| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | The South Atlantic Convergence Zone: Intensity, Form, Persistence, and Relationships with Intraseasonal to Interannual Activity and Extreme Rainfall | Journal of Climate | 2004 | 602 |
| 2 | Palaeomagnetic configuration of continents during the Proterozoic | Tectonophysics | 2003 | 332 |
| 3 | Tearing up Rodinia: the Neoproterozoic palaeogeography of South American cratonic fragments | Terra Nova | 2003 | 192 |
| 4 | Air quality in the megacity of São Paulo: Evolution over the last 30 years and future perspectives | Atmospheric Environment | 2017 | 171 |
| 5 | Opposite Phases of the Antarctic Oscillation and Relationships with Intraseasonal to Interannual Activity in the Tropics during the Austral Summer | Journal of Climate | 2005 | 156 |
| 6 | Relationship between Monthly Rainfall in NW Peru and Tropical Sea Surface Temperature | Advances in Meteorology | 2013 | 143 |
| 7 | Upper mantle structure of South America from joint inversion of waveforms and fundamental mode group velocities of Rayleigh waves | Journal of Geophysical Research | 2007 | 140 |
| 8 | Vehicle emissions and PM2.5 mass concentrations in six Brazilian cities | Air Quality, Atmosphere and Health | 2012 | 138 |
| 9 | Modeling hourly and daily fractions of UV, PAR and NIR to global solar radiation under various sky conditions at Botucatu, Brazil | Applied Energy | 2009 | 137 |
| 10 | Urban pollution greatly enhances formation of natural aerosols over the Amazon rainforest | Nature Communications | 2019 | 131 |
| 11 | Models of crustal thickness for South America from seismic refraction, receiver functions and surface wave tomography | Tectonophysics | 2013 | 125 |
| 12 | A transiting giant planet with a temperature between 250 K and 430 K | Nature | 2010 | 111 |
| 13 | A Lagrangian identification of major sources of moisture over Central Brazil and La Plata Basin | Journal of Geophysical Research | 2008 | 110 |
| 14 | Assessing the impact of PM2.5 on respiratory disease using artificial neural networks | Environmental Pollution | 2018 | 101 |
| 15 | Gravity derived Moho for South America | Tectonophysics | 2013 | 100 |
| 16 | Climatology of Tropical Intraseasonal Convective Anomalies: 1979–2002 | Journal of Climate | 2004 | 97 |
| 17 | Standardization of complex biologically derived spectrochemical datasets | Nature Protocols | 2019 | 96 |
| 18 | Crustal thickness map of Brazil: Data compilation and main features | Journal of South American Earth Sciences | 2013 | 95 |
| 19 | South Atlantic Ocean cyclogenesis climatology simulated by regional climate model (RegCM3) | Climate Dynamics | 2010 | 92 |
| 20 | The role of clouds in improving the regression model for hourly values of diffuse solar radiation | Applied Energy | 2012 | 87 |
| 21 | Emission Factors for Gas-Powered Vehicles Traveling Through Road Tunnels in São Paulo, Brazil | Environmental Science & Technology | 2006 | 84 |
| 22 | Vehicular particulate matter emissions in road tunnels in Sao Paulo, Brazil | Environmental Monitoring and Assessment | 2009 | 84 |
| 23 | Variability of Southern Hemisphere Cyclone and Anticyclone Behavior: Further Analysis | Journal of Climate | 2003 | 80 |
| 24 | Particulate pollutants in the Brazilian city of São Paulo: 1-year investigation for the chemical composition and source apportionment | Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics | 2017 | 80 |
| 25 | A Statistical Forecast Model of Tropical Intraseasonal Convective Anomalies | Journal of Climate | 2004 | 73 |
| 26 | New directions: From biofuels to wood stoves: The modern and ancient air quality challenges in the megacity of São Paulo | Atmospheric Environment | 2016 | 71 |
| 27 | Observational evidences on the modulation of the South American Low Level Jet east of the Andes according the ENSO variability | Annales Geophysicae | 2009 | 70 |
| 28 | Impacts of ozone precursor limitation and meteorological variables on ozone concentration in São Paulo, Brazil | Atmospheric Environment | 2006 | 63 |
| 29 | Extreme precipitation events and their relationship with ENSO and MJO phases over northern South America | International Journal of Climatology | 2017 | 62 |
| 30 | Scale-integrated atmospheric simulations to assess thermal comfort in different urban tissues in the warm humid summer of São Paulo, Brazil | Urban Climate | 2013 | 61 |
| 31 | Moisture Sources and Life Cycle of Convective Systems over Western Colombia | Advances in Meteorology | 2011 | 59 |
| 32 | The tailings dam failure of 5 November 2015 in SE Brazil and its preceding seismic sequence | Geophysical Research Letters | 2016 | 58 |
| 33 | Origin of Convectively Coupled Kelvin Waves over South America | Journal of Climate | 2009 | 56 |
| 34 | Modelling present and future African climate using CMIP5 scenarios in HadGEM2‐ES | International Journal of Climatology | 2015 | 56 |
| 35 | Effect of sea breeze propagation on the urban boundary layer of the metropolitan region of Sao Paulo, Brazil | Atmospheric Research | 2018 | 56 |
| 36 | Seismic studies of the Brasília fold belt at the western border of the São Francisco Craton, Central Brazil, using receiver function, surface-wave dispersion and teleseismic tomography | Tectonophysics | 2004 | 55 |
| 37 | Impact of vehicular emissions on the formation of fine particles in the Sao Paulo Metropolitan Area: a numerical study with the WRF-Chem model | Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics | 2016 | 54 |
| 38 | MJO influence on ENSO effects in precipitation and temperature over South America | Theoretical and Applied Climatology | 2016 | 53 |
| 39 | Air quality forecasting system for Southeastern Brazil | Frontiers in Environmental Science | 2015 | 52 |
| 40 | The long road to achieving equity: Job accessibility restrictions and overlapping inequalities in the city of São Paulo | Journal of Transport Geography | 2019 | 52 |
| 41 | Easterly Wave Disturbances over Northeast Brazil: An Observational Analysis | Advances in Meteorology | 2015 | 50 |
| 42 | Residential buildings’ thermal performance and comfort for the elderly under climate changes context in the city of São Paulo, Brazil | Energy and Buildings | 2016 | 50 |
| 43 | A review of emissions and concentrations of particulate matter in the three major metropolitan areas of Brazil | Journal of Transport and Health | 2017 | 50 |
| 44 | Phylogenomics and Morphological Reconstruction of Arcellinida Testate Amoebae Highlight Diversity of Microbial Eukaryotes in the Neoproterozoic | Current Biology | 2019 | 49 |
| 45 | Downward longwave radiation estimates for clear and all-sky conditions in the Sertãozinho region of São Paulo, Brazil | Theoretical and Applied Climatology | 2010 | 48 |
| 46 | Regional representativity of AERONET observation sites during the biomass burning season in South America determined by correlation studies with MODIS Aerosol Optical Depth | Journal of Geophysical Research | 2009 | 47 |
| 47 | Indoor and outdoor atmospheric fungal spores in the São Paulo metropolitan area (Brazil): species and numeric concentrations | International Journal of Biometeorology | 2010 | 47 |
| 48 | Ozone Formation Potentials of Volatile Organic Compounds and Ozone Sensitivity to Their Emission in the Megacity of São Paulo, Brazil | Water, Air, and Soil Pollution | 2008 | 46 |
| 49 | Teleconnection patterns and Rossby wave propagation associated to generalized frosts over southern South America | Climate Dynamics | 2007 | 45 |
| 50 | Potential health impact of ultrafine particles under clean and polluted urban atmospheric conditions: a model-based study | Air Quality, Atmosphere and Health | 2010 | 45 |
