| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
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| 2 | Acidification of subsurface coastal waters enhanced by eutrophication | Nature Geoscience | 2011 | 928 |
| 3 | Sensitivity of the carbon cycle in the Arctic to climate change | Ecological Monographs | 2009 | 814 |
| 4 | The HYCOM (HYbrid Coordinate Ocean Model) data assimilative system | Journal of Marine Systems | 2007 | 781 |
| 5 | Semiempirical Dissipation Source Functions for Ocean Waves. Part I: Definition, Calibration, and Validation | Journal of Physical Oceanography | 2010 | 699 |
| 6 | Leaf optical properties in higher plants: linking spectral characteristics to stress and chlorophyll concentration | American Journal of Botany | 2001 | 641 |
| 7 | Ratios of leaf reflectances in narrow wavebands as indicators of plant stress | International Journal of Remote Sensing | 1994 | 592 |
| 8 | Using MODIS Terra 250 m imagery to map concentrations of total suspended matter in coastal waters | Remote Sensing of Environment | 2004 | 522 |
| 9 | Red tides in the Gulf of Mexico: Where, when, and why? | Journal of Geophysical Research | 2006 | 518 |
| 10 | The formation and fate of internal waves in the South China Sea | Nature | 2015 | 487 |
| 11 | Methane Hydrate and Free Gas on the Blake Ridge from Vertical Seismic Profiling | Science | 1996 | 478 |
| 12 | Practical use of video imagery in nearshore oceanographic field studies | IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering | 1997 | 445 |
| 13 | Recurrent jellyfish blooms are a consequence of global oscillations | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2013 | 378 |
| 14 | Skill assessment for coupled biological/physical models of marine systems | Journal of Marine Systems | 2009 | 365 |
| 15 | Accuracy assessment of global barotropic ocean tide models | Reviews of Geophysics | 2014 | 338 |
| 16 | Determining the Power-Law Wind-Profile Exponent under Near-Neutral Stability Conditions at Sea | Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology | 1994 | 323 |
| 17 | Database of diazotrophs in global ocean: abundance, biomass and nitrogen fixation rates | Earth System Science Data | 2012 | 315 |
| 18 | On the Issues of Scale, Resolution, and Fractal Analysis in the Mapping Sciences* | Professional Geographer | 1992 | 309 |
| 19 | Marine snow formation in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico | Environmental Research Letters | 2012 | 301 |
| 20 | Mixed layer depth variability over the global ocean | Journal of Geophysical Research | 2003 | 300 |
| 21 | Nutrients, irradiance, and mixing as factors regulating primary production in coastal waters impacted by the Mississippi River plume | Continental Shelf Research | 1999 | 288 |
| 22 | RESPONSES OF LEAF SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE TO PLANT STRESS | American Journal of Botany | 1993 | 287 |
| 23 | MJO and Convectively Coupled Equatorial Waves Simulated by CMIP5 Climate Models | Journal of Climate | 2013 | 286 |
| 24 | Upper-Ocean Thermal Structure and the Western North Pacific Category 5 Typhoons. Part I: Ocean Features and the Category 5 Typhoons’ Intensification | Monthly Weather Review | 2008 | 276 |
| 25 | Formation of Ferrihydrite and Associated Iron Corrosion Products in Permeable Reactive Barriers of Zero-Valent Iron | Environmental Science & Technology | 2002 | 274 |
| 26 | A Study of an Intense Density Front in the Eastern Alboran Sea: The Almeria–Oran Front | Journal of Physical Oceanography | 1988 | 270 |
| 27 | Elasticity of marine sediments: Rock physics modeling | Geophysical Research Letters | 1999 | 267 |
| 28 | Role of Microbes in the Smectite-to-Illite Reaction | Science | 2004 | 262 |
| 29 | The Modular Ocean Data Assimilation System (MODAS)* | Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology | 2002 | 259 |
| 30 | PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EFFECTS OF WATER CONTENT ON THE SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE OF LEAVES | American Journal of Botany | 1991 | 252 |
| 31 | A benchmark comparison for mantle convection codes | Geophysical Journal International | 1989 | 251 |
| 32 | Western Boundary Currents and Frontal Air–Sea Interaction: Gulf Stream and Kuroshio Extension | Journal of Climate | 2010 | 251 |
| 33 | Intercomparison of shallow water bathymetry, hydro‐optics, and benthos mapping techniques in Australian and Caribbean coastal environments | Limnology and Oceanography: Methods | 2011 | 246 |
| 34 | Source and transport of terrigenous organic matter in the upper Yukon River: Evidence from isotope (δ13C, Δ14C, and δ15N) composition of dissolved, colloidal, and particulate phases | Global Biogeochemical Cycles | 2006 | 244 |
| 35 | Automatic Retinal Oximetry | Global Biogeochemical Cycles | 2006 | 241 |
| 36 | An Ocean-Colour Time Series for Use in Climate Studies: The Experience of the Ocean-Colour Climate Change Initiative (OC-CCI) | Sensors | 2019 | 239 |
| 37 | Bottom-Up Determination of Air-Sea Momentum Exchange Under a Major Tropical Cyclone | Science | 2007 | 238 |
| 38 | Climate Process Team on Internal Wave–Driven Ocean Mixing | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society | 2017 | 235 |
| 39 | Comparison of algorithms for estimating ocean primary production from surface chlorophyll, temperature, and irradiance | Global Biogeochemical Cycles | 2002 | 232 |
| 40 | Is global ocean sprawl a cause of jellyfish blooms? | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2013 | 231 |
| 41 | Seasonal mean circulation in the Yellow Sea — a model-generated climatology | Continental Shelf Research | 2001 | 227 |
| 42 | Swell and sea in the emerging Arctic Ocean | Geophysical Research Letters | 2014 | 225 |
| 43 | Secchi disk depth: A new theory and mechanistic model for underwater visibility | Remote Sensing of Environment | 2015 | 224 |
| 44 | Submesoscale dispersion in the vicinity of the Deepwater Horizon spill | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2014 | 223 |
| 45 | Mobilization pathways of organic carbon from permafrost to arctic rivers in a changing climate | Geophysical Research Letters | 2007 | 222 |
| 46 | Enhanced primary production at the plume/oceanic interface of the Mississippi River | Continental Shelf Research | 1990 | 221 |
| 47 | Decade-scale trans-Pacific propagation and warming effects of an El Niño anomaly | Nature | 1994 | 220 |
| 48 | Decreased stability of methane hydrates in marine sediments owing to phase-boundary roughness | Nature | 2002 | 218 |
| 49 | Seasonal patterns of ocean biogeochemistry at the U.S. JGOFS Bermuda Atlantic time-series study site | Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers | 1994 | 217 |
| 50 | Characterization of subsurface polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons at the Deepwater Horizon site | Geophysical Research Letters | 2010 | 217 |
