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Nicolas Gruber

Nicolas Gruber

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Earth Science
Switzerland
2026

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Earth Science

D-Index
106
Citations
64356
World Ranking
97
National Ranking
1

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2012 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Nicolas Gruber is a researcher affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland, specializing in Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. The work primarily focuses on oceanographic and atmospheric processes, climate variability and models, and marine ecosystems.

The subfields covered in their publications include Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, and Environmental Chemistry. Main topics of research are:

  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Climate variability and models
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes

Nicolas Gruber has a significant publication record in several scientific venues, notably:

  • Global Biogeochemical Cycles
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Earth system science data
  • AGU Advances
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans

Recent papers include a series of Global Carbon Budget reports published between 2020 and 2023 in Earth system science data:

  • Global Carbon Budget 2020 (2020, Earth system science data)
  • Global Carbon Budget 2021 (2022, Earth system science data)
  • Global Carbon Budget 2022 (2022, Earth system science data)
  • Global Carbon Budget 2023 (2023, Earth system science data)
Other relevant works include "Consistency and Challenges in the Ocean Carbon Sink Estimate for the Global Carbon Budget" (2020, Frontiers in Marine Science).

The research collaboration network features frequent co-authors such as Judith Hauck, Luke Gregor, Meike Vogt, Peter Landschützer, and Matthias Münnich, reflecting active and sustained collaboration in related fields.

Nicolas Gruber was recognized as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2012.

Best Publications

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

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

  • The oceanic sink for anthropogenic CO2.

    Christopher L. Sabine;Richard A. Feely;Nicolas Gruber;Robert M. Key

  • An Earth-system perspective of the global nitrogen cycle.

    Nicolas Gruber;James N. Galloway

  • The Global Carbon Cycle: A Test of Our Knowledge of Earth as a System

    P. Falkowski;R. J. Scholes;E. Boyle;J. Canadell

  • Global Carbon Budget 2020

    Pierre Friedlingstein;Pierre Friedlingstein;Michael O'Sullivan;Matthew W. Jones;Robbie M. Andrew

  • Ocean Deoxygenation in a Warming World

    Ralph F. Keeling;Arne Körtzinger;Nicolas Gruber

  • Global Carbon Budget 2019

    Pierre Friedlingstein;Pierre Friedlingstein;Matthew W. Jones;Michael O'Sullivan;Robbie Andrew

  • Marine heatwaves under global warming

    Thomas L. Frölicher;Thomas L. Frölicher;Erich M. Fischer;Nicolas Gruber

  • Global patterns of marine nitrogen fixation and denitrification

    Nicolas Gruber;Jorge Louis Sarmiento

  • High-latitude controls of thermocline nutrients and low latitude biological productivity

    Jorge Louis Sarmiento;N. Gruber;M. A. Brzezinski;J. P. Dunne

  • Anthropogenic perturbation of the carbon fluxes from land to ocean

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

  • The oceanic sink for anthropogenic CO2 from 1994 to 2007

    Nicolas Gruber;Dominic Clement;Brendan Carter;Brendan Carter;Richard A. Feely

  • Recent trends and drivers of regional sources and sinks of carbon dioxide

    S. Sitch;P. Friedlingstein;N. Gruber;S. D. Jones

  • Spatial coupling of nitrogen inputs and losses in the ocean

    Curtis Deutsch;Jorge L. Sarmiento;Daniel M. Sigman;Nicolas Gruber;Nicolas Gruber

  • Warming up, turning sour, losing breath: ocean biogeochemistry under global change

    Nicolas Gruber

  • Oceanic sources, sinks, and transport of atmospheric CO2

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

  • Global ocean storage of anthropogenic carbon

    S. Khatiwala;T. Tanhua;S. Mikaloff Fletcher;Michael Gerber

  • An improved method for detecting anthropogenic CO2 in the oceans

    Nicolas Gruber;Jorge Louis Sarmiento;Thomas F. Stocker

  • The Copenhagen Diagnosis: Updating the World on the Latest Climate Science

    I. Allison;N. L. Bindoff;R. A. Bindschadler;P. M. Cox

  • Recent variability of the global ocean carbon sink

    Peter Landschutzer;Peter Landschutzer;Nicholas Gruber;Dorothee C. E. Bakker;Ute Schuster

Frequent Co-Authors

Scott C. Doney
Scott C. Doney University of Virginia
Meike Vogt
Meike Vogt ETH Zurich
Jorge L. Sarmiento
Jorge L. Sarmiento Princeton University
Peter Landschützer
Peter Landschützer Max Planck Society
Christopher L. Sabine
Christopher L. Sabine University of Hawaii at Manoa
Robert M. Key
Robert M. Key Princeton University
Manuel Gloor
Manuel Gloor University of Leeds
Gian-Kasper Plattner
Gian-Kasper Plattner Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Charles D. Keeling
Charles D. Keeling University of California, San Diego
Bronte Tilbrook
Bronte Tilbrook CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research

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