Most cited papers in Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
What are the most cited papers in Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes?
The most cited paper in Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes is "A Pacific Interdecadal Climate Oscillation with Impacts on Salmon Production" (Nathan J. Mantua, Steven R. Hare, Yuan Zhang et al., 1997), with 7,210 citations. Next come "The ERA‐40 re‐analysis" (7,164) and "A dipole mode in the tropical Indian Ocean" (5,596).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 1,448 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Pacific Interdecadal Climate Oscillation with Impacts on Salmon Production Nathan J. Mantua, Steven R. Hare, Yuan Zhang et al. · Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society | Jun 1997 | 7,210 |
| 2 | The ERA‐40 re‐analysis S. Uppala et al. · Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society | Oct 2005 | 7,164 |
| 3 | A dipole mode in the tropical Indian Ocean N. H. Saji, B. N. Goswami, Puthenveettil Narayana Menon Vinayachandran et al. · Nature | Sep 1999 | 5,596 |
| 4 | The regional oceanic modeling system (ROMS): a split-explicit, free-surface, topography-following-coordinate oceanic model Alexander F. Shchepetkin, James C. McWilliams · Ocean Modelling | 28 Sep 2004 | 5,330 |
| 5 | Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Joseph Pedlosky, S. Leibovich · Journal of Applied Mechanics | Sep 1981 | 4,693 |
| 6 | The Ensemble Kalman Filter: theoretical formulation and practical implementation Geir Evensen · Ocean Dynamics | Nov 2003 | 4,595 |
| 7 | Teleconnections in the Geopotential Height Field during the Northern Hemisphere Winter John M. Wallace, David S. Gutzler · Monthly Weather Review | Apr 1981 | 4,591 |
| 8 | Oceanic vertical mixing: A review and a model with a nonlocal boundary layer parameterization William G. Large, James C. McWilliams, Scott C. Doney · Reviews of Geophysics | Nov 1994 | 4,568 |
| 9 | Efficient Inverse Modeling of Barotropic Ocean Tides G. D. Egbert, Svetlana Y. Erofeeva · Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology | Feb 2002 | 4,528 |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | Classification, Seasonality and Persistence of Low-Frequency Atmospheric Circulation Patterns Anthony G. Barnston, Robert E. Livezey · Monthly Weather Review | Jun 1987 | 3,831 |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | Mixed layer depth over the global ocean: An examination of profile data and a profile‐based climatology Clément de Boyer Montégut, Gurvan Madec, Albert S. Fischer et al. · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres | Dec 2004 | 3,331 |
| 14 | Detection of a 40–50 Day Oscillation in the Zonal Wind in the Tropical Pacific Roland A. Madden, PAUL R. JULIAN · Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences | Jul 1971 | 3,329 |
| 15 | The Generic Mapping Tools Version 6 Paul Wessel, Joaquim F. Luís, Leonardo Uieda et al. · Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems | 5 Sep 2019 | 3,314 |
| 16 | Isopycnal Mixing in Ocean Circulation Models Peter R. Gent, James C. McWilliams · Journal of Physical Oceanography | 1990 | 3,285 |
| 17 | A description of a three-dimensional coastal ocean circulation model Alan F. Blumberg, George L. Mellor · Coastal and estuarine sciences | 1987 | 3,254 |
| 18 | Climatological Atlas of the World Ocean Sydney Levitus · Eos | 6 Dec 1983 | 3,067 |
| 19 | Improvements to NOAA’s Historical Merged Land–Ocean Surface Temperature Analysis (1880–2006) Thomas M. Smith, Richard W. Reynolds, Thomas C. Peterson et al. · Journal of Climate | 15 May 2008 | 3,007 |
| 20 | Description of Global-Scale Circulation Cells in the Tropics with a 40–50 Day Period Roland A. Madden, PAUL R. JULIAN · Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences | Sep 1972 | 2,992 |
| 21 | Classical tidal harmonic analysis including error estimates in MATLAB using T_TIDE Rich Pawlowicz, Bob Beardsley, Steve Lentz · Computers & Geosciences | 17 Sep 2002 | 2,902 |
| 22 | 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 |
| 23 | Open Ocean Momentum Flux Measurements in Moderate to Strong Winds William G. Large, Stephen F. Pond · Journal of Physical Oceanography | Mar 1981 | 2,823 |
| 24 | The Pacific Decadal Oscillation Nathan J. Mantua, Steven R. Hare · Journal of Oceanography | Feb 2002 | 2,814 |
| 25 | Quasi-Geostrophic Motions in the Equatorial Area Taroh Matsuno · Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II | 1966 | 2,770 |
| 26 | 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 |
| 27 | The Steady Linear Response of a Spherical Atmosphere to Thermal and Orographic Forcing Brian John Hoskins, David John Karoly · Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences | Jun 1981 | 2,685 |
| 28 | Global observations of nonlinear mesoscale eddies Dudley B. Chelton, Michael G. Schlax, R. M. Samelson · Progress In Oceanography | 29 Jan 2011 | 2,680 |
| 29 | Buoyancy Effects in Fluids J. Scott Turner, Edward R. Benton · Physics Today | Mar 1974 | 2,653 |
| 30 | Improved Global Sea Surface Temperature Analyses Using Optimum Interpolation Richard W. Reynolds, Thomas M. Smith · Journal of Climate | Jun 1994 | 2,614 |
| 31 | Sea-level changes: An integrated approach Charles A. Ross, June R. P. Ross · Geology | 1986 | 2,595 |
| 32 | Bulk Parameterization of Air–Sea Fluxes: Updates and Verification for the COARE Algorithm C. W. Fairall, E. Frank Bradley, J. E. Hare et al. · Journal of Climate | Feb 2003 | 2,558 |
| 33 | Climate-driven trends in contemporary ocean productivity Michael J. Behrenfeld, Robert T. O’Malley, David A. Siegel et al. · Nature | Dec 2006 | 2,553 |
| 34 | A parametric model of vertical eddy fluxes in the atmosphere Jean-Fran�ois Louis · Boundary-Layer Meteorology | Sep 1979 | 2,529 |
| 35 | ENSO-like Interdecadal Variability: 1900–93 Yuan Zhang, John M. Wallace, David S. Battisti · Journal of Climate | May 1997 | 2,520 |
| 36 | A hierarchical approach to defining marine heatwaves Alistair James Hobday, Lisa V. Alexander, Sarah E Perkins-Kirkpatrick et al. · Progress In Oceanography | 6 Jan 2016 | 2,396 |
| 37 | 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 |
| 38 | Decadal atmosphere-ocean variations in the Pacific Kevin E. Trenberth, James Wilson Hurrell · Climate Dynamics | Mar 1994 | 2,312 |
| 39 | Abyssal recipes II: energetics of tidal and wind mixing Walter Heinrich Munk, Carl Isaac Wunsch · Deep Sea Research Part I Oceanographic Research Papers | Dec 1998 | 2,284 |
| 40 | Coupled ocean–atmosphere dynamics in the Indian Ocean during 1997–98 Peter John Webster, Andrew M. Moore, Johannes Loschnigg et al. · Nature | Sep 1999 | 2,182 |
| 41 | Interdecadal Changes in the ENSO–Monsoon System Christopher Torrence, Peter John Webster · Journal of Climate | Aug 1999 | 2,178 |
| 42 | A Formulation of a Phase-Independent Wave-Activity Flux for Stationary and Migratory Quasigeostrophic Eddies on a Zonally Varying Basic Flow Koutarou Takaya, Hisashi Nakamura · Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences | Mar 2001 | 2,175 |
| 43 | ENSO as an Integrating Concept in Earth Science Michael J. McPhaden, Stephen E. Zebiak, Michael H. Glantz · Science | 14 Dec 2006 | 2,165 |
| 44 | Longer and more frequent marine heatwaves over the past century Eric C. J. Oliver, Markus G. Donat, Michael T. Burrows et al. · Nature Communications | 29 Mar 2018 | 2,158 |
| 45 | Uncertainty estimates in regional and global observed temperature changes: A new data set from 1850 Philip Brohan, John Kennedy, Ian Charles Harris et al. · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres | 23 Jun 2006 | 2,101 |
| 46 | The East Asian summer monsoon: an overview Yihui Ding, Johnny C. L. Chan · Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics | Jun 2005 | 2,065 |
| 47 | Sonic Anemometer Tilt Correction Algorithms James M. Wilczak, Steven P. Oncley, Steven A. Stage · Boundary-Layer Meteorology | Apr 2001 | 2,060 |
| 48 | Indian Ocean Capacitor Effect on Indo–Western Pacific Climate during the Summer following El Niño Shang‐Ping Xie, Kaiming Hu, Jan Hafner et al. · Journal of Climate | 7 Aug 2008 | 2,049 |
| 49 | An Overview of the Fundamentals of Sequence Stratigraphy and Key Definitions John C. Van Wagoner, Henry W. Posamentier, R. M. Mitchum et al. · SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology) eBooks | 1988 | 2,038 |
| 50 | Estimates of the Local Rate of Vertical Diffusion from Dissipation Measurements T. R. Osborn · Journal of Physical Oceanography | 1980 | 2,023 |
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