| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | The ERA‐Interim reanalysis: configuration and performance of the data assimilation system | Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society | 2011 | 20,227 |
| 2 | The ERA5 global reanalysis | Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society | 2020 | 10,272 |
| 3 | The ERA-40 re-analysis | Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society | 2005 | 6,198 |
| 4 | Correction of flux measurements for density effects due to heat and water vapour transfer | Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society | 1980 | 3,773 |
| 5 | Some simple solutions for heat-induced tropical circulation | Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society | 1980 | 3,493 |
| 6 | The Twentieth Century Reanalysis Project | Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society | 2011 | 2,785 |
| 7 | On the use and significance of isentropic potential vorticity maps | Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society | 1985 | 2,223 |
| 8 | Spectral characteristics of surface-layer turbulence | Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society | 1972 | 2,083 |
| 9 | Monsoon and Enso: Selectively Interactive Systems | Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society | 1992 | 1,571 |
| 10 | Wind stress on a water surface | Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society | 1955 | 1,527 |
| 11 | The energetic basis of the urban heat island | Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society | 1982 | 1,479 |
| 12 | Construction of correlation functions in two and three dimensions | Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society | 1999 | 1,471 |
| 13 | Solar and terrestrial radiation. Report to the international commission for solar research on actinometric investigations of solar and atmospheric radiation | Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society | 1924 | 1,367 |
| 14 | The influence of nitrogen oxides on the atmospheric ozone content | Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society | 1970 | 1,313 |
| 15 | The ECMWF Ensemble Prediction System: Methodology and validation | Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society | 1996 | 1,311 |
| 16 | Dynamics of deserts and drought in the Sahel | Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society | 1975 | 1,231 |
| 17 | A strategy for operational implementation of 4D-Var, using an incremental approach | Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society | 1994 | 1,230 |
| 18 | Long-wave radiation from clear skies | Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society | 1963 | 1,222 |
| 19 | Evaporation from sparse crops‐an energy combination theory | Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society | 1985 | 1,121 |
| 20 | Review of the vapour pressures of ice and supercooled water for atmospheric applications | Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society | 2005 | 1,114 |
| 21 | Analysis methods for numerical weather prediction | Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society | 1986 | 1,111 |
| 22 | The frequency distribution of the annual maximum (or minimum) values of meteorological elements | Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society | 1955 | 1,088 |
| 23 | Evidence for a world circulation provided by the measurements of helium and water vapour distribution in the stratosphere | Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society | 1949 | 1,075 |
| 24 | The energetic basic of the urban heat island | Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society | 1982 | 1,018 |
| 25 | Studies with a flexible new radiation code. I: Choosing a configuration for a large-scale model | Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society | 1996 | 950 |
| 26 | Central England temperatures: Monthly means 1659 to 1973 | Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society | 1974 | 935 |
| 27 | Turbulent wind flow over a low hill | Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society | 1975 | 896 |
| 28 | A new dynamical core for the Met Office's global and regional modelling of the atmosphere | Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society | 2005 | 888 |
| 29 | Evaluation of the ECMWF ocean reanalysis system ORAS4 | Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society | 2013 | 837 |
| 30 | Explicit forecasting of supercooled liquid water in winter storms using the MM5 mesoscale model | Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society | 1998 | 823 |
| 31 | Stochastic representation of model uncertainties in the ECMWF ensemble prediction system | Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society | 1999 | 823 |
| 32 | Evaporation and surface temperature | Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society | 1981 | 799 |
| 33 | Flux-gradient relationships in the constant flux layer | Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society | 1970 | 794 |
| 34 | Monsoons and the dynamics of deserts | Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society | 1996 | 766 |
| 35 | Models of cloud-topped mixed layers under a strong inversion | Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society | 1968 | 756 |
| 36 | Profile relationships: The log-linear range, and extension to strong stability | Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society | 1970 | 723 |
| 37 | A scheme for predicting layer clouds and their water content in a general circulation model | Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society | 1990 | 723 |
| 38 | On large-scale circulations in convecting atmospheres | Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society | 1994 | 703 |
| 39 | Two paradigms of baroclinic-wave life-cycle behaviour | Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society | 1993 | 677 |
| 40 | 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 |
| 41 | The spectrum of horizontal gustiness near the ground in high winds | Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society | 1961 | 661 |
| 42 | Alleviation of a systematic westerly bias in general circulation and numerical weather prediction models through an orographic gravity wave drag parametrization | Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society | 1986 | 656 |
| 43 | A turbulence scheme allowing for mesoscale and large‐eddy simulations | Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society | 2000 | 622 |
| 44 | An analytical model of rainfall interception by forests | Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society | 1979 | 615 |
| 45 | Diagnosis of observation, background and analysis-error statistics in observation space | Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society | 2005 | 611 |
| 46 | Variational Assimilation of Meteorological Observations With the Adjoint Vorticity Equation. I: Theory | Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society | 1987 | 607 |
| 47 | The ECMWF operational implementation of four‐dimensional variational assimilation. I: Experimental results with simplified physics | Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society | 2000 | 576 |
| 48 | A Lagrangian‐based analysis of extratropical cyclones. I: The method and some applications | Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society | 1997 | 564 |
| 49 | The ‘southern oscillation’ | Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society | 1965 | 562 |
| 50 | The artificial production of carbon dioxide and its influence on temperature | Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society | 1938 | 561 |
