Stephane Chamberland
Current research and/or projects
Numerical Weather Prediction model development, model coupling for environmental predictions
- Development of a new numerical weather prediction model architecture to ease weather and environmental research
- Coupling of an Ocean model to the current Canadian NWP model
- Formalize and install a code development architecture and tools
- Develop and maintain a geophysical fields production package
Professional activities / interests
Support for the community of users of the Canadian NWP model
Maintenance of code repositories
Maintenance of documentation web sites
Education and awards
M.Sc. Atmospheric Sciences, University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM), 1995
Certificate, Enseignement Collegial, Laval University, 1996
B.Sc. Physics, Laval University, 1993
Key publications
Benoit ,R., N. Kouwen, W. Yu, S. Chamberland and P. Pellerin. 2003. Hydrometeorological aspects of the Real-Time Ultrafinescale Forecast Support during the Special Observing Period of the MAP. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. 7(6):877-889.
Benoit, R., C. Girard, M. Desgagne, S. Chamberland and W. Yu. 2002. Finescale Orography and the MC2 dynamic Kernel. AMS 10th Mountain Met. Conference Proceeding.
Benoit, R., L. Fillion, W. Yu and S. Chamberland. 2002. Variational assimilation of convective precipitation for mesoscale forecasting. AMS 10th Mountain Met. Conference Proceeding.
Benoit, R., C. Schaer, P. Binder, S. Chamberland, H.C. Davies, M. Desgagne, C. Girard, C. Keil, N. Kouwen, D. Luethi, D. Maric, E. Mueller, P. Pellerin, J. Schmidli, F. Schubiger. C. Schwierz, M. Sprenger, A. Walser, S. Willemse, W. Yu and E. Zala. 2002. The real-time ultrafinescale forecast support during the special observing period of the MAP. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc. 83(1):85-109.
Benoit, R., P. Binder, C. Schaer, S. Chamberland, M. Desgagné, P. Pellerin and S. Thomas. 1999. Highperformance modelling for the Mesoscale Alpine Programme (MAP) field experiment. In Pollard, A., D. Mewhort and D. Weaver (eds.), High Performance Computing Systems and Applications, Kluwer.
Benoit, R., H. Davies, C. Schaer, P. Binder, S. Chamberland, M. Desgagne, C. Girard, D. Lüthi, D. Maric, E. Müller, P. Pellerin, J. Schmidli, M. Sprenger, S. Willemse and E. Zala. 1999. Realtime ultrafinescale modelling effort for the MAP field phase. MAP Newsletter #11.