André Robert

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Dr. André Robert (New York, NY, April 28, 1929 -Montreal(?), November 18, 1993) was the firstCanadian climatologist to successfully model the general circulation of the earth's atmosphere.^[1]

Robert moved to Grand-Mère, Quebec in May of 1937. He received his BSc from Laval University in 1952 and his MSc from University of Toronto in 1953. He began employment with the Meteorological Service of Canada as a weather forecaster, then in 1959 shifted his interest to researching atmospheric models for short and medium-range weather forecasting. ^[1]

For his PhD (awarded in 1965), Robert worked at McGill University on the Mesoscale Compressible Community model (MC2), developing and implementing numerical techniques to solve the interacting time-dependent partial differential equations governing the chronological development of atmospheric behavior in an efficient manner, while still retaining accuracy; in contrast to many scientists who were concerned only with precision. Between 1963 and 1970, Robert successfully combined his methodology with existing Lagrangian techniques to produce a spectral model for meteorological forecasting; the methods which he developed are now widely used in models for climatology and weather prediction.^[1]