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Robert Leconte is affiliated with the Université de Sherbrooke in Canada. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Within these fields, their work spans several subfields, including atmospheric science, water science and technology, environmental engineering, global and planetary change, and ecology.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics related to hydrology and watershed management studies, soil moisture and remote sensing, cryospheric studies and observations, flood risk assessment and management, precipitation measurement and analysis, climate change and permafrost, and coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics.

Robert Leconte has published in a range of venues, with multiple publications in journals such as Water, Hydrology, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, Remote Sensing, and the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. Their frequent publication venues reflect a focus on water-related environmental research and remote sensing technologies.

Frequently collaborating with other researchers, Leconte has coauthored publications with Mélanie Trudel, Gabriela Siles, Daniel L. Peters, Nicolas Desrochers, and Shimelis Asfaw Wakigari.

Some of their recent papers include:

  • Catchment-Scale Integrated Surface Water-Groundwater Hydrologic Modelling Using Conceptual and Physically Based Models: A Model Comparison Study, 2020, Water
  • Assessing the capabilities of the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission for large lake water surface elevation monitoring under different wind conditions, 2020, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • Effects of Aquatic and Emergent Riparian Vegetation on SWOT Mission Capability in Detecting Surface Water Extent, 2021, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
  • Enhancing Spatial Resolution of SMAP Soil Moisture Products through Spatial Downscaling over a Large Watershed: A Case Study for the Susquehanna River Basin in the Northeastern United States, 2022, Remote Sensing
  • A Remote Sensing View of the 2020 Extreme Lake-Expansion Flood Event into the Peace-Athabasca Delta Floodplain-Implications for the Future SWOT Mission, 2023, Remote Sensing

Best Publications

  • Uncertainty of downscaling method in quantifying the impact of climate change on hydrology

    Jie Chen;François P. Brissette;Robert Leconte

  • Uncertainty of the impact of climate change on the hydrology of a nordic watershed

    Marie Minville;François Brissette;Robert Leconte

  • Overall uncertainty study of the hydrological impacts of climate change for a Canadian watershed

    Jie Chen;François P. Brissette;Annie Poulin;Robert Leconte

  • Uncertainty of hydrological modelling in climate change impact studies in a Canadian, snow-dominated river basin

    Annie Poulin;François Brissette;Robert Leconte;Richard Arsenault

  • A daily stochastic weather generator for preserving low-frequency of climate variability

    Jie Chen;François P. Brissette;Robert Leconte

  • Efficient stochastic generation of multi-site synthetic precipitation data

    François Brissette;M. Khalili;Robert Leconte

  • Adaptation to Climate Change in the Management of a Canadian Water-Resources System Exploited for Hydropower

    Marie Minville;François Brissette;Stéphane Krau;Robert Leconte

  • Climate change, flow regulation and land-use effects on the hydrology of the Peace-Athabasca-Slave System; findings from the Northern Rivers Ecosystem Initiative.

    T. D. Prowse;S. Beltaos;J. T. Gardner;J. J. Gibson

  • Flood hydrology of the Peace‐Athabasca Delta, northern Canada

    Daniel L. Peters;Terry D. Prowse;Alain Pietroniro;Robert Leconte

  • Impacts and Uncertainty of Climate Change on Water Resource Management of the Peribonka River System "Canada…

    Marie Minville;François Brissette;Robert Leconte

  • The impact of climate change on seasonal floods of a southern Quebec River Basin

    Luc Roy;Robert Leconte;François P. Brissette;Claude Marche

  • Estimation of the summer-fall PMP and PMF of a northern watershed under a changed climate

    Josée Beauchamp;Robert Leconte;Mélanie Trudel;François Brissette

  • A combination of remote sensing data and topographic attributes for the spatial and temporal monitoring of soil wetness

    M. Temimi;Robert Leconte;N. Chaouch;P. Sukumal

  • Using RADARSAT-2 polarimetric and ENVISAT-ASAR dual-polarization data for estimating soil moisture over agricultural fields.

    Melanie Trudel;François Charbonneau;Robert Leconte

  • Coupling statistical and dynamical methods for spatial downscaling of precipitation

    Jie Chen;François P. Brissette;Robert Leconte

  • Stochastic multi-site generation of daily weather data

    Malika Khalili;François Brissette;Robert Leconte

  • Behaviour and Performance of a Water Resource System in Québec (Canada) Under Adapted Operating Policies in a Climate Change Context

    Marie Minville;Stéphane Krau;François Brissette;Robert Leconte

  • A Versatile Weather Generator for Daily Precipitation and Temperature

    J. Chen;François Brissette;Robert Leconte;A. Caron

  • Stochastic multisite generation of daily precipitation data using spatial autocorrelation

    Malika Khalili;Robert Leconte;François Brissette

  • Flood and soil wetness monitoring over the Mackenzie River Basin using AMSR-E 37 GHz brightness temperature

    M. Temimi;R. Leconte;F. Brissette;N. Chaouch

Frequent Co-Authors

François Brissette
François Brissette École de Technologie Supérieure
Alain Pietroniro
Alain Pietroniro University of Saskatchewan
Marouane Temimi
Marouane Temimi Stevens Institute of Technology
Terry D. Prowse
Terry D. Prowse University of Victoria
Brian Brisco
Brian Brisco Natural Resources Canada
Claudio Paniconi
Claudio Paniconi Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique
Michèle Prévost
Michèle Prévost Polytechnique Montréal
Pierre Servais
Pierre Servais Université Libre de Bruxelles
Spyros Beltaos
Spyros Beltaos Environment and Climate Change Canada
François Anctil
François Anctil Université Laval

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