In the just released 2020 Altmetric Top 100, the article "Record-Setting Ocean Warmth Continued in 2019" led by IAP scientists ranked No. 24. In the subject category of earth sciences, the paper was ranked No. 3 of five papers entering Top 100.

The Altmetric Top 100 is an annual list of the research that has most captured the public's imagination each year. Altmetric tracked 87.7 million mentions of 3.4 million works published in 2020. The Top 100 is a list of the most-discussed papers of the year.

The article was published in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences in Jan 2020 and was immediately reported by more than 200 media, including New York Times, Guardian, Daily Mail and CNN. It was also widely mentioned by more than 4000 twitter accounts. It's been downloaded nearly 40 thousand times and cited 34 times by Google Scholar calculation.