sources of subseasonal prediction skill in CESM2	51
Subtropical warming enhances North Pacific midlatitude winter storm track activity in recent decades	51
High-latitude vegetation changes will determine future plant volatile impacts on atmospheric organic aerosols	50
Dipolar hydroclimate pattern changes in southwest China during the last deglaciation	49
Long range transport of South and East Asian anthropogenic aerosols counteracting Arctic warming	49
An improved multiphase chemistry mechanism for methylamines: significant dimethylamine cloud production	49
Early burst of Tibetan Plateau vortices increases extreme precipitation over Tibetan Plateau in early spring	48
Integrated satellite observations unravel the relationship between urbanization and anthropogenic non-methane volatile organic compound emissions globally	48
How different is tropical cyclone precipitation over land and ocean?	47
Occurrence of an unusual extensive ice-free feature within the pack ice of the central Weddell Sea, Antarctica	47
Basin-dependent response of Northern Hemisphere winter blocking frequency to CO2 removal	46
Madden–Julian Oscillation-induced extreme rainfalls constrained by global warming mitigation	46
Synchronous Eurasian heat extremes tied to boreal summer combined extratropical intraseasonal waves	45
Combined effects of fine and coarse marine aerosol on vertical raindrop size distribution	45
Air quality—climate forcing double whammy from domestic firelighters	45