Dr. Philippe Gachon
 

1- Affiliation


Professeur Associé (UQÀM)/Adjunct Professor (University of Québec at Montréal)
Chercheur Scientifique/Research Scientist
Service Météorologique du Canada/Meteorological Service of Canada
Environnement Canada/Environment Canada

@ OURANOS
550 rue Sherbrooke Ouest, 19e étage
Tour Ouest, Montréal, Qc, H3A 1B9

Téléphone/Phone : (514) 282-6464 # 279
Télécopieur/Fax : 514-282-7131
Adresse électronique/E-mail : gachon.philippe@ouranos.ca

 


2- Formation et expériences professionnelles :
 

3- Domaines d'intérêts :


Modélisation régionale du climat, Changements climatiques, Variabilité et extrêmes du climat, Modèles couplés atmosphère-océan-glace, Dynamques des systèmes météorologiques, Climatologie, Météorologie.

 

4- Publications :



• GACHON P. and F.J. Saucier, 2001: Sensitivity study of the effects of oceanic conditions in the Gulf of St. Lawrence (Québec, Canada) on wintertime atmospheric circulation, in Research activities in atmospheric and oceanic modelling, WMO-TD, Working Group on Numerical Experimentation (WGNE), Report n°31.

• GACHON P., F.J. Saucier, M. Faucher and R. Laprise, 2001 : Development of an atmosphere-ocean-sea ice coupled regional model in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, in Research activities in atmospheric and oceanic modelling, WMO-TD, Working Group on Numerical Experimentation (WGNE), Report n°31.

• GACHON, P., F.J. Saucier, and R. Laprise, 2002: Evaluation of summer-time near-surface temperature and wind fields over Hudson Bay in a regional atmospheric model. in Research activities in atmospheric and oceanic modelling, WMO-TD No. 1105, World Climate Research Program, CAS/JSC Working Group on Numerical Experimentation, Report n° 32, 5.13-5.14.

• GACHON P., R. Laprise, P. Zwack and F.J. Saucier, 2003: The effects of interactions between surface forcings in the development of a model-simulated polar low in Hudson Bay. Tellus A 55 (1), 61-87.

• Khaliq, N., Ouarda, T.B.M.J., A. St-Hilaire, and P. GACHON, 2006a: Bayesian change-point analysis of Montreal (Canada) heat spells. International Journal of climatology (in press).

• Khaliq, N., Ouarda, T.B.M.J., GACHON, P. and B. Bobée, 2006b: Frequency analysis of a sequence of dependent and/or non-stationary hydro-meteorological observations: a review. Journal of Hydrology (in press).

• Khaliq, N., P. GACHON, A. St-Hilaire, T.B.M.J. Ouarda, and B. Bobée, 2006c: Southern Québec (Canada) Summer Heat Spells over the 1941-2000 Period: an Assessment of Observed Changes. Theoretical and Applied Climatology (in press).

• Nguyen VTV, Nguyen TD, Gachon P. 2006. On the linkage of large-scale climate variability with local characteristics of daily precipitation and temperature extremes: an evaluation of statistical downscaling methods. Advances in Geosciences (WSPC/SPI-B368) 4(16): 1-9.

• Saucier, F.J., S. Senneville, S. Prinsenberg, F. Roy, P. GACHON, D. Caya, and R. Laprise, 2004: Modeling the ice-ocean seasonal cycle in Hudson Bay, Foxe Basin and Hudson Strait, Canada. Climate Dynamics, 23, 303-326.

• Senneville, S., F.J. Saucier, P. GACHON, R. Laprise, and D. Caya, 2002: Development of a coupled ice-ocean model of Hudson Bay. in Research activities in atmospheric and oceanic modelling, WMO-TD, No. 1105, World Climate Research Program, CAS/JSC Working Group on Numerical Experimentation, Report n° 32, 8.23-8.24.

• Dibike, Y., P. GACHON, A. St-Hilaire, T.B.M.J. Ouarda, and VTV Nguyen, 2006: Uncertainty analysis of statistically downscaled temperature and precipitation regimes in northern Canada. Theoretical and Applied Climatology (submitted).

• GACHON, P., and Dibike, Y., 2006: Temperature change signals in northern Canada: Convergence of statistical downscaling results using two driving GCMs. International Journal of Climatology, (submitted).

• Hessami, M., P. GACHON, T.B.M.J. Ouarda, and A. St-Hilaire, 2006: Automated regression-based Statistical Downscaling Tool. Environmental Modelling & Software (in review).

• Khaliq, N., Ouarda, T.B.M.J., St-Hilaire, A., GACHON, P. and Shushama, L.U., 2006: A stochastic characterization of occurrences of heat spells in Montreal, Canada. Theoretical and Applied Climatology (submitted).

 

Autres contributions


• Barrow, E., B. Maxwell and P. GACHON, 2004: Climate Variability and Change in Canada: Past, Present and Future, Climate Change Impacts Scenarios Project, National Report, Environment Canada, Meteorological Service of Canada, Adaptation Impacts Research Group, Atmospheric and Climate Sciences Directorate publication, Canada, 114 pp, ISBN: 0-662-38497-0.

• GACHON P., 2000: La modélisation du climat - où en sommes nous ? VertigO - Revue en sciences de l'environnement, Vol 1 No 2 , September 2000. http://www.unites.uqam.ca/vertigo/.

• GACHON P., F.J. Saucier and R. Laprise, 2001: Atmosphere-ocean-ice interaction processes in the Gulf of St. Lawrence: numerical study with a coupled model. Sixth Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography and the 11th Conference on Interaction of the Sea and Atmosphere, AMS (American Meteorological Society) meeting, San Diego (California, USA), 14-18 May 2001. Abstract volume, J1.18, J37-J40.

• GACHON P., and F.J. Saucier, 2003: La modélisation du climat dans les mers intérieures du Canada : Baie d'Hudson et Golfe du Saint-Laurent. Naturaliste Canadien, vol. 127, n°2, 117-122.

• Goldstein, J., J. Milton, N. Major, P.GACHON, and D. Parishkura, 2004: Climate extremes indices and their links with future water availability: Case study for summer of 2001, article published in the proceeding of the 57th Annual Conference of the Canadian Water Resources Association. Montreal, Canada, June 16-18 2004, 7pp.

• Hessami M., T.J. Ouarda, P. GACHON, A. St-Hilaire, F. Selva and B. Bobée, 2004: Evaluation of statistical downscaling methods over several regions of eastern Canada, article published in the proceeding of the 57th Annual Conference of the Canadian Water Resources Association. Montreal, Québec, Canada. June 16-18, 2004, 9 pp.

• Nguyen T., V.T.V. Nguyen, P. GACHON and A. Bourque, 2004: An assessment of statistical downscaling methods for generating daily precipitation and temperatures extremes in the greater Montreal region, article published in the proceeding of the 57th Annual Conference of the Canadian Water Resources Association. Montreal, Québec, Canada. June 16-18, 2004, 10 pp.

• Saucier F.J., S. Senneville, F. Roy, G. Smith, P. GACHON, and D. Caya, 2002: Modeling the ice-ocean seasonal cycle in Hudson Bay, Foxe Basin and Hudson Strait. Extended Abstract, Small-Scale Sea Ice Modeling Workshop, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA, 7-9 August 2002, 46 pp.


Workshop et conférences


• GACHON, P. and Dibike, Y., 2006: Climate change and extremes in northern Canada: Statistical downscaling results using two driving coupled GCMs. Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (CMOS) Congress 40th, Toronto, June 2-5, 2006.

• GACHON, P., Dibike, Y., andf V-T-V Nguyen, 2006: Climate change and extremes in northern Canada: Statistical downscaling results using two driving coupled GCMs. Third Annual Meeting of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society and Second Conference of the Asia-Pacific Association of Hydrology and Water Resources, Singapore, 11-14 July 2006.

• GACHON, P., D. Parishkura, N. Gauthier, P. Poudret, A. Cotnoir, M. Badolo, A. Bokoye, and G. Vigeant, 2005: Variabilité, Extrêmes et Changements climatiques au Sahel. Colloque Science et Société, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal, Dec. 1, 2005. (invited speaker).

• GACHON, P. 2005: From Modelling to Scenarios of Climate Change, Adapting to Climate Change in Canada 2005: Understanding Risks and Building Capacity, May 4-7, 2005, Centre Sheraton Montréal Hotel, Montréal, Québec, Special CWN Workshop on Climate Change and Water. (invited speaker).

• GACHON, P. and B. Bass, 2005: The Canadian Climate Scenarios Network (CCSN), Adapting to Climate Change in Canada 2005: Understanding Risks and Building Capacity, May 4-7, 2005, Sheraton Hotel, Montréal, Québec. (invited speaker).

• Nguyen, V-T-V., T-D. Nguyen and P. GACHON, 2004: An evaluation of statistical downscaling methods for simulating daily precipitation and extreme temperature series at a local site. 14th Congress of the Asia-Pacific Division of International Association of Hydraulic Research, December 15-18, 2004, Hongkong, 6 pp.

• Nguyen T., V.T.V. Nguyen, and P. GACHON, 2004 : Statistical Downscaling Methods for Simulation of Daily Precipitation and Extreme Temperature Series at a Local Site, First Annual Meeting of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society and Second Conference of the Asia-Pacific Association of Hydrology and Water Resources, Singapore, 5-9 July 2004.

• GACHON P., J. Goldstein, T. Nguyen, D. Chaumont, N. Major, J. Milton and V.T.V. Nguyen, June 16th, 2004: Development of scenarios of climate variability and extremes: Precipitation regime, from global to local scale, 57th Annual Conference of the Canadian Water Resources Association, Montreal, Québec, Canada, 15-18 June 2004.

• Nguyen T., V.T.V. Nguyen, P. GACHON and A. Bourque, June 1st, 2004 : “An assessment of statistical downscaling methods for generating daily precipitation and temperatures extremes in the greater Montreal region”, 38th Congress of the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. May 31- June 3, 2004.

• Nguyen T., V.T.V. Nguyen, P. GACHON and A. Bourque, June 16th, 2004 : ”An Assessment of Statistical Downscaling Methods for Generating Daily Precipitation and Temperatures Extremes in the Greater Montreal Region”. 57th Annual Conference of the Canadian Water Resources Association. Montréal, Québec, Canada. June 16-18, 2004.

• Goldstein, J., J. Milton, N. Major, P.GACHON, and D. Parishkura, 2004: Climate extremes indices and their links with future water availability: Case study for summer of 2001. 57th Annual Conference of the Canadian Water Resources Association. Montreal, Canada, June 16-18 2004.

• Hessami M., T.J. Ouarda, P. GACHON, A. St-Hilaire, F. Selva and B. Bobée, 2004 : Evaluation of statistical downscaling methods over several regions of eastern Canada. 57th Annual Conference of the Canadian Water Resources Association. Montreal, Québec, Canada. June 16-18, 2004.

• Chaumont D., N. Major, P. GACHON, J. Milton, C. Lin and V. Slonosky, 2004 : Variabilités et extrêmes climatiques observés au Québec – Dernières décennies- Analyse par indices climatiques. ACFAS congress, UQAM, Montreal, Québec, Canada. 10-12 May 2004.

• Parishkura, D., J. Goldstein, P. GACHON, and J. Milton, 2004: Développement de scénarios climatiques à partir de méthodes de mise à l’échelle statistique. ACFAS congress, 10-12 May 2004, UQAM, Montreal, Québec, Canada.

• Goldstein J., P. GACHON, J. Milton, and D. Parishkura, 2004: Statistical downscaling models evaluation: A regional case study for Quebec regions, Canada. European Geosciences Union 1st General Assembly. Nice, France, April 25 - 30 2004.

• GACHON O. and E. Barrow, 2003 : Scenarios of Climate Change for Impacts and Adaptation. Invited speaker, CMOS Congress 37th, Ottawa, 2-5 June 2003.

• Goldstein J., G. Desrochers, P. GACHON and J. Milton, 2003: Statistical Downscaling Models Robustness: A regional case study approach for Quebec. CMOS Congress 37th, Ottawa, 2-5 Juin 2003.

• Saucier F.J., S. Senneville, F. Roy, G. Smith, P. GACHON, and D. Caya, 2002 : Modeling the ice-ocean seasonal cycle in Hudson Bay, Foxe Basin and Hudson Strait. Small-Scale Sea Ice Modeling Workshop, Fairbanks (Alaska, USA), 7-9 August 2002.

• GACHON P., and F.J. Saucier, 2002 : The boundary layer structure over cold oceanic surface simulated by the Canadian Regional Climate Model : example of Hudson Bay in summertime. The Northern Environment, CMOS Congress 36th, Rimouski (Québec, Canada), 22-25 May 2002.

• GACHON P., F. J. Saucier and R. Laprise, 2001 : Atmosphere-ocean-ice interaction processes in the Gulf of St. Lawrence : numerical study with a coupled model. Sixth Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography and the 11th Conference on Interaction of the Sea and Atmosphere, AMS (American Meteorological Society) meeting, San Diego (Californie, USA), 14-18 May 2001.

• GACHON P. and F.J. Saucier, 2000 : The effects on monthly regional climate modelling of coupling of sea ice, ocean and atmosphere versus prescribed surface oceanic conditions in Canadian Regional Climate Model (CRCM) : example of January month in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, IGS (International Glaciological Society) symposium, Fairbanks (Alaska, USA), 19-23 Juin 2000.

• Zwack P., P. GACHON and R. Laprise, 1999 : The influence of sea ice distribution in northeastern North America on mesoscale atmospheric circulations : monthly climate and a polar low. Environmental prediction, CMOS congress 33rd, Montréal (Québec, Canada), 31 Mai - 4 Juin, 1999.



Autres conférences


GACHON, P., 2005: De la modélisation climatique globale aux scénarios de changements climatiques, Colloque sur les outils d’aide à la prévision hydrologique, Ecole Nationale d’Ingénieur de Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia, March 1st, 2005.Tutorial presentation. (invited speaker).

• GACHON, P., 2005: La variabilité et les changements climatiques tels que simulés par les MCG en Afrique de l'Ouest, Colloque sur les outils d’aide à la prévision hydrologique, Ecole Nationale d’Ingénieur de Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia, March 2nd, 2005. Tutorial presentation. (invited speaker).

• GACHON, P., 2005: From modelling to scenarios of climate change, Climate Scenarios Workshop, EC-AIRG, Ottawa, Crowne Plaza Hotel, January 31st and February 1st, 2005.

• GACHON, P., 2005: From Modelling to Scenarios of Climate Change at regional or local scale, Climate Models and Their Applications: Day of Lecture Series, March 11, 2005, Holiday Inn, Montreal, Global Environmental and Climate Change Centre (GEC3) & Ouranos. (invited speaker).

• GACHON, P., 2004: Development of high resolution climate changes scenarios within the Ouranos context, ACSD, Environment Canada, Downsview, Toronto, Nov. 24, 2004. (invited speaker).

• Chaumont D., N. Major, P. Roy, G. Desrochers, P. GACHON, J. Milton, C. Lin, V. Slonosky and A. St-Hilaire, 2004 : Variabilités et extrêmes climatiques observés au Québec – Dernières décennies- Analyse par indices climatiques, 1st Ouranos Symposium, Montreal, Québec, Canada, June 9-10, 2004.

• Nguyen T., V.T.V. Nguyen and P. GACHON, June 10th, 2004: “An assessment of statistical downscaling methods for generating daily precipitation and temperatures extremes in the greater Montreal region”, 1st Ouranos Symposium. Montreal, Québec, Canada. June 9-10, 2004.

• Goldstein, J., P. GACHON, J. Milton, and D. Parishkura: Statistical downscaling models evaluation: A regional case study for Quebec regions, Canada. 1st Ouranos Symposium on Climate Change, Montreal, Québec, Canada, June 9-10, 2004.

• Hessami M., T.J. Ouarda, P. GACHON, A. St-Hilaire, F. Selva and B. Bobée, June 9th, 2004 : “Evaluation of statistical downscaling methods over several regions of eastern Canada”, 1st Ouranos Symposium, Montreal, Québec, Canada, June 9-10, 2004.

• GACHON P., Diane Chaumont, Nicolas Major, Marie Claude Simard, Philippe Roy, Jennifer Milton, Charles Lin and Vicky Slonosky, Feb. 26th, 2004: Climate indices development related to variability & extremes analysis in Quebec region, invited speaker, Environment Canada, Climate Research Branch.

• GACHON P. and E. Barrow, 2003 : Scénarios de changements climatiques : le défi canadien. Canadian Climate Impacts Scenarios Project, Environnement Canada, invited speaker, GERAD workshop on Coupling of the dynamic of the climate change and the economy. May 2nd 2004, Montreal, Canada.

• GACHON P., 2003 : "Les Changements Climatiques au Québec", Conférences "Environnement", invited speaker, École "Rose des Vents", École primaire de Pointe au Père, Commission scolaire des Phares, Pointe au Père, Qc, January 23, 2003.

• Gachon P. and V. Slonosky, 2003 : Key atmospheric and oceanic factors responsible for climate variability and extreme events in Canada, invited speaker, National Workshop: Development of Scenarios of Climate Variability and Extremes: Current Status and Next Steps, Climate Impacts Scenarios Project, Environnement Canada, Delta Ocean Pointe Hotel, Victoria, BC, October 16-17, 2003.

• GACHON P., 2002 : "Les Changements Climatiques", Conférences "Environnement et Eau", invited speaker, École Arc-en-ciel, École primaire de Montréal, November 22, 2002.

• GACHON P., 2002 : "Les changements climatiques et leurs conséquences sur la ressource hydrique au Québec" (Climatic changes and their roles on hydrologic resources in Québec), invited speaker, Conseil de bassin-Rivière Rimouski, CEGEP de Rimouski, November 19, 2002.

• GACHON P., 2002 : Les changements climatiques et le Saint-Laurent marin (Climatic changes and the marine St. Lawrence), invited speaker, Day of teachers, The Northern Environment, CMOS Congress 36th, Rimouski (Québec, Canada), May 22-25, 2002.

• GACHON, P. and F. J. Saucier, 2000. The effects of coupling between the ocean, sea ice and atmosphere in the Gulf of St. Lawrence on the regional atmospheric circulation, simulated by the Canadian Regional Climate Model (CRCM). Arctic Regional Climate Model Intercomparison Project (ARCMIP) meeting, Fairbanks (Alaska, USA), September 12-15, 2000.

• GACHON P., 1999 : The effects of sea-ice distribution on regional climate : example of Hudson Bay sector in winter, invited speaker, University de Fribourg, Department of Geography, Fribourg (Switzerland).

• GACHON P., P. Zwack and R. Laprise, 1999 : The effects of sea-ice distribution on mesoscale cyclone development and on regional climate, 7th Annual Workshop on Regional Climate Modelling, “Atmospheric & Oceanic processes in the context of regional climate modelling”, Estérel (Québec, Canada), May 23-26, 1999.

• GACHON P., 1998 : Sensitivity experiments and diagnostic analysis of the influence of sea-ice distribution on cyclone behaviour, invited speaker, University de Stockholm, Department of meteorology, Stockholm (Sweden).



Autres contributions


• Choux M., 2005: Degree Master of Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics, McGill University. Title of Thesis: “Development of new predictor variables for the statistical downscaling of precipitation” (Dec. 2005), co-supervision with Pr. VTV Nguyen & P. GACHON.

• GACHON, P., A. St-Hilaire, T. Ouarda, VTV Nguyen, C. Lin, J. Milton, D. Chaumont, J. Goldstein, M. Hessami, T.D. Nguyen, F. Selva, M. Nadeau, P. Roy, D. Parishkura, N. Major, M. Choux & A. Bourque, 2005: A first evaluation of the strength and weaknesses of statistical downscaling methods for simulating extremes over various regions of eastern Canada. Sub-component, Climate Change Action Fund (CCAF), Environment Canada, Final report, Montréal, Québec, Canada, 209 pp.

• Tramblay Y., P. GACHON, A. St-Hilaire, et D. Chaumont, 2005: Variabilité et extrêmes de température et de précipitation entre 1941 et 2000: le cas du golfe du fleuve Saint Laurent. INRS-ETE, rapport de recherche R-805, 52 pages et 2 Annexes (ISBN:2-89146-218-1).



Thèse

• GACHON P., 1999 : The effects of the sea-ice distribution on the mesoscale cyclone development and regional climate, PhD’s Thesis (thesis in climate numerical modeling), University of Québec at Montréal (UQAM), Montréal (Québec, Canada), 352 pp.