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Publications and Reports

Peer reviewed publications

  1. Gillespie, L. D., Ars, S., Worthy, C., Brantley, H., Green, R., Scarpelli, T. R., et al. (2025). Comparison of Landfill Methane Emission Quantification Using Multiple Observation Methods. ACS ES&T Air. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsestair.5c00127
  2. Madsen-Colford, S., Hutyra, L., Smith, I., Wu, D., Arain, M. A., Staebler, R., et al. (2025). Modification and comparison of two urban vegetation models over Southern Ontario, Canada. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 130, e2025JG008943. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025JG008943
  3. Gillespie, L. D., Ars, S., Alkadri, S., Urya, S., Khoo, T., Fraser, S., … Wunch, D. (2025). Estimating methane emissions from the waste sector in Southern Ontario using atmospheric measurements. Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association, 75(2), 144–163. https://doi.org/10.1080/10962247.2024.2435340

Reports

  1. Wunch, D., Monteiro, R., Murphy, J., Panas, M., Ward, E., Corapi, A., Gillespie, L., and Mastrogiacomo, J.-P.: The Steam Plant emissions quantification experiment, University of Toronto, September 2024. UofTSteamPlantMethaneEmissionsResults_20240919

Webinars

  1. Wunch, D.: The Toronto Atmospheric Monitoring of Emissions (TAME) Project: Evaluating progress and co-benefits while avoiding pitfalls on the way to net-zero, IG3IS Webinar Series (Q3-Q4, 2025), 21 November 2025. https://wmo.int/events/meeting/ig3is-webinar-series-q3-q4-2025-toronto-atmospheric-monitoring-of-emissions-tame-project-evaluating

Talks at Conference Proceedings

  1. Gillespie, L. D., Ars, S., Fraser, S., Vogel, F., and Wunch, D.: Comparing Methodologies for Quantifying Landfill Methane Emissions. Talk, American Geophysical Union 2024, Washington, D.C., 2024.
  2. Wunch, D., Murphy, J., Jones, D., Vogel, F., Panas, M., DiMaria, C., Ward, E., Madsen, S., Zhao, X., Young, C., Weaver, D., Ars, S., Jacobs, N., Restrepo-Coupe, N., Da Silva, I., Gillespie, L., and Corapi, Alexandra: An Observatory to Monitor Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Air Quality in Toronto, Canada. Talk (Invited), American Geophysical Union 2024, Washington, D.C., 2024.

Posters at Conference Proceedings

  1. Ward, E., Panas, M., Wunch, D. & Murphy, J.G.: Robust Calibration of Low-Cost Sensors for PM2.5 and PM10 Monitoring Across the Greater Toronto Area. Poster. Air and Odour Management Conference and Trade Show 2025, Toronto, Canada, 2025.
  2. Jacobs, N., Xu, S., Bavananthan, K., Wang, M., Latosinsky, K., Jones, N., Deutscher-Coupe, N., Griffith, D., and Vogel, F.: An investigation of gradients in XCO2, XCH4, and XCO for the city of Toronto using a network of EM27 FTS. Poster, American Geophysical Union 2024, Washington, D.C., 2024.
  3. Madsen, S., Wu, D., Hutyra, L., Smith, I., Staebler, R., Arain, M., Restrepo-Coupe, N., and Wunch, D.: Reconciling Differences Between Two Urban Vegetation CO2 Models Over Southern Ontario, Canada. Poster, American Geophysical Union 2024, Washington, D.C., 2024.
  4. Panas, M., Ward, E., Ars, S., Murphy, J., Vogel, F., Wunch, D., and Young, C.: A New In Situ Greenhouse Gas and Air Quality Monitoring Network for the Greater Toronto Area. Poster, American Geophysical Union 2024, Washington, D.C., 2024.

Talks at Workshops

  1. Corapi A.: Cold-Start Emmissions Study. Talk, SWAPIT Workshop Jan 2025, Toronto, ON, 2025.

Publications related to the TAME Project

  1. Madsen, S., Wu, D., Halim, M. A., and Wunch, D.: CO2 fluxes of vegetation in the Greenbelt of Ontario and increased net ecosystem emissions associated with its removal, Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 12, 00102, https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.2023.00102, 2024.

Publications that are precursors to the TAME Project

  1. Ars, S., Vogel, F., Arrowsmith, C., Heerah, S., Knuckey, E., Lavoie, J., Lee, C., Pak, N. M., Phillips, J. L., and Wunch, D.: Investigation of the Spatial Distribution of Methane Sources in the Greater Toronto Area Using Mobile Gas Monitoring Systems, Environ. Sci. Technol., 54, 15671–15679, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.0c05386, 2020.

  2. Mostafavi Pak, N., Heerah, S., Zhang, J., Chan, E., Worthy, D., Vogel, F., and Wunch, D.: The Facility Level and Area Methane Emissions inventory for the Greater Toronto Area (FLAME-GTA), Atmospheric Environment, 252, 118319, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2021.118319, 2021.

  3. Pugliese, S. C., Murphy, J. G., Vogel, F. R., Moran, M. D., Zhang, J., Zheng, Q., Stroud, C. A., Ren, S., Worthy, D., and Broquet, G.: High-resolution quantification of atmospheric CO2 mixing ratios in the Greater Toronto Area, Canada, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 18, 3387–3401, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-3387-2018, 2018.