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| Application of spheroid models to account for aerosol particle nonsphericity in remote sensing of desert dust | Journal of Geophysical Research | 2006 | 994 |
| The genome of the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus | Science | 2006 | 886 |
| Cassini observes the active south pole of Enceladus | Science | 2006 | 832 |
| Present-Day Atmospheric Simulations Using GISS ModelE: Comparison to In Situ, Satellite, and Reanalysis Data | Journal of Climate | 2006 | 744 |
| Cropland expansion changes deforestation dynamics in the southern Brazilian Amazon | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2006 | 666 |
| A review of measurement-based assessments of the aerosol direct radiative effect and forcing | Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics | 2006 | 628 |
| Multimodel ensemble simulations of present-day and near-future tropospheric ozone | Journal of Geophysical Research | 2006 | 625 |
| Tropical Intraseasonal Variability in 14 IPCC AR4 Climate Models. Part I: Convective Signals | Journal of Climate | 2006 | 614 |
| Global gridded data set of the oxygen isotopic composition in seawater | Geophysical Research Letters | 2006 | 525 |
| Organics captured from comet 81P/Wild 2 by the Stardust spacecraft | Science | 2006 | 464 |
| Cancer risk from exposure to galactic cosmic rays: implications for space exploration by human beings | Lancet Oncology, The | 2006 | 461 |
| Significance of hydrated radius and hydration shells on ionic permeability during nanofiltration in dead end and cross flow modes | Separation and Purification Technology | 2006 | 415 |
| Relativistic ejecta from X-ray flash XRF 060218 and the rate of cosmic explosions | Nature | 2006 | 376 |
| Research strategies for safety evaluation of nanomaterials, part IV: risk assessment of nanoparticles | Toxicological Sciences | 2006 | 371 |
| Track-structure codes in radiation research | Radiation Measurements | 2006 | 324 |
| The sand seas of Titan: Cassini RADAR observations of longitudinal dunes | Science | 2006 | 290 |
| Forced annular variations in the 20th century Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment Report models | Journal of Geophysical Research | 2006 | 288 |
| Overview of the EOS aura mission | IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing | 2006 | 285 |
| Detection Limits from the McDonald Observatory Planet Search Program | Astronomical Journal | 2006 | 260 |
| Endolithic cyanobacteria in halite rocks from the hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert | Astrobiology | 2006 | 248 |
| Efficient encoding of quasi-cyclic low-density parity-check codes | IEEE Transactions on Communications | 2006 | 220 |
| Multimodel simulations of carbon monoxide: Comparison with observations and projected near-future changes | Journal of Geophysical Research | 2006 | 220 |
| Mechanisms for Diurnal Variability of Global Tropical Rainfall Observed from TRMM | Journal of Climate | 2006 | 214 |
| Past and future polar amplification of climate change: climate model intercomparisons and ice-core constraints | Climate Dynamics | 2006 | 205 |
