Subfield · Atmospheric Science
Most cited papers in Atmospheric Science
What are the most cited papers in Atmospheric Science?
The most cited paper in Atmospheric Science is "Equation of State Calculations by Fast Computing Machines" (N. Metropolis, Arianna W. Rosenbluth, M. N. Rosenbluth et al., 1953), with 37,517 citations. Next come "The ERA5 global reanalysis" (32,366) and "The ERA‐Interim reanalysis: configuration and performance of the data assimilation system" (26,509).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 4,420 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Equation of State Calculations by Fast Computing Machines N. Metropolis, Arianna W. Rosenbluth, M. N. Rosenbluth et al. · The Journal of Chemical Physics | Jun 1953 | 37,517 |
| 2 | The ERA5 global reanalysis Hans Hersbach et al. · Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society | 17 May 2020 | 32,366 |
| 3 | The ERA‐Interim reanalysis: configuration and performance of the data assimilation system Dick P. Dee et al. · Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society | Apr 2011 | 26,509 |
| 4 | Very high resolution interpolated climate surfaces for global land areas Robert J. Hijmans, Susan E. Cameron, Juan L. Parra et al. · International Journal of Climatology | 2005 | 20,328 |
| 5 | Physics-informed neural networks: A deep learning framework for solving forward and inverse problems involving nonlinear partial differential equations Maziar Raissi, Paris Perdikaris, George Em Karniadakis · Journal of Computational Physics | 3 Nov 2018 | 19,776 |
| 6 | Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow Edward N. Lorenz · Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences | Mar 1963 | 19,616 |
| 7 | An Overview of CMIP5 and the Experiment Design Karl E. Taylor, Ronald J. Stouffer, Gerald A. Meehl · Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society | 7 Oct 2011 | 14,860 |
| 8 | Updated world map of the Köppen-Geiger climate classification Murray Cameron Peel, BRIAN L. FINLAYSON, Thomas A. McMahon · Hydrology and earth system sciences | 11 Oct 2007 | 13,158 |
| 9 | Overview of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) experimental design and organization Veronika Eyring, Sandrine Bony, Gerald A. Meehl et al. · Geoscientific model development | 26 May 2016 | 12,432 |
| 10 | Restoring the Density-Gradient Expansion for Exchange in Solids and Surfaces John P. Perdew, Adrienn Ruzsinszky, Gábor I. Csonka et al. · Physical Review Letters | 4 Apr 2008 | 12,084 |
| 11 | Global analyses of sea surface temperature, sea ice, and night marine air temperature since the late nineteenth century Nick A Rayner, D. E. Parker, E. B. Horton et al. · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres | 17 Jul 2003 | 11,470 |
| 12 | Trends, Rhythms, and Aberrations in Global Climate 65 Ma to Present James C. Zachos, Mark Pagani, Lisa C. Sloan et al. · Science | 27 Apr 2001 | 10,656 |
| 13 | Free Energy of a Nonuniform System. I. Interfacial Free Energy John W. Cahn, J. E. Hilliard · The Journal of Chemical Physics | Feb 1958 | 10,487 |
| 14 | IntCal13 and Marine13 Radiocarbon Age Calibration Curves 0–50,000 Years cal BP Paula J Reimer et al. · Radiocarbon | 2010 | 10,058 |
| 15 | The Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications, Version 2 (MERRA-2) Ronald Gelaro et al. · Journal of Climate | May 2017 | 9,616 |
| 16 | Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics: From Air Pollution to Climate Change John H. Seinfeld, Spyros Ν. Pandis, K. Birgitta Noone · Physics Today | Oct 1998 | 9,041 |
| 17 | The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission T. G. Farr, P. A. Rosen, E.R. Caro et al. · Reviews of Geophysics | 19 May 2007 | 8,992 |
| 18 | Self-consistent molecular orbital methods 25. Supplementary functions for Gaussian basis sets Michael J. Frisch, John Anthony Pople, J. Stephen Binkley · The Journal of Chemical Physics | Apr 1984 | 8,596 |
| 19 | Occurrence of the potent mutagens 2- nitrobenzanthrone and 3-nitrobenzanthrone in fine airborne particles Aldenor Gomes Santos, Gisele O. da Rocha, Jaílson B. de Andrade · Scientific Reports | 3 Jan 2019 | 8,534 |
| 20 | Ab initio molecular dynamics for open-shell transition metals Georg Kresse, J. Häfner · Physical review. B, Condensed matter | Nov 1993 | 8,404 |
| 21 | The representative concentration pathways: an overview Detlef Peter van Vuuren, Jae Edmonds, Mikiko Kainuma et al. · Climatic Change | 4 Aug 2011 | 8,089 |
| 22 | Decadal Trends in the North Atlantic Oscillation: Regional Temperatures and Precipitation James Wilson Hurrell · Science | 4 Aug 1995 | 8,079 |
| 23 | Physics-informed machine learning George Em Karniadakis, Ioannis G. Kevrekidis, Lu Lu et al. · Nature Reviews Physics | 24 May 2021 | 8,059 |
| 24 | The HITRAN2016 molecular spectroscopic database Iouli E. Gordon et al. · Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer | 4 Jul 2017 | 7,973 |
| 25 | The IntCal20 Northern Hemisphere Radiocarbon Age Calibration Curve (0–55 cal kBP) Paula J. Reimer et al. · Radiocarbon | Aug 2020 | 7,945 |
| 26 | Extended 14C Data Base and Revised CALIB 3.0 14C Age Calibration Program Minze Stuiver, Paula J. Reimer · Radiocarbon | 1993 | 7,851 |
| 27 | Statistical Methods in the Atmospheric Sciences Philip H. Ramsey, Daniel S. Wilks · Technometrics | Nov 1996 | 7,695 |
| 28 | A Pliocene‐Pleistocene stack of 57 globally distributed benthic δ 18 O records L. E. Lisiecki, Maureen E. Raymo · Paleoceanography | 17 Jan 2005 | 7,604 |
| 29 | New, improved version of generic mapping tools released Paul Wessel, Walter H. F. Smith · Eos | 24 Nov 1998 | 7,475 |
| 30 | A New Vertical Diffusion Package with an Explicit Treatment of Entrainment Processes Song-You Hong, Yign Noh, Jimy Dudhia · Monthly Weather Review | Sep 2006 | 7,467 |
| 31 | Chronology of Fluctuating Sea Levels Since the Triassic Bilal Ul Haq, Jan Hardenbol, Peter R. Vail · Science | 6 Mar 1987 | 7,338 |
| 32 | Embedded-atom method: Derivation and application to impurities, surfaces, and other defects in metals Murray S. Daw, Michael I. Baskes · Physical review. B, Condensed matter | 15 Jun 1984 | 7,282 |
| 33 | Wetting: statics and dynamics Pierre Gilles de Gennes · Reviews of Modern Physics | Jul 1985 | 7,212 |
| 34 | Planetary Boundaries: Exploring the Safe Operating Space for Humanity Johan Rockström et al. · Ecology and Society | 2009 | 7,171 |
| 35 | The ERA‐40 re‐analysis S. Uppala et al. · Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society | Oct 2005 | 7,164 |
| 36 | Influence of the exchange screening parameter on the performance of screened hybrid functionals Aliaksandr V. Krukau, Oleg A. Vydrov, Artur F. Izmaylov et al. · The Journal of Chemical Physics | 13 Dec 2006 | 7,125 |
| 37 | Metallic Phase with Long-Range Orientational Order and No Translational Symmetry Daniel Shechtman, I. A. Blech, D. Gratias et al. · Physical Review Letters | 12 Nov 1984 | 7,101 |
| 38 | Temperature sensitivity of soil carbon decomposition and feedbacks to climate change Eric A. Davidson, Ivan August Janssens · Nature | Mar 2006 | 7,089 |
| 39 | NOAA’s HYSPLIT Atmospheric Transport and Dispersion Modeling System Ariel Stein, Roland R. Draxler, Glenn D. Rolph et al. · Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society | 4 May 2015 | 7,018 |
| 40 | The TRMM Multisatellite Precipitation Analysis (TMPA): Quasi-Global, Multiyear, Combined-Sensor Precipitation Estimates at Fine Scales George J. Huffman, David T. Bolvin, Eric J. Nelkin et al. · Journal of Hydrometeorology | Feb 2007 | 6,998 |
| 41 | Bounding the role of black carbon in the climate system: A scientific assessment Tami C. Bond et al. · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres | 22 Apr 2013 | 6,885 |
| 42 | Early Proterozoic climates and plate motions inferred from major element chemistry of lutites H.W. Nesbitt, Grant M. Young · Nature | Oct 1982 | 6,835 |
| 43 | On the Assessment of Surface Heat Flux and Evaporation Using Large-Scale Parameters C. H. B. Priestley, R. J. Taylor · Monthly Weather Review | Feb 1972 | 6,761 |
| 44 | Climate and atmospheric history of the past 420,000 years from the Vostok ice core, Antarctica Jean‐Robert Petit, Jean Jouzel, Dominique Raynaud et al. · Nature | Jun 1999 | 6,729 |
| 45 | Convolutional LSTM Network: A Machine Learning Approach for Precipitation Nowcasting Xingjian Shi, Zhourong Chen, Hao Wang et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) | 13 Jun 2015 | 6,650 |
| 46 | Advantages of the mean absolute error (MAE) over the root mean square error (RMSE) in assessing average model performance C. J. Willmott, Kenji Matsuura · Climate Research | 2005 | 6,550 |
| 47 | Forests and Climate Change: Forcings, Feedbacks, and the Climate Benefits of Forests Gordon B. Bonan · Science | 12 Jun 2008 | 6,431 |
| 48 | Application of the cross wavelet transform and wavelet coherence to geophysical time series Aslak Grinsted, John Christopher Moore, Svetlana Jevrejeva · Nonlinear processes in geophysics | 18 Nov 2004 | 6,407 |
| 49 | Updated high‐resolution grids of monthly climatic observations – the CRU TS3 .10 Dataset Ian Charles Harris, Philip Douglas Jones, Timothy J. Osborn et al. · International Journal of Climatology | 21 May 2013 | 6,354 |
| 50 | Compact finite difference schemes with spectral-like resolution Sanjiva K. Lele · Journal of Computational Physics | Nov 1992 | 6,174 |
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