| Colorado River sediment transport: 1. Natural sediment supply limitation and the influence of Glen Canyon Dam DJ Topping, DM Rubin, LE Vierra Jr Water Resources Research 36 (2), 515-542, 2000 | 317 | 2000 |
| Computation and analysis of the instantaneous-discharge record for the Colorado River at Lees Ferry, Arizona—May 8, 1921, through September 30, 2000 DJ Topping, JC Schmidt, LE Vierra Jr Professional paper, 2003 | 139* | 2003 |
| Colorado River sediment transport: 2. Systematic bed‐elevation and grain‐size effects of sand supply limitation DJ Topping, DM Rubin, JM Nelson, PJ Kinzel III, IC Corson Water Resources Research 36 (2), 543-570, 2000 | 110 | 2000 |
| Quantifying the relative importance of flow regulation and grain size regulation of suspended sediment transport α and tracking changes in grain size of bed sediment β DM Rubin, DJ Topping Water Resources Research 37 (1), 133-146, 2001 | 104 | 2001 |
| High-resolution measurements of suspended-sediment concentration and grain size in the Colorado River in Grand Canyon using a multi-frequency acoustic system DJ Topping, SA Wright, TS Melis, DM Rubin Proceedings of the 10th international symposium on river sedimentation 3 …, 2007 | 102 | 2007 |
| Application of wavelet analysis for monitoring the hydrologic effects of dam operation: Glen Canyon Dam and the Colorado River at Lees Ferry, Arizona MA White, JC Schmidt, DJ Topping River research and applications 21 (5), 551-565, 2005 | 97 | 2005 |
| Recent sediment studies refute Glen Canyon Dam hypothesis DM Rubin, DJ Topping, JC Schmidt, J Hazel, M Kaplinski, TS Melis Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union 83 (25), 273-278, 2002 | 97 | 2002 |
| Paleogeographic reconstruction of the Death Valley extended region: Evidence from Miocene large rock-avalanche deposits in the Amargosa Chaos Basin, California DJ Topping Geological Society of America Bulletin 105 (9), 1190-1213, 1993 | 97 | 1993 |
| The rate and pattern of bed incision and bank adjustment on the Colorado River in Glen Canyon downstream from Glen Canyon Dam, 1956–2000 PE Grams, JC Schmidt, DJ Topping Geological Society of America Bulletin 119 (5-6), 556-575, 2007 | 95 | 2007 |
| Relation of inversely graded deposits to suspended-sediment grain-size evolution during the 1996 flood experiment in Grand Canyon DM Rubin, JM Nelson, DJ Topping Geology 26 (2), 99-102, 1998 | 94 | 1998 |
| Underwater microscope for measuring spatial and temporal changes in bed-sediment grain size DM Rubin, H Chezar, JN Harney, DJ Topping, TS Melis, CR Sherwood Sedimentary Geology 202 (3), 402-408, 2007 | 83 | 2007 |
| Influence of a dam on fine‐sediment storage in a canyon river JE Hazel Jr, DJ Topping, JC Schmidt, M Kaplinski Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface 111 (F1), 2006 | 82 | 2006 |
| Linking morphodynamic response with sediment mass balance on the Colorado River in Marble Canyon: Issues of scale, geomorphic setting, and sampling design PE Grams, DJ Topping, JC Schmidt, JE Hazel Jr, M Kaplinski Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface 118 (2), 361-381, 2013 | 72 | 2013 |
| Sediment supply versus local hydraulic controls on sediment transport and storage in a river with large sediment loads DJ Dean, DJ Topping, JC Schmidt, RE Griffiths, TA Sabol Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface 121 (1), 82-110, 2016 | 71 | 2016 |
| Influence of Glen Canyon Dam operations on downstream sand resources of the Colorado River in Grand Canyon SA Wright, TS Melis, DJ Topping, DM Rubin U. S. Geological Survey Circular, 17-32, 2005 | 61 | 2005 |
| Long-term continuous acoustical suspended-sediment measurements in rivers-Theory, application, bias, and error DJ Topping, SA Wright Professional Paper, 2016 | 55 | 2016 |
| Sediment-transport during three controlled-flood experiments on the Colorado River downstream from Glen Canyon Dam, with implications for eddy-sandbar deposition in Grand … DJ Topping, DM Rubin, PE Grams, RE Griffiths, TA Sabol, N Voichick, ... Open-File Report, 2010 | 48 | 2010 |
| Discriminating silt-and-clay from suspended-sand in rivers using side-looking acoustic profilers SA Wright, DJ Topping, CA Williams Joint Federal Interagency Conference 2010: Hydrology and sedimentation for a …, 2010 | 48 | 2010 |
| Physics of flow, sediment transport, hydraulic geometry, and channel geomorphic adjustment during flash floods in an ephemeral river, the Paria River, Utah and Arizona. DJ Topping | 47 | 1998 |
| Building sandbars in the Grand Canyon PE Grams, JC Schmidt, SA Wright, D Topping, TS Melis, DM Rubin Eos, Earth and Space Science News 96, 1-11, 2015 | 46 | 2015 |
