Most cited papers in Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
What are the most cited papers in Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics?
The most cited paper in Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics is "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., 2003), with 11,470 citations. Next come "Anomalous collapses of Nares Strait ice arches leads to enhanced export of Arctic sea ice" (5,198) and "An Improved In Situ and Satellite SST Analysis for Climate" (4,684).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 935 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | Anomalous collapses of Nares Strait ice arches leads to enhanced export of Arctic sea ice G. W. K. Moore, Stephen Howell, Mike Brady et al. · Nature Communications | 4 Jan 2021 | 5,198 |
| 3 | An Improved In Situ and Satellite SST Analysis for Climate Richard W. Reynolds, Nick A Rayner, Thomas M. Smith et al. · Journal of Climate | Jul 2002 | 4,684 |
| 4 | Daily High-Resolution-Blended Analyses for Sea Surface Temperature Richard W. Reynolds, Thomas M. Smith, Chun‐Ying Liu et al. · Journal of Climate | 15 Nov 2007 | 4,465 |
| 5 | The Arctic oscillation signature in the wintertime geopotential height and temperature fields David W. J. Thompson, John M. Wallace · Geophysical Research Letters | May 1998 | 4,152 |
| 6 | Extended Reconstructed Sea Surface Temperature, Version 5 (ERSSTv5): Upgrades, Validations, and Intercomparisons Boyin Huang, Peter Thorne, Viva F. Banzon et al. · Journal of Climate | 19 Jul 2017 | 3,347 |
| 7 | The Community Climate System Model Version 4 Peter R. Gent, Gökhan Danabasoglu, Leo J. Donner et al. · Journal of Climate | 5 May 2011 | 3,326 |
| 8 | The Arctic has warmed nearly four times faster than the globe since 1979 Mika Rantanen, Alexey Yu. Karpechko, Antti Lipponen et al. · Communications Earth & Environment | 11 Aug 2022 | 3,087 |
| 9 | Different glacier status with atmospheric circulations in Tibetan Plateau and surroundings Tandong Yao, Lonnie G. Thompson, Wei Yang et al. · Nature Climate Change | 13 Jul 2012 | 2,973 |
| 10 | On the meridional extent and fronts of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current Alejandro H. Orsi, Thomas Whitworth, Worth D. Nowlin · Deep Sea Research Part I Oceanographic Research Papers | May 1995 | 2,893 |
| 11 | Sea-Level Rise and Its Impact on Coastal Zones Robert J. Nicholls, Anny Cazenave · Science | 17 Jun 2010 | 2,770 |
| 12 | Processes and impacts of Arctic amplification: A research synthesis Mark C. Serreze, Roger G. Barry · Global and Planetary Change | 15 Apr 2011 | 2,729 |
| 13 | The simulation of SST, sea ice extents and ocean heat transports in a version of the Hadley Centre coupled model without flux adjustments Chris Gordon, C. Cooper, Catherine A. Senior et al. · Climate Dynamics | 4 Feb 2000 | 2,705 |
| 14 | Improved Global Sea Surface Temperature Analyses Using Optimum Interpolation Richard W. Reynolds, Thomas M. Smith · Journal of Climate | Jun 1994 | 2,614 |
| 15 | Recent Arctic amplification and extreme mid-latitude weather Judah L. Cohen, James A. Screen, Jason C. Furtado et al. · Nature Geoscience | 17 Aug 2014 | 2,613 |
| 16 | The central role of diminishing sea ice in recent Arctic temperature amplification James A. Screen, Ian Simmonds · Nature | Apr 2010 | 2,454 |
| 17 | The Community Climate System Model Version 3 (CCSM3) William D. Collins, Cecilia Marie Bitz, Maurice L. Blackmon et al. · Journal of Climate | Jun 2006 | 2,372 |
| 18 | The State and Fate of Himalayan Glaciers Tobias Bolch, Anil Vishnupant Kulkarni, Andreas Kääb et al. · Science | 19 Apr 2012 | 2,293 |
| 19 | Contribution of Antarctica to past and future sea-level rise Robert M. DeConto, David Pollard · Nature | 29 Mar 2016 | 2,181 |
| 20 | Permafrost is warming at a global scale Boris K. Biskaborn et al. · Nature Communications | 10 Jan 2019 | 2,146 |
| 21 | Bedmap2: improved ice bed, surface and thickness datasets for Antarctica Peter T. Fretwell et al. · The cryosphere | 28 Feb 2013 | 2,136 |
| 22 | Arctic sea ice decline: Faster than forecast Julienne Strœve, Marika M. Holland, Walter N. Meier et al. · Geophysical Research Letters | 30 Apr 2007 | 1,955 |
| 23 | Evidence linking Arctic amplification to extreme weather in mid‐latitudes Jennifer A. Francis, Stephen J. Vavrus · Geophysical Research Letters | 23 Feb 2012 | 1,870 |
| 24 | Accelerated decline in the Arctic sea ice cover Josefino C. Comiso, Claire L. Parkinson, Robert Gersten et al. · Geophysical Research Letters | 2008 | 1,804 |
| 25 | Sea ice remote sensing using AMSR‐E 89‐GHz channels Gunnar Spreen, Lars Kaleschke, Georg Heygster · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres | 16 Jan 2008 | 1,795 |
| 26 | Ice-Shelf Melting Around Antarctica Eric J. Rignot, Stanley S. Jacobs, J. Mouginot et al. · Science | 14 Jun 2013 | 1,751 |
| 27 | A Semi-Empirical Approach to Projecting Future Sea Level Rise Stefan Rahmstorf · Science | 15 Dec 2006 | 1,679 |
| 28 | The creep of polycrystalline ice J. W. Glen · Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences | 22 Mar 1955 | 1,653 |
| 29 | Optical constants of ice from the ultraviolet to the microwave Stephen G. Warren · Applied Optics | 15 Apr 1984 | 1,636 |
| 30 | Sea-Level Rise from the Late 19th to the Early 21st Century John Alexander Church, Neil Jeffrey White · Surveys in Geophysics | 29 Mar 2011 | 1,635 |
| 31 | The Arctic’s rapidly shrinking sea ice cover: a research synthesis Julienne Strœve, Mark C. Serreze, Marika M. Holland et al. · Climatic Change | 7 Jun 2011 | 1,601 |
| 32 | Geographical Variability of the First Baroclinic Rossby Radius of Deformation Dudley B. Chelton, Roland A. deSzoeke, Michael G. Schlax et al. · Journal of Physical Oceanography | Mar 1998 | 1,583 |
| 33 | Increasing River Discharge to the Arctic Ocean Bruce J. Peterson, R. M. Holmes, James W. McClelland et al. · Science | 12 Dec 2002 | 1,561 |
| 34 | Soot climate forcing via snow and ice albedos James E. Hansen, Larissa Nazarenko · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 29 Dec 2003 | 1,505 |
| 35 | Global lake responses to climate change Richard Iestyn Woolway, Benjamin Michael Kraemer, John D. Lenters et al. · Nature Reviews Earth & Environment | 14 Jul 2020 | 1,502 |
| 36 | The Operational Sea Surface Temperature and Sea Ice Analysis (OSTIA) system Craig James Donlon, Matthew James Martin, John Stark et al. · Remote Sensing of Environment | 29 Aug 2011 | 1,475 |
| 37 | Arctic amplification dominated by temperature feedbacks in contemporary climate models Felix Pithan, Thorsten Mauritsen · Nature Geoscience | Feb 2014 | 1,450 |
| 38 | The Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2): Science requirements, concept, and implementation T. Markus et al. · Remote Sensing of Environment | 9 Jan 2017 | 1,430 |
| 39 | Characteristics, dynamics and significance of marine snow Alice L. Alldredge, Mary Wilcox Silver · Progress In Oceanography | 1988 | 1,417 |
| 40 | The Randolph Glacier Inventory: a globally complete inventory of glaciers W. T. Pfeffer, A. A. Arendt, Andrew K. Bliss et al. · Journal of Glaciology | 2014 | 1,406 |
| 41 | Historical Trends in Lake and River Ice Cover in the Northern Hemisphere John J. Magnuson, Dale M. Robertson, Barbara J. Benson et al. · Science | 8 Sep 2000 | 1,404 |
| 42 | Development of methods for mapping global snow cover using moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer data Dorothy K. Hall, George A. Riggs, V. V. Salomonson · Remote Sensing of Environment | Nov 1995 | 1,390 |
| 43 | A Reconciled Estimate of Glacier Contributions to Sea Level Rise: 2003 to 2009 Alex Gardner, Geir Moholdt, J. Graham Cogley et al. · Science | 16 May 2013 | 1,369 |
| 44 | An Elastic–Viscous–Plastic Model for Sea Ice Dynamics Elizabeth Hunke, John K. Dukowicz · Journal of Physical Oceanography | Sep 1997 | 1,355 |
| 45 | Global-scale hydrological response to future glacier mass loss Matthias Huss, Regine Hock · Nature Climate Change | 19 Jan 2018 | 1,353 |
| 46 | Perspectives on the Arctic's Shrinking Sea-Ice Cover Mark C. Serreze, Marika M. Holland, Julienne Strœve · Science | 15 Mar 2007 | 1,326 |
| 47 | Polar amplification of climate change in coupled models Marika M. Holland, Cecilia Marie Bitz · Climate Dynamics | Sep 2003 | 1,311 |
| 48 | A Model for the Thermodynamic Growth of Sea Ice in Numerical Investigations of Climate Albert J. Semtner · Journal of Physical Oceanography | May 1976 | 1,304 |
| 49 | Forcing of the cold event of 8,200 years ago by catastrophic drainage of Laurentide lakes Donald C. Barber, A S Dyke, Claude Hillaire‐Marcel et al. · Nature | Jul 1999 | 1,299 |
| 50 | Ecological Dynamics Across the Arctic Associated with Recent Climate Change Eric Post et al. · Science | 10 Sep 2009 | 1,276 |
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