OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of npj Climate and Atmospheric Science is 8. 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
Half the world’s population are exposed to increasing air pollution	190
Lifecycle of light-absorbing carbonaceous aerosols in the atmosphere	78
Australia’s Black Summer pyrocumulonimbus super outbreak reveals potential for increasingly extreme stratospheric smoke events	77
Increased occurrence of high impact compound events under climate change	76
Anthropogenic warming and intraseasonal summer monsoon variability amplify the risk of future flash droughts in India	76
Business-as-usual will lead to super and ultra-extreme heatwaves in the Middle East and North Africa	62
Increased rainfall stimulates permafrost thaw across a variety of Interior Alaskan boreal ecosystems	61
Decadal predictability of North Atlantic blocking and the NAO	57
Future changes in monsoon duration and precipitation using CMIP6	56
Incorrect Asian aerosols affecting the attribution and projection of regional climate change in CMIP6 models	56
Formation of secondary organic aerosols from anthropogenic precursors in laboratory studies	52
On the curious case of the recent decade, mid-spring precipitation deficit in central Europe	52
Global increase in wildfire potential from compound fire weather and drought	50
Sea ice and atmospheric circulation shape the high-latitude lapse rate feedback	49
Northern Hemisphere drought risk in a warming climate	48
Global climatology and trends in convective environments from ERA5 and rawinsonde data	47
Intraseasonal variability of global land monsoon precipitation and its recent trend	47
Estimating global mean sea-level rise and its uncertainties by 2100 and 2300 from an expert survey	47
Changes in temporal inequality of precipitation extremes over China due to anthropogenic forcings	46
Further improvement of warming-equivalent emissions calculation	46
Ocean fertilization by pyrogenic aerosol iron	44
Exploring dependence of COVID-19 on environmental factors and spread prediction in India	44
Historical total ozone radiative forcing derived from CMIP6 simulations	43
Increasing heat and rainfall extremes now far outside the historical climate	42
Using UNSEEN trends to detect decadal changes in 100-year precipitation extremes	40

Amplified risk of spatially compounding droughts during co-occurrences of modes of natural ocean variability	38
Recent frontiers of climate changes in East Asia at global warming of 1.5°C and 2°C	38
Serial clustering of extratropical cyclones: a review of where, when and why it occurs	36
Indicate separate contributions of long-lived and short-lived greenhouse gases in emission targets	35
Predicting global patterns of long-term climate change from short-term simulations using machine learning	34
On the future zonal contrasts of equatorial Pacific climate: Perspectives from Observations, Simulations, and Theories	34
Dynamics and characteristics of dry and moist heatwaves over East Asia	33
Sea-spray regulates sulfate cloud droplet activation over oceans	33
Addressing nitrogenous gases from croplands toward low-emission agriculture	32
Seasonal to multi-year soil moisture drought forecasting	31
The impacts of the atmospheric boundary layer on regional haze in North China	31
Seasonality and reduced nitric oxide titration dominated ozone increase during COVID-19 lockdown in eastern China	31
The growing importance of oceanic moisture sources for continental precipitation	30
Likelihood of unprecedented drought and fire weather during Australia’s 2019 megafires	30
Non-CO2 forcing changes will likely decrease the remaining carbon budget for 1.5 °C	29
Linkages of unprecedented 2022 Yangtze River Valley heatwaves to Pakistan flood and triple-dip La Niña	28
Drivers behind the summer 2010 wave train leading to Russian heatwave and Pakistan flooding	28
Impacts of Atlantic multidecadal variability on the tropical Pacific: a multi-model study	28
Advanced risk-based event attribution for heavy regional rainfall events	27
Co-benefits of reducing PM2.5 and improving visibility by COVID-19 lockdown in Wuhan	27
A 3D study on the amplification of regional haze and particle growth by local emissions	25
Tropical storms trigger phytoplankton blooms in the deserts of north Indian Ocean	24
Neglecting irrigation contributes to the simulated summertime warm-and-dry bias in the central United States	23
Sea ice loss of the Barents-Kara Sea enhances the winter warming over the Tibetan Plateau	23
Amplification of synoptic to annual variability of West African summer monsoon rainfall under global warming	23
Seasonal climate forecast can inform the European agricultural sector well in advance of harvesting	22
Meteorological flash droughts risk projections based on CMIP6 climate change scenarios	21
Connecting the dots: NOx emissions along a West Siberian natural gas pipeline	21
Implications for ozone control by understanding the survivor bias in observed ozone-volatile organic compounds system	21
Ecological and societal effects of Central Asian streamflow variation over the past eight centuries	21
Large-scale controls of propagation of the Madden-Julian Oscillation	20
Single- and multi-year ENSO events controlled by pantropical climate interactions	19
NAO predictability from external forcing in the late 20th century	19
Constraining Amazonian land surface temperature sensitivity to precipitation and the probability of forest dieback	19
Increasing atmospheric dust transport towards the western Mediterranean over 1948–2020	19
Sharp rises in large-scale, long-duration precipitation extremes with higher temperatures over Japan	19
Record low sea ice extent in the Weddell Sea, Antarctica in April/May 2019 driven by intense and explosive polar cyclones	19
A multiscale model for El Niño complexity	19
Mt. Everest’s highest glacier is a sentinel for accelerating ice loss	19
Unprecedented 21st century heat across the Pacific Northwest of North America	18
Beyond megacities: tracking air pollution from urban areas and biomass burning in Brazil	18
Improvements and persistent biases in the southeast tropical Atlantic in CMIP models	18
A possible relation between Arctic sea ice and late season Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall extremes	18
Human-caused long-term changes in global aridity	18
Coupled stratosphere-troposphere-Atlantic multidecadal oscillation and its importance for near-future climate projection	18
Enhanced impact of the Aleutian Low on increasing the Central Pacific ENSO in recent decades	18
The role of future anthropogenic methane emissions in air quality and climate	18
Soil moisture signature in global weather balloon soundings	17
Global phosphorus dynamics in terms of phosphine	17
West coast India’s rainfall is becoming more convective	17

Contrasting response of hydrological cycle over land and ocean to a changing CO2 pathway	16
Low-dimensional representations of Niño 3.4 evolution and the spring persistence barrier	16
Intensity changes of Indian Ocean dipole mode in a carbon dioxide removal scenario	16
A diurnal story of Δ17O($$\rm{NO}_{3}^{-}$$) in urban Nanjing and its implication for nitrate aerosol formation	15
Missing eddy feedback may explain weak signal-to-noise ratios in climate predictions	15
Changes in Hadley circulation and intertropical convergence zone under strategic stratospheric aerosol geoengineering	15
Diurnal self-aggregation	14
The underappreciated role of anthropogenic sources in atmospheric soluble iron flux to the Southern Ocean	13
Changes in land-atmosphere coupling increase compound drought and heatwaves over northern East Asia	12
Early-onset of Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation weakening in response to atmospheric CO2 concentration	12
Variations in sub-daily precipitation at centennial scale	12
Asian-Australian summer monsoons linkage to ENSO strengthened by global warming	12
Bioaerosols and dust are the dominant sources of organic P in atmospheric particles	12
Seasonal-to-decadal prediction of El Niño–Southern Oscillation and Pacific Decadal Oscillation	12
Moisture channels and pre-existing weather systems for East Asian rain belts	12
Soil moisture revamps the temperature extremes in a warming climate over India	11
Attribution of late summer early autumn Arctic sea ice decline in recent decades	11
Analysis of factors influencing tropical lower stratospheric water vapor during 1980–2017	11
The critical role of dimethylamine in the rapid formation of iodic acid particles in marine areas	11
Increasing activity of tropical cyclones in East Asia during the mature boreal autumn linked to long-term climate variability	11
Three-dimensional structure and transport pathways of dust aerosols over West Asia	11
Global-scale constraints on light-absorbing anthropogenic iron oxide aerosols	11
Four distinct Northeast US heat wave circulation patterns and associated mechanisms, trends, and electric usage	10
Indian Ocean Dipole and ENSO’s mechanistic importance in modulating the ensuing-summer precipitation over Eastern China	10
Quantifying non-CO2 contributions to remaining carbon budgets	10
Quantifying the role of ocean coupling in Arctic amplification and sea-ice loss over the 21st century	10
Size-dependent aerosol iron solubility in an urban atmosphere	10
Constraint on precipitation response to climate change by combination of atmospheric energy and water budgets	10
Arctic amplification, and its seasonal migration, over a wide range of abrupt CO2 forcing	10
The fast response of Sahel precipitation to climate change allows effective mitigation action	10
A global perspective on western Mediterranean precipitation extremes	10
Source forensics of inorganic and organic nitrogen using δ15N for tropospheric aerosols over Mt. Tai	10
Anthropogenic warming disrupts intraseasonal monsoon stages and brings dry-get-wetter climate in future East Asia	10
Secondary organic aerosol formation from mixed volatile organic compounds: Effect of RO2 chemistry and precursor concentration	10
Large hemispheric differences in the Hadley cell strength variability due to ocean coupling	10
Urban climate changes during the COVID-19 pandemic: integration of urban-building-energy model with social big data	9
Aerosol-boundary layer interaction modulated entrainment process	9
Two different propagation patterns of spatiotemporally contiguous heatwaves in China	9
Arctic Oscillation and Pacific-North American pattern dominated-modulation of fire danger and wildfire occurrence	9
New particle formation from agricultural recycling of organic waste products	9
Rapidly increasing likelihood of exceeding 50 °C in parts of the Mediterranean and the Middle East due to human influence	9
Relationship between Azores High and Indian summer monsoon	9
Heatwave–blocking relation change likely dominates over decrease in blocking frequency under global warming	9
Disentangling the North Pacific Meridional Mode from tropical Pacific variability	9
Suppression of anthropogenic secondary organic aerosol formation by isoprene	9
Dynamical and moist thermodynamical processes associated with Western Ghats rainfall decadal variability	9
Resolution dependence of CO2-induced Tropical Atlantic sector climate changes	9
Predictability of South-Asian monsoon rainfall beyond the legacy of Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere program (TOGA)	8
Dominant controls of cold-season precipitation variability over the high mountains of Asia	8
Increased aerosol concentrations in the High Arctic attributable to changing atmospheric transport patterns	8
ENSO influence on Bay of Bengal cyclogenesis confined to low latitudes	8
Indian Ocean warming as key driver of long-term positive trend of Arctic Oscillation	8
Global risk assessment of compound hot-dry events in the context of future climate change and socioeconomic factors	8
Arabian Sea Aerosol-Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall relationship and its modulation by El-Nino Southern Oscillation	8
Trends in spectrally resolved outgoing longwave radiation from 10 years of satellite measurements	8
ESA-ECMWF Report on recent progress and research directions in machine learning for Earth System observation and prediction	8
A sea-level monopole in the equatorial Indian Ocean	8
Inter-seasonal connection of typical European heatwave patterns to soil moisture	8
Investigating the impact of cloud-radiative feedbacks on tropical precipitation extremes	8