| Arctic sea ice decline: Faster than forecast J Stroeve, MM Holland, W Meier, T Scambos, M Serreze Geophysical research letters 34 (9), 2007 | 2554 | 2007 |
| Trends in Arctic sea ice extent from CMIP5, CMIP3 and observations JC Stroeve, V Kattsov, A Barrett, M Serreze, T Pavlova, M Holland, ... Geophysical Research Letters 39 (16), 2012 | 1239 | 2012 |
| Sea ice index, version 2 F Fetterer, K Knowles, W Meier, M Savoie (No Title), 2016 | 834 | 2016 |
| Key indicators of Arctic climate change: 1971–2017 JE Box, WT Colgan, TR Christensen, NM Schmidt, M Lund, ... Environmental Research Letters 14 (4), 045010, 2019 | 816 | 2019 |
| Arctic sea ice extent plummets in 2007 J Stroeve, M Serreze, S Drobot, S Gearheard, M Holland, J Maslanik, ... Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union 89 (2), 13-14, 2008 | 743 | 2008 |
| Arctic sea ice in transformation: A review of recent observed changes and impacts on biology and human activity WN Meier, GK Hovelsrud, BEH Van Oort, JR Key, KM Kovacs, C Michel, ... Reviews of Geophysics 52 (3), 185-217, 2014 | 684 | 2014 |
| Tracking the Arctic's shrinking ice cover: Another extreme September minimum in 2004 JC Stroeve, MC Serreze, F Fetterer, T Arbetter, W Meier, J Maslanik, ... Geophysical Research Letters 32 (4), 2005 | 512 | 2005 |
| A long-term and reproducible passive microwave sea ice concentration data record for climate studies and monitoring G Peng, WN Meier, DJ Scott, MH Savoie Earth System Science Data 5 (2), 311-318, 2013 | 316 | 2013 |
| Variability and trends in the A rctic S ea ice cover: Results from different techniques JC Comiso, WN Meier, R Gersten Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 122 (8), 6883-6900, 2017 | 311 | 2017 |
| A review of recent changes in Southern Ocean sea ice, their drivers and forcings WR Hobbs, R Massom, S Stammerjohn, P Reid, G Williams, W Meier Global and Planetary Change 143, 228-250, 2016 | 301 | 2016 |
| Whither Arctic sea ice? A clear signal of decline regionally, seasonally and extending beyond the satellite record WN Meier, J Stroeve, F Fetterer Annals of Glaciology 46, 428-434, 2007 | 283 | 2007 |
| NOAA/NSIDC climate data record of passive microwave sea ice concentration, version 3 WN Meier, F Fetterer, M Savoie, S Mallory, R Duerr, J Stroeve (No Title), 2017 | 280 | 2017 |
| The Arctic's sea ice cover: trends, variability, predictability, and comparisons to the Antarctic MC Serreze, WN Meier Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1436 (1), 36-53, 2019 | 271 | 2019 |
| Polar Pathfinder daily 25 km EASE-Grid Sea Ice motion vectors, version 3 M Tschudi (No Title), 2016 | 249 | 2016 |
| NOAA/NSIDC climate data record of passive microwave sea ice concentration WN Meier, F Fetterer, M Savoie, S Mallory, R Duerr, J Stroeve Version 2, G02202, 2017 | 247 | 2017 |
| State of the Climate in 2018 J Blunden, DS Arndt Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 100 (9), Si-S306, 2019 | 241* | 2019 |
| Sea ice response to an extreme negative phase of the Arctic Oscillation during winter 2009/2010 JC Stroeve, J Maslanik, MC Serreze, I Rigor, W Meier, C Fowler Geophysical Research Letters 38 (2), 2011 | 231 | 2011 |
| An enhancement to sea ice motion and age products at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) MA Tschudi, WN Meier, JS Stewart The Cryosphere 14 (5), 1519-1536, 2020 | 195 | 2020 |
| State of the Climate in 2016 J Blunden, A Abdallah, R Adler, R Allan, D Arce, A Argueez, J Augustine, ... Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 98 (8), 2017 | 159 | 2017 |
| Arctic report card 2020: Sea ice D Perovich, W Meier, M Tschudi, S Hendricks, AA Petty, D Divine, ... | 151 | 2020 |