2026 Thomas F. Stocker: 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	115	151	141	6	6	518	94216

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
2019 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Earth Sciences
2016 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2012 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
1998 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Thomas F. Stocker is affiliated with the University of Bern in Switzerland. Their work primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, focusing extensively on Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change. Other notable subfields in their research include Environmental Chemistry, Oceanography, and Ecology.

Their research topics cover a range of areas such as Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Climate variability and models, Cryospheric studies and observations, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, and Isotope Analysis in Ecology.

Frequent publication venues for their work include Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Climate of the past, Bern Open Repository and Information System (University of Bern), Nature, and Environmental Research Letters.

Notable recent papers by Thomas F. Stocker include:

Bipolar volcanic synchronization of abrupt climate change in Greenland and Antarctic ice cores during the last glacial period (2020), Climate of the past
Ambitious partnership needed for reliable climate prediction (2022), Nature Climate Change
Magnitude, frequency and climate forcing of global volcanism during the last glacial period as seen in Greenland and Antarctic ice cores (60-9 ka) (2022), Climate of the past
Abrupt CO ₂ release to the atmosphere under glacial and early interglacial climate conditions (2020), Science
Multi-proxy constraints on Atlantic circulation dynamics since the last ice age (2023), Nature Geoscience

Frequent co-authors in their publications include Frerk Pöppelmeier, Hubertus Fischer, Fortunat Joos, Aurich Jeltsch-Thömmes, and Martina Messmer.

Thomas F. Stocker has received several awards including membership in the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften in the Earth Sciences category (2019), Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2016), Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) (2012), and membership in Academia Europaea (1998).

Best Publications

Global climate projections. Chapter 10

G A Meehl;T F Stocker;W D Collins;P Friedlingstein

6887
Citations
Global climate projections

G.A. Meehl;T. F. Stocker;W. D. Collins;P. Friedlingstein

6784
Citations
Managing the risks of extreme events and disasters to advance climate change adaptation. Special report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Christopher B. Field;Vicente Barros;Thomas F. Stocker;Qin Dahe

5169
Citations
Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation. A Special Report of Working Groups I and II of IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Christopher B. Field;Vicente Barros;Thomas F. Stocker;Qin Dahe

5106
Citations
Climate Change 2001: Synthesis Report: A contribution of Working Groups I, II, and III to the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

RT Watson;DL Albritton;T Barker;IA Baskmakov

3360
Citations
High-resolution carbon dioxide concentration record 650,000–800,000 years before present

Dieter Lüthi;Martine Le Floch;Bernhard Bereiter;Thomas Blunier

3116
Citations
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
Eight glacial cycles from an Antarctic ice core

Laurent Augustin;Carlo Barbante;Piers R. F. Barnes;Jean Marc Barnola

2075
Citations
Mid- to Late Holocene climate change: an overview

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

2026
Citations
Abrupt climate change

RB Alley;Jochem Marotzke;WD Nordhaus;JT Overpeck

1702
Citations
Atmospheric CO2 Concentrations over the Last Glacial Termination

Eric Monnin;Andreas Indermühle;André Dällenbach;Jacqueline Flückiger

1540
Citations
Climate Change 2001: Synthesis Report

R. T. Watson;D. L. Albritton;T. Barker;I. A. Bashmakov

1423
Citations
Stable carbon cycle-climate relationship during the Late Pleistocene.

Urs Siegenthaler;Thomas F. Stocker;Eric Monnin;Dieter Lüthi

1404
Citations
Orbital and millennial-scale features of atmospheric CH4 over the past 800,000 years.

Laetitia Loulergue;Adrian Schilt;Renato Spahni;Valérie Masson-Delmotte

1266
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
The role of the thermohaline circulation in abrupt climate change

Peter U. Clark;Nicklas G. Pisias;Thomas F. Stocker;Andrew J. Weaver

1126
Citations
Guidance Note for Lead Authors of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report on Consistent Treatment of Uncertainties

Michael D. Mastrandrea;Christopher B. Field;Thomas F. Stocker;Ottmar Edenhofer

1020
Citations
Asynchrony of Antarctic and Greenland climate change during the last glacial period

T. Blunier;J. Chappellaz;J. Schwander;A. Dällenbach

1015
Citations
Holocene carbon-cycle dynamics based on CO2 trapped in ice at Taylor Dome, Antarctica

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

999
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Hubertus Fischer University of Bern

Christoph C. Raible University of Bern

Fortunat Joos University of Bern

Jochen Schmitt University of Bern

Jakob Schwander University of Bern

Jérôme Chappellaz École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Bernhard Stauffer University of Bern

Markus Leuenberger University of Bern

Renato Spahni University of Bern

Matthias Bigler University of Bern

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