| Highlights of a new ground-based, hourly global lightning climatology KS Virts, JM Wallace, ML Hutchins, RH Holzworth Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 94 (9), 1381-1391, 2013 | 252 | 2013 |
| State of the Climate in 2018 J Blunden, DS Arndt Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 100 (9), Si-S306, 2019 | 222 | 2019 |
| Initial geostationary lightning mapper observations SD Rudlosky, SJ Goodman, KS Virts, EC Bruning Geophysical Research Letters 46 (2), 1097-1104, 2019 | 179 | 2019 |
| Lightning enhancement over major oceanic shipping lanes JA Thornton, KS Virts, RH Holzworth, TP Mitchell Geophysical Research Letters 44 (17), 9102-9111, 2017 | 147 | 2017 |
| Radiated VLF energy differences of land and oceanic lightning ML Hutchins, RH Holzworth, KS Virts, JM Wallace, S Heckman Geophysical Research Letters 40 (10), 2390-2394, 2013 | 108 | 2013 |
| Three years of the lightning imaging sensor onboard the international space station: Expanded global coverage and enhanced applications RJ Blakeslee, TJ Lang, WJ Koshak, D Buechler, P Gatlin, DM Mach, ... Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 125 (16), e2020JD032918, 2020 | 95 | 2020 |
| Annual, interannual, and intraseasonal variability of tropical tropopause transition layer cirrus KS Virts, JM Wallace Journal of the atmospheric sciences 67 (10), 3097-3112, 2010 | 85 | 2010 |
| Global climate RJH Dunn, JB Miller, KM Willett, N Gobron, M Ades, R Adler, M Alexe, ... Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 104 (9), S11-S145, 2023 | 64* | 2023 |
| Tropical tropopause transition layer cirrus as represented by CALIPSO lidar observations KS Virts, JM Wallace, Q Fu, TP Ackerman Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 67 (10), 3113-3129, 2010 | 63 | 2010 |
| Observations of temperature, wind, cirrus, and trace gases in the tropical tropopause transition layer during the MJO KS Virts, JM Wallace Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 71 (3), 1143-1157, 2014 | 57 | 2014 |
| Seasonal and intraseasonal variability of mesoscale convective systems over the South Asian monsoon region KS Virts, RA Houze Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 73 (12), 4753-4774, 2016 | 46 | 2016 |
| Diurnal lightning variability over the Maritime Continent: Impact of low-level winds, cloudiness, and the MJO KS Virts, JM Wallace, ML Hutchins, RH Holzworth Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 70 (10), 3128-3146, 2013 | 40 | 2013 |
| Dual geostationary lightning mapper observations SD Rudlosky, KS Virts Monthly Weather Review 149 (4), 979-998, 2021 | 35 | 2021 |
| Variation of lightning and convective rain fraction in mesoscale convective systems of the MJO KS Virts, RA Houze Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 72 (5), 1932-1944, 2015 | 35 | 2015 |
| Diurnal and seasonal lightning variability over the Gulf Stream and the Gulf of Mexico KS Virts, JM Wallace, ML Hutchins, RH Holzworth Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 72 (7), 2657-2665, 2015 | 31 | 2015 |
| Mitigation of geostationary lightning mapper geolocation errors KS Virts, WJ Koshak Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology 37 (9), 1725-1736, 2020 | 24 | 2020 |
| Prolific lightning and thunderstorm initiation over the Lake Victoria basin in East Africa KS Virts, SJ Goodman Monthly Weather Review 148 (5), 1971-1985, 2020 | 23 | 2020 |
| Clouds and water vapor in the tropical tropopause transition layer over mesoscale convective systems KS Virts, RA Houze Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 72 (12), 4739-4753, 2015 | 21 | 2015 |
| Diurnal cycles of precipitation and lightning in the tropics observed by TRMM3G68, GSMaP, LIS, and WWLLN S Minobe, JH Park, KS Virts Journal of Climate 33 (10), 4293-4313, 2020 | 20 | 2020 |
| A comparison of the fine-scale structure of the diurnal cycle of tropical rain and lightning V Venugopal, K Virts, J Sukhatme, JM Wallace, B Chattopadhyay Atmospheric research 169, 515-522, 2016 | 16 | 2016 |
