| Climatological characteristics of atmospheric rivers and their inland penetration over the western United States JJ Rutz, WJ Steenburgh, FM Ralph Monthly Weather Review 142 (2), 905-921, 2014 | 542 | 2014 |
| A scale to characterize the strength and impacts of atmospheric rivers FM Ralph, JJ Rutz, JM Cordeira, M Dettinger, M Anderson, D Reynolds, ... Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 100 (2), 269-289, 2019 | 344 | 2019 |
| Atmospheric river tracking method intercomparison project (ARTMIP): Project goals and experimental design CA Shields, JJ Rutz, LY Leung, FM Ralph, M Wehner, B Kawzenuk, ... Geoscientific Model Development 11 (6), 2455-2474, 2018 | 243 | 2018 |
| Responses and impacts of atmospheric rivers to climate change AE Payne, ME Demory, LR Leung, AM Ramos, CA Shields, JJ Rutz, ... Nature Reviews Earth & Environment 1 (3), 143-157, 2020 | 239 | 2020 |
| Assessing the climate‐scale variability of atmospheric rivers affecting western North America A Gershunov, T Shulgina, FM Ralph, DA Lavers, JJ Rutz Geophysical Research Letters 44 (15), 7900-7908, 2017 | 229 | 2017 |
| The atmospheric river tracking method intercomparison project (ARTMIP): Quantifying uncertainties in atmospheric river climatology JJ Rutz, CA Shields, JM Lora, AE Payne, B Guan, P Ullrich, T O’brien, ... Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 124 (24), 13777-13802, 2019 | 169 | 2019 |
| Atmospheric rivers emerge as a global science and applications focus FM Ralph, M Dettinger, D Lavers, IV Gorodetskaya, A Martin, M Viale, ... Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 98 (9), 1969-1973, 2017 | 137 | 2017 |
| The inland penetration of atmospheric rivers over western North America: A Lagrangian analysis JJ Rutz, WJ Steenburgh, FM Ralph Monthly Weather Review 143 (5), 1924-1944, 2015 | 125 | 2015 |
| Quantifying the role of atmospheric rivers in the interior western United States JJ Rutz, WJ Steenburgh Atmospheric Science Letters 13 (4), 257-261, 2012 | 115 | 2012 |
| Breaking down the tropospheric circulation response by forcing PW Staten, JJ Rutz, T Reichler, J Lu Climate dynamics 39, 2361-2375, 2012 | 92 | 2012 |
| ARTMIP-early start comparison of atmospheric river detection tools: how many atmospheric rivers hit northern California’s Russian River watershed? FM Ralph, AM Wilson, T Shulgina, B Kawzenuk, S Sellars, JJ Rutz, ... Climate Dynamics 52, 4973-4994, 2019 | 80 | 2019 |
| Increases in future AR count and size: Overview of the ARTMIP Tier 2 CMIP5/6 experiment TA O’Brien, MF Wehner, AE Payne, CA Shields, JJ Rutz, LR Leung, ... Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 127 (6), e2021JD036013, 2022 | 70 | 2022 |
| Forecasting atmospheric rivers during CalWater 2015 JM Cordeira, FM Ralph, A Martin, N Gaggini, JR Spackman, PJ Neiman, ... Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 98 (3), 449-459, 2017 | 57 | 2017 |
| West Coast forecast challenges and development of atmospheric river reconnaissance FM Ralph, F Cannon, V Tallapragada, CA Davis, JD Doyle, ... Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 101 (8), E1357-E1377, 2020 | 56 | 2020 |
| Consensus and disagreement in atmospheric river detection: ARTMIP global catalogues JM Lora, CA Shields, JJ Rutz Geophysical Research Letters 47 (20), e2020GL089302, 2020 | 55 | 2020 |
| Atmospheric rivers FM Ralph, MD Dettinger, JJ Rutz, DE Waliser Springer, 2020 | 51 | 2020 |
| An overview of ARTMIP's Tier 2 Reanalysis Intercomparison: Uncertainty in the detection of atmospheric rivers and their associated precipitation ABM Collow, CA Shields, B Guan, S Kim, JM Lora, EE McClenny, K Nardi, ... Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 127 (8), e2021JD036155, 2022 | 48 | 2022 |
| Avalanche fatalities during atmospheric river events in the western United States BJ Hatchett, S Burak, JJ Rutz, NS Oakley, EH Bair, ML Kaplan Journal of Hydrometeorology 18 (5), 1359-1374, 2017 | 45 | 2017 |
| Empirical return periods of the most intense vapor transports during historical atmospheric river landfalls on the US West Coast MD Dettinger, FM Ralph, JJ Rutz Journal of Hydrometeorology 19 (8), 1363-1377, 2018 | 34 | 2018 |
| Hourly analyses of the large storms and atmospheric rivers that provide most of California’s precipitation in only 10 to 100 hours per year MA Lamjiri, MD Dettinger, FM Ralph, NS Oakley, JJ Rutz San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science 16 (4), 2018 | 32 | 2018 |
