OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of npj Climate and Atmospheric Science is 39. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Underestimated role of sea surface temperature in sea spray aerosol formation and climate effects	166
Publisher Correction: An oceanic pathway for Madden–Julian Oscillation influence on Maritime Continent Tropical Cyclones	143
Faint yet widespread glories reflect microphysics of marine clouds	141
Causes of accelerated High-Tide Flooding in the U.S. since 1950	133
Drivers of mesoscale convective aggregation and spatial humidity variability in the tropical western Pacific	115
Land water availability altered by historical land use and land cover change	93
Distinct bimodal size distribution in number concentration and light absorption of sub-500 nm brown carbon particles	92
Projected Antarctic sea ice change contributes to increased occurrence of strong El Niño	83
A source-weighted Benthic minus Planktonic radiocarbon method for estimating pure ocean water age	81
The slowdown of increasing groundwater storage in response to climate warming in the Tibetan Plateau	76
Arctic stratospheric polar vortex collapse amplified South China extreme rainfall in April 2024	71
A low-dimensional recursive deep learning model for El Niño-Southern Oscillation simulation	71
A multiscale model for El Niño complexity	67
Important role of stratosphere-troposphere coupling in the Arctic mid-to-upper tropospheric warming in response to sea-ice loss	62
The subseasonal predictability of the western North Pacific subtropical high and the 2020 record-breaking event	60
Potential tropical cyclone movement and intensification factors imaged by spaceborne SAR	58
Recent weakening of carbon-water coupling in northern ecosystems	58
Stratospheric influences on surface ozone increase during the COVID-19 lockdown over northern China	58
Strengthening cold wakes lead to decreasing trend of tropical cyclone rainfall rates relative to background environmental rainfall rates	56
Impact of water vapor on stratospheric temperature after the 2022 Hunga Tonga eruption: direct radiative cooling versus indirect warming by facilitating large particle formation	54
Biological enhancement of cloud droplet concentrations observed off East Antarctica	52
Atmospheric modes fiddling the simulated ENSO impact on tropical cyclone genesis over the Northwest Pacific	51
Importance of internal variability for climate model assessment	50
Role of Pacific Ocean climate in regulating runoff in the source areas of water transfer projects on the Pacific Rim	50
Identifying mechanisms of tropical cyclone generated orographic precipitation with Doppler radar and rain gauge observations	47

Unveiling the dynamics of sequential extreme precipitation-heatwave compounds in China	47
Intensification of heatwaves in China in recent decades: Roles of climate modes	47
Human-induced intensification of terrestrial water cycle in dry regions of the globe	45
Dipolar hydroclimate pattern changes in southwest China during the last deglaciation	44
Air quality—climate forcing double whammy from domestic firelighters	43
Isotopic source signatures of stratospheric CO inferred from in situ vertical profiles	43
An oceanic pathway for Madden–Julian Oscillation influence on Maritime Continent Tropical Cyclones	42
High-latitude vegetation changes will determine future plant volatile impacts on atmospheric organic aerosols	42
Extreme Tibetan Plateau cooling caused by tropical volcanism	42
Long range transport of South and East Asian anthropogenic aerosols counteracting Arctic warming	41
Unexpected HCHO transnational transport: influence on the temporal and spatial distribution of HCHO in Tibet from 2013 to 2021 based on satellite	41
Basin-dependent response of Northern Hemisphere winter blocking frequency to CO2 removal	40
Occurrence of an unusual extensive ice-free feature within the pack ice of the central Weddell Sea, Antarctica	40
Enhanced North Pacific Victoria mode in a warming climate	39
Integrated satellite observations unravel the relationship between urbanization and anthropogenic non-methane volatile organic compound emissions globally	39