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Constance Brown | Faculty

Constance Brown Assistant Professor, Department of Geography

Office: SB 101
TEL: 856-5047
Email: combrown@indiana.edu

Curriculum Vitae
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Education

Ph.D., 1999, McGill

Research

  • Hydo-Micrometeorology of forested and stress-tolerant/transotional ecosystems
  • Measurements, physical and biogeochemical modeling
  • Remote Sensing

Teaching

  • G109 Weather and Climate
  • G305 Environmental Change
  • G405 Hydroclimatology
  • G440/540 Semi-Arid Hydro-Micrometeorology

Representative Publications

  • Brown-Mitic, C.M., W.J. Shuttleworth, C. Harlow, J. Petti, E. Burke, R. Bales, 2007. Seasonal Water Dynamics Of A Sky Island, Subalpine Forest In Semi-Arid Southwestern United States, Journal of Arid Environments. 69 (2), 49-70.
  • Lawford R., M. Bosilovich, S. Eden, S. Benedict, C. Brown, A. Gruber, P. Houser, K. Hsu, J. Huang, W. Lau, T. Meyers, K. Mitchell, C. Peters-Lidard, J. Roads, M. Rodell, S. Sorooshian, D. Tarpley, S. Williams, 2006. US Contributions to the CEOP, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 87 (7), 927-939.
  • Zehnder, J.A., L. Zhang, D. Hansford, A. Radzan, N. Selover, C.M. Brown, 2006. Using Digital Cloud Photogrammetry to Characterize the Onset and Transition from Shallow to Deep Convection Over Orography, Monthly Weather Review, 134, 2527-2546.
  • Harlow, R.C., E.J. Burke, R.L. Scott, W.J. Shuttleworth, C.M. Brown, J.R. Petti. 2005: Derivation of temperature lapse rates in semi-arid southeastern Arizona, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 8(6),1179-1185
  • Burke, Eleanor J., Brown-Mitic, Constance M., Shuttleworth, W. James, Petti, Jonathan R., Harlow, R. Chawn, Brooks, Paul D., 2005. Assimilation of Remotely Sensed Data into the Biome-BGC Ecosystem Model to Improve the Prediction of Energy and Carbon Exchange in Southwestern Mountain Island Forests, (submitted)
  • Wang, Xin-Ping, Brown-Mitic, Constance M., Kang, Er-Si, Zhang, Jing-Guang and Xin-Rong Li, 2004. Evapotranspiration of Caragana korshinskii communities in a revegetated desert area:Tengger Desert China, Hydrological Processes (in press).
  • Brown-Mitic, Constance, Kaharabata, Samuel and Roger Bales, 2002: Priority Parameters and their Measurements, in Atmospheric Monitoring, Hilary I. Inyang (ed.), in Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), Developed under the Auspices of the UNESCO, EOLSS Publisher,  Oxford, UK, http://www.eolss.net
  • Brown-Mitic, Constance, Macpherson, Ian J., Schuepp, Peter H., Nagrajan, Badrinath, Yau, Peter M.K., and Roger Bales, 2001: Aircraft Observations of Surface-Atmosphere Exchange During and After Snowmelt for Different Arctic Environments: MAGS 1999, Hydrological Processes, vol. 15, Issue 18, 3585-3602
  • Mitic, Constance M., Massman, William J., Schuepp, Peter H., and Jeffery L. Collett (Jr), 1999: Structural Analysis and flux associations of CO2, H2O, heat and ozone over cotton and grape canopies, Atmospheric Environment, 33, 1159-1173
  • Mitic, Constance M., Schuepp, Peter H., Desjardins, Raymond L., and J.I. MacPherson, 1995: Spatial Distribution and Co-occurrence of surface - atmosphere energy and gas exchange processes over the CODE grid site, Atmospheric Environment, Vol. 29, no. 21, 3169-3180.

Service

  • Reviewer, Hydrological Processes
  • Reviewer, Journal of Applied Meteorology
  • Member, American Meteorological Society (AMS)
  • Member, American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • Member, Association of American Geographers (AAG)
  • Member, Canadian Oceanographic and Meteorological Society (CMOS)
  • Member, European Geophysical Union (EGU)
  • Member, International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS)