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Journal Articles and Reports

• Young, KL and Brown LC.  Thermal Regime of High Arctic Tundra Ponds, Polar Bear Pass, Nunavut, Canada, HESS, 28, 3931–3945, 2024, https://hess.copernicus.org/articles/28/3931/2024/

• Young KL, Brown LC. 2023 Temperature and Precipitation Trends of the Shoulder Seasons at Polar Bear Pass (Nanuit Itillinga) – A Ramsar Wetland of Importance, Nunavut. Wetlands 43, 68, https://doi.org/10.1007/s13157-023-01712-4

• Brown LC and Duguay CR. 2022. Lake Ice [in Arctic Report Card 2022], https://arctic.noaa.gov/Report-Card/Report-Card-2022/ArtMID/8054/ArticleID/1002/Lake-Ice, DOI: 10.25923/1v84-vt30

• Dauginis A and Brown LC. 2021.  Recent changes in pan-Arctic sea ice, lake ice, and snow-on/off timing. The Cryosphere, 15, 4781–4805, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-4781-2021 

• Robinson AL, Ariano SS, Brown LC. 2021.  The Influence of Snow and Ice Albedo towards Improved Lake Ice Simulations. Hydrology, 8(1), 11, https://doi.org/10.3390/hydrology8010011

• Dauginis A and Brown LC. 2020. Sea ice and snow phenology in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago from 1997 - 2018. Arctic Science, 7,1, https://doi.org/10.1139/AS-2020-0024
   
• Young, K.L, Brown, L.C.  and Dibike, J. 2020. Arctic wetlands and lakes: dynamics and linkages. In Arctic Hydrology, Permafrost, and Ecosystem: Linkages and Interactions. Yang, D. and D. Kane (Eds.). Springer, Berlin, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50930-9 https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-50930-9
    
• Ariano SS and Brown LC. 2019. An investigation of temperate region lake ice processes on medium sized lakes in Central Ontario.  Hydrological Processes, 33, 2434– 2448, doi: 10.1002/hyp.13481
   
• Duguay C and Brown L. 2018. Lake Ice [in Arctic Report Card 2018], https://arctic.noaa.gov/Report-Card/Report-Card-2018/ArtMID/7878/Article...
   
• Murfitt J, Brown LC and Howell SEL. 2018. Estimating Lake Ice Thickness in Central Ontario. PLoS ONE 13(12): e0208519, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0208519
   
• Murfitt J, Brown LC and Howell SEL. 2018. Evaluating RADARSAT-2 for the Automated Monitoring of Lake Ice Phenology Events in Mid-Latitudes, Remote Sensing, 10(10), 1641. doi: 10.3390/rs10101641
   
• Contributing Author to: Brown R and Barrette C. 2018. Chapter 2 Climate variability, trends and projected change for the Eastern Canadian Arctic. In Bell, T. and Brown, T.M (Eds), From Science to Policy in the Eastern Canadian Artic: An Integrated Regional Impact Study (IRIS) of Climate Change and Modernization. ArcticNet, Quebec City, 55-94.
   
• Woo MK, R Thorne and LC Brown. 2018. Comparison of runoff and river flow in two large northern basins. Hydrology Research, nh2018199. doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/nh.2018.199.
   
• Young KL, Brown LC, Labine C. 2018. Snowcover variability at Polar Bear Pass, Nunavut. Arctic Science, 4 (4), 669-690. doi:10.1139/AS-2017-0016
   
• Yang, B., Young, J., Brown, L., & Wells, M. 2017. High-frequency observations of temperature and dissolved oxygen reveal under-ice convection in a large lake. Geophysical Research Letters, 44. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017GL075373
   
• Murfitt J and Brown LC. 2017. Lake Ice and Temperature Trends for Ontario and Manitoba: 2001 to 2014. 2017. Hydrological Processes. 31: 3596–3609, doi: 10.1002/hyp.11295
   
• Gunn, G. E., Duguay, C. R., Brown, L.C., King, J., Atwood, D., Kasurak, A. 2015.  Freshwater Lake Ice thickness Derived Using X- and Ku-band FMCW Scatterometers in the Hudson Bay Lowlands Near Churchill, Manitoba. Cold Regions Science and Technology, 120, 115-126. DOI: 10.1016/j.coldregions.2015.09.012

• Contributing Author to: Candlish L and Barber D. Chapter 2. Climate Variability and Projections. in  Stern, G.A. and Gaden, A. 2015. From Science to Policy in the Western and Central Canadian Arctic: An Integrated Regional Impact Study (IRIS) of Climate Change and Modernization. ArcticNet, Quebec City, 432 pp. [Citations not tracked for this publication]

• Duguay, C., L. Brown, K.-K. Kang, and H. Kheyrollah Pour, 2015. [The Arctic] Lake ice [In “State of the Climate in 2014”]. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 96 (7), S144-S145.

• Surdu, C.M., Duguay, C.R. , Kheyrollah Pour, H., Brown, L.C, 2015. Ice Freeze-up and Break-up Detection of Shallow Lakes in Northern Alaska with Spaceborne SAR. Remote Sensing. May 18, 2015 http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/7/5/6133/html.

• Duguay, C., L. Brown, K.-K. Kang, and H. Kheyrollah Pour, 2014. [The Arctic] Lake ice [In “State of the Climate in 2013”]. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 95 (7), S138.

• Contributing Author to:  Bush, E.J., Loder, J.W., James, T.S., Mortsch, L.D. and Cohen, S.J. 2014. An Overview of  Canada’s  Changing  Climate;  In  Canada  in  a  Changing  Climate:  Sector  Perspectives  on  Impacts  and Adaptation, (ed.) F.J. Warren and D.S. Lemmen; Government of Canada, Ottawa, ON, p. 23-64.

• Svacina, N.A., Duguay, C.R, Brown, L.C. Modelled and satellite-derived surface albedo of lake ice – Part I: Evaluation of the albedo parameterization scheme of the Canadian Lake Ice Model. Hydrological Processes, Article first published online: 8 JUL 2014. DOI: 10.1002/hyp.10253

• Macrae, L.C. Brown, C.R. Duguay, J.A. Parrott and R.M. Petrone. 2014. Observed and projected climate change in the Churchill region of the Hudson Bay Lowlands and implications for pond sustainability. Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research, 46(1), 272-285.

• Brown, L.C., Howell, S.E.L., Mortin, J., Derksen, C. 2014. Evaluation of the Interactive Multisensor  Snow  and  Ice Mapping System (IMS) for monitoring sea ice phenology. Remote Sensing of Environment, Volume 147, 5, 65–78.

• Duguay, C.R., Brown, L.C, Kang, K.K, Kheyrollah Pour, H. 2013. Lake ice [in Arctic Report Card 2013], http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/reportcard/lake_ice.html.

• C.M. Surdu, C.R. Duguay, L.C. Brown, and D. Fernàndez-Prieto. 2014. 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. The Cryosphere, 8 (1), 167-180.

• Duguay, C., L. Brown, K.-K. Kang, and H. Kheyrollah Pour, 2013. [The Arctic] Lake ice [In “State of the Climate in 2012”]. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 94(8): S124-S126.

• Brown, L.C. and Duguay, C.R. 2012. Modelling lake ice phenology with sub-grid cell variability. Advances in Meteorology, volume 2012, 529064, 19 pages, doi:10.1155/2012/529064.

• Duguay, C., Brown, L, Kang, K, Kheyrollah Pour, H. 2012. [The Arctic] Lake Ice [in “State of the Climate 2011] Bulletin of the American Meteorology Society, 93(7), S138-S140.

•  C. Derksen, S.L. Smith, M. Sharp, L. Brown, S. Howell, L. Copland, D. Mueller, Y. Gauthier, C. Fletcher, A. Tivy, M. Bernier, J. Bourgeois, R. Brown, C.R. Burn, C. Duguay, P. Kushner, A. Langlois, A.G. Lewkowicz,. A. Royer, and A. Walker. 2012.  Variability and Change in the Canadian Cryosphere. Climatic Change, Volume 115, Issue 1, pp 59-88, DOI: 10.1007/s10584-012-0470-0.

• Kheyrollah Pour, H, Duguay, C.R., Martynov, A., Brown, L.C. 2012. Simulation of surface temperature and ice cover of large northern lakes with 1-D models: A comparison with MODIS satellite data and in situ measurements. Tellus A, 64, 17614, DOI: 10.3402/tellusa.v64i0.17614.

• Duguay, C.R., Brown, L.C, Kang, K.K, Kheyrollah Pour, H. 2011. Lake ice [in Arctic Report Card 2011], http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/reportcard/lake_ice.html.

• Brown, L.C. and Duguay  C.R.  The  fate  of  lake  ice  in  the  North  American  Arctic. 2011. The  Cryosphere, 5, 869- 892, 2011, www.the-cryosphere.net/5/869  doi:10.5194/tc-5-869-2011.

• Brown, L.C. and Duguay, C.R. 2011. A comparison of simulated and measured lake ice thickness using a Shallow Water Ice Profiler. Hydrological Processes 25 (19), 2932-2941. DOI: 10.1002/hyp.8087.

• Woo, M.k., Young, K.L., Brown, L. 2011. Wetlands of the Canadian Arctic and the  potential  effects  of  climatic warming. In J.A.A. Jones (ed.) Water Sustainability: A Global Perspective, Hodder Education, London.

• Brown, L.C., and Duguay, C.R. 2010. The response and role of ice cover in lake-climate interactions. Progress in Physical Geography, 34(5), 671-704. DOI: 10.1177/0309133310375653.

• Howell, S.E.L., Brown, L.C., Kang, K.K., and Duguay, C.R. 2009. Variability in Ice Phenology on Great Bear Lake and Great Slave Lake, NWT, from SeaWind/QuikSCAT: 2000-2006. Remote Sensing of the Environment 113(4), 816-834.  DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2008.12.007

• Brown, L., Thorne, R., and Woo, Mk. 2008. Using Satellite Imagery to Validate Simulated Snow Distribution in Large Northern Basins.  Hydrologic Processes 22(15), 2777- 2787.

• Brown, L. and Young, K.L. 2006. Assessment of mapping techniques to delineate lakes and ponds in a Canadian High Arctic wetland complex. Arctic 59(3), 283-293.

• Woo, M.k., Young, K.L.   and   Brown, L.  2006. High Arctic patchy wetlands: Hydrologic variability and their sustainability.  Physical Geography 27(4), 297-307.