2026 Nicole S. Lovenduski: 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	44	6685	6417	2387	2215	141	8446

Overview

Nicole S. Lovenduski is affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields within Earth and Environmental Sciences, with a focus on climate and oceanographic processes.

The main fields of study include Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. More specific subfields encompass Oceanography, Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Chemistry, and Political Science and International Relations.

Their work frequently addresses a range of topics, such as Marine and coastal ecosystems, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, Cryospheric studies and observations, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Climate variability and models, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, and Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses.

Recent papers highlight significant contributions to understanding climate systems and ocean dynamics:

Insights from Earth system model initial-condition large ensembles and future prospects, 2020, Nature Climate Change
Twenty-first century ocean warming, acidification, deoxygenation, and upper-ocean nutrient and primary production decline from CMIP6 model projections, 2020, Biogeosciences
Initialized Earth System prediction from subseasonal to decadal timescales, 2021, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
Quantifying Errors in Observationally Based Estimates of Ocean Carbon Sink Variability, 2021, Global Biogeochemical Cycles
External Forcing Explains Recent Decadal Variability of the Ocean Carbon Sink, 2020, AGU Advances

Nicole S. Lovenduski has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

Cara Nissen
Tessa Gorte
Jan T. M. Lenaerts
Jeffrey B. Weiss
Charles Bardeen

Their publications are often found in the following venues:

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Geophysical Research Letters
Global Biogeochemical Cycles
Geoscientific Model Development
Communications Earth & Environment

Best Publications

Insights from Earth system model initial-condition large ensembles and future prospects

Clara Deser;Flavio Lehner;Keith B. Rodgers;Toby R. Ault

847
Citations
Global Carbon and other Biogeochemical Cycles and Feedbacks

Josep G. Canadell;Pedro M.S. Monteiro;Marcos H. Costa;Leticia Cotrim Da Cunha

798
Citations
Twenty-first century ocean warming, acidification, deoxygenation, and upper-ocean nutrient and primary production decline from CMIP6 model projections

Lester Kwiatkowski;Olivier Torres;Laurent Bopp;Olivier Aumont

785
Citations
Enhanced CO2 outgassing in the Southern Ocean from a positive phase of the Southern Annular Mode

Nicole S. Lovenduski;Nicolas Gruber;Nicolas Gruber;Scott C. Doney;Ivan D. Lima

357
Citations
The Variable Southern Ocean Carbon Sink.

Nicolas Gruber;Peter Landschützer;Nicole S Lovenduski

345
Citations
Toward a mechanistic understanding of the decadal trends in the Southern Ocean carbon sink

Nicole S. Lovenduski;Nicolas Gruber;Scott C. Doney

314
Citations
Impact of the Southern Annular Mode on Southern Ocean circulation and biology

Nicole S. Lovenduski;Nicolas Gruber

311
Citations
Predicting near-term changes in the Earth System: A large ensemble of initialized decadal prediction simulations using the Community Earth System Model

S. G. Yeager;G. Danabasoglu;N. A. Rosenbloom;W. Strand

274
Citations
Sea–air CO 2 fluxes in the Southern Ocean for the period 1990–2009

Andrew Lenton;Bronte Tilbrook;Bronte Tilbrook;R. M. Law;Dorothee C. E. Bakker

235
Citations
Initialized Earth System prediction from subseasonal to decadal timescales

Gerald A. Meehl;Jadwiga H. Richter;Haiyan Teng;Antonietta Capotondi;Antonietta Capotondi

210
Citations
Quantifying Errors in Observationally Based Estimates of Ocean Carbon Sink Variability

Lucas Gloege;Galen A. McKinley;Peter Landschützer;Amanda R. Fay

187
Citations
Natural Variability and Anthropogenic Trends in the Ocean Carbon Sink

Galen A. McKinley;Amanda R. Fay;Nicole S. Lovenduski;Darren J. Pilcher

170
Citations
Timescales for detection of trends in the ocean carbon sink

Galen A. McKinley;Darren J. Pilcher;Darren J. Pilcher;Amanda R. Fay;Keith Lindsay

164
Citations
Coccolithophore growth and calcification in a changing ocean

Kristen M. Krumhardt;Nicole S. Lovenduski;M. Debora Iglesias-Rodriguez;Joan A. Kleypas

157
Citations
External Forcing Explains Recent Decadal Variability of the Ocean Carbon Sink

Galen A. McKinley;Amanda R. Fay;Yassir A. Eddebbar;Lucas Gloege

144
Citations
Societal shifts due to COVID-19 reveal large-scale complexities and feedbacks between atmospheric chemistry and climate change.

Joshua L Laughner;Jessica L Neu;David Schimel;Paul O Wennberg

136
Citations
Reducing uncertainty in projections of terrestrial carbon uptake

Nicole S Lovenduski;Gordon B Bonan

111
Citations
Recent evidence for a strengthening CO2 sink in the Southern Ocean from carbonate system measurements in the Drake Passage (2002–2015)

David R. Munro;Nicole S. Lovenduski;Taro Takahashi;Britton B. Stephens

109
Citations
Rapidly expanding nuclear arsenals in Pakistan and India portend regional and global catastrophe

Owen B. Toon;Charles G. Bardeen;Alan Robock;Lili Xia

98
Citations
Partitioning uncertainty in ocean carbon uptake projections: Internal variability, emission scenario, and model structure

Nicole S. Lovenduski;Galen A. McKinley;Amanda R. Fay;Keith Lindsay

80
Citations
Estimates of net community production in the Southern Ocean determined from time series observations (2002–2011) of nutrients, dissolved inorganic carbon, and surface ocean pCO2 in Drake Passage

David R. Munro;Nicole S. Lovenduski;Britton B. Stephens;Timothy Newberger;Timothy Newberger

59
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Galen A. McKinley Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Keith Lindsay National Center for Atmospheric Research

Matthew C. Long National Center for Atmospheric Research

Alan Robock Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Stephen G. Yeager National Center for Atmospheric Research

Owen B. Toon University of Colorado Boulder

John C. Fyfe University of Victoria

Andrew Lenton Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

Colm Sweeney National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Tatiana Ilyina Max Planck Society

External Links

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