2026 Markus Leuenberger: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	67	1927	1837	53	50	287	23565

Overview

Markus Leuenberger is affiliated with the University of Bern in Switzerland and conducts research primarily within the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science.

Their work focuses extensively on Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change, with additional contributions to subfields such as Geochemistry and Petrology, Earth-Surface Processes, and Environmental Engineering.

Key topics covered in their research include:

Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
Tree-ring climate responses
Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry
Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
Climate variability and models

Markus Leuenberger has contributed to several frequent publication venues, including:

Frontiers in Earth Science
Atmospheric measurement techniques
Quaternary Science Reviews
Climate of the past
Chemical Geology

Recent notable papers authored by Leuenberger include:

The fingerprint of the summer 2018 drought in Europe on ground-based atmospheric CO₂ measurements (2020), published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
Recent human-induced atmospheric drying across Europe unprecedented in the last 400 years (2023), published in Nature Geoscience
More than climate: Hydrogen isotope ratios in tree rings as novel plant physiological indicator for stress conditions (2020), published in Dendrochronologia
The Antarctic Ice Core Chronology 2023 (AICC2023) chronological framework and associated timescale for the European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica (EPICA) Dome C ice core (2023), published in Climate of the past
The unknown third - Hydrogen isotopes in tree-ring cellulose across Europe (2021), published in The Science of The Total Environment

Frequent collaborators in their research include Stéphane Affolter, Tito Arosio, Kurt Nicolussi, Matthias Saurer, and Christian Schlüchter, reflecting a collaborative research approach within their scientific community.

Best Publications

Orbital and Millennial Antarctic Climate Variability over the Past 800,000 Years

J. Jouzel;V. Masson-Delmotte;O. Cattani;G. Dreyfus

2870
Citations
High-resolution record of Northern Hemisphere climate extending into the last interglacial period.

K. K. Andersen;N. Azuma;J.-M. Barnola;M. Bigler

2817
Citations
One-to-one coupling of glacial climate variability in Greenland and Antarctica.

C. Barbante;J.-M. Barnola;J.-M. Barnola;S. Becagli;J. Beer;J. Beer

1167
Citations
A 1000-year high precision record of δ 13 C in atmospheric CO 2

R. J. Francey;R. J. Francey;C. E. Allison;D. M. Etheridge;C. M. Trudinger;C. M. Trudinger

923
Citations
Eemian interglacial reconstructed from a Greenland folded ice core

D. Dahl-Jensen;M. R. Albert;A. Aldahan;N. Azuma

663
Citations
An optimized multi-proxy, multi-site Antarctic ice and gas orbital chronology (AICC2012): 120--800 ka

L. Bazin;A. Landais;B. Lemieux-Dudon;H. Toyé Mahamadou Kele

522
Citations
Carbon isotope composition of atmospheric CO2 during the last ice age from an Antarctic ice core

Markus Leuenberger;Ulrich Siegenthaler;Chester C. Langway

519
Citations
CO2 surface fluxes at grid point scale estimated from a global 21 year reanalysis of atmospheric measurements

F. Chevallier;P. Ciais;T. J. Conway;T. Aalto

470
Citations
Water-use efficiency and transpiration across European forests during the Anthropocene

D. C. Frank;B. Poulter;M. Saurer;J. Esper

465
Citations
Carbon Isotope Constraints on the Deglacial CO2 Rise from Ice Cores

Jochen Schmitt;Jochen Schmitt;Robert Schneider;Joachim Elsig;Daiana Leuenberger

465
Citations
Isotope calibrated Greenland temperature record over Marine Isotope Stage 3 and its relation to CH4

Christof Huber;Markus Leuenberger;Renato Spahni;Jacqueline Flückiger

438
Citations
Temperature reconstruction from 10 to 120 kyr b2k from the NGRIP ice core

Philippe Kindler;M. Guillevic;Michael Franz Baumgartner;Jakob Schwander

389
Citations
The age of the air in the firn and the ice at Summit, Greenland

J. Schwander;J.M. Barnola;Chantal Andrié;M. Leuenberger

384
Citations
Greenland temperature response to climate forcing during the last deglaciation.

Christo Buizert;Vasileios Gkinis;Vasileios Gkinis;Jeffrey P. Severinghaus;Feng He

371
Citations
Civil Aircraft for the regular investigation of the atmosphere based on an instrumented container: The new CARIBIC system

C. A. M. Brenninkmeijer;P. J. Crutzen;F. Boumard;T. Dauer

347
Citations
Stable isotope constraints on Holocene carbon cycle changes from an Antarctic ice core

Joachim Elsig;Joachim Elsig;Jochen Schmitt;Jochen Schmitt;Jochen Schmitt;Daiana Leuenberger;Daiana Leuenberger;Robert Schneider;Robert Schneider

281
Citations
16°C Rapid Temperature Variation in Central Greenland 70,000 Years Ago

C. Lang;M. Leuenberger;J. Schwander;S. Johnsen;S. Johnsen

259
Citations
Climate on the Southern Black Sea coast during the Holocene: implications from the Sofular Cave record

O.M. Göktürk;O.M. Göktürk;D. Fleitmann;D. Fleitmann;S. Badertscher;S. Badertscher;H. Cheng;H. Cheng

252
Citations
Seven years of recent European net terrestrial carbon dioxide exchange constrained by atmospheric observations

W. Peters;W. Peters;M. C. Krol;G. R. van der Werf;S. Houweling

247
Citations
Pleistocene water intrusions from the Mediterranean and Caspian seas into the Black Sea

S. Badertscher;S. Badertscher;Dominik Fleitmann;Dominik Fleitmann;H. Cheng;H. Cheng;R. L. Edwards

247
Citations
Reducing uncertainties in δ13C analysis of tree rings: Pooling, milling, and cellulose extraction

Silvio Borella;Markus Leuenberger;Matthias Saurer;Rolf Siegwolf

240
Citations
Eemian interglacial reconstructed from a Greenland folded ice core (SCI)

D Dahl-Jensen;M R Albert;A Aldahan;N Azuma

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas F. Stocker University of Bern

Emilie Capron Grenoble Alpes University

Amaelle Landais Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University

Jakob Schwander University of Bern

Hubertus Fischer University of Bern

Jérôme Chappellaz École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Dominik Fleitmann University of Basel

Jochen Schmitt University of Bern

Jean Jouzel Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement

Fortunat Joos University of Bern

External Links

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