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Laurence C. Smith

Laurence C. Smith

D-Index & Metrics

Earth Science

D-Index
69
Citations
18775
World Ranking
1041
National Ranking
485

Overview

Laurence C. Smith is affiliated with Brown University in the United States and engages in research primarily within the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work spans various subfields including Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law.

The scientist's research topics focus on areas such as Cryospheric studies and observations, Climate change and permafrost, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, Winter Sports Injuries and Performance, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, and Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology.

Recent published papers by Laurence C. Smith include:

  • Human alteration of global surface water storage variability, 2021, Nature
  • Coldest Canadian Arctic communities face greatest reductions in shorefast sea ice, 2020, Nature Climate Change
  • Global Characterization of Inland Water Reservoirs Using ICESat-2 Altimetry and Climate Reanalysis, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Seasonal evolution of supraglacial lakes and rivers on the southwest Greenland Ice Sheet, 2021, Journal of Glaciology
  • The Importance of Lake Emergent Aquatic Vegetation for Estimating Arctic-Boreal Methane Emissions, 2022, Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences

Their frequent co-authors include Jonathan C. Ryan, Sarah Cooley, Ethan D. Kyzivat, Jessica V. Fayne, and L. H. Pitcher.

Laurence C. Smith frequently publishes in venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Geophysical Research Letters, The Cryosphere, Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research), and Water Resources Research.

Best Publications

  • Disappearing Arctic Lakes

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  • Satellite remote sensing of river inundation area, stage, and discharge: a review

    Laurence C. Smith

  • New Trans-Arctic shipping routes navigable by midcentury

    Laurence C. Smith;Scott R. Stephenson

  • Climatic and anthropogenic factors affecting river discharge to the global ocean, 1951–2000

    John D. Milliman;K.L. Farnsworth;P.D. Jones;K.H. Xu

  • Siberian Peatlands a Net Carbon Sink and Global Methane Source Since the Early Holocene

    Laurence C Smith;G M MacDonald;A A Velichko;D W Beilman

  • Advances in using multitemporal night-time lights satellite imagery to detect, estimate, and monitor socioeconomic dynamics

    Mia M. Bennett;Laurence C. Smith

  • Methane bubbling from northern lakes: present and future contributions to the global methane budget

    Katey M Walter;Laurence C Smith;F Stuart Chapin

  • Rapid early development of circumarctic peatlands and atmospheric CH4 and CO2 variations

    Glen M. MacDonald;Glen M. MacDonald;David W. Beilman;David W. Beilman;Konstantine V. Kremenetski;Konstantine V. Kremenetski;Yongwei Sheng;Yongwei Sheng

  • Amplified carbon release from vast West Siberian peatlands by 2100

    Karen E. Frey;Laurence C. Smith

  • Interferometric radar measurements of water level changes on the Amazon flood plain

    Douglas E. Alsdorf;John M. Melack;Thomas Dunne;Leal A. K. Mertes;Leal A. K. Mertes

  • Human alteration of global surface water storage variability.

    Sarah W. Cooley;Jonathan C. Ryan;Laurence C. Smith

  • Stream flow characterization and feature detection using a discrete wavelet transform

    Laurence C. Smith;Laurence C. Smith;Donald L. Turcotte;Bryan L. Isacks

  • Divergent long-term trajectories of human access to the Arctic

    Scott R. Stephenson;Laurence C. Smith;John A. Agnew

  • Toward global mapping of river discharge using satellite images and at-many-stations hydraulic geometry

    Colin J. Gleason;Laurence C. Smith

  • Estimating discharge in rivers using remotely sensed hydraulic information

    David M. Bjerklie;Delwyn Moller;Laurence C. Smith;S. Lawrence Dingman

  • Estimation of Discharge From Three Braided Rivers Using Synthetic Aperture Radar Satellite Imagery: Potential Application to Ungaged Basins

    Laurence C. Smith;Bryan L. Isacks;Arthur L. Bloom;A. Brad Murray

  • Rising minimum daily flows in northern Eurasian rivers: A growing influence of groundwater in the high‐latitude hydrologic cycle

    Laurence C. Smith;Tamlin M. Pavelsky;Glen M. MacDonald;Alexander I. Shiklomanov

  • A high-resolution GIS-based inventory of the west Siberian peat carbon pool

    Yongwei Sheng;Laurence C. Smith;Glen M. MacDonald;Konstantine V. Kremenetski;Konstantine V. Kremenetski

  • Estimation of river discharge, propagation speed, and hydraulic geometry from space: Lena River, Siberia

    Laurence C. Smith;Tamlin M. Pavelsky

  • RivWidth: A Software Tool for the Calculation of River Widths From Remotely Sensed Imagery

    T.M. Pavelsky;L.C. Smith

  • Peatlands of the Western Siberian lowlands: current knowledge on zonation, carbon content and Late Quaternary history

    K.V Kremenetski;K.V Kremenetski;A.A Velichko;O.K Borisova;G.M MacDonald

Frequent Co-Authors

Tamlin M. Pavelsky
Tamlin M. Pavelsky University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Richard R. Forster
Richard R. Forster University of Utah
Marco Tedesco
Marco Tedesco Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Yongwei Sheng
Yongwei Sheng University of California, Los Angeles
Jason E. Box
Jason E. Box Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland
Karen E. Frey
Karen E. Frey Clark University
Michael Durand
Michael Durand The Ohio State University
Alun Hubbard
Alun Hubbard University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Glen M. MacDonald
Glen M. MacDonald University of California, Los Angeles
Douglas Alsdorf
Douglas Alsdorf The Ohio State University

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