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Overview

Douglas E. J. Worthy is affiliated with Environment and Climate Change Canada, where their research focuses on environmental and atmospheric sciences. Their work spans several key fields, including Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, reflecting a broad engagement with the physical and chemical dynamics of the atmosphere and environment.

Worthy's research concentrates on specific subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, Mechanics of Materials, and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. This multidisciplinary approach supports detailed studies of atmospheric processes and their interaction with environmental factors.

The scientist's main research topics include Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Atmospheric Chemistry and Aerosols, Hydrocarbon Exploration and Reservoir Analysis, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, and Climate Change and Permafrost. These topics highlight their focus on the behavior and impact of gases and aerosols in the atmosphere, as well as related geological and environmental systems.

Worthy has contributed articles to several notable scientific journals. Their recent publications include:

  • Eight-Year Estimates of Methane Emissions from Oil and Gas Operations in Western Canada Are Nearly Twice Those Reported in Inventories, 2020, Environmental Science & Technology
  • Country-Scale Analysis of Methane Emissions with a High-Resolution Inverse Model Using GOSAT and Surface Observations, 2020, Remote Sensing
  • Technical note: A high-resolution inverse modelling technique for estimating surface CO 2 fluxes based on the NIES-TM-FLEXPART coupled transport model and its adjoint, 2021, Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • RADIOCARBON IN GLOBAL TROPOSPHERIC CARBON DIOXIDE, 2021, Radiocarbon
  • Estimating methane emissions in the Arctic nations using surface observations from 2008 to 2019, 2023, Atmospheric chemistry and physics

Most of Worthy's publications appear in the following journals:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Remote Sensing
  • Radiocarbon
  • Atmospheric measurement techniques

Frequent collaborators include Felix Vogel, Michel Ramonet, R. L. Langenfelds, Elton Chan, and Douglas Chan, demonstrating ongoing partnerships in research projects and publications.

Best Publications

  • An atmospheric perspective on North American carbon dioxide exchange: CarbonTracker

    Wouter Peters;A. R. Jacobson;C. Sweeney;A. E. Andrews

  • Rising atmospheric methane: 2007-2014 growth and isotopic shift

    E. G. Nisbet;E. J. Dlugokencky;M. R. Manning;D. Lowry

  • CO2 surface fluxes at grid point scale estimated from a global 21 year reanalysis of atmospheric measurements

    F. Chevallier;P. Ciais;T. J. Conway;T. Aalto

  • Observations and modelling of the global distribution and long-term trend of atmospheric 14CO2

    Ingeborg Levin;Tobias Naegler;Bernd Kromer;Moritz Diehl

  • Global CO 2 fluxes estimated from GOSAT retrievals of total column CO 2

    S. Basu;S. Basu;S. Guerlet;A. Butz;S. Houweling;S. Houweling

  • CarbonTracker-CH 4 : an assimilation system for estimating emissions of atmospheric methane

    L. M. Bruhwiler;E. Dlugokencky;K. Masarie;M. Ishizawa

  • Verification of German methane emission inventories and their recent changes based on atmospheric observations

    Ingeborg Levin;Holger Glatzel-Mattheier;Thomas Marik;Matthias Cuntz

  • The global SF6 source inferred from long-term high precision atmospheric measurements and its comparison with emission inventories

    I. Levin;T. Naegler;R. Heinz;D. Osusko

  • The role of scavenging in the seasonal transport of black carbon and sulfate to the Arctic

    Timothy J. Garrett;Sara Brattström;Sangeeta Sharma;Douglas E. J. Worthy

  • Is the Arctic Surface Layer a Source and Sink of NOx in Winter/Spring?

    B. Ridley;J. Walega;D. Montzka;F. Grahek

  • Isotope analysis based source identification for atmospheric CH4 and CO sampled across Russia using the Trans-Siberian railroad

    P. Bergamaschi;C. A. M. Brenninkmeijer;M. Hahn;T. Röckmann

  • Analysis of long‐range transport events at Alert, Northwest Territories, during the Polar Sunrise Experiment

    D. E. J. Worthy;N. B. A. Trivett;J. F. Hopper;J. W. Bottenheim

  • Eight-Year Estimates of Methane Emissions from Oil and Gas Operations in Western Canada Are Nearly Twice Those Reported in Inventories.

    Elton Chan;Douglas E J Worthy;Douglas Chan;Misa Ishizawa

  • Magnitude and seasonality of wetland methane emissions from the Hudson Bay Lowlands (Canada)

    C. A. Pickett-Heaps;C. A. Pickett-Heaps;D. J. Jacob;K. J. Wecht;E. A. Kort

  • Global CO2 fluxes inferred from surface air-sample measurements and from TCCON retrievals of the CO2 total column

    F. Chevallier;N. M. Deutscher;N. M. Deutscher;T. J. Conway;P. Ciais

  • Atmospheric chemistry of formaldehyde in the Arctic troposphere at Polar Sunrise, and the influence of the snowpack

    A.L Sumner;P.B Shepson;A.M Grannas;J.W Bottenheim

  • Western European N2O emissions: A top-down approach based on atmospheric observations

    Martina Schmidt;Holger Glatzel-Mattheier;Hartmut Sartorius;Douglas E. Worthy

  • Inverse modeling of CO2 sources and sinks using satellite observations of CO2 from TES and surface flask measurements

    R. Nassar;R. Nassar;D. B. A. Jones;S. S. Kulawik;J. R. Worden

  • Ten years of atmospheric methane observations at a high elevation site in Western China

    L.X. Zhou;D.E.J. Worthy;P.M. Lang;M.K. Ernst

  • Seven years of continuous methane observations at a remote boreal site in Ontario, Canada

    D. E. J. Worthy;I. Levin;N. B. A. Trivett;A. J. Kuhlmann

  • Evidence for a link between climate and northern wetland methane emissions

    Douglas E. J. Worthy;Ingeborg Levin;Fred Hopper;Michele K. Ernst

  • Global Methane Budget 2000-2012

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Edward J. Dlugokencky
Edward J. Dlugokencky National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Arlyn E. Andrews
Arlyn E. Andrews National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Ingeborg Levin
Ingeborg Levin Heidelberg University
Colm Sweeney
Colm Sweeney National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Jing M. Chen
Jing M. Chen University of Toronto
John B. Miller
John B. Miller National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Ray L. Langenfelds
Ray L. Langenfelds Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Paul B. Krummel
Paul B. Krummel Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Toshinobu Machida
Toshinobu Machida National Institute for Environmental Studies
Lori Bruhwiler
Lori Bruhwiler National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

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