| Abyssal recipes II: Energetics of tidal and wind mixing W Munk, C Wunsch Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers 45 (12), 1977-2010, 1998 | 2539 | 1998 |
| Vertical mixing, energy, and the general circulation of the oceans C Wunsch, R Ferrari Annu. Rev. Fluid Mech. 36 (1), 281-314, 2004 | 1823 | 2004 |
| Improved estimates of global ocean circulation, heat transport and mixing from hydrographic data A Ganachaud, C Wunsch Nature 408 (6811), 453-457, 2000 | 1253 | 2000 |
| Ocean acoustic tomography W Munk, P Worcester, C Wunsch Markus Jochum et Raghu Murtugudde, editeurs, Physical Oceanography, 119, 1995 | 1178 | 1995 |
| The ocean circulation inverse problem C Wunsch Cambridge University Press, 1996 | 1131 | 1996 |
| Ocean circulation kinetic energy: Reservoirs, sources, and sinks R Ferrari, C Wunsch Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics 41 (1), 253-282, 2009 | 1066 | 2009 |
| Ocean acoustic tomography: A scheme for large scale monitoring W Munk, C Wunsch Deep Sea Research Part A. Oceanographic Research Papers 26 (2), 123-161, 1979 | 1066 | 1979 |
| Carbon dioxide and climate: a scientific assessment National Research Council | 906 | 2008 |
| ECCO version 4: An integrated framework for non-linear inverse modeling and global ocean state estimation G Forget, JM Campin, P Heimbach, CN Hill, RM Ponte, C Wunsch Geoscientific Model Development 8 (10), 3071-3104, 2015 | 705 | 2015 |
| An estimate of global ocean circulation and heat fluxes AM Macdonald, C Wunsch Nature 382 (6590), 436-439, 1996 | 520 | 1996 |
| An eddy-permitting Southern Ocean state estimate MR Mazloff, P Heimbach, C Wunsch Journal of Physical Oceanography 40 (5), 880-899, 2010 | 510 | 2010 |
| Atmospheric loading and the oceanic “inverted barometer” effect C Wunsch, D Stammer Reviews of Geophysics 35 (1), 79-107, 1997 | 498 | 1997 |
| Two transatlantic sections: Meridional circulation and heat flux in the subtropical North Atlantic Ocean D Roemmich, C Wunsch Deep Sea Research Part A. Oceanographic Research Papers 32 (6), 619-664, 1985 | 490 | 1985 |
| The interpretation of short climate records, with comments on the North Atlantic and Southern Oscillations C Wunsch Bulletin of the american meteorological society 80 (2), 245-256, 1999 | 475 | 1999 |
| The work done by the wind on the oceanic general circulation C Wunsch Journal of Physical Oceanography 28 (11), 2332-2340, 1998 | 458 | 1998 |
| Large-scale ocean heat and freshwater transports during the World Ocean Circulation Experiment A Ganachaud, C Wunsch Journal of Climate 16 (4), 696-705, 2003 | 457 | 2003 |
| Global ocean circulation during 1992–1997, estimated from ocean observations and a general circulation model D Stammer, C Wunsch, R Giering, C Eckert, P Heimbach, J Marotzke, ... Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 107 (C9), 1-1-1-27, 2002 | 457 | 2002 |
| The North Atlantic general circulation west of 50 W determined by inverse methods C Wunsch Reviews of Geophysics 16 (4), 583-620, 1978 | 433 | 1978 |
| Internal tides in the ocean C Wunsch Reviews of Geophysics 13 (1), 167-182, 1975 | 422 | 1975 |
| Practical global oceanic state estimation C Wunsch, P Heimbach Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 230 (1-2), 197-208, 2007 | 414 | 2007 |
