| 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 | 515 | 2013 |
| 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 | 422 | 2010 |
| 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 | 347 | 2012 |
| 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 | 266 | 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 | 253 | 2020 |
| State of the Climate in 2018 J Blunden, DS Arndt Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 100 (9), Si-S306, 2019 | 220 | 2019 |
| Measuring global ocean heat content to estimate the Earth energy imbalance B Meyssignac, T Boyer, Z Zhao, MZ Hakuba, FW Landerer, D Stammer, ... Frontiers in Marine Science 6, 432, 2019 | 174 | 2019 |
| Argo data 1999–2019: Two million temperature-salinity profiles and subsurface velocity observations from a global array of profiling floats APS Wong, SE Wijffels, SC Riser, S Pouliquen, S Hosoda, D Roemmich, ... Frontiers in Marine Science 7, 700, 2020 | 166 | 2020 |
| Recent cooling of the upper ocean JM Lyman, JK Willis, GC Johnson Geophysical Research Letters 33 (18), 2006 | 165 | 2006 |
| Satellite and ocean data reveal marked increase in Earth’s heating rate NG Loeb, GC Johnson, TJ Thorsen, JM Lyman, FG Rose, S Kato Geophysical Research Letters 48 (13), e2021GL093047, 2021 | 146 | 2021 |
| Warming trends increasingly dominate global ocean GC Johnson, JM Lyman Nature Climate Change 10 (8), 757-761, 2020 | 141 | 2020 |
| Estimating global ocean heat content changes in the upper 1800 m since 1950 and the influence of climatology choice JM Lyman, GC Johnson Journal of Climate 27 (5), 1945-1957, 2014 | 141 | 2014 |
| Improving estimates of Earth's energy imbalance GC Johnson, JM Lyman, NG Loeb Nature Climate Change 6 (7), 639-640, 2016 | 140 | 2016 |
| Distinct 17-and 33-day tropical instability waves in subsurface observations JM Lyman, GC Johnson, WS Kessler Journal of physical oceanography 37 (4), 855-872, 2007 | 120 | 2007 |
| Informing deep Argo array design using Argo and full-depth hydrographic section data GC Johnson, JM Lyman, SG Purkey Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology 32 (11), 2187-2198, 2015 | 119 | 2015 |
| Sensitivity of global upper-ocean heat content estimates to mapping methods, XBT bias corrections, and baseline climatologies T Boyer, CM Domingues, SA Good, GC Johnson, JM Lyman, M Ishii, ... Journal of Climate 29 (13), 4817-4842, 2016 | 110 | 2016 |
| Estimating annual global upper-ocean heat content anomalies despite irregular in situ ocean sampling JM Lyman, GC Johnson Journal of Climate 21 (21), 5629-5641, 2008 | 109 | 2008 |
| Relative contributions of temperature and salinity to seasonal mixed layer density changes and horizontal density gradients GC Johnson, S Schmidtko, JM Lyman Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 117 (C4), 2012 | 103 | 2012 |
| Correction to" Recent cooling of the upper ocean" JK Willis, JM Lyman, GC Johnson, J Gilson Geophysical Research Letters 34 (16), L16601, 2007 | 96 | 2007 |
| In situ data biases and recent ocean heat content variability JK Willis, JM Lyman, GC Johnson, J Gilson Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology 26 (4), 846-852, 2009 | 91 | 2009 |
