| Evaluation of climate models G Flato, J Marotzke, B Abiodun, P Braconnot, SC Chou, W Collins, P Cox, ... Climate change 2013: the physical science basis. Contribution of Working …, 2014 | 3323 | 2014 |
| Expanding oxygen-minimum zones in the tropical oceans L Stramma, GC Johnson, J Sprintall, V Mohrholz science 320 (5876), 655-658, 2008 | 1719 | 2008 |
| Circulation, mixing, and production of Antarctic Bottom Water AH Orsi, GC Johnson, JL Bullister Progress in Oceanography 43 (1), 55-109, 1999 | 1275 | 1999 |
| State of the climate in 2015 J Blunden, DS Arndt Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 97 (8), Si-S275, 2016 | 857 | 2016 |
| Warming of global abyssal and deep Southern Ocean waters between the 1990s and 2000s: Contributions to global heat and sea level rise budgets SG Purkey, GC Johnson Journal of Climate 23 (23), 6336-6351, 2010 | 751 | 2010 |
| Ocean oxygen minima expansions and their biological impacts L Stramma, S Schmidtko, LA Levin, GC Johnson Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers 57 (4), 587-595, 2010 | 706 | 2010 |
| The Argo Program: Observing the global ocean with profiling floats D Roemmich, GC Johnson, S Riser, R Davis, J Gilson, WB Owens, ... Oceanography 22 (2), 34-43, 2009 | 676 | 2009 |
| A review of global ocean temperature observations: Implications for ocean heat content estimates and climate change JP Abraham, M Baringer, NL Bindoff, T Boyer, LJ Cheng, JA Church, ... Reviews of Geophysics 51 (3), 450-483, 2013 | 579 | 2013 |
| Quantifying Antarctic bottom water and North Atlantic deep water volumes GC Johnson Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 113 (C5), 2008 | 445 | 2008 |
| Robust warming of the global upper ocean JM Lyman, SA Good, VV Gouretski, M Ishii, GC Johnson, MD Palmer, ... Nature 465 (7296), 334-337, 2010 | 424 | 2010 |
| Direct measurements of upper ocean currents and water properties across the tropical Pacific during the 1990s GC Johnson, BM Sloyan, WS Kessler, KE McTaggart Progress in Oceanography 52 (1), 31-61, 2002 | 419 | 2002 |
| On the Future of Argo: A Global, Full-Depth, Multi-Disciplinary Array D Roemmich, MH Alford, H Claustre, K Johnson, B King, J Moum, P Oke, ... Frontiers in Marine Science 6, 439, 2019 | 388 | 2019 |
| Energy budget constraints on climate response A Otto, FEL Otto, O Boucher, J Church, G Hegerl, PM Forster, NP Gillett, ... Nature Geoscience 6 (6), 415-416, 2013 | 378 | 2013 |
| Observed changes in top-of-the-atmosphere radiation and upper-ocean heating consistent within uncertainty NG Loeb, JM Lyman, GC Johnson, RP Allan, DR Doelling, T Wong, ... Nature Geoscience 5 (2), 110-113, 2012 | 359 | 2012 |
| Antarctic Bottom Water warming and freshening: Contributions to sea level rise, ocean freshwater budgets, and global heat gain SG PURKEY, GC JOHNSON Journal of Climate, 2013 | 352 | 2013 |
| Global sea-level budget 1993-present A Cazenave, B Meyssignac, M Ablain, M Balmaseda, J Bamber, ... University of Tasmania, 2018 | 341* | 2018 |
| On the size of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current GC Johnson, HL Bryden Deep Sea Research Part A. Oceanographic Research Papers 36 (1), 39-53, 1989 | 325 | 1989 |
| Global ocean surface velocities from drifters: Mean, variance, El Niño–Southern Oscillation response, and seasonal cycle R Lumpkin, GC Johnson Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 118 (6), 2992-3006, 2013 | 309 | 2013 |
| Heat stored in the earth system: Where does the energy go? The GCOS earth heat inventory team K Von Schuckmann, L Cheng, MD Palmer, C Tassone, V Aich, ... Earth System Science Data Discussions 2020, 1-45, 2020 | 301 | 2020 |
| MIMOC: A global monthly isopycnal upper‐ocean climatology with mixed layers S Schmidtko, GC Johnson, JM Lyman Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 118 (4), 1658-1672, 2013 | 291 | 2013 |
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