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60
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René Laprise publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where René Laprise sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 192 publications — 61st percentile

61% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

René Laprise D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where René Laprise sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 60 D-Index — 71st percentile

71% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Canada Leader Award
  • 2018 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science

Overview

René Laprise is affiliated with the University of Quebec at Montreal in Canada. Their research focuses primarily on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with particular emphasis on Environmental Science. Within these fields, their work spans several subfields, notably Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change, as well as Soil Science, General Health Professions, and Environmental Chemistry.

Their scholarly output encompasses a range of topics centered on climate and meteorological phenomena. Key areas of study include:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Climate change and permafrost

The scientist has contributed papers to various publication venues, frequently appearing in the journals Atmosphere, International Journal of Climatology, and Climate Dynamics, among others:

  • Helda (University of Helsinki)
  • Tellus A Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by René Laprise include:

  • Simulation of temperate freezing lakes by one-dimensional lake models: performance assessment for interactive coupling with regional climate models, 2024, Helda (University of Helsinki)
  • Global exposure of population and land-use to meteorological droughts under different warming levels and SSPs: A CORDEX-based study, 2021, International Journal of Climatology
  • Recent advances in polar low research: current knowledge, challenges and future perspectives, 2021, Tellus A Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography
  • Atmospheric blocking events in the North Atlantic: trends and links to climate anomalies and teleconnections, 2021, Climate Dynamics
  • The Worldwide C3S CORDEX Grand Ensemble: A Major Contribution to Assess Regional Climate Change in the IPCC AR6 Atlas, 2022, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

René Laprise collaborates regularly with several co-authors, including:

  • Philippe Gachon
  • Katja Winger
  • Marta Moreno-Ibáñez
  • Alejandro Di Luca
  • François Roberge

In 2018, René Laprise was recognized as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada by the Academy of Science. This distinction reflects their involvement and standing within the scientific community.

Best Publications

  • Regional Climate Projections. Chapter 11

    J H Christensen;B Hewitson;A Busuioc;A Chen

  • Regional climate projections

    J. H. Christensen;B. Hewitson;A. Busuioc;A. Chen

  • Regional Climate Information—Evaluation and Projections

    F. Giorgi;J. Christensen;M. Hulme;H. von Storch

  • The Euler Equations of Motion with Hydrostatic Pressure as an Independent Variable

    René Laprise

  • A Semi-Implicit Semi-Lagrangian Regional Climate Model: The Canadian RCM

    Daniel Caya;René Laprise

  • Future global meteorological drought hot spots: A study based on CORDEX data

    Jonathan Spinoni;Paulo Barbosa;Edoardo Bucchignani;John Cassano

  • Downscaling ability of one-way nested regional climate models: the Big-Brother Experiment

    B. Denis;R. Laprise;D. Caya;J. Côté

  • Regional climate modelling

    René Laprise

  • The Canadian Climate Centre spectral atmospheric general circulation model

    G.J. Boer;N.A. McFarlane;R. Laprise;J.D. Henderson

  • Spectral Decomposition of Two-Dimensional Atmospheric Fields on Limited-Area Domains Using the Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT)

    Bertrand Denis;Jean Côté;René Laprise

  • A Semi-implicit Send-Lagrangian Fully Compressible Regional Forecast Model

    Monique Tanguay;André Robert;René Laprise

  • Potential for added value in precipitation simulated by high-resolution nested Regional Climate Models and observations

    Alejandro Di Luca;Ramón de Elía;René Laprise

  • Challenging some tenets of Regional Climate Modelling

    R. Laprise;R. de Elía;D. Caya;S. Biner

  • Modelling the sea ice-ocean seasonal cycle in Hudson Bay, Foxe Basin and Hudson Strait, Canada

    F. J. Saucier;S. Senneville;S. Prinsenberg;F. Roy

  • Project to Intercompare Regional Climate Simulations (PIRCS): Description and initial results

    Eugene S. Takle;William J. Gutowski;Raymond W. Arritt;Zaitao Pan

  • Reanalysis-driven climate simulation over CORDEX North America domain using the Canadian Regional Climate Model, version 5 model performance evaluation

    Andrey Martynov;Andrey Martynov;R. Laprise;L. Sushama;K. Winger

  • The effects of 1.5 and 2 degrees of global warming on Africa in the CORDEX ensemble

    Grigory Nikulin;Christopher Lennard;Alessandro Dosio;Erik Kjellström

  • Present climate and climate change over North America as simulated by the fifth-generation Canadian regional climate model

    Leo Šeparović;Adelina Alexandru;René Laprise;Andrey Martynov

  • Climate simulation over CORDEX Africa domain using the fifth-generation Canadian Regional Climate Model (CRCM5)

    Leticia Hernández-Díaz;René Laprise;Laxmi Sushama;Andrey Martynov

  • Regional climate model sensitivity to domain size

    Martin Leduc;René Laprise

  • Sensitivity of a regional climate model to the resolution of the lateral boundary conditions

    B. Denis;R. Laprise;D. Caya

  • Internal Variability in Regional Climate Downscaling at the Seasonal Scale

    Adelina Alexandru;Ramon de Elia;René Laprise

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel Caya
Daniel Caya University of Quebec at Montreal
Laxmi Sushama
Laxmi Sushama McGill University
Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen
Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen University of Copenhagen
Annette Rinke
Annette Rinke Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
John F. Scinocca
John F. Scinocca University of Victoria
Klaus Dethloff
Klaus Dethloff Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Raymond W. Arritt
Raymond W. Arritt Iowa State University
William J. Gutowski
William J. Gutowski Iowa State University
Linda O. Mearns
Linda O. Mearns National Center for Atmospheric Research
Filippo Giorgi
Filippo Giorgi International Centre for Theoretical Physics

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