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Environmental Sciences
Switzerland
2026

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
109
Citations
64033
World Ranking
207
National Ranking
9

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2017 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Fortunat Joos is affiliated with the University of Bern in Switzerland and has contributed extensively to research in environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Their work spans multiple subfields, including atmospheric science, global and planetary change, ecology, oceanography, and environmental chemistry.

The scientist has authored numerous publications focusing on topics such as atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, geology and paleoclimatology research, methane hydrates and related phenomena, peatlands and wetlands ecology, atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, climate variability and models, and atmospheric ozone and climate.

Fortunat Joos's research has appeared frequently in the following publication venues:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Biogeosciences
  • Climate of the past
  • Global Biogeochemical Cycles
  • Nature Climate Change

Frequent coauthors of Fortunat Joos include:

  • Aurich Jeltsch-Thömmes
  • Sebastian Lienert
  • Thomas F. Stocker
  • Sönke Zaehle
  • Hanqin Tian

Among recent papers involving topics related to their field, the following have been published:

  • The Global Methane Budget 2000-2017 (2020), NOAA Institutional Repository
  • A comprehensive quantification of global nitrous oxide sources and sinks (2020), Nature
  • Global Carbon Budget 2023 (2023), Earth system science data
  • Integrating the evidence for a terrestrial carbon sink caused by increasing atmospheric CO 2 (2020), New Phytologist
  • Expert assessment of future vulnerability of the global peatland carbon sink (2020), Nature Climate Change

Fortunat Joos was recognized as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2017.

Best Publications

  • Changes in Atmospheric Constituents and in Radiative Forcing

    Piers Forster;Venkatachalam Ramaswamy;Paulo Artaxo;Terje Berntsen

  • Anthropogenic ocean acidification over the twenty-first century and its impact on calcifying organisms

    James C. Orr;Victoria J. Fabry;Olivier Aumont;Laurent Bopp

  • Climate–Carbon Cycle Feedback Analysis: Results from the C4MIP Model Intercomparison

    Pierre Friedlingstein;P. Cox;Richard A. Betts;Laurent Bopp

  • The global methane budget 2000–2017

    Marielle Saunois;Ann R. Stavert;Ben Poulter;Philippe Bousquet

  • Mid- to Late Holocene climate change: an overview

    Heinz Wanner;Jürg Beer;Jonathan Bütikofer;Thomas J. Crowley

  • The carbon cycle and atmospheric CO2

    IC Prentice;GD Farquhar;Mjr Fasham;ML Goulden

  • A comprehensive quantification of global nitrous oxide sources and sinks

    Hanquin Tian;Rongting Xu;Josep G. Canadell;Rona L. Thompson

  • Contrasting futures for ocean and society from different anthropogenic CO2 emissions scenarios

    J. P. Gattuso;J. P. Gattuso;A. Magnan;R. Bille;W. W. L. Cheung

  • Anthropogenic perturbation of the carbon fluxes from land to ocean

    Pierre Regnier;Pierre Friedlingstein;Philippe Ciais;Fred T. Mackenzie

  • Global Carbon Budget 2023

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  • The global methane budget 2000–2012

    Marielle Saunois;Philippe Bousquet;Ben Poulter;Anna Peregon

  • Holocene carbon-cycle dynamics based on CO2 trapped in ice at Taylor Dome, Antarctica

    A. Indermühle;T. F. Stocker;F. Joos;H. Fischer

  • Carbon balance of the terrestrial biosphere in the Twentieth Century: Analyses of CO2, climate and land use effects with four process‐based ecosystem models

    A.D. McGuire;S. Sitch;Joy S. Clein;R. Dargaville

  • Climate and human influences on global biomass burning over the past two millennia

    J. R. Marlon;P. J. Bartlein;C. Carcaillet;D. G. Gavin

  • Carbon dioxide and climate impulse response functions for the computation of greenhouse gas metrics:a multi-model analysis

    Fortunat Joos;Fortunat Joos;Raphael Roth;Raphael Roth;J. S. Fuglestvedt;G. P. Peters

  • Rates of change in natural and anthropogenic radiative forcing over the past 20,000 years

    Fortunat Joos;Renato Spahni

  • Oceanic sources, sinks, and transport of atmospheric CO2

    Nicolas Gruber;Manuel Gloor;Sara E. Mikaloff Fletcher;Scott C. Doney

  • Projected 21st century decrease in marine productivity: a multi-model analysis

    Marco Steinacher;Marco Steinacher;Fortunat Joos;Fortunat Joos;T. L. Frölicher;T. L. Frölicher;L. Bopp

  • Imminent ocean acidification in the Arctic projected with the NCAR global coupled carbon cycle-climate model

    Marco Steinacher;Fortunat Joos;Fortunat Joos;Thomas Lukas Frölicher;Gian-Kasper Plattner;Gian-Kasper Plattner

  • Integrating the evidence for a terrestrial carbon sink caused by increasing atmospheric CO2

    Anthony P. Walker;Martin G. De Kauwe;Ana Bastos;Soumaya Belmecheri

  • Global warming feedbacks on terrestrial carbon uptake under the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Emission Scenarios

    Fortunat Joos;I. Colin Prentice;Stephen Sitch;Robert Meyer

  • Global Methane Budget 2000-2012

    M. Saunois;P. Bousquet;B. Poulter;A. Peregon

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas F. Stocker
Thomas F. Stocker University of Bern
Renato Spahni
Renato Spahni University of Bern
Jochen Schmitt
Jochen Schmitt University of Bern
Hubertus Fischer
Hubertus Fischer University of Bern
Gian-Kasper Plattner
Gian-Kasper Plattner Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Thomas L. Frölicher
Thomas L. Frölicher University of Bern
Benjamin D. Stocker
Benjamin D. Stocker University of Bern
Christoph C. Raible
Christoph C. Raible University of Bern
Anne Mouchet
Anne Mouchet University of Liège
Peter Köhler
Peter Köhler Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research

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