The Greenhouse Theory of Climate Change: A Test by an Inadvertent Global Experiment

Oceanic phytoplankton, atmospheric sulphur, cloud albedo and climate

1987 • 4,269 citations

Thermal Equilibrium of the Atmosphere with a Given Distribution of Relative Humidity

1967 • 1,622 citations

Vostok ice core provides 160,000-year record of atmospheric CO2

1987 • 1,546 citations

XXXI.On the influence of carbonic acid in the air upon the temperature of the ground

1896 • 1,452 citations

Carbon Dioxide Exchange Between Atmosphere and Ocean and the Question of an Increase of Atmospheric CO<sub>2</sub> during the Past Decades

1957 • 1,011 citations

Vostok ice core: a continuous isotope temperature record over the last climatic cycle (160,000 years)

1987 • 904 citations

The artificial production of carbon dioxide and its influence on temperature

1938 • 795 citations

Future global warming from atmospheric trace gases

1986 • 593 citations

Global temperature variations between 1861 and 1984

1986 • 530 citations

Greenhouse Effects due to Man-Made Perturbations of Trace Gases

1976 • 526 citations

An assessment of the impact of pollution on global cloud albedo

1984 • 512 citations

Climate model simulations of the equilibrium climatic response to increased carbon dioxide

1987 • 474 citations

Continuing Worldwide Increase in Tropospheric Methane, 1978 to 1987

1988 • 462 citations

Seasonal cycle experiment on the climate sensitivity due to a doubling of CO₂ with an atmospheric general circulation model coupled to a simple mixed‐layer ocean model

1984 • 396 citations

A doubled CO₂ climate sensitivity experiment with a global climate model including a simple ocean

1987 • 394 citations

Changes in Stratospheric Ozone

1987 • 374 citations

Effect of Ship-Stack Effluents on Cloud Reflectivity

1987 • 368 citations

The Response of a Spectral General Circulation Model to Refinements in Radiative Processes

1983 • 313 citations

Climate Change: An Appraisal of Atmospheric Feedback Mechanisms Employing Zonal Climatology

1976 • 295 citations

Greenhouse Effect Due to Chlorofluorocarbons: Climatic Implications

1975 • 294 citations

Unpleasant surprises in the greenhouse?

1987 • 284 citations

Tropospheric ozone and climate

1979 • 265 citations

Climate‐chemical interactions and effects of changing atmospheric trace gases

1987 • 262 citations

Atmospheric Trace Gases: Trends and Distributions Over the Last Decade

1986 • 228 citations

The Role of Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions in the CO₂Climate Problem

1981 • 227 citations

Greenhouse effect of trace gases, 1970‐1980

1981 • 225 citations

Vostok ice core: climatic response to CO2 and orbital forcing changes over the last climatic cycle

1987 • 219 citations

Cloud optical thickness feedbacks in the CO₂ climate problem

1984 • 219 citations

The problem of deducing the climate from the governing equations

1964 • 215 citations

The role of geographic variables in explaining paleoclimates: Results from Cretaceous climate model sensitivity studies

1984 • 214 citations

Possible perturbations to atmospheric CO, CH₄, and OH

1986 • 209 citations

Analytical solution for the effect of increasing CO2 on global mean temperature

1985 • 185 citations

The possible effects of large 19th and 20th century volcanic eruptions on zonal and hemispheric surface temperatures

1981 • 178 citations

An investigation of cloud cover change in response to thermal forcing

1986 • 166 citations

Influence of solar variability on global sea surface temperatures

1987 • 162 citations

Can Rapid Climatic Change Cause Volcanic Eruptions?

1979 • 153 citations

A study of the radiative effects of enhanced atmospheric CO₂ and CH₄ on early Earth surface temperatures

1987 • 143 citations

Three‐dimensional simulations of stratospheric N₂O: Predictions for other trace constituents

1986 • 131 citations

Temperature effects on the stratosphere of the April 4, 1982 eruption of El Chichon, Mexico

1983 • 119 citations

The problem of deducing the climate from the governing equations

1964 • 119 citations

Statistical Evidence on the Influence of Sunspots and Volcanic Dust on Long-Term Temperature Records

1977 • 119 citations

Global climatic trends as revealed by the recorded data

1986 • 116 citations

Climatic impact of explosive volcanic eruptions

1984 • 115 citations

The Nimbus 4 infrared spectroscopy experiment: 1. Calibrated thermal emission spectra

1972 • 115 citations

Long-Term Downward Trend in Total Solar Irradiance

1986 • 112 citations

Scenarios of possible changes in atmospheric temperatures and ozone concentrations due to man's activities, estimated with a one-dimensional coupled photochemical climate model

1988 • 112 citations

Energy Balance Climate Models: A Reappraisal of Ice-Albedo Feedback

1977 • 102 citations

Polar stratospheric optical depth observed between 1978 and 1985

1987 • 101 citations

Trace gases and other potential perturbations to global climate

1986 • 79 citations

Infrared Radiative Properties of Tropical Cirrus Clouds Inferred from Aircraft Measurements

1980 • 74 citations

Historical trends in the surface temperature over the oceans based on the COADS

1987 • 64 citations

A Model of the Radiative Properties of the EL Chichon Stratospheric Aerosol Layer

1984 • 59 citations

Response of the global climate to changes in atmospheric chemical composition due to fossil fuel burning

1980 • 51 citations

Perturbation of the Zonal Radiation Balance by a Stratospheric Aerosol Layer

1979 • 43 citations

Annual and Seasonal Global Temperature Changes in the Troposphere and Low Stratosphere, 1960–85

1986 • 41 citations

Stratospheric H2O

1980 • 38 citations

Modelling the equilibrium and transient responses of global temperature to past and future trace gas concentrations

1987 • 32 citations

Long‐term temperature trends in the stratosphere: Possible influence of anthropogenic gases

1986 • 28 citations