| Trends in snowfall versus rainfall in the western United States N Knowles, MD Dettinger, DR Cayan Journal of Climate 19 (18), 4545-4559, 2006 | 1194 | 2006 |
| Potential effects of global warming on the Sacramento/San Joaquin watershed and the San Francisco estuary N Knowles, DR Cayan Geophysical Research Letters 29 (18), 38-1-38-4, 2002 | 356 | 2002 |
| Projected evolution of California's San Francisco Bay-Delta-River system in a century of climate change JE Cloern, N Knowles, LR Brown, D Cayan, MD Dettinger, TL Morgan, ... PloS one 6 (9), e24465, 2011 | 342 | 2011 |
| Elevational dependence of projected hydrologic changes in the San Francisco estuary and watershed N Knowles, DR Cayan Climatic Change 62 (1), 319-336, 2004 | 216 | 2004 |
| Climate anomalies generate an exceptional dinoflagellate bloom in San Francisco Bay JE Cloern, TS Schraga, CB Lopez, N Knowles, R Grover Labiosa, ... Geophysical Research Letters 32 (14), 2005 | 122 | 2005 |
| Potential inundation due to rising sea levels in the San Francisco Bay region N Knowles San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science 8 (1), 2010 | 109 | 2010 |
| Natural and management influences on freshwater inflows and salinity in the San Francisco Estuary at monthly to interannual scales N Knowles Water Resources Research 38 (12), 25-1-25-11, 2002 | 100 | 2002 |
| Implications for future survival of delta smelt from four climate change scenarios for the Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta, California LR Brown, WA Bennett, RW Wagner, T Morgan-King, N Knowles, F Feyrer, ... Estuaries and Coasts 36, 754-774, 2013 | 75 | 2013 |
| Ancient blue oaks reveal human impact on San Francisco Bay salinity DW Stahle, MD Therrell, MK Cleaveland, DR Cayan, MD Dettinger, ... Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union 82 (12), 141-145, 2001 | 62 | 2001 |
| Temporal downscaling of decadal sediment load estimates to a daily interval for use in hindcast simulations NK Ganju, N Knowles, DH Schoellhamer Journal of Hydrology 349 (3-4), 512-523, 2008 | 49 | 2008 |
| Trends in snow cover and related quantities at weather stations in the conterminous United States N Knowles Journal of Climate 28 (19), 7518-7528, 2015 | 44 | 2015 |
| Contemporaneous subsidence and levee overtopping potential, Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, California BA Brooks, G Bawden, D Manjunath, C Werner, N Knowles, J Foster, ... San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science 10 (1), 2012 | 35 | 2012 |
| Natural variability, anthropogenic climate change, and impacts on water availability and flood extremes in the Western United States DR Cayan, MD Dettinger, D Pierce, T Das, N Knowles, FM Ralph, ... Water Policy and Planning in a Variable and Changing Climate 17, 2016 | 32 | 2016 |
| The transboundary setting of California’s water and hydropower systems: Linkages between the Sierra Nevada, Columbia, and Colorado hydroclimates DR Cayan, MD Dettinger, KT Redmond, GJ McCabe, N Knowles, ... Climate and water: Transboundary challenges in the Americas, 237-262, 2003 | 27 | 2003 |
| Modeling the hydroclimatology of the San Francisco Bay-Delta estuary and watershed N Knowles University of California, San Diego, 2000 | 26 | 2000 |
| The future of sediment transport and streamflow under a changing climate and the implications for long‐term resilience of the San Francisco Bay‐Delta MA Stern, LE Flint, AL Flint, N Knowles, SA Wright Water Resources Research 56 (9), e2019WR026245, 2020 | 17 | 2020 |
| Recent projections of 21st-century climate change and watershed responses in the Sierra Nevada MD Dettinger, DR Cayan, N Knowles, A Westerling, MK Tyree In: Murphy, Dennis D. and Stine, Peter A., editors. Proceedings of the …, 2004 | 16 | 2004 |
| Projections of potential flood regime changes in California M Dettinger, H Hidalgo, T Das, D Cayan, N Knowles Public Interest Energy Research, California Energy Commission, Sacramento …, 2009 | 14 | 2009 |
| Snowmelt discharge characteristics sierra nevada, california D Peterson, R Smith, I Stewart, N Knowles, C Soulard, S Hager US Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2005, 1-13, 2005 | 12 | 2005 |
| Diagnosing the flood of 1997 in San Francisco Bay with observations and model results N Knowles, D Cayan, RJ Uncles, L Ingram, D Peterson Interagency Ecological Program Newsletter, 28-31, 1997 | 12 | 1997 |
