Debra Wunch

23.1k citations
135 papers · 6.8k · 6 hit papers · h-index 38

Impact in

  • 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 126
    • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics 124
    • Climate variability and models 15
  • Atmospheric Science 110
    • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate 90
    • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols 61
    • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations 8
Co-authors
P. O. Wennberg (68 shared papers)Geoffrey C. Toon (35 shared papers)Justus Notholt (35 shared papers)David Griffith (23 shared papers)V. Sherlock (15 shared papers)B. J. Connor (12 shared papers)Christian Frankenberg (17 shared papers)Nicholas M. Deutscher (34 shared papers)
Journals
Atmospheric measurement techniques (31 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 StatesCanadaGermany

In The Last Decade

Debra Wunch

127 papers receiving 6.7k citations

Debra Wunch's Hit Papers

Carbon emissions from the 2023 Canadian wildfires 2024 · 91 citations
910+5+10Years since publication250500750
What are hit papers?

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.
  1. 2024 Nature
  2. 2021 Atmospheric measurement techniques
  3. 2017 Science
  4. 2017 Atmospheric measurement techniques
  5. 2012 Atmospheric measurement techniques
  6. 2011 Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences

Peers

Debra Wunch
Comparison fields: 5 of 101
  • Atmospheric Science 5.4k
  • Global and Planetary Change 6.2k
  • Spectroscopy 999
  • Environmental Engineering 477
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 394
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The 25 scholars most cited alongside Debra Wunch, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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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 →		2011832
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 →		2012424
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
2011353
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 →		2017334
5
The on-orbit performance of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) instrument and its radiometrically calibrated products
Atmospheric measurement techniques ·David Crisp, (unknown), Robert Rosenberg, Lars Chapsky, Richard A. Lee, Fabiano Oyafuso, Christian Frankenberg, C. O’Dell, Carol J. Bruegge, Gary Doran, A. Eldering, B. Fisher, Dejian Fu, M. R. Gunson, Lukas Mandrake, G. B. Osterman, F. M. Schwandner, Kang Sun, Thomas E. Taylor, P. O. Wennberg, Debra Wunch
Hit paper breakdown →		2017321
6
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
2011264
7
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
2011244
8
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
2017235
9
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
2009203
10
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
2017197
11
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
2011186
12
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
2011177
13
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 →		2021173
14
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
2014129
15
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
2012128
16
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
2011125
17
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
2015119
18
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
2012105
19
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
201493
20
Carbon emissions from the 2023 Canadian wildfires
Nature ·Brendan Byrne, Junjie Liu, K. W. Bowman, Madeleine Pascolini‐Campbell, Abhishek Chatterjee, Sudhanshu Pandey, Kazuyuki Miyazaki, Guido R. van der Werf, Debra Wunch, P. O. Wennberg, Coleen M. Roehl, Saptarshi Sinha
Hit paper breakdown →		202491

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 135 papers that have together received 6.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (124 papers), Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (90 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (61 papers), Spectroscopy and Laser Applications (35 papers), Climate variability and models (15 papers), Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis (8 papers), Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping (8 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (8 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Atmospheric Science (5.4k citations), Global and Planetary Change (6.2k citations), Spectroscopy (999 citations), Environmental Engineering (477 citations) and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis (394 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, Christian Frankenberg, Nicholas M. Deutscher, Coleen M. Roehl and R. A. Washenfelder. 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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