| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Warming and Earlier Spring Increase Western U.S. Forest Wildfire Activity | Science | 2006 | 4,072 |
| 2 | Potential impacts of a warming climate on water availability in snow-dominated regions | Nature | 2005 | 3,521 |
| 3 | Impacts of Biodiversity Loss on Ocean Ecosystem Services | Science | 2006 | 3,422 |
| 4 | DETERMINATION OF CHLOROPHYLL AND PHEO‐PIGMENTS: SPECTROPHOTOMETRIC EQUATIONS1 | Limnology and Oceanography | 1967 | 3,134 |
| 5 | Trophic Downgrading of Planet Earth | Science | 2011 | 3,030 |
| 6 | Increased plant growth in the northern high latitudes from 1981 to 1991 | Nature | 1997 | 2,992 |
| 7 | Sharing and community curation of mass spectrometry data with Global Natural Products Social Molecular Networking | Nature Biotechnology | 2016 | 2,802 |
| 8 | Cosmic ray labeling of erosion surfaces: in situ nuclide production rates and erosion models | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 1991 | 2,149 |
| 9 | Measurement of the Roughness of the Sea Surface from Photographs of the Sun’s Glitter | Journal of the Optical Society of America | 1954 | 2,032 |
| 10 | Biodiversity on the Rocks: Macrofauna Inhabiting Authigenic Carbonate at Costa Rica Methane Seeps | PLoS ONE | 2015 | 1,801 |
| 11 | ECOLOGY: Ecosystem-Based Fishery Management | Science | 2004 | 1,696 |
| 12 | Three decades of global methane sources and sinks | Nature Geoscience | 2013 | 1,649 |
| 13 | Global Trajectories of the Long-Term Decline of Coral Reef Ecosystems | Science | 2003 | 1,634 |
| 14 | Implications of Plate Tectonics for the Cenozoic Tectonic Evolution of Western North America | Bulletin of the Geological Society of America | 1970 | 1,612 |
| 15 | Submarine Thermal Springs on the Galápagos Rift | Science | 1979 | 1,592 |
| 16 | Standard potential of the reaction: , and and the standard acidity constant of the ion HSO4− in synthetic sea water from 273.15 to 318.15 K | Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics | 1990 | 1,237 |
| 17 | Occam’s inversion to generate smooth, two‐dimensional models from magnetotelluric data | Geophysics | 1990 | 1,231 |
| 18 | Interannual extremes in the rate of rise of atmospheric carbon dioxide since 1980 | Nature | 1995 | 1,198 |
| 19 | Global Bathymetry and Elevation Data at 30 Arc Seconds Resolution: SRTM30_PLUS | Marine Geodesy | 2009 | 1,168 |
| 20 | Reduction of Tropical Cloudiness by Soot | Science | 2000 | 1,125 |
| 21 | New global marine gravity model from CryoSat-2 and Jason-1 reveals buried tectonic structure | Science | 2014 | 1,074 |
| 22 | Changes toward Earlier Streamflow Timing across Western North America | Journal of Climate | 2005 | 1,057 |
| 23 | A Reconciled Estimate of Glacier Contributions to Sea Level Rise: 2003 to 2009 | Science | 2013 | 1,044 |
| 24 | Increased activity of northern vegetation inferred from atmospheric CO2 measurements | Nature | 1996 | 1,011 |
| 25 | An off-axis hydrothermal vent field near the Mid-Atlantic Ridge at 30° N | Nature | 2001 | 997 |
| 26 | Causes of Decadal Climate Variability over the North Pacific and North America | Science | 1994 | 971 |
| 27 | Phytoplankton growth, microzooplankton grazing, and carbon cycling in marine systems | Limnology and Oceanography | 2004 | 948 |
| 28 | Oxygen isotope calibration of the onset of ice-rafting and history of glaciation in the North Atlantic region | Nature | 1984 | 934 |
| 29 | Dynamics and distribution of natural and human-caused hypoxia | Biogeosciences | 2010 | 880 |
| 30 | The Pacific Decadal Oscillation, Revisited | Journal of Climate | 2016 | 877 |
| 31 | Chemistry of submarine hydrothermal solutions at 21 °N, East Pacific Rise | Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta | 1985 | 874 |
| 32 | Bacterioplankton Secondary Production Estimates for Coastal Waters of British Columbia, Antarctica, and California | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 1980 | 804 |
| 33 | Thermodynamics of the dissociation of boric acid in synthetic seawater from 273.15 to 318.15 K | Deep-sea Research Part A, Oceanographic Research Papers | 1990 | 797 |
| 34 | A Continuous-Flow Streamwise Thermal-Gradient CCN Chamber for Atmospheric Measurements | Aerosol Science and Technology | 2005 | 789 |
| 35 | Computations and Parameterizations of the Nonlinear Energy Transfer in a Gravity-Wave Specturm. Part II: Parameterizations of the Nonlinear Energy Transfer for Application in Wave Models | Journal of Physical Oceanography | 1985 | 760 |
| 36 | Warming trends in Asia amplified by brown cloud solar absorption | Nature | 2007 | 752 |
| 37 | Chemistry of Pacific pelagic sediments | Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta | 1958 | 746 |
| 38 | High-resolution palaeoclimatic records for the last millennium: interpretation, integration and comparison with General Circulation Model control-run temperatures | Holocene | 1998 | 728 |
| 39 | Baselines and Degradation of Coral Reefs in the Northern Line Islands | PLoS ONE | 2008 | 711 |
| 40 | The Mussel Watch | Environmental Conservation | 1978 | 692 |
| 41 | The Indian Ocean Experiment: Widespread Air Pollution from South and Southeast Asia | Science | 2001 | 687 |
| 42 | Atmospheric Rivers, Floods and the Water Resources of California | Water (Switzerland) | 2011 | 683 |
| 43 | The Implications of Terrestrial Heat Flow Observations on Current Tectonic and Geochemical Models of the Crust and Upper Mantle of the Earth | Geophysical Journal International | 1970 | 676 |
| 44 | Global distribution of naturally occurring marine hypoxia on continental margins | Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers | 2004 | 674 |
| 45 | Areas beneath the relative operating characteristics (ROC) and relative operating levels (ROL) curves: Statistical significance and interpretation | Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society | 2002 | 663 |
| 46 | Man and the Last Great Wilderness: Human Impact on the Deep Sea | PLoS ONE | 2011 | 654 |
| 47 | Contamination in Low Microbial Biomass Microbiome Studies: Issues and Recommendations | Trends in Microbiology | 2019 | 652 |
| 48 | Oceanic fine structure | Geophysical Fluid Dynamics | 1972 | 639 |
| 49 | The autonomous underwater glider "Spray" | IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering | 2001 | 633 |
| 50 | Light in the Sea* | Journal of the Optical Society of America | 1963 | 625 |
