| On the growth and decay of the subtropical dipole mode in the South Atlantic Y Morioka, T Tozuka, T Yamagata Journal of Climate 24 (21), 5538-5554, 2011 | 114 | 2011 |
| Climate variability in the southern Indian Ocean as revealed by self-organizing maps Y Morioka, T Tozuka, T Yamagata Climate dynamics 35, 1059-1072, 2010 | 105 | 2010 |
| Impact of Mascarene High variability on the East African ‘short rains’ D Manatsa, Y Morioka, SK Behera, CH Matarira, T Yamagata Climate dynamics 42, 1259-1274, 2014 | 89 | 2014 |
| The response of subtropical highs to climate change A Cherchi, T Ambrizzi, S Behera, ACV Freitas, Y Morioka, T Zhou Current Climate Change Reports 4 (4), 371-382, 2018 | 86 | 2018 |
| Seasonally lagged effects of climatic factors on malaria incidence in South Africa T Ikeda, SK Behera, Y Morioka, N Minakawa, M Hashizume, A Tsuzuki, ... Scientific reports 7 (1), 2458, 2017 | 86 | 2017 |
| Subtropical dipole modes simulated in a coupled general circulation model Y Morioka, T Tozuka, S Masson, P Terray, JJ Luo, T Yamagata Journal of Climate 25 (12), 4029-4047, 2012 | 75 | 2012 |
| Malaria predictions based on seasonal climate forecasts in South Africa: A time series distributed lag nonlinear model Y Kim, JV Ratnam, T Doi, Y Morioka, S Behera, A Tsuzuki, N Minakawa, ... Scientific reports 9 (1), 17882, 2019 | 62 | 2019 |
| Link between Antarctic ozone depletion and summer warming over southern Africa D Manatsa, Y Morioka, SK Behera, T Yamagata, CH Matarira Nature Geoscience 6 (11), 934-939, 2013 | 55 | 2013 |
| How is the Indian Ocean subtropical dipole excited? Y Morioka, T Tozuka, T Yamagata Climate dynamics 41, 1955-1968, 2013 | 54 | 2013 |
| The relative role of the subsurface Southern Ocean in driving negative Antarctic Sea ice extent anomalies in 2016–2021 L Zhang, TL Delworth, X Yang, F Zeng, F Lu, Y Morioka, M Bushuk Communications Earth & Environment 3 (1), 302, 2022 | 51 | 2022 |
| Role of tropical SST variability on the formation of subtropical dipoles Y Morioka, S Masson, P Terray, C Prodhomme, SK Behera, Y Masumoto Journal of Climate 27 (12), 4486-4507, 2014 | 48 | 2014 |
| Role of climate variability in the heatstroke death rates of Kanto region in Japan T Akihiko, Y Morioka, SK Behera Scientific Reports 4 (1), 5655, 2014 | 47 | 2014 |
| Phase locking of equatorial Atlantic variability through the seasonal migration of the ITCZ I Richter, SP Xie, Y Morioka, T Doi, B Taguchi, S Behera Climate Dynamics 48, 3615-3629, 2017 | 45 | 2017 |
| Local SST impacts on the summertime Mascarene high variability Y Morioka, K Takaya, SK Behera, Y Masumoto Journal of Climate 28 (2), 678-694, 2015 | 42 | 2015 |
| Potential sources of decadal climate variability over southern Africa Y Morioka, F Engelbrecht, SK Behera Journal of Climate 28 (22), 8695-8709, 2015 | 37 | 2015 |
| A regional climate mode discovered in the North Atlantic: Dakar Niño/Niña P Oettli, Y Morioka, T Yamagata Scientific Reports 6 (1), 18782, 2016 | 32 | 2016 |
| Generation mechanism of the South Pacific subtropical dipole Y Morioka, JV Ratnam, W Sasaki, Y Masumoto Journal of climate 26 (16), 6033-6045, 2013 | 25 | 2013 |
| Role of sea-ice initialization in climate predictability over the Weddell Sea Y Morioka, T Doi, D Iovino, S Masina, SK Behera Scientific reports 9 (1), 2457, 2019 | 21 | 2019 |
| Mid-latitude source of the ENSO-spread in SINTEX-F ensemble predictions T Ogata, T Doi, Y Morioka, S Behera Climate Dynamics 52, 2613-2630, 2019 | 20 | 2019 |
| Malaria incidences in South Africa linked to a climate mode in southwestern Indian Ocean SK Behera, Y Morioka, T Ikeda, T Doi, JV Ratnam, M Nonaka, A Tsuzuki, ... Environmental development 27, 47-57, 2018 | 20 | 2018 |
