L. C. Smith

17.1k citations

201 papers · 11.9k indexed · 5 hit papers · h-index 57

Atmospheric Science top 0.1%
- Cryospheric studies and observations 98
- Climate change and permafrost 90
- Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics 60
Global and Planetary Change top 0.2%
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management 36
Water Science and Technology top 0.2%
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies 25
Ecology top 0.2%
- Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes 21
- Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology 19
Environmental Engineering top 0.5%
Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
- Winter Sports Injuries and Performance 29

Co-authors: Tamlin M. Pavelsky Glen M. MacDonald Karen E. Frey Yongwei Sheng Scott R. Stephenson Sarah Cooley Colin J. Gleason Mia M. Bennett
Cited by: Atmospheric Science Global and Planetary Change Water Science and Technology
Journals: Water Resources Research (11 papers)Geophysical Research Letters (11 papers)The cryosphere (10 papers)
Partner nations: United States China Denmark

In The Last Decade

L. C. Smith

196 papers receiving 11.5k 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.

2021 Nature
2017 Remote Sensing of Environment
2013 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2005 Science
1997 Hydrological Processes

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1	Quantification of wetland vegetation communities features with airborne AVIRIS-NG, UAVSAR, and UAV LiDAR data in Peace-Athabasca Delta Remote Sensing of Environment ·Chao Wang,Tamlin M. Pavelsky,Ethan D. Kyzivat,Fenix Garcia‐Tigreros,E. Podest,Fangfang Yao,Xiao Yang,Shuai Zhang,Conghe Song,Theodore Langhorst,Margaret Ross Kippen,Martin R. Kurek,周泰立,L. C. Smith,David Butman,Robert G. M. Spencer,Colin J. Gleason,Kimberly P. Wickland,Robert G. Striegl,Daniel L. Peters	2023	18
2	New proglacial meteorology and river stage observations from Inglefield Land and Pituffik, NW Greenland Geoscientific instrumentation, methods and data systems ·Alex Karantza,L. C. Smith,A. L. LeWinter,L. H. Pitcher,B. T. Overstreet,سیده سمیرا محمدی,赵胜宇,С.Ю. Сергеев,Jonathan C. Ryan	2023	1
3	Characterizing Near-Nadir and Low Incidence Ka-Band SAR Backscatter From Wet Surfaces and Diverse Land Covers IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing ·Jessica V. Fayne,L. C. Smith,William Hagen,L. H. Pitcher,Michael Denbina,Albert C. Chen,Marc Simard,Curtis W. Chen,Brent A. Williams	2023	8
4	Peace-Athabasca Delta water surface elevations and slopes mapped from AirSWOT Ka-band InSAR Remote Sensing Letters ·L. C. Smith,Jessica V. Fayne,Bo Wang,Ethan D. Kyzivat,Colin J. Gleason,周泰立,Theodore Langhorst,Dongmei Feng,Tamlin M. Pavelsky,Daniel L. Peters	2023	3
5	Hydrologic and Landscape Controls on Dissolved Organic Matter Composition Across Western North American Arctic Lakes Global Biogeochemical Cycles ·Martin R. Kurek,Fenix Garcia‐Tigreros,Kimberly P. Wickland,Karen E. Frey,M. Dornblaser,Robert G. Striegl,Sydney F. Niles,Amy M. McKenna,貴司伊藤,Ethan D. Kyzivat,Chao Wang,Tamlin M. Pavelsky,L. C. Smith,Sherry L. Schiff,David Butman,Robert G. M. Spencer	2022	15
6	The Importance of Lake Emergent Aquatic Vegetation for Estimating Arctic‐Boreal Methane Emissions Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences ·Ethan D. Kyzivat,L. C. Smith,Fenix Garcia‐Tigreros,Chang Huang,Chao Wang,Theodore Langhorst,Jessica V. Fayne,周泰立,Ryuta Shiga,Dongmei Feng,Margaret Ross Kippen,L. H. Pitcher,Kimberly P. Wickland,M. Dornblaser,Robert G. Striegl,Tamlin M. Pavelsky,David Butman,Colin J. Gleason	2022	20
7	Hourly surface meltwater routing for a Greenlandic supraglacial catchment across hillslopes and through a dense topological channel network The cryosphere ·Colin J. Gleason,Kang Yang,Dongmei Feng,L. C. Smith,Kai Liu,L. H. Pitcher,V. W. Chu,Matthew G. Cooper,B. T. Overstreet,Å. K. Rennermalm,Jonathan C. Ryan	2021	7
8	Spectral attenuation coefficients from measurements of light transmission in bare ice on the Greenland Ice Sheet The cryosphere ·Matthew G. Cooper,L. C. Smith,Å. K. Rennermalm,Marco Tedesco,ปาหนัน เริงสําราญ,Alessandro Micero,S. Moustafa,Jessica V. Fayne	2021	12
9	Seasonal Variability in In-situ Supraglacial Streamflow and Drivers in Southwest Greenland in 2016 ปาหนัน เริงสําราญ,Å. K. Rennermalm,Alessandra Matias de Oliveira,Matthew G. Cooper,Sarah Cooley,L. C. Smith,Dirk van As	2020	1
10	Satellite Remote Sensing of the Greenland Ice Sheet Ablation Zone: A Review Remote Sensing ·Matthew G. Cooper,L. C. Smith	2019	15
11	Supraglacial meltwater routing through internally drainedcatchments on the Greenland Ice Sheet surface Biogeosciences (European Geosciences Union) ·Kang Yang,L. C. Smith,Leif Karlstrom,Matthew G. Cooper,Marco Tedesco,Dirk van As,Xiao Cheng,Zhuoqi Chen,Manchun Li	2018	3
12	AirSWOT InSAR Mapping of Surface Water Elevations and Hydraulic Gradients Across the Yukon Flats Basin, Alaska Water Resources Research ·L. H. Pitcher,Tamlin M. Pavelsky,L. C. Smith,Delwyn Moller,Elizabeth H. Altenau,George H. Allen,Christine Lion,David Butman,Sarah Cooley,Jessica V. Fayne,Nisara Chongcharoen	2018	29
13	Climate Elasticity of Low Flows in the Maritime Western U.S. Mountains Water Resources Research ·Matthew G. Cooper,دکتر علیرضا سعادت,Sarah Cooley,Sarfaraz Alam,L. C. Smith,Dennis P. Lettenmaier	2018	45
14	Meltwater storage in low-density near-surface bare ice in the Greenland ice sheet ablation zone The cryosphere ·Matthew G. Cooper,L. C. Smith,Å. K. Rennermalm,C. Miège,L. H. Pitcher,Jonathan C. Ryan,Kang Yang,Sarah Cooley	2018	54
15	Remotely Sensing Lake Water Volumes on the Inner Arctic Coastal Plain of Northern Alaska AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·C. E. Simpson,C. D. Arp,Benjamin Jones,Kenneth M. Hinkel,Michael L. Carroll,L. C. Smith	2017	1
16	Fluvial morphometry of supraglacial river networks on the southwest Greenland Ice Sheet GIScience & Remote Sensing ·Kang Yang,L. C. Smith,V. W. Chu,L. H. Pitcher,Colin J. Gleason,Å. K. Rennermalm,Manchun Li	2016	30
17	Multi-modal albedo distributions in the ablation area of the southwestern Greenland Ice Sheet The cryosphere ·S. Moustafa,Å. K. Rennermalm,L. C. Smith,Mark A. Miller,J. Mioduszewski,L. Koenig,Mahmood Shaikh Asif,Christopher A. Shuman	2015	22
18	First Airswot Interferometric Radar Water Surface Elevations and Flooded Inundation Extent from the Sacramento River and Edwards AFB Wetland Complex, California AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·L. H. Pitcher,L. C. Smith,Colin J. Gleason,Shunsuke Hanai,V. W. Chu,Sarah M. Greene,Tamlin M. Pavelsky,G. Sadowy	2014	2
19	Quantifying sources of error in multitemporal multisensor lake mapping International Journal of Remote Sensing ·E. A. Lyons,Yongwei Sheng,L. C. Smith,Junli Li,Kenneth M. Hinkel,John D. Lenters,Jida Wang	2013	28
20	Seasonal climatic forcing of alpine glaciers revealed with orbital synthetic aperture radar Journal of Glaciology ·L. C. Smith,R. R. Forster,Bryan L. Isacks,Dorothy K. Hall	1997	34

About L. C. Smith

L. C. Smith is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology, Ecology and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, having authored 201 papers that have together received 11.9k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Cryospheric studies and observations (98 papers), Climate change and permafrost (90 papers), Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (60 papers), Flood Risk Assessment and Management (36 papers), Winter Sports Injuries and Performance (29 papers), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (25 papers), Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes (21 papers) and Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (19 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Atmospheric Science (6.5k citations), Global and Planetary Change (4.8k citations), Water Science and Technology (2.8k citations), Ecology (3.5k citations) and Environmental Engineering (1.4k citations). L. C. Smith has collaborated with scholars based in United States, China and Denmark. Frequent co-authors include Tamlin M. Pavelsky, Glen M. MacDonald, Karen E. Frey, Yongwei Sheng, Scott R. Stephenson, Sarah Cooley, Colin J. Gleason, Mia M. Bennett, L. D. Hinzman and Jonathan C. Ryan. Their work appears in journals such as Water Resources Research, Geophysical Research Letters, The cryosphere, Remote Sensing of Environment and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

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