| Atmospheric and oceanic fluid dynamics GK Vallis Cambridge University Press, 2017 | 3870 | 2017 |
| Probing the fast and slow components of global warming by returning abruptly to preindustrial forcing IM Held, M Winton, K Takahashi, T Delworth, F Zeng, GK Vallis Journal of Climate 23 (9), 2418-2427, 2010 | 525 | 2010 |
| Generation of mean flows and jets on a beta plane and over topography GK Vallis, ME Maltrud Journal of physical oceanography 23, 1346-1346, 1993 | 488 | 1993 |
| A stratospheric influence on the winter NAO and North Atlantic surface climate AA Scaife, JR Knight, GK Vallis, CK Folland Geophys. Res. Lett 32 (18), L18, 2005 | 336 | 2005 |
| Energy spectra and coherent structures in forced two-dimensional and beta-plane turbulence ME Maltrud, GK Vallis Journal of Fluid Mechanics 228, 321-342, 1991 | 320 | 1991 |
| Response of the large‐scale structure of the atmosphere to global warming GK Vallis, P Zurita‐Gotor, C Cairns, J Kidston Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 141 (690), 1479-1501, 2015 | 258 | 2015 |
| Turbulent diffusion in the geostrophic inverse cascade KS Smith, G Boccaletti, CC Henning, I Marinov, CY Tam, IM Held, ... Journal of Fluid Mechanics 469, 13-48, 2002 | 216 | 2002 |
| A mechanism and simple dynamical model of the North Atlantic Oscillation and annular modes GK Vallis, EP Gerber, PJ Kushner, BA Cash Journal of the atmospheric sciences 61 (3), 264-280, 2004 | 215 | 2004 |
| Routes to energy dissipation for geostrophic flows in the Southern Ocean M Nikurashin, GK Vallis, A Adcroft Nature Geoscience 6 (1), 48-51, 2013 | 194 | 2013 |
| A theory of the interhemispheric meridional overturning circulation and associated stratification M Nikurashin, G Vallis Journal of Physical Oceanography 42 (10), 1652-1667, 2012 | 177 | 2012 |
| The scales and equilibration of midocean eddies: Freely evolving flow KS Smith, GK Vallis Journal of Physical Oceanography 31 (2), 554-571, 2001 | 176 | 2001 |
| Rossby number expansions, slaving principles, and balance dynamics T Warn, O Bokhove, TG Shepherd, GK Vallis Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 121 (523), 723-739, 1995 | 168 | 1995 |
| El Niño: A chaotic dynamical system? GK Vallis Science 232 (4747), 243-245, 1986 | 163 | 1986 |
| Large-scale circulation with small diapycnal diffusion: The two-thermocline limit RM Samelson, GK Vallis Journal of Marine Research 55 (2), 223-275, 1997 | 156 | 1997 |
| A theory of deep stratification and overturning circulation in the ocean M Nikurashin, G Vallis Journal of Physical Oceanography 41 (3), 485-502, 2011 | 153 | 2011 |
| The role of bottom vortex stretching on the path of the North Atlantic western boundary current and on the northern recirculation gyre R Zhang, GK Vallis Journal of Physical Oceanography 37 (8), 2053-2080, 2007 | 142 | 2007 |
| Large-scale circulation and production of stratification: Effects of wind, geometry, and diffusion GK Vallis Journal of Physical Oceanography 30 (5), 933-954, 2000 | 139 | 2000 |
| A boundary-value problem for the parameterized mesoscale eddy transport R Ferrari, SM Griffies, AJG Nurser, GK Vallis Ocean Modelling 32 (3-4), 143-156, 2010 | 136 | 2010 |
| Eddy–zonal flow interactions and the persistence of the zonal index EP Gerber, GK Vallis Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 64 (9), 3296-3311, 2007 | 135 | 2007 |
| Extremal energy properties and construction of stable solutions of the Euler equations GK Vallis, GF Carnevale, WR Young Journal of Fluid Mechanics 207, 133-152, 1989 | 125 | 1989 |
