Debra Wunch

22.7k total citations · 5 hit papers
133 papers, 6.3k citations indexed

About

Debra Wunch is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Spectroscopy. According to data from OpenAlex, Debra Wunch has authored 133 papers receiving a total of 6.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 124 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 109 papers in Atmospheric Science and 34 papers in Spectroscopy. Recurrent topics in Debra Wunch's work include Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (122 papers), Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (89 papers) and Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (61 papers). Debra Wunch is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (122 papers), Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (89 papers) and Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (61 papers). Debra Wunch collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Germany. Debra Wunch's 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 and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Debra Wunch

126 papers receiving 6.2k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

The Total Carbon Column Observing Network

2011 816 citations Debra Wunch, Geoffrey C. Toon et al. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences profile →
The ACOS CO ₂ retrieval algorithm – Part 1: Description and validation against synthetic observations

2012 414 citations C. O’Dell, B. J. Connor et al. Atmospheric measurement techniques profile →
Contrasting carbon cycle responses of the tropical continents to the 2015–2016 El Niño

2017 323 citations Junjie Liu, K. W. Bowman et al. profile →
Methane retrieved from TROPOMI: improvement of the data product and validation of the first 2 years of measurements

2021 154 citations Alba Lorente, Tobias Borsdorff et al. Atmospheric measurement techniques profile →
Carbon emissions from the 2023 Canadian wildfires

2024 73 citations Brendan Byrne, Junjie Liu et al. Nature profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Debra Wunch	5.8k	5.1k	952	445	422	133	6.3k
Michael Buchwitz	6.6k 1.1×	6.6k 1.3×	985 1.0×	652 1.5×	288 0.7×	146	7.7k
H. Bovensmann	6.0k 1.0×	6.6k 1.3×	954 1.0×	648 1.5×	279 0.7×	231	7.7k
Ilse Aben	6.1k 1.1×	5.1k 1.0×	850 0.9×	502 1.1×	619 1.5×	206	6.9k
Justus Notholt	6.4k 1.1×	6.7k 1.3×	1.2k 1.3×	591 1.3×	288 0.7×	265	8.2k
Otto Hasekamp	5.4k 0.9×	4.7k 0.9×	412 0.4×	382 0.9×	351 0.8×	159	6.1k
A. E. Andrews	5.7k 1.0×	4.9k 1.0×	298 0.3×	578 1.3×	349 0.8×	127	6.3k
Nicholas M. Deutscher	3.4k 0.6×	3.2k 0.6×	639 0.7×	211 0.5×	232 0.5×	110	3.8k
Thorsten Warneke	3.6k 0.6×	3.1k 0.6×	744 0.8×	217 0.5×	195 0.5×	120	4.2k
A. Butz	4.5k 0.8×	3.5k 0.7×	520 0.5×	323 0.7×	313 0.7×	114	5.0k
Sander Houweling	6.3k 1.1×	5.4k 1.1×	589 0.6×	461 1.0×	698 1.7×	116	7.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Debra Wunch

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Byrne, Brendan, Junjie Liu, K. W. Bowman, et al.. (2024). Carbon emissions from the 2023 Canadian wildfires. Nature. 633(8031). 835–839. 73 indexed citations breakdown →

Alberti, Carlos, Jia Chen, Angelika Dehn, et al.. (2024). Using a portable FTIR spectrometer to evaluate the consistency of Total Carbon Column Observing Network (TCCON) measurements on a global scale: the Collaborative Carbon Column Observing Network (COCCON) travel standard. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 17(11). 3467–3494. 5 indexed citations

Simpson, William R., Christopher D. Holmes, Frank Hase, et al.. (2021). Spatial distributions of X _{CO ₂} seasonal cycle amplitude and phase over northern high-latitude regions. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 21(22). 16661–16687. 13 indexed citations

Lorente, Alba, Tobias Borsdorff, A. Butz, et al.. (2021). Methane retrieved from TROPOMI: improvement of the data product and validation of the first 2 years of measurements. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 14(1). 665–684. 154 indexed citations breakdown →

Jones, Dylan B. A., Kimberly Strong, Martin Keller, et al.. (2021). Characterizing model errors in chemical transport modeling of methane: using GOSAT XCH ₄ data with weak-constraint four-dimensional variational data assimilation. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 21(12). 9545–9572. 12 indexed citations

Simpson, William R., Debra Wunch, C. O’Dell, et al.. (2020). Quality controls, bias, and seasonality of CO ₂ columns in the boreal forest with Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2, Total Carbon Column Observing Network, and EM27/SUN measurements. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 13(9). 5033–5063. 25 indexed citations

Jones, Dylan B. A., Kimberly Strong, Robert J. Parker, et al.. (2020). Characterizing model errors in chemical transport modeling of methane: impact of model resolution in versions v9-02 of GEOS-Chem and v35j of its adjoint model. Geoscientific model development. 13(9). 3839–3862. 31 indexed citations

Simpson, William R., Debra Wunch, C. O’Dell, et al.. (2020). Quality controls, bias, and seasonality of CO ₂ columns in the Boreal Forest with OCO-2, TCCON, and EM27/SUN measurements. 1 indexed citations

Keppel‐Aleks, G., Scott C. Doney, Martine De Mazière, et al.. (2019). A Geostatistical Framework for Quantifying the Imprint of Mesoscale Atmospheric Transport on Satellite Trace Gas Retrievals. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 124(17-18). 9773–9795. 13 indexed citations

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Agustí‐Panareda, Anna, Michail Diamantakis, S. Massart, et al.. (2019). Modelling CO ₂ weather – why horizontal resolution matters. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 19(11). 7347–7376. 56 indexed citations

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Wunch, Debra, Geoffrey C. Toon, Nicholas M. Deutscher, et al.. (2018). Emissions of methane in Europe inferred by total column measurements. Biogeosciences (European Geosciences Union). 2 indexed citations

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Lee, Richard A., C. O’Dell, Debra Wunch, et al.. (2017). Preflight Spectral Calibration of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 55(5). 2499–2508. 24 indexed citations

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Hedelius, Jacob K., Harrison Parker, Debra Wunch, et al.. (2017). Intercomparability of X _{CO ₂} and X _{CH ₄} from the United States TCCON sites. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 10(4). 1481–1493. 16 indexed citations

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Viatte, Camille, Thomas Lauvaux, Jacob K. Hedelius, et al.. (2017). Methane emissions from dairies in the Los Angeles Basin. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 17(12). 7509–7528. 44 indexed citations

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Hedelius, Jacob K., Camille Viatte, Debra Wunch, et al.. (2016). Assessment of errors and biases in retrievals of X _{CO ₂} , X _{CH ₄} ,X _CO , and X _{N ₂ O} from a 0.5 cm ^–1 resolution solar-viewingspectrometer. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 9(8). 3527–3546. 44 indexed citations

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Kiel, Matthäus, Debra Wunch, P. O. Wennberg, et al.. (2016). Improved retrieval of gas abundances from near-infrared solar FTIR spectra measured at the Karlsruhe TCCON station. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 9(2). 669–682. 19 indexed citations

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Deutscher, Nicholas M., V. Sherlock, S. E. Mikaloff Fletcher, et al.. (2014). Drivers of column-average CO ₂ variability at Southern Hemispheric Total Carbon Column Observing Network sites. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 14(18). 9883–9901. 14 indexed citations

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Hase, Frank, Brian J. Drouin, Coleen M. Roehl, et al.. (2013). Calibration of sealed HCl cells used for TCCON instrumental line shape monitoring. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 6(12). 3527–3537. 32 indexed citations

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Parker, Robert J., Hartmut Boesch, A. J. Cogan, et al.. (2011). Methane observations from the Greenhouse Gases Observing SATellite: Comparison to ground‐based TCCON data and model calculations. Geophysical Research Letters. 38(15). 181 indexed citations

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Wunch, Debra, Geoffrey C. Toon, Jean-François L. Blavier, et al.. (2011). The Total Carbon Column Observing Network. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences. 369(1943). 2087–2112. 816 indexed citations breakdown →

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