Debra Wunch

22.7k citations

133 papers · 6.3k · 5 hit papers · h-index 36

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Atmospheric Science top 0.2%
- Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
- Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
- Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
Global and Planetary Change top 0.1%
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Climate variability and models

Papers in

Global and Planetary Change 124
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics 122
- Climate variability and models 15
Atmospheric Science 109
- Atmospheric Ozone and Climate 89
- Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols 61
- Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations 8

Co-authors: P. O. Wennberg (68 shared papers)Geoffrey C. Toon (36 shared papers)Justus Notholt (36 shared papers)David Griffith (24 shared papers)V. Sherlock (15 shared papers)B. J. Connor (12 shared papers)Nicholas M. Deutscher (36 shared papers)Christian Frankenberg (16 shared papers)
Journals: Atmospheric measurement techniques (29 papers)Atmospheric chemistry and physics (22 papers)Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres (6 papers)Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer (5 papers)Geophysical Research Letters (5 papers)
Partner nations: United States Canada Germany

In The Last Decade

Debra Wunch

126 papers receiving 6.2k citations

Debra Wunch's Hit Papers

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Carbon emissions from the 2023 Canadian wildfires 2024 · 73 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2024 Nature
2021 Atmospheric measurement techniques
2017 Science
2012 Atmospheric measurement techniques
2011 Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences

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1	The Total Carbon Column Observing Network Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences ·Debra Wunch, Geoffrey C. Toon, Jean-François L. Blavier, R. A. Washenfelder, Justus Notholt, B. J. Connor, David Griffith, V. Sherlock, P. O. Wennberg Hit paper breakdown →	2011	816
2	The ACOS CO ₂ retrieval algorithm – Part 1: Description and validation against synthetic observations Atmospheric measurement techniques ·C. O’Dell, B. J. Connor, Hartmut Bösch, Diane M. O’Brien, Christian Frankenberg, Rebecca Castaño, M. Christi, D. Eldering, B. Fisher, M. R. Gunson, James McDuffie, Charles E. Miller, Vijay Natraj, Fabiano Oyafuso, I. N. Polonsky, Mike Smyth, Thomas E. Taylor, Geoffrey C. Toon, P. O. Wennberg, Debra Wunch Hit paper breakdown →	2012	414
3	Toward accurate CO₂and CH₄observations from GOSAT Geophysical Research Letters ·A. Butz, Sandrine Guerlet, Otto Hasekamp, Dinand Schepers, André Galli, Ilse Aben, Christian Frankenberg, Jean‐Michel Hartmann, H. Tran, Akihiko Kuze, G. Keppel‐Aleks, Geoffrey C. Toon, Debra Wunch, P. O. Wennberg, Nicholas M. Deutscher, David Griffith, Ronald Macatangay, J. Messerschmidt, Justus Notholt, Thorsten Warneke	2011	346
4	Contrasting carbon cycle responses of the tropical continents to the 2015–2016 El Niño Science ·Junjie Liu, K. W. Bowman, David Schimel, Nicholas C. Parazoo, Zhe Jiang, Meemong Lee, A. Anthony Bloom, Debra Wunch, Christian Frankenberg, Ying Sun, C. O’Dell, K. R. Gurney, Dimitris Menemenlis, Michelle M. Gierach, David Crisp, A. Eldering Hit paper breakdown →	2017	323
5	Importance of secondary sources in the atmospheric budgets of formic and acetic acids Atmospheric chemistry and physics ·Fabien Paulot, Debra Wunch, John D. Crounse, Geoffrey C. Toon, Dylan B. Millet, P. F. DeCarlo, Corinne Vigouroux, Nicholas M. Deutscher, Gonzalo González Abad, Justus Notholt, Thorsten Warneke, James W. Hannigan, C. Warneke, J. A. de Gouw, E. J. Dunlea, Martine De Mazière, David Griffith, P. F. Bernath, J. L. Jiménez, P. O. Wennberg	2011	260
6	Daily and 3-hourly variability in global fire emissions and consequences for atmospheric model predictions of carbon monoxide Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·M. Mu, James T. Randerson, Guido R. van der Werf, Louis Giglio, P. S. Kasibhatla, Douglas C. Morton, G. J. Collatz, Ruth DeFries, E. J. Hyer, E. M. Prins, David Griffith, Debra Wunch, Geoffrey C. Toon, V. Sherlock, P. O. Wennberg	2011	240
7	Quantifying CO₂ Emissions From Individual Power Plants From Space Geophysical Research Letters ·Ray Nassar, Tim Hill, C. A. McLinden, Debra Wunch, Dylan B. A. Jones, David Crisp	2017	227
8	Emissions of greenhouse gases from a North American megacity Geophysical Research Letters ·Debra Wunch, P. O. Wennberg, Geoffrey C. Toon, G. Keppel‐Aleks, Y. G. Yavin	2009	202
9	The Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 early science investigations of regional carbon dioxide fluxes Science ·A. Eldering, P. O. Wennberg, David Crisp, David Schimel, M. R. Gunson, Abhishek Chatterjee, Junjie Liu, F. M. Schwandner, Ying Sun, C. O’Dell, Christian Frankenberg, Thomas E. Taylor, B. Fisher, G. B. Osterman, Debra Wunch, Janne Hakkarainen, Johanna Tamminen, Brad Weir	2017	186
10	Methane observations from the Greenhouse Gases Observing SATellite: Comparison to ground‐based TCCON data and model calculations Geophysical Research Letters ·Robert J. Parker, Hartmut Boesch, A. J. Cogan, A. Fraser, Liang Feng, Paul I. Palmer, Janina Messerschmidt, Nicholas M. Deutscher, David Griffith, Justus Notholt, P. O. Wennberg, Debra Wunch	2011	181
11	Preliminary validation of column-averaged volume mixing ratios of carbon dioxide and methane retrieved from GOSAT short-wavelength infrared spectra Atmospheric measurement techniques ·Isamu Morino, Osamu Uchino, M. Inoue, Yukio Yoshida, Tatsuya Yokota, P. O. Wennberg, Geoffrey C. Toon, Debra Wunch, Coleen M. Roehl, Justus Notholt, Thorsten Warneke, J. Messerschmidt, David Griffith, Nicholas M. Deutscher, V. Sherlock, B. J. Connor, John Robinson, Ralf Sussmann, Markus Rettinger	2011	175
12	Methane retrieved from TROPOMI: improvement of the data product and validation of the first 2 years of measurements Atmospheric measurement techniques ·Alba Lorente, Tobias Borsdorff, A. Butz, Otto Hasekamp, Joost aan de Brugh, Andreas Schneider, Lianghai Wu, Frank Hase, Rigel Kivi, Debra Wunch, David F. Pollard, Kei Shiomi, Nicholas M. Deutscher, Voltaire A. Velazco, Coleen M. Roehl, P. O. Wennberg, Thorsten Warneke, Jochen Landgraf Hit paper breakdown →	2021	154
13	Four corners: The largest US methane anomaly viewed from space Geophysical Research Letters ·E. A. Kort, Christian Frankenberg, K. R. Costigan, R. Lindenmaier, Manvendra K. Dubey, Debra Wunch	2014	128
14	Atmospheric carbon dioxide retrieved from the Greenhouse gases Observing SATellite (GOSAT): Comparison with ground‐based TCCON observations and GEOS‐Chem model calculations Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·A. J. Cogan, Hartmut Boesch, Robert J. Parker, Liang Feng, Paul I. Palmer, J.-F. Blavier, Nicholas M. Deutscher, Ronald Macatangay, Justus Notholt, Coleen M. Roehl, Thorsten Warneke, Debra Wunch	2012	125
15	Retrieval of atmospheric CO₂with enhanced accuracy and precision from SCIAMACHY: Validation with FTS measurements and comparison with model results Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·Maximilian Reuter, H. Bovensmann, Michael Buchwitz, John P. Burrows, B. J. Connor, Nicholas M. Deutscher, David Griffith, J. Heymann, G. Keppel‐Aleks, J. Messerschmidt, Justus Notholt, Christof Petri, John Robinson, Oliver Schneising, V. Sherlock, Voltaire A. Velazco, Thorsten Warneke, P. O. Wennberg, Debra Wunch	2011	125
16	The Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO-2): spectrometer performance evaluation using pre-launch direct sun measurements Atmospheric measurement techniques ·Christian Frankenberg, Randy Pollock, R. A. M. Lee, Robert Rosenberg, J.-F. Blavier, David Crisp, C. O’Dell, G. B. Osterman, Coleen M. Roehl, P. O. Wennberg, Debra Wunch	2015	117
17	On the Sources of Methane to the Los Angeles Atmosphere Environmental Science & Technology ·P. O. Wennberg, Wilton Mui, Debra Wunch, E. A. Kort, D. R. Blake, E. Atlas, G. W. Santoni, Steven C. Wofsy, Glenn S. Diskin, Seongeun Jeong, M. L. Fischer	2012	103
18	A multi-year methane inversion using SCIAMACHY, accounting for systematic errors using TCCON measurements Atmospheric chemistry and physics ·Sander Houweling, Maarten Krol, P. Bergamaschi, Christian Frankenberg, E. J. Dlugokencky, Isamu Morino, Justus Notholt, V. Sherlock, Debra Wunch, V. Beck, Christoph Gerbig, Huilin Chen, E. A. Kort, Thomas Röckmann, Ilse Aben	2014	92
19	Total column CO ₂ measurements at Darwin, Australia – site description and calibration against in situ aircraft profiles Atmospheric measurement techniques ·Nicholas M. Deutscher, David Griffith, G. W. Bryant, P. O. Wennberg, G. C. Toon, R. A. Washenfelder, G. Keppel‐Aleks, Debra Wunch, Y. G. Yavin, Norton Allen, J.-F. Blavier, Rodrigo Jiménez, Bruce C. Daube, A. Bright, D. M. Matross, S. C. Wofsy, S. Park	2010	87
20	The imprint of surface fluxes and transport on variations in total column carbon dioxide Biogeosciences ·G. Keppel‐Aleks, P. O. Wennberg, R. A. Washenfelder, Debra Wunch, Tapio Schneider, G. C. Toon, R. J. Andres, J.-F. Blavier, B. J. Connor, K. J. Davis, Ankur R. Desai, J. Messerschmidt, Justus Notholt, Coleen M. Roehl, V. Sherlock, Britton B. Stephens, S. A. Vay, Steven C. Wofsy	2012	77

About Debra Wunch

Debra Wunch is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Spectroscopy, Mechanics of Materials and Artificial Intelligence, having authored 133 papers that have together received 6.3k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (122 papers), Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (89 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (61 papers), Spectroscopy and Laser Applications (34 papers), Climate variability and models (15 papers), Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping (8 papers), Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis (8 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (8 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Atmospheric Science (5.1k citations), Global and Planetary Change (5.8k citations), Spectroscopy (952 citations), Environmental Engineering (445 citations) and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis (386 citations). Debra Wunch has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Canada and Germany. Frequent co-authors include P. O. Wennberg, Geoffrey C. Toon, Justus Notholt, David Griffith, V. Sherlock, B. J. Connor, Nicholas M. Deutscher, Christian Frankenberg, R. A. Washenfelder and Coleen M. Roehl. Their work appears in journals such as Atmospheric measurement techniques, Atmospheric chemistry and physics, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer and Geophysical Research Letters.

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