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Overview

Stéphane Bélair is affiliated with Environment and Climate Change Canada and has contributed extensively to research in environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Their work prominently covers atmospheric science and global and planetary change, with significant attention to environmental engineering, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, and management, monitoring, policy, and law.

The scientist's research focuses on key topics including meteorological phenomena and simulations, climate variability and models, urban heat island mitigation, precipitation measurement and analysis, soil moisture and remote sensing, wind and air flow studies, and cryospheric studies and observations.

Recent publications by Stéphane Bélair include the following:

  • Impact of COVID-19-Related Traffic Slowdown on Urban Heat Characteristics, 2021, Atmosphere
  • Chemical Analysis of Surface-Level Ozone Exceedances during the 2015 Pan American Games, 2020, Atmosphere
  • How Satellite Soil Moisture Data Can Help to Monitor the Impacts of Climate Change: SMAP Case Studies, 2020, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
  • Deep Learning-Based Super-Resolution Climate Simulator-Emulator Framework for Urban Heat Studies, 2021, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Impact of Urbanization on the Predictions of Urban Meteorology and Air Pollutants over Four Major North American Cities, 2020, Atmosphere

Frequently publishing in venues such as Atmosphere, Journal of Hydrometeorology, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), SSRN Electronic Journal, and IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, Stéphane Bélair has contributed to multiple scientific dialogues across these platforms.

The scientist collaborates regularly with other researchers. Their frequent coauthors include Sylvie Leroyer, Marco L. Carrera, Franck Lespinas, Bernardo Teufel, and Laxmi Sushama.

Best Publications

  • The Soil Moisture Active Passive Validation Experiment 2012 (SMAPVEX12): Prelaunch Calibration and Validation of the SMAP Soil Moisture Algorithms

    Heather McNairn;Thomas J. Jackson;Grant Wiseman;Stephane Belair

  • The hydrosphere State (hydros) Satellite mission: an Earth system pathfinder for global mapping of soil moisture and land freeze/thaw

    D. Entekhabi;E.G. Njoku;P. Houser;M. Spencer

  • Boundary Layer and Shallow Cumulus Clouds in a Medium-Range Forecast of a Large-Scale Weather System

    Stéphane Bélair;Jocelyn Mailhot;Claude Girard;Paul Vaillancourt

  • The Pan-Canadian High Resolution (2.5 km) Deterministic Prediction System

    Jason A. Milbrandt;Stéphane Bélair;Manon Faucher;Marcel Vallée

  • Operational Implementation of the ISBA Land Surface Scheme in the Canadian Regional Weather Forecast Model. Part II: Cold Season Results

    Stéphane Bélair;Ross Brown;Jocelyn Mailhot;Bernard Bilodeau

  • The 15‐km version of the Canadian regional forecast system

    Jocelyn Mailhot;Stephane Bélair;Louis Lefaivre;Bernard Bilodeau

  • The Canadian Land Data Assimilation System (CaLDAS): Description and Synthetic Evaluation Study

    Marco L. Carrera;Stéphane Bélair;Bernard Bilodeau

  • A new atmospheric dataset for forcing ice–ocean models: Evaluation of reforecasts using the Canadian global deterministic prediction system

    Gregory C. Smith;François Roy;Philip Mann;Frédéric Dupont

  • A Land Data Assimilation System for Soil Moisture and Temperature: An Information Content Study

    G. Balsamo;J. F. Mahfouf;S. Bélair;G. Deblonde

  • Canadian Experiment for Soil Moisture in 2010 (CanEx-SM10): Overview and Preliminary Results

    R. Magagi;A. A. Berg;K. Goita;S. Belair

  • An Examination of Local versus Nonlocal Aspects of a TKE-Based Boundary Layer Scheme in Clear Convective Conditions

    Stéphane Bélair;Jocelyn Mailhot;J. Walter Strapp;J. Ian MacPherson

  • Medium-Range Quantitative Precipitation Forecasts from Canada's New 33-km Deterministic Global Operational System

    Stéphane Bélair;Michel Roch;Anne-Marie Leduc;Paul A. Vaillancourt

  • Science of Nowcasting Olympic Weather for Vancouver 2010 (SNOW-V10): a World Weather Research Programme Project

    G. A. Isaac;P. I. Joe;J. Mailhot;M. Bailey

  • ENVIRONMENT CANADA'S EXPERIMENTAL NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION SYSTEMS FOR THE VANCOUVER 2010 WINTER OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC GAMES

    J. Mailhot;S. Bélair;M. Charron;C. Doyle

  • Evaluation of the Town Energy Balance Model in Cold and Snowy Conditions during the Montreal Urban Snow Experiment 2005

    A. Lemonsu;S. Bélair;J. Mailhot;S. Leroyer

  • Simulation of an Orographic Precipitation Event during IMPROVE-2. Part II: Sensitivity to the Number of Moments in the Bulk Microphysics Scheme

    J. A. Milbrandt;M. K. Yau;J. Mailhot;S. Bélair

  • Impact of horizontal resolution on the numerical simulation of a midlatitude squall line : Implicit versus explicit condensation

    Stéphane Bélair;Jocelyn Mailhot

  • The Multibudget Soil, Vegetation, and Snow (SVS) Scheme for Land Surface Parameterization: Offline Warm Season Evaluation

    Syed Zahid Husain;Nasim Alavi;Stéphane Bélair;Marco Carrera

  • Simulation of an Orographic Precipitation Event during IMPROVE-2. Part I: Evaluation of the Control Run Using a Triple-Moment Bulk Microphysics Scheme

    J. A. Milbrandt;M. K. Yau;J. Mailhot;S. Bélair

  • Optimal interpolation analysis of leaf area index using MODIS data

    Yingxin Gu;Stéphane Bélair;Jean-François Mahfouf;Godelieve Deblonde

  • Evaluation of Snowpack Simulations over the Canadian Rockies with an Experimental Hydrometeorological Modeling System

    Marco L. Carrera;Stéphane Bélair;Vincent Fortin;Bernard Bilodeau

  • Warm Season Evaluation of Soil Moisture Prediction in the Soil, Vegetation, and Snow (SVS) Scheme

    Nasim Alavi;Stéphane Bélair;Vincent Fortin;Shunli Zhang

  • Subkilometer Numerical Weather Prediction in an Urban Coastal Area: A Case Study over the Vancouver Metropolitan Area

    Sylvie Leroyer;Stéphane Bélair;Syed Z. Husain;Jocelyn Mailhot

Frequent Co-Authors

Jason A. Milbrandt
Jason A. Milbrandt Environment and Climate Change Canada
George A. Isaac
George A. Isaac Weather Impacts Consulting Incorporated
Kyle C. McDonald
Kyle C. McDonald City College of New York
Peggy E. O'Neill
Peggy E. O'Neill Goddard Space Flight Center
Vincent Vionnet
Vincent Vionnet Environment and Climate Change Canada
Ismail Gultepe
Ismail Gultepe Environment and Climate Change Canada
Thomas J. Jackson
Thomas J. Jackson Agricultural Research Service
Aaron A. Berg
Aaron A. Berg University of Guelph
Chris Derksen
Chris Derksen Environment and Climate Change Canada
Paul R. Houser
Paul R. Houser George Mason University

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