crduguay@uwaterloo.ca
Joining the Department in 2006, Claude’s main research interests are in the areas of Arctic hydro-climatology, lake/cryosphere-atmosphere interactions, remote sensing, and numerical modeling. Prof. Duguay is the founding director of UW's Interdisciplinary Centre on Climate Change.
For more information, visit Claude Duguay's research group website.
Key Areas of Graduate Supervision
Remote sensing and modeling of northern lakes and permafrost, lake-atmosphere interactions.
Recent Courses Taught
GEOG 271: Earth from Space Using Remote Sensing
GEOG 320: The Cryosphere
GEOG 602: Remote Sensing of Cold Regions
Research
Interests
My
main
research
interests
are
in
remote
sensing
and
modeling
of
cold
regions
with
the
intent
of
deepening
our
knowledge,
understanding
and
predictive
capabilities
of
lake/land-atmosphere/climate
interactions.
Some
of
my
current
areas
of
interest
include
the
development
of
satellite-based
lake
and
permafrost-related
products,
the
response
of
lakes
to
contemporary
and
future
(projected)
climate
conditions,
the
role
of
lakes
in
weather,
and
improvement
of
the
representation
of
cryospheric
processes
in
lake
model
schemes
as
implemented
in
numerical
weather
prediction
and
climate
models.
Recent Publications
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Baijnath-Rodino, J.A., C.R. Duguay, and E.F. LeDrew, 2018. Climatological trends of snowfall over the Laurentian Great Lakes Basin. International Journal of Climatology, 38: 3942–3962, https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.5546.
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Gunn, G., C. Duguay, D. Atwood, J. King, and P. Toose, 2018. Observing scattering mechanisms of bubbled freshwater lake ice using polarimetric RADARSAT-2 (C-band) and UWScat (X-, Ku-band). IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 56(5): 2887-2903, doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2017.2786158.
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Gunn, G., C. Duguay, C. Derksen, D. Clausi, and P. Toose, 2017. Investigating the influence of variable freshwater ice types on passive and active microwave observations. Remote Sensing, 9, 1242, doi:10.3390/rs9121242
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Nandan.V., R. Scharien, T. Geldsetzer, M. Mahmud, J. Yackel, T. Islam, J.P.S. Gill, M.C. Fuller, G. Gunn, and C. Duguay, 2017. Geophysical and atmospheric controls on Ku-, X- and C-band backscatter evolution from a saline snow cover on first-year sea ice from late-winter to pre-early melt. Remote Sensing of Environment, 198: 425-441, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2017.06.029
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Kheyrollah Pour, H., C.R. Duguay, A. Scott, and K.-K. Kang, 2017. Improvement of lake ice thickness retrieval from MODIS satellite data using a thermodynamic model. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 55(10): 5956-5965, doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2017.2718533
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Kheyrollah Pour, H., E. Kourzeneva, K. Eerola, L. Rontu, F. Pan, and C.R. Duguay, 2017. Preliminary assessment of lake surface water temperature statistical properties for objective analysis in a NWP model using satellite observations. Tellus Series A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography, 69(1), 1313025, doi:10.1080/16000870.2017.1313025.
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Zolfaghari, K., C.R. Duguay, and H. Kheyrollah Pour, 2017. Satellite-derived light extinction coefficient and its impact on thermal structure simulations in a 1-D lake model. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 21: 377-391, doi:10.5194/hess-21-377-2017.
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Du, J., J. S. Kimball, C.R. Duguay, Y. Kim, and J. Watts, 2017. Satellite microwave assessment of Northern Hemisphere lake ice phenology from 2002 to 2015. The Cryosphere, 11: 47–63, doi:10.5194/tc-11-47-2017.
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Antonova, S., C.R. Duguay, A. Kääb, B. Heim, M. Langer, S. Westermann, and J. Boike, 2016. Monitoring ice phenology and bedfast ice in lakes of the Lena River Delta using TerraSAR-X backscatter and coherence time series. Remote Sensing, 8(11), 903, doi:10.3390/rs8110903.
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Nandan.V., T. Geldsetzer, T. Islam, J.P.S. Gill, J. Yackel, G. Gunn, and C. Duguay, 2016. Ku-, X- and C-band modeled and measured microwave backscatter from a highly saline snow cover on first-year sea ice. Remote Sensing of Environment, 187: 62-75.
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Zolfaghari, K. and C.R. Duguay, 2016. Estimation of water quality parameters in Lake Erie from MERIS using linear mixed effect models. Remote Sensing, 8(6), 473, doi:10.3390/rs8060473.
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Surdu, C.M., C.R. Duguay, and D. Fernández Prieto, 2016. Evidence of recent changes in the ice regime of high arctic lakes from spaceborne satellite observations. The Cryosphere, 10: 941-960, doi: doi:10.5194/tc-10-941-2016.
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Muhammad, P., C.R. Duguay, and K.-K. Kang, 2016. Monitoring ice break-up on the Mackenzie River using remote sensing. The Cryosphere, 10: 569-584, doi:10.5194/tc-10-569-2016.
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Gunn, G. E., C.R. Duguay, L. Brown, D. Atwood, J. King, and A. Kasurak, 2015. Freshwater lake ice thickness derived using X- and Ku-band FMCW scatterometers. Cold Regions Science and Technology, 120: 115-126, doi: 10.1016/j.coldregions.2015.09.012.
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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.
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Surdu, C. M., C.R. Duguay, H. Kheyrollah Pour, and L.C. Brown, 2015. Ice freeze-up and break-up detection of shallow lakes in Northern Alaska with spaceborne SAR. Remote Sensing, 7(5), 6133-6159; doi:10.3390/rs70506133.
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Atwood, D., G. Gunn, C. Roussi, J. Wu, C. Duguay, and K. Sarabandi, 2015. Microwave backscatter from Arctic lake ice and polarimetric implications. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 53(11): 5972-5982, doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2015.2429917.
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Gunn, G.E., M. Brogioni, C.R. Duguay, G. Macelloni, A. Kasurak, and J. King, 2015. Observation and modeling of X- and Ku-band backscatter of snow-covered freshwater lake ice. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 8(7): 3629-3642, doi:10.1109/JSTARS.2015.2420411.
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Duguay, C.R., M. Bernier, Y. Gauthier, and A. Kouraev, 2015. Remote sensing of lake and river ice. In Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere, Edited by M. Tedesco. Wiley-Blackwell (Oxford, UK), pp. 273-306.
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Westermann, S., C.R. Duguay, G. Grosse, and A. Kääb, 2015. Remote sensing of permafrost and frozen ground. In Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere, Edited by M. Tedesco. Wiley-Blackwell (Oxford, UK), pp. 307-344.
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King, J., R. Kelly, A. Kasurak, C. Duguay, G. Gunn, N. Rutter, T. Watts, and C. Derksen, 2015. Spatiotemporal influence of tundra snow properties on Ku-band (17.2 GHz) backscatter. Journal of Glaciology, 61(226): 267-279, doi: 10.3189/2015JoG14J020.