| Global ocean meridional overturning R Lumpkin, K Speer Journal of Physical Oceanography 37 (10), 2550-2562, 2007 | 882 | 2007 |
| Supplement: State of the Climate in 2013 supplemental figures J Blunden, DS Arndt Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 95 (7), ES1-ES22, 2014 | 501* | 2014 |
| Measuring surface currents with Surface Velocity Program drifters: the instrument, its data, and some recent results R Lumpkin, M Pazos Lagrangian analysis and prediction of coastal and ocean dynamics 39, 67, 2007 | 487 | 2007 |
| The PIRATA program: History, accomplishments, and future directions B Bourlès, R Lumpkin, MJ McPhaden, F Hernandez, P Nobre, E Campos, ... Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 89 (8), 1111-1126, 2008 | 408 | 2008 |
| 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 |
| Near-surface circulation in the tropical Atlantic Ocean R Lumpkin, SL Garzoli Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers 52 (3), 495-518, 2005 | 308 | 2005 |
| Toward the integrated marine debris observing system N Maximenko, P Corradi, KL Law, E Van Sebille, SP Garaba, RS Lampitt, ... Frontiers in marine science 6, 447, 2019 | 262 | 2019 |
| State of the Climate in 2018 J Blunden, DS Arndt Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 100 (9), Si-S306, 2019 | 236* | 2019 |
| Advances in the application of surface drifters R Lumpkin, T Özgökmen, L Centurioni Annual review of marine science 9 (1), 59-81, 2017 | 197 | 2017 |
| An improved near-surface velocity climatology for the global ocean from drifter observations LC Laurindo, AJ Mariano, R Lumpkin Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers 124, 73-92, 2017 | 183 | 2017 |
| The establishment of a pelagic Sargassum population in the tropical Atlantic: biological consequences of a basin-scale long distance dispersal event EM Johns, R Lumpkin, NF Putman, RH Smith, FE Muller-Karger, ... Progress in Oceanography 182, 102269, 2020 | 175 | 2020 |
| Large-scale vertical and horizontal circulation in the North Atlantic Ocean R Lumpkin, K Speer Journal of Physical Oceanography 33 (9), 1902-1920, 2003 | 172 | 2003 |
| Surface drifter pair spreading in the North Atlantic R Lumpkin, S Elipot Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 115 (C12), 2010 | 166 | 2010 |
| The global tropical moored buoy array MJ McPhaden, K Ando, B Bourles, HP Freitag, R Lumpkin, Y Masumoto, ... Proceedings of OceanObs 9, 668-682, 2010 | 164 | 2010 |
| A global surface drifter data set at hourly resolution S Elipot, R Lumpkin, RC Perez, JM Lilly, JJ Early, AM Sykulski Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 121 (5), 2937-2966, 2016 | 157 | 2016 |
| Lagrangian eddy scales in the northern Atlantic Ocean R Lumpkin, AM Treguier, K Speer Journal of physical oceanography 32 (9), 2425-2440, 2002 | 149 | 2002 |
| The response of the surface circulation of the Arabian Sea to monsoonal forcing LM Beal, V Hormann, R Lumpkin, GR Foltz Journal of Physical Oceanography 43 (9), 2008-2022, 2013 | 142 | 2013 |
| Interannual to decadal changes in the western South Atlantic's surface circulation R Lumpkin, S Garzoli Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 116 (C1), 2011 | 142 | 2011 |
| Dissolved organic nitrogen in the global surface ocean: Distribution and fate RT Letscher, DA Hansell, CA Carlson, R Lumpkin, AN Knapp Global Biogeochemical Cycles 27 (1), 141-153, 2013 | 134 | 2013 |
| Removing spurious low-frequency variability in drifter velocities R Lumpkin, SA Grodsky, L Centurioni, MH Rio, JA Carton, D Lee Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology 30 (2), 353-360, 2013 | 131 | 2013 |