| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | The next generation of scenarios for climate change research and assessment | Nature | 2010 | 5,299 |
| 2 | A Global Map of Human Impact on Marine Ecosystems | Science | 2008 | 5,034 |
| 3 | Coral Reefs Under Rapid Climate Change and Ocean Acidification | Science | 2007 | 4,578 |
| 4 | Robust Responses of the Hydrological Cycle to Global Warming | Journal of Climate | 2006 | 3,753 |
| 5 | Nitrous Oxide (N 2 O): The Dominant Ozone-Depleting Substance Emitted in the 21st Century | Science | 2009 | 3,541 |
| 6 | Incidence of adverse biological effects within ranges of chemical concentrations in marine and estuarine sediments | Environmental Management | 1995 | 3,397 |
| 7 | Ocean Acidification: The Other CO2Problem | Annual Review of Marine Science | 2009 | 3,246 |
| 8 | Climate Forcing by Anthropogenic Aerosols | Science | 1992 | 3,196 |
| 9 | Generic Mapping Tools: Improved Version Released | Eos | 2013 | 3,003 |
| 10 | Accelerating loss of seagrasses across the globe threatens coastal ecosystems | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2009 | 2,971 |
| 11 | Improved Global Sea Surface Temperature Analyses Using Optimum Interpolation | Journal of Climate | 1994 | 2,507 |
| 12 | A Global Crisis for Seagrass Ecosystems | BioScience | 2006 | 2,318 |
| 13 | Irreversible climate change due to carbon dioxide emissions | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2009 | 2,294 |
| 14 | ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT: Sustainability Science | Science | 2001 | 2,169 |
| 15 | New version of the generic mapping tools | Eos | 1995 | 2,031 |
| 16 | A communal catalogue reveals Earth’s multiscale microbial diversity | Nature | 2017 | 1,942 |
| 17 | Impact of Anthropogenic CO2 on the CaCO3 System in the Oceans | Science | 2004 | 1,922 |
| 18 | Review of the Governing Equations, Computational Algorithms, and Other Components of the Models-3 Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) Modeling System | Applied Mechanics Reviews | 2006 | 1,898 |
| 19 | Energy balance closure at FLUXNET sites | Agricultural and Forest Meteorology | 2002 | 1,877 |
| 20 | Rebuilding Global Fisheries | Science | 2009 | 1,722 |
| 21 | Chemical and microphysical characterization of ambient aerosols with the aerodyne aerosol mass spectrometer | Mass Spectrometry Reviews | 2007 | 1,708 |
| 22 | A generalized approach to parameterizing convection combining ensemble and data assimilation techniques | Geophysical Research Letters | 2002 | 1,614 |
| 23 | Interpretation of Recent Southern Hemisphere Climate Change | Science | 2002 | 1,594 |
| 24 | Eutrophication and harmful algal blooms: A scientific consensus | Harmful Algae | 2008 | 1,582 |
| 25 | Impacts of ocean acidification on marine fauna and ecosystem processes | ICES Journal of Marine Science | 2008 | 1,578 |
| 26 | Detecting Causality in Complex Ecosystems | Science | 2012 | 1,545 |
| 27 | Modern Global Climate Change | Science | 2003 | 1,525 |
| 28 | Sonic Anemometer Tilt Correction Algorithms | Boundary-Layer Meteorology | 2001 | 1,496 |
| 29 | AD Model Builder: using automatic differentiation for statistical inference of highly parameterized complex nonlinear models | Optimization Methods and Software | 2012 | 1,494 |
| 30 | Global continental and ocean basin reconstructions since 200Ma | Earth-Science Reviews | 2012 | 1,459 |
| 31 | The Recent Increase in Atlantic Hurricane Activity: Causes and Implications | Science | 2001 | 1,436 |
| 32 | GFDL's CM2 Global Coupled Climate Models. Part I: Formulation and Simulation Characteristics | Journal of Climate | 2006 | 1,431 |
| 33 | On the depletion of Antarctic ozone | Nature | 1986 | 1,382 |
| 34 | A global ocean carbon climatology: Results from Global Data Analysis Project (GLODAP) | Global Biogeochemical Cycles | 2004 | 1,345 |
| 35 | Predicted growth in plastic waste exceeds efforts to mitigate plastic pollution | Science | 2020 | 1,330 |
| 36 | Indices for monitoring changes in extremes based on daily temperature and precipitation data | Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change | 2011 | 1,325 |
| 37 | Analyses of Global Monthly Precipitation Using Gauge Observations, Satellite Estimates, and Numerical Model Predictions | Journal of Climate | 1996 | 1,253 |
| 38 | The Generic Mapping Tools Version 6 | Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems | 2019 | 1,246 |
| 39 | Reduced drag coefficient for high wind speeds in tropical cyclones | Nature | 2003 | 1,234 |
| 40 | Evidence for Upwelling of Corrosive "Acidified" Water onto the Continental Shelf | Science | 2008 | 1,230 |
| 41 | Expanding Oxygen-Minimum Zones in the Tropical Oceans | Science | 2008 | 1,229 |
| 42 | Evidence and Implications of Recent Climate Change in Northern Alaska and Other Arctic Regions | Climatic Change | 2005 | 1,219 |
| 43 | The Impact of Conservation on the Status of the World’s Vertebrates | Science | 2010 | 1,209 |
| 44 | Multiple stressors of ocean ecosystems in the 21st century: projections with CMIP5 models | Biogeosciences | 2013 | 1,191 |
| 45 | Global Bathymetry and Elevation Data at 30 Arc Seconds Resolution: SRTM30_PLUS | Marine Geodesy | 2009 | 1,168 |
| 46 | Record-setting algal bloom in Lake Erie caused by agricultural and meteorological trends consistent with expected future conditions | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2013 | 1,164 |
| 47 | Global Carbon Budget 2019 | Earth System Science Data | 2019 | 1,159 |
| 48 | One-Third of Reef-Building Corals Face Elevated Extinction Risk from Climate Change and Local Impacts | Science | 2008 | 1,142 |
| 49 | Review of the vapour pressures of ice and supercooled water for atmospheric applications | Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society | 2005 | 1,114 |
| 50 | Real-time Environmental Applications and Display sYstem: READY | Environmental Modelling and Software | 2017 | 1,097 |
