| Increasing frequency of extreme El Niño events due to greenhouse warming W Cai, S Borlace, M Lengaigne, P Van Rensch, M Collins, G Vecchi, ... Nature climate change 4 (2), 111-116, 2014 | 2356 | 2014 |
| El Niño–southern oscillation complexity A Timmermann, SI An, JS Kug, FF Jin, W Cai, A Capotondi, KM Cobb, ... Nature 559 (7715), 535-545, 2018 | 1040 | 2018 |
| ENSO and greenhouse warming W Cai, A Santoso, G Wang, SW Yeh, SI An, KM Cobb, M Collins, ... Nature Climate Change 5 (9), 849-859, 2015 | 869 | 2015 |
| Increased frequency of extreme La Niña events under greenhouse warming W Cai, G Wang, A Santoso, MJ McPhaden, L Wu, FF Jin, A Timmermann, ... Nature Climate Change 5 (2), 132-137, 2015 | 732 | 2015 |
| 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 | 642 | 2015 |
| Climate impacts of the El Niño–southern oscillation on South America W Cai, MJ McPhaden, AM Grimm, RR Rodrigues, AS Taschetto, ... Nature Reviews Earth & Environment 1 (4), 215-231, 2020 | 609 | 2020 |
| Pantropical climate interactions W Cai, L Wu, M Lengaigne, T Li, S McGregor, JS Kug, JY Yu, MF Stuecker, ... Science 363 (6430), eaav4236, 2019 | 606 | 2019 |
| Increased variability of eastern Pacific El Niño under greenhouse warming W Cai, G Wang, B Dewitte, L Wu, A Santoso, K Takahashi, Y Yang, ... Nature 564 (7735), 201-206, 2018 | 577 | 2018 |
| Changing El Niño–Southern oscillation in a warming climate W Cai, A Santoso, M Collins, B Dewitte, C Karamperidou, JS Kug, ... Nature Reviews Earth & Environment 2 (9), 628-644, 2021 | 441 | 2021 |
| Increased frequency of extreme Indian Ocean Dipole events due to greenhouse warming W Cai, A Santoso, G Wang, E Weller, L Wu, K Ashok, Y Masumoto, ... Nature 510 (7504), 254-258, 2014 | 392 | 2014 |
| Continued increase of extreme El Niño frequency long after 1.5 C warming stabilization G Wang, W Cai, B Gan, L Wu, A Santoso, X Lin, Z Chen, MJ McPhaden Nature Climate Change 7 (8), 568-572, 2017 | 265 | 2017 |
| Increased ENSO sea surface temperature variability under four IPCC emission scenarios W Cai, B Ng, G Wang, A Santoso, L Wu, K Yang Nature Climate Change 12 (3), 228-231, 2022 | 175 | 2022 |
| Tropical teleconnection impacts on Antarctic climate changes X Li, W Cai, GA Meehl, D Chen, X Yuan, M Raphael, DM Holland, Q Ding, ... Nature Reviews Earth & Environment 2 (10), 680-698, 2021 | 168 | 2021 |
| Decadal climate variability in the tropical Pacific: Characteristics, causes, predictability, and prospects S Power, M Lengaigne, A Capotondi, M Khodri, J Vialard, B Jebri, ... Science 374 (6563), eaay9165, 2021 | 160 | 2021 |
| Opposite response of strong and moderate positive Indian Ocean Dipole to global warming W Cai, K Yang, L Wu, G Huang, A Santoso, B Ng, G Wang, T Yamagata Nature Climate Change 11 (1), 27-32, 2021 | 124 | 2021 |
| Climate-change impact on the 20th-century relationship between the Southern Annular Mode and global mean temperature G Wang, W Cai Scientific reports 3 (1), 2039, 2013 | 122 | 2013 |
| Stabilised frequency of extreme positive Indian Ocean Dipole under 1.5 C warming W Cai, G Wang, B Gan, L Wu, A Santoso, X Lin, Z Chen, F Jia, ... Nature Communications 9 (1), 1419, 2018 | 96 | 2018 |
| Two-year consecutive concurrences of positive Indian Ocean Dipole and Central Pacific El Niño preconditioned the 2019/2020 Australian “black summer” bushfires G Wang, W Cai Geoscience Letters 7 (1), 19, 2020 | 95 | 2020 |
| Anthropogenic aerosols cause recent pronounced weakening of Asian Summer Monsoon relative to last four centuries Y Liu, W Cai, C Sun, H Song, KM Cobb, J Li, SW Leavitt, L Wu, Q Cai, ... Geophysical Research Letters 46 (10), 5469-5479, 2019 | 86 | 2019 |
| A unique feature of the 2019 extreme positive Indian Ocean Dipole event G Wang, W Cai, K Yang, A Santoso, T Yamagata Geophysical Research Letters 47 (18), e2020GL088615, 2020 | 84 | 2020 |