2026 Toste Tanhua: 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	58	3195	3057	217	213	305	20731

Overview

Toste Tanhua is affiliated with GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel in Germany. Their research focuses primarily on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with 99 publications in this field, and Environmental Science, where they have contributed 49 works. A significant part of their work relates to Oceanography, accounting for 78 publications, along with contributions to Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, and Pollution.

The topics central to Tanhua's research include Marine and coastal ecosystems, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Climate variability and models, and Isotope Analysis in Ecology.

Tanhua has contributed to several recent scientific papers, including:

Global Carbon Budget 2020 (2020) published in Earth system science data
Global Carbon Budget 2022 (2022) published in Earth system science data
Global Carbon Budget 2021 (2022) published in Earth system science data
An updated version of the global interior ocean biogeochemical data product, GLODAPv2.2020 (2020) published in Earth system science data
GO-SHIP Repeat Hydrography Nutrient Manual: The Precise and Accurate Determination of Dissolved Inorganic Nutrients in Seawater, Using Continuous Flow Analysis Methods (2020) published in Frontiers in Marine Science

Frequently collaborating with fellow researchers, Tanhua's co-authors include Are Olsen, Siv K. Lauvset, Nico Lange, Rik Wanninkhof, and Richard A. Feely. These collaborations have contributed to the advancement of their fields of study.

The most common venues for Tanhua's publications encompass Frontiers in Marine Science, Earth system science data, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans, Ocean science, and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

Best Publications

The oceanic sink for anthropogenic CO2.

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

5353
Citations
Global Carbon Budget 2020

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

2252
Citations
The oceanic sink for anthropogenic CO2 from 1994 to 2007

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

937
Citations
The Global Ocean Data Analysis Project version 2 (GLODAPv2) – an internally consistent data product for the world ocean

Are Olsen;Robert M. Key;Steven van Heuven;Siv K. Lauvset;Siv K. Lauvset

671
Citations
Global ocean storage of anthropogenic carbon

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

622
Citations
A new global interior ocean mapped climatology: the 1° × 1° GLODAP version 2

Siv Kari Lauvset;Siv Kari Lauvset;Robert M. Key;Are Olsen;Are Olsen;Steven van Heuven

463
Citations
On the Future of Argo: A Global, Full-Depth, Multi-Disciplinary Array

Dean Roemmich;Matthew H. Alford;Hervé Claustre;Kenneth Johnson

424
Citations
Medusa: A Sample Preconcentration and GC/MS Detector System for in Situ Measurements of Atmospheric Trace Halocarbons, Hydrocarbons, and Sulfur Compounds

Benjamin R Miller;Ray F Weiss;Peter K Salameh;Toste Tanhua

342
Citations
Estimation of Anthropogenic CO2 Inventories in the Ocean

Christopher L. Sabine;Toste Tanhua

291
Citations
Changes in ocean heat, carbon content, and ventilation : a review of the first decade of GO-SHIP Global Repeat Hydrography

Lynne D. Talley;Richard A. Feely;Bernadette M. Sloyan;Rik Wanninkhof

277
Citations
Biogeochemical protocols and diagnostics for the CMIP6 Ocean Model Intercomparison Project (OMIP)

James C. Orr;Raymond G. Najjar;Olivier Aumont;Laurent Bopp

235
Citations
The Mediterranean Sea system: a review and an introduction to the special issue

T. Tanhua;D. Hainbucher;K. Schroeder;V. Cardin

225
Citations
Ocean FAIR data services

Toste Tanhua;Sylvie Pouliquen;Jessica Hausman;Kevin O’Brien

210
Citations
Physical forcing and physical/biochemical variability of the Mediterranean Sea: a review of unresolved issues and directions for future research

P. Malanotte-Rizzoli;V. Artale;G. L. Borzelli-Eusebi;S. Brenner

195
Citations
GLOBAL OCEAN DATA ANALYSIS PROJECT, VERSION 2 (GLODAPv2)

R. M. Key;A. Olsen;S. van Heuven;S. K. Lauvset

180
Citations
The CARINA data synthesis project: introduction and overview

Robert Key;T. Tanhua;Are Olsen;Are Olsen;M. Hoppema

174
Citations
Tracer applications of noble gas radionuclides in the geosciences

Z.-T. Lu;Z.-T. Lu;P. Schlosser;W.M. Smethie;N.C. Sturchio

173
Citations
Global sea-to-air flux climatology for bromoform, dibromomethane and methyl iodide

Franziska Ziska;Birgit Quack;K. Abrahamsson;S. D. Archer

172
Citations
On the role of circulation and mixing in the ventilation of oxygen minimum zones with a focus on the eastern tropical North Atlantic

Peter Brandt;Hermann W. Bange;Donata Banyte;Marcus Dengler

172
Citations
GLODAPv2.2019 – an update of GLODAPv2

Are Olsen;Nico Lange;Robert M. Key;Toste Tanhua

169
Citations
An estimate of anthropogenic CO2 inventory from decadal changes in oceanic carbon content.

Toste Tanhua;Arne Körtzinger;Karsten Friis;Darryn W. Waugh

153
Citations
An updated version of the global interior ocean biogeochemical data product, GLODAPv2.2021

Siv K. Lauvset;Nico Lange;Toste Tanhua;Henry C. Bittig

5
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Are Olsen University of Bergen

Robert M. Key Princeton University

Douglas W.R. Wallace Dalhousie University

Mario Hoppema Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research

Fiz F. Pérez Spanish National Research Council

Arne Körtzinger GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel

Martin Visbeck GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel

Masao Ishii Japan Meteorological Agency

Rik Wanninkhof Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory

Nicolas Gruber ETH Zurich

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