| Tipping elements in the Earth's climate system TM Lenton, H Held, E Kriegler, JW Hall, W Lucht, S Rahmstorf, ... Proceedings of the national Academy of Sciences 105 (6), 1786-1793, 2008 | 2593 | 2008 |
| Climate models and their evaluation DA Randall, RA Wood, S Bony, R Colman, T Fichefet, J Fyfe, V Kattsov, ... Climate change 2007: The physical science basis. Contribution of Working …, 2007 | 2047 | 2007 |
| A semi-empirical approach to projecting future sea-level rise S Rahmstorf Science 315 (5810), 368-370, 2007 | 1990 | 2007 |
| Increasing river discharge to the Arctic Ocean BJ Peterson, RM Holmes, JW McClelland, CJ Vörösmarty, RB Lammers, ... science 298 (5601), 2171-2173, 2002 | 1335 | 2002 |
| Global sea level linked to global temperature M Vermeer, S Rahmstorf Proceedings of the national academy of sciences 106 (51), 21527-21532, 2009 | 1233 | 2009 |
| A decade of weather extremes D Coumou, S Rahmstorf Nature climate change 2 (7), 491, 2012 | 1161 | 2012 |
| Ocean circulation and climate during the past 120,000 years S Rahmstorf Nature 419 (6903), 207, 2002 | 1087 | 2002 |
| Masson-Delmotte, V. 2007.“Palaeoclimate” E Jansen, J Overpeck, KR Briffa, JC Duplessy, F Joos | 994 | 2007 |
| Rapid changes of glacial climate simulated in a coupled climate model A Ganopolski, S Rahmstorf Nature 409 (6817), 153, 2001 | 913 | 2001 |
| Recent climate observations compared to projections S Rahmstorf, A Cazenave, JA Church, JE Hansen, RF Keeling, DE Parker, ... Science 316 (5825), 709-709, 2007 | 858 | 2007 |
| Bifurcations of the Atlantic thermohaline circulation in response to changes in the hydrological cycle S Rahmstorf Nature 378 (6553), 145, 1995 | 792 | 1995 |
| Increase of extreme events in a warming world S Rahmstorf, D Coumou Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108 (44), 17905-17909, 2011 | 648 | 2011 |
| Increase of extreme events in a warming world S Rahmstorf, D Coumou Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108 (44), 17905-17909, 2011 | 648 | 2011 |
| On the driving processes of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation T Kuhlbrodt, A Griesel, M Montoya, A Levermann, M Hofmann, ... Reviews of Geophysics 45 (2), 2007 | 548 | 2007 |
| On the freshwater forcing and transport of the Atlantic thermohaline circulation S Rahmstorf Climate Dynamics 12 (12), 799-811, 1996 | 524 | 1996 |
| Simulation of modern and glacial climates with a coupled global model of intermediate complexity A Ganopolski, S Rahmstorf, V Petoukhov, M Claussen Nature 391 (6665), 351, 1998 | 494 | 1998 |
| CLIMBER-2: a climate system model of intermediate complexity. Part I: model description and performance for present climate V Petoukhov, A Ganopolski, V Brovkin, M Claussen, A Eliseev, C Kubatzki, ... Climate dynamics 16 (1), 1-17, 2000 | 485 | 2000 |
| The Copenhagen diagnosis, 2009: updating the world on the latest climate science E Rignot, I Allison, NL Bindoff, RA Bindschadler, PM Cox, N de Noblet, ... | 448 | 2011 |
| Long-term global warming scenarios computed with an efficient coupled climate model S Rahmstorf, A Ganopolski Climatic change 43 (2), 353-367, 1999 | 378 | 1999 |
| Exceptional twentieth-century slowdown in Atlantic Ocean overturning circulation S Rahmstorf, JE Box, G Feulner, ME Mann, A Robinson, S Rutherford, ... Nature climate change 5 (5), 475, 2015 | 374 | 2015 |