Climate variability and models

Most cited papers

1. The ERA5 global reanalysisQuarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society · 2020 · 32,660 citations
2. The NCEP/NCAR 40-Year Reanalysis ProjectBulletin of the American Meteorological Society · 1996 · 29,254 citations
3. The ERA‐Interim reanalysis: configuration and performance of the data assimilation systemQuarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society · 2011 · 26,540 citations
4. Very high resolution interpolated climate surfaces for global land areasInternational Journal of Climatology · 2005 · 20,353 citations
5. WorldClim 2: new 1‐km spatial resolution climate surfaces for global land areasInternational Journal of Climatology · 2017 · 17,773 citations
6. An Overview of CMIP5 and the Experiment DesignBulletin of the American Meteorological Society · 2011 · 14,882 citations
7. GENERAL CIRCULATION EXPERIMENTS WITH THE PRIMITIVE EQUATIONSMonthly Weather Review · 1963 · 14,177 citations
8. Updated world map of the Köppen-Geiger climate classificationHydrology and earth system sciences · 2007 · 13,202 citations
9. Overview of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) experimental design and organizationGeoscientific model development · 2016 · 12,517 citations
10. World Map of the Köppen-Geiger climate classification updatedMeteorologische Zeitschrift · 2006 · 11,655 citations
11. Global analyses of sea surface temperature, sea ice, and night marine air temperature since the late nineteenth centuryJournal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 2003 · 11,492 citations
12. A Multiscalar Drought Index Sensitive to Global Warming: The Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration IndexJournal of Climate · 2009 · 9,718 citations
13. Summarizing multiple aspects of model performance in a single diagramJournal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 2001 · 8,923 citations
14. Decadal Trends in the North Atlantic Oscillation: Regional Temperatures and PrecipitationScience · 1995 · 8,102 citations
15. A New Vertical Diffusion Package with an Explicit Treatment of Entrainment ProcessesMonthly Weather Review · 2006 · 7,487 citations
16. A Pacific Interdecadal Climate Oscillation with Impacts on Salmon ProductionBulletin of the American Meteorological Society · 1997 · 7,213 citations
17. The ERA‐40 re‐analysisQuarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society · 2005 · 7,167 citations
18. The TRMM Multisatellite Precipitation Analysis (TMPA): Quasi-Global, Multiyear, Combined-Sensor Precipitation Estimates at Fine ScalesJournal of Hydrometeorology · 2007 · 7,013 citations
19. Advantages of the mean absolute error (MAE) over the root mean square error (RMSE) in assessing average model performanceClimate Research · 2005 · 6,597 citations
20. Root mean square error (RMSE) or mean absolute error (MAE)? – Arguments against avoiding RMSE in the literatureGeoscientific model development · 2014 · 6,497 citations
21. Application of the cross wavelet transform and wavelet coherence to geophysical time seriesNonlinear processes in geophysics · 2004 · 6,421 citations
22. Updated high‐resolution grids of monthly climatic observations – the CRU TS3 .10 DatasetInternational Journal of Climatology · 2013 · 6,376 citations
23. Coupling an Advanced Land Surface–Hydrology Model with the Penn State–NCAR MM5 Modeling System. Part I: Model Implementation and SensitivityMonthly Weather Review · 2001 · 5,893 citations
24. The Version-2 Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) Monthly Precipitation Analysis (1979–Present)Journal of Hydrometeorology · 2003 · 5,567 citations
25. Sequential data assimilation with a nonlinear quasi‐geostrophic model using Monte Carlo methods to forecast error statisticsJournal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 1994 · 5,560 citations
26. NCEP–DOE AMIP-II Reanalysis (R-2)Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society · 2002 · 5,454 citations
27. ERA5-Land: a state-of-the-art global reanalysis dataset for land applicationsEarth system science data · 2021 · 5,362 citations
28. The NCEP Climate Forecast System ReanalysisBulletin of the American Meteorological Society · 2010 · 5,353 citations
29. The Scenario Model Intercomparison Project (ScenarioMIP) for CMIP6Geoscientific model development · 2016 · 5,281 citations
30. MERRA: NASA’s Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and ApplicationsJournal of Climate · 2011 · 5,206 citations
31. The Kain–Fritsch Convective Parameterization: An UpdateJournal of applied meteorology · 2004 · 5,183 citations
32. Robust Responses of the Hydrological Cycle to Global WarmingJournal of Climate · 2006 · 5,152 citations
33. The JRA-55 Reanalysis: General Specifications and Basic CharacteristicsJournal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II · 2015 · 5,047 citations
34. Climate Extremes: Observations, Modeling, and ImpactsScience · 2000 · 4,971 citations
35. An Improved In Situ and Satellite SST Analysis for ClimateJournal of Climate · 2002 · 4,690 citations
36. Teleconnections in the Geopotential Height Field during the Northern Hemisphere WinterMonthly Weather Review · 1981 · 4,590 citations
37. Oceanic vertical mixing: A review and a model with a nonlocal boundary layer parameterizationReviews of Geophysics · 1994 · 4,583 citations
38. Global observed changes in daily climate extremes of temperature and precipitationJournal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 2006 · 4,560 citations
39. Daily High-Resolution-Blended Analyses for Sea Surface TemperatureJournal of Climate · 2007 · 4,479 citations
40. Classification, Seasonality and Persistence of Low-Frequency Atmospheric Circulation PatternsMonthly Weather Review · 1987 · 3,840 citations
41. ATMOSPHERIC TELECONNECTIONS FROM THE EQUATORIAL PACIFIC1Monthly Weather Review · 1969 · 3,600 citations
42. Mixed layer depth over the global ocean: An examination of profile data and a profile‐based climatologyJournal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 2004 · 3,369 citations
43. Description of Global-Scale Circulation Cells in the Tropics with a 40–50 Day PeriodJournal of the Atmospheric Sciences · 1972 · 2,995 citations