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Environmental Sciences
Canada
2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
68
Citations
22930
World Ranking
1843
National Ranking
67

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Canada Leader Award

Overview

Debra Wunch is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada. Their research primarily focuses on environmental and earth sciences with a strong emphasis on atmospheric studies.

The main fields of study in which they have contributed include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Their specialized subfields cover:

  • Atmospheric Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Spectroscopy
  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Mechanics of Materials

Wunch's research addresses a range of topics, notably:

  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Spectroscopy and Laser Applications
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
  • Climate variability and models

Their recent publications demonstrate engagement with methane and atmospheric measurements, including:

  • The Global Methane Budget 2000-2017 (2020), NOAA Institutional Repository
  • Methane retrieved from TROPOMI: improvement of the data product and validation of the first 2 years of measurements (2021), Atmospheric measurement techniques
  • Validation of methane and carbon monoxide from Sentinel-5 Precursor using TCCON and NDACC-IRWG stations (2021), Atmospheric measurement techniques
  • A decade of GOSAT Proxy satellite CH 4 observations (2020), Earth system science data
  • Carbon emissions from the 2023 Canadian wildfires (2024), Nature

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Wunch include:

  • Rigel Kivi
  • Frank Hase
  • Justus Notholt
  • Nicholas M. Deutscher
  • Isamu Morino

They have published multiple articles in established venues such as:

  • Atmospheric measurement techniques
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Remote Sensing
  • Earth system science data
  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics

Best Publications

  • The global methane budget 2000–2017

    Marielle Saunois;Ann R. Stavert;Ben Poulter;Philippe Bousquet

  • The Total Carbon Column Observing Network

    Debra Wunch;Geoffrey C. Toon;Jean-François L. Blavier;Rebecca A. Washenfelder

  • The global methane budget 2000–2012

    Marielle Saunois;Philippe Bousquet;Ben Poulter;Anna Peregon

  • The ACOS CO 2 retrieval algorithm – Part 1: Description and validation against synthetic observations

    C. W. O'Dell;B. Connor;H. Bösch;D. O'Brien

  • Toward accurate CO2 and CH4 observations from GOSAT

    A Butz;A Butz;S Guerlet;O Hasekamp;D Schepers

  • Calibration of the Total Carbon Column Observing Network using aircraft profile data

    Debra Wunch;Geoffrey C. Toon;Paul O. Wennberg;Steven C. Wofsy

  • The on-orbit performance of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) instrument and its radiometrically calibrated products

    David Crisp;Harold R. Pollock;Robert Rosenberg;Lars Chapsky

  • Comparisons of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) X CO 2 measurements with TCCON

    Debra Wunch;Debra Wunch;Paul O. Wennberg;Gregory Osterman;Gregory Osterman;Brendan Fisher;Brendan Fisher

  • Contrasting carbon cycle responses of the tropical continents to the 2015–2016 El Niño

    Junjie Liu;Kevin W. Bowman;David S. Schimel;Nicolas C. Parazoo

  • Improvement of the retrieval algorithm for GOSAT SWIR XCO2 and XCH4 and their validation using TCCON data

    Y. Yoshida;N. Kikuchi;I. Morino;O. Uchino

  • Improved retrievals of carbon dioxide from Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 with the version 8 ACOS algorithm

    Christopher W. O'Dell;Annmarie Eldering;Paul O. Wennberg;David Crisp

  • The ACOS CO 2 retrieval algorithm – Part II: Global X CO 2 data characterization

    D. Crisp;B. M. Fisher;C. O'Dell;C. Frankenberg

  • Importance of secondary sources in the atmospheric budgets of formic and acetic acids

    F. Paulot;D. Wunch;J. D. Crounse;G. C. Toon

  • Estimating global and North American methane emissions with high spatial resolution using GOSAT satellite data

    A J Turner;Daniel J Jacob;K J Wecht;J D Maasakkers

  • Quantifying CO2 Emissions From Individual Power Plants From Space

    Ray Nassar;Timothy G. Hill;Chris A. McLinden;Debra Wunch

  • Process-evaluation of tropospheric humidity simulated by general circulation models using water vapor isotopologues: 1. Comparison between models and observations

    Camille Risi;Camille Risi;David Noone;John Worden;Christian Frankenberg

  • Emissions of greenhouse gases from a North American megacity

    D. Wunch;P. O. Wennberg;G. C. Toon;G. Keppel-Aleks

  • A method for evaluating bias in global measurements of CO 2 total columns from space

    D. Wunch;P. O. Wennberg;G. C. Toon;B. J. Connor

  • Methane retrieved from TROPOMI: Improvement of the data product and validation of the first 2 years of measurements

    Alba Lorente;Tobias Borsdorff;Andre Butz;Otto Hasekamp

  • Methane observations from the Greenhouse Gases Observing SATellite: Comparison to ground‐based TCCON data and model calculations

    Robert Parker;Hartmut Boesch;Austin Cogan;Annemarie Fraser

  • Daily and 3‐hourly variability in global fire emissions and consequences for atmospheric model predictions of carbon monoxide

    M. Mu;J. T. Randerson;G. R. van der Werf;L. Giglio

  • Simultaneous ground-based observations of O 3 , HCl, N 2 O, and CH 4 over Toronto, Canada by three Fourier transform spectrometers with different resolutions

    D. Wunch;J. R. Taylor;D. Fu;P. Bernath;P. Bernath

  • Global Methane Budget 2000-2012

    M. Saunois;P. Bousquet;B. Poulter;A. Peregon

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul O. Wennberg
Paul O. Wennberg California Institute of Technology
Nicholas M. Deutscher
Nicholas M. Deutscher University of Wollongong
Justus Notholt
Justus Notholt University of Bremen
Coleen M. Roehl
Coleen M. Roehl California Institute of Technology
David W. T. Griffith
David W. T. Griffith University of Wollongong
Thorsten Warneke
Thorsten Warneke University of Bremen
Isamu Morino
Isamu Morino National Institute for Environmental Studies
Ralf Sussmann
Ralf Sussmann Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Christian Frankenberg
Christian Frankenberg California Institute of Technology
Frank Hase
Frank Hase Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

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