| Global energy conversion rate from geostrophic flows into internal lee waves in the deep ocean M Nikurashin, R Ferrari Geophysical Research Letters 38, L08610, 2011 | 293 | 2011 |
| Suppression of eddy diffusivity across jets in the Southern Ocean R Ferrari, M Nikurashin Journal of Physical Oceanography 40 (7), 1501-1519, 2010 | 277 | 2010 |
| Radiation and dissipation of internal waves generated by geostrophic motions impinging on small-scale topography: Theory M Nikurashin, R Ferrari Journal of Physical Oceanography 40 (5), 1055-1074, 2010 | 246 | 2010 |
| Routes to energy dissipation for geostrophic flows in the Southern Ocean M Nikurashin, GK Vallis, A Adcroft Nature Geoscience 6 (1), 48-51, 2013 | 207 | 2013 |
| Turning ocean mixing upside down R Ferrari, A Mashayek, TJ McDougall, M Nikurashin, JM Campin Journal of Physical Oceanography 46 (7), 2239-2261, 2016 | 203 | 2016 |
| A theory of the interhemispheric meridional overturning circulation and associated stratification M Nikurashin, G Vallis Journal of Physical Oceanography 42 (10), 1652-1667, 2012 | 191 | 2012 |
| Radiation and dissipation of internal waves generated by geostrophic motions impinging on small-scale topography: Application to the Southern Ocean M Nikurashin, R Ferrari Journal of Physical Oceanography 40 (9), 2025-2042, 2010 | 186 | 2010 |
| Overturning circulation driven by breaking internal waves in the deep ocean M Nikurashin, R Ferrari Geophysical Research Letters 40 (12), 3133-3137, 2013 | 177 | 2013 |
| A theory of deep stratification and overturning circulation in the ocean M Nikurashin, G Vallis Journal of Physical Oceanography 41 (3), 485-502, 2011 | 166 | 2011 |
| ACCESS-OM2 v1. 0: a global ocean–sea ice model at three resolutions AE Kiss, AMC Hogg, N Hannah, F Boeira Dias, GB Brassington, ... Geoscientific Model Development 13 (2), 401-442, 2020 | 154 | 2020 |
| A mechanism for local dissipation of internal tides generated at rough topography M Nikurashin, S Legg Journal of Physical Oceanography 41 (2), 378-395, 2011 | 136 | 2011 |
| Southern Ocean buoyancy forcing of ocean ventilation and glacial atmospheric CO2 AJ Watson, GK Vallis, M Nikurashin Nature Geoscience 8 (11), 861-864, 2015 | 131 | 2015 |
| Efficiency of turbulent mixing in the abyssal ocean circulation A Mashayek, H Salehipour, D Bouffard, CP Caulfield, R Ferrari, ... Geophysical Research Letters 44 (12), 6296-6306, 2017 | 115 | 2017 |
| The impact of finite-amplitude bottom topography on internal wave generation in the Southern Ocean M Nikurashin, R Ferrari, N Grisouard, K Polzin Journal of Physical Oceanography 44 (11), 2938-2950, 2014 | 92 | 2014 |
| Sensitivity of the ocean state to lee wave–driven mixing A Melet, R Hallberg, S Legg, M Nikurashin Journal of physical oceanography 44 (3), 900-921, 2014 | 85 | 2014 |
| Internal tide generation by abyssal hills using analytical theory A Melet, M Nikurashin, C Muller, S Falahat, J Nycander, PG Timko, ... Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 118 (11), 6303-6318, 2013 | 73 | 2013 |
| Problems and prospects in large-scale ocean circulation models SM Griffies, AJ Adcroft, H Banks, CW Böning, EP Chassignet, ... Proceedings of OceanObs 9, 410-431, 2009 | 69 | 2009 |
| Influence of enhanced abyssal diapycnal mixing on stratification and the ocean overturning circulation A Mashayek, R Ferrari, M Nikurashin, WR Peltier Journal of Physical Oceanography 45 (10), 2580-2597, 2015 | 53 | 2015 |
| Dissipation of mesoscale eddies and its contribution to mixing in the northern South China Sea Q Yang, M Nikurashin, H Sasaki, H Sun, J Tian Scientific Reports 9 (1), 556, 2019 | 51 | 2019 |
| Energy loss from transient eddies due to lee wave generation in the Southern Ocean L Yang, M Nikurashin, AM Hogg, BM Sloyan Journal of Physical Oceanography 48 (12), 2867-2885, 2018 | 41 | 2018 |
Vallis, GKUniversity of ExeterVerified email at exeter.ac.uk