| The PIRATA program: History, accomplishments, and future directions B Bourlès, R Lumpkin, MJ McPhaden, F Hernandez, P Nobre, E Campos, ... Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 89 (8), 1111-1126, 2008 | 396 | 2008 |
| Large-scale overview of the summer monsoon over West Africa during the AMMA field experiment in 2006 S Janicot, CD Thorncroft, A Ali, N Asencio, G Berry, O Bock, B Bourlès, ... Annales Geophysicae 26 (9), 2569-2595, 2008 | 210 | 2008 |
| Freshwater paths across the ocean: molecular phylogeny of the frog Ptychadena newtoni gives insights into amphibian colonization of oceanic islands G John Measey, M Vences, RC Drewes, Y Chiari, M Melo, B Bourles Journal of Biogeography 34 (1), 7-20, 2007 | 209 | 2007 |
| The AMMA field campaigns: multiscale and multidisciplinary observations in the West African region T Lebel, DJ Parker, C Flamant, B Bourlès, B Marticorena, E Mougin, ... Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 136 (S1), 8-33, 2010 | 172 | 2010 |
| Argo data 1999–2019: Two million temperature-salinity profiles and subsurface velocity observations from a global array of profiling floats APS Wong, SE Wijffels, SC Riser, S Pouliquen, S Hosoda, D Roemmich, ... Frontiers in Marine Science 7, 700, 2020 | 164 | 2020 |
| The global tropical moored buoy array MJ McPhaden, K Ando, B Bourles, HP Freitag, R Lumpkin, Y Masumoto, ... Proceedings of OceanObs 9, 668-682, 2010 | 161 | 2010 |
| On the circulation in the upper layer of the western equatorial Atlantic B Bourlès, Y Gouriou, R Chuchla Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 104 (C9), 21151-21170, 1999 | 157 | 1999 |
| The barrier layer in the western tropical Atlantic Ocean K Pailler, B Bourlès, Y Gouriou Geophysical Research Letters 26 (14), 2069-2072, 1999 | 153 | 1999 |
| Hydrographic sections across the Atlantic at 7 30N and 4 30S M Arhan, H Mercier, B Bourlès, Y Gouriou Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers 45 (6), 829-872, 1998 | 145 | 1998 |
| Upper layer currents in the western tropical North Atlantic (1989–1991) B Bourles, RL Molinari, E Johns, WD Wilson, KD Leaman Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 104 (C1), 1361-1375, 1999 | 140 | 1999 |
| Evolving and sustaining ocean best practices and standards for the next decade J Pearlman, M Bushnell, L Coppola, J Karstensen, PL Buttigieg, ... Frontiers in Marine Science 6, 277, 2019 | 131 | 2019 |
| The zonal currents and transports at 35 W in the tropical Atlantic FA Schott, M Dengler, P Brandt, K Affler, J Fischer, B Bourles, Y Gouriou, ... Geophysical Research Letters 30 (7), 2003 | 124 | 2003 |
| Equatorial upper‐ocean dynamics and their interaction with the West African monsoon P Brandt, G Caniaux, B Bourles, A Lazar, M Dengler, A Funk, V Hormann, ... Atmospheric Science Letters 12 (1), 24-30, 2011 | 107 | 2011 |
| The tropical Atlantic observing system GR Foltz, P Brandt, I Richter, B Rodríguez-Fonseca, F Hernandez, ... Frontiers in Marine Science 6, 206, 2019 | 105 | 2019 |
| Circulation in the central equatorial Atlantic: Mean and intraseasonal to seasonal variability P Brandt, FA Schott, C Provost, A Kartavtseff, V Hormann, B Bourlès, ... Geophysical Research Letters 33 (7), 2006 | 104 | 2006 |
| Why were sea surface temperatures so different in the eastern equatorial Atlantic in June 2005 and 2006? F Marin, G Caniaux, H Giordani, B Bourlès, Y Gouriou, E Key Journal of Physical Oceanography 39 (6), 1416-1431, 2009 | 92 | 2009 |
| PIRATA: A sustained observing system for tropical Atlantic climate research and forecasting B Bourlès, M Araujo, MJ McPhaden, P Brandt, GR Foltz, R Lumpkin, ... Earth and Space Science 6 (4), 577-616, 2019 | 86 | 2019 |
| Tropical Atlantic contributions to strong rainfall variability along the Northeast Brazilian coast GA Hounsou-Gbo, M Araujo, B Bourlès, D Veleda, J Servain Advances in meteorology 2015, 2015 | 79 | 2015 |
| Deep circulation in the equatorial Atlantic Ocean Y Gouriou, C Andrié, B Bourlès, S Freudenthal, S Arnault, A Aman, ... Geophysical Research Letters 28 (5), 819-822, 2001 | 79 | 2001 |
| Oxygen tongues and zonal currents in the equatorial Atlantic P Brandt, V Hormann, B Bourlès, J Fischer, FA Schott, L Stramma, ... Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 113 (C4), 2008 | 78 | 2008 |
