| The Global Land Data Assimilation System | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society | 2004 | 2.9K |
| The Spitzer Space Telescope Mission | Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series | 2004 | 2.2K |
| The Infrared Spectrograph (IRS) on the Spitzer Space Telescope | Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series | 2004 | 1.2K |
| Soot climate forcing via snow and ice albedos | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2004 | 965 |
| Spextool: A Spectral Extraction Package for SpeX, a 0.8–5.5 Micron Cross‐Dispersed Spectrograph | Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific | 2004 | 824 |
| Calculation of radiative fluxes from the surface to top of atmosphere based on ISCCP and other global data sets: Refinements of the radiative transfer model and the input data | Journal of Geophysical Research | 2004 | 791 |
| Continental-scale partitioning of fire emissions during the 1997 to 2001 El Niño/La Niña period | Science | 2004 | 480 |
| How plant functional-type, weather, seasonal drought, and soil physical properties alter water and energy fluxes of an oak–grass savanna and an annual grassland | Agricultural and Forest Meteorology | 2004 | 439 |
| Using MODIS Terra 250 m imagery to map concentrations of total suspended matter in coastal waters | Remote Sensing of Environment | 2004 | 434 |
| On the cause of the 1930s Dust Bowl | Science | 2004 | 434 |
| L′ andM′ Photometry of Ultracool Dwarfs | Astronomical Journal | 2004 | 385 |
| Nonlinear magnetohydrodynamics simulation using high-order finite elements | Journal of Computational Physics | 2004 | 365 |
| Retinex processing for automatic image enhancement | Journal of Electronic Imaging | 2004 | 361 |
| Characterization of liquid crystal polymer (LCP) material and transmission lines on LCP substrates from 30 to 110 GHz | IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques | 2004 | 353 |
| Cassini Imaging Science: Instrument Characteristics And Anticipated Scientific Investigations At Saturn | Space Science Reviews | 2004 | 278 |
| Resistance exercise as a countermeasure to disuse-induced bone loss | Journal of Applied Physiology | 2004 | 268 |
| Surface of young Jupiter family comet 81P/Wild 2: view from the Stardust Spacecraft | Science | 2004 | 263 |
| Forty-five years after Broadbent (1958): still no identification without attention | Psychological Review | 2004 | 263 |
| Processing, properties and arc jet oxidation of hafnium diboride/silicon carbide ultra high temperature ceramics | Journal of Materials Science | 2004 | 256 |
| Southern Hemisphere climate response to ozone changes and greenhouse gas increases | Geophysical Research Letters | 2004 | 235 |
| Quantifying mineral dust mass budgets:Terminology, constraints, and current estimates | Eos | 2004 | 232 |
| Stress-induced subclinical reactivation of varicella zoster virus in astronauts | Journal of Medical Virology | 2004 | 207 |
| Measurements of primary and atmospheric cosmic-ray spectra with the BESS-TeV spectrometer | Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics | 2004 | 200 |
| Greenhouse gas growth rates | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2004 | 199 |
| Simulating changes in regional air pollution over the eastern United States due to changes in global and regional climate and emissions | Journal of Geophysical Research | 2004 | 192 |
