| The circulation of the eastern tropical Pacific: A review WS Kessler Progress in Oceanography 69 (2-4), 181-217, 2006 | 1109 | 2006 |
| Pacific western boundary currents and their roles in climate D Hu, L Wu, W Cai, AS Gupta, A Ganachaud, B Qiu, AL Gordon, X Lin, ... Nature 522 (7556), 299-308, 2015 | 633 | 2015 |
| Forcing of intraseasonal Kelvin waves in the equatorial Pacific WS Kessler, MJ McPhaden, KM Weickmann Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 100 (C6), 10613-10631, 1995 | 528 | 1995 |
| Observations of long Rossby waves in the northern tropical Pacific WS Kessler Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 95 (C4), 5183-5217, 1990 | 477 | 1990 |
| Rectification of the Madden–Julian oscillation into the ENSO cycle WS Kessler, R Kleeman Journal of Climate 13 (20), 3560-3575, 2000 | 429 | 2000 |
| Direct measurements of upper ocean currents and water properties across the tropical Pacific during the 1990s GC Johnson, BM Sloyan, WS Kessler, KE McTaggart Progress in Oceanography 52 (1), 31-61, 2002 | 420 | 2002 |
| Is ENSO a cycle or a series of events? WS Kessler Geophysical Research Letters 29 (23), 40-1-40-4, 2002 | 353 | 2002 |
| EOF representations of the Madden–Julian oscillation and its connection with ENSO WS Kessler Journal of Climate 14 (13), 3055-3061, 2001 | 312 | 2001 |
| Climate fluctuations of tropical coupled systems—the role of ocean dynamics P Chang, T Yamagata, P Schopf, SK Behera, J Carton, WS Kessler, ... Journal of Climate 19 (20), 5122-5174, 2006 | 292 | 2006 |
| Oceanic equatorial waves and the 1991–93 El Nino WS Kessler, MJ McPhaden Journal of Climate, 1757-1774, 1995 | 272 | 1995 |
| Dynamic heights and zonal geostrophic transports in the central tropical Pacific during 1979–84 WS Kessler, BA Taft Journal of Physical Oceanography 17 (1), 97-122, 1987 | 233 | 1987 |
| Air–sea interaction over the eastern Pacific warm pool: Gap winds, thermocline dome, and atmospheric convection SP Xie, H Xu, WS Kessler, M Nonaka Journal of Climate 18 (1), 5-20, 2005 | 223 | 2005 |
| The 1991–1993 El Niņo in the central Pacific WS Kessler, MJ McPhaden Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography 42 (2-3), 295-333, 1995 | 206 | 1995 |
| The annual wind-driven Rossby wave in the subthermocline equatorial Pacific WS Kessler, JP McCreary Journal of Physical Oceanography 23 (6), 1192-1207, 1993 | 198 | 1993 |
| The S outhwest P acific O cean circulation and climate experiment (SPICE) A Ganachaud, S Cravatte, A Melet, A Schiller, NJ Holbrook, BM Sloyan, ... Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 119 (11), 7660-7686, 2014 | 163 | 2014 |
| The annual cycle of SST in the eastern tropical Pacific, diagnosed in an ocean GCM WS Kessler, LM Rothstein, D Chen Journal of Climate 11 (5), 777-799, 1998 | 145 | 1998 |
| Observed correlation of surface salinity, temperature and barrier layer at the eastern edge of the western Pacific warm pool C Maes, K Ando, T Delcroix, WS Kessler, MJ McPhaden, D Roemmich Geophysical Research Letters 33 (6), 2006 | 138 | 2006 |
| Mean three-dimensional circulation in the northeast tropical Pacific WS Kessler Journal of Physical Oceanography 32 (9), 2457-2471, 2002 | 127 | 2002 |
| 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 | 123 | 2007 |
| Near-surface shear flow in the tropical Pacific cold tongue front MF Cronin, WS Kessler Journal of Physical Oceanography 39 (5), 1200-1215, 2009 | 103 | 2009 |
