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Claude R. Duguay

Claude R. Duguay

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
53
Citations
9273
World Ranking
4289
National Ranking
178

Overview

Claude R. Duguay is affiliated with the University of Waterloo in Canada. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on Environmental Science. Within these broad domains, their work concentrates on several subfields including Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Chemistry, and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering.

Their scientific contributions commonly address topics related to cryospheric studies and observations, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, climate change and permafrost, marine and coastal ecosystems, water quality monitoring and analysis, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, and soil moisture as observed through remote sensing technologies.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Duguay include:

  • Justin Murfitt
  • Kiana Zolfaghari
  • Benjamin Jones
  • Stefan Simis
  • Nima Pahlevan

Key publication venues where Claude R. Duguay has published multiple works include:

  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • The Cryosphere
  • Remote Sensing
  • IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
  • IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Recent scientific papers authored or co-authored by Duguay highlight topics covering lake ice research, thermokarst lake drainage events, machine learning classifiers for lake ice mapping, and the generation of physical variable timeseries for climate studies. Notable papers include:

  • "50 years of lake ice research from active microwave remote sensing: Progress and prospects" (2021) published in Remote Sensing of Environment
  • "The catastrophic thermokarst lake drainage events of 2018 in northwestern Alaska: fast-forward into the future" (2020) published in The Cryosphere
  • "Assessment of machine learning classifiers for global lake ice cover mapping from MODIS TOA reflectance data" (2020) published in Remote Sensing of Environment
  • "Satellite-derived multivariate world-wide lake physical variable timeseries for climate studies" (2023) published in Scientific Data
  • "Lake Ice-Water Classification of RADARSAT-2 Images by Integrating IRGS Segmentation with Pixel-Based Random Forest Labeling" (2020) published in Remote Sensing

Best Publications

  • Recent trends in Canadian lake ice cover

    Claude R. Duguay;Terry D. Prowse;Barrie R. Bonsal;Ross D. Brown

  • The response and role of ice cover in lake-climate interactions

    Laura C. Brown;Claude R. Duguay

  • 2011 IEEE INTERNATIONAL GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING SYMPOSIUM (IGARSS)

    Helmut Rott;Donald W. Cline;Claude Duguay;Richard Essery

  • Ice-cover variability on shallow lakes at high latitudes: model simulations and observations

    Claude R. Duguay;Greg M. Flato;Martin O. Jeffries;Patrick Ménard

  • Cold Regions Hydrology High-Resolution Observatory for Snow and Cold Land Processes

    Helmut Rott;Simon H Yueh;Donald W Cline;Claude Duguay

  • Effects of Changes in Arctic Lake and River Ice

    Terry Prowse;Knut Alfredsen;Spyros Beltaos;Barrie R. Bonsal

  • Impacts of large-scale teleconnections on freshwater-ice break/freeze-up dates over Canada

    Barrie R. Bonsal;Terry D. Prowse;Claude R. Duguay;Martin P. Lacroix

  • Comparison of MODIS-derived land surface temperatures with ground surface and air temperature measurements in continuous permafrost terrain

    S. Hachem;C. R. Duguay;M. Allard

  • The Role of Northern Lakes in a Regional Energy Balance

    Wayne R. Rouse;Claire J. Oswald;Jacqueline Binyamin;Christopher Spence

  • Sea ice conditions and melt season duration variability within the Canadian Arctic Archipelago: 1979–2008

    Stephen E. L. Howell;Claude R. Duguay;Thorsten Markus

  • Determining depth and ice thickness of shallow sub-Arctic lakes using space-borne optical and SAR data

    C. R. Duguay;P. M. Lafleur

  • Response of ice cover on shallow lakes of the North Slope of Alaska to contemporary climate conditions (1950–2011): radar remote-sensing and numerical modeling data analysis

    C. M. Surdu;C. R. Duguay;L. C. Brown;D. Fernández Prieto

  • Estimating Surface Reflectance and Albedo from Landsat-5 Thematic Mapper over Rugged Terrain

    Claude R. Duguay;Ellsworth F. Ledrew

  • Past and Future Changes in Arctic Lake and River Ice

    Terry Prowse;Knut Alfredsen;Spyros Beltaos;Barrie Bonsal

  • RADARSAT backscatter characteristics of ice growing on shallow sub-Arctic lakes, Churchill, Manitoba, Canada

    Claude R. Duguay;Terry J. Pultz;Peter M. Lafleur;Déborah Drai

  • The effect of soil and crop residue characteristics on polarimetric radar response

    H McNairn;C Duguay;B Brisco;T.J Pultz

  • 2012 IEEE INTERNATIONAL GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING SYMPOSIUM (IGARSS)

    Helmut Rott;Donald W. Cline;Claude Duguay;Richard Essery

  • Variability in ice phenology on Great Bear Lake and Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada, from SeaWinds/QuikSCAT: 2000-2006.

    Stephen E.L. Howell;Laura C. Brown;Kyung-Kuk Kang;Claude R. Duguay

  • Variability and change in the Canadian cryosphere

    C. Derksen;S.L. Smith;M. Sharp;L. Brown

  • Contemporary (1951–2001) Evolution of Lakes in the Old Crow Basin, Northern Yukon, Canada: Remote Sensing, Numerical Modeling, and Stable Isotope Analysis

    Sylvain Labrecque;Denis Lacelle;Claude R. Duguay;Bernard Lauriol

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard Essery
Richard Essery University of Edinburgh
Julia Boike
Julia Boike Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Jouni Pulliainen
Jouni Pulliainen Finnish Meteorological Institute
Giovanni Macelloni
Giovanni Macelloni National Research Council (CNR)
Helmut Rott
Helmut Rott University of Innsbruck
Annett Bartsch
Annett Bartsch Central Institution for Meteorology and Geodynamics
Andreas Kääb
Andreas Kääb University of Oslo
Simon Yueh
Simon Yueh Jet Propulsion Lab
Sebastian Westermann
Sebastian Westermann University of Oslo
Stephen E. L. Howell
Stephen E. L. Howell Environment and Climate Change Canada

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