Qualifications
- Co-Director of Space and Applications Department (2016-now)
- Former USTH Vice-Rector (2016-Aug 2018)
- Associate Professor (2014-now)
- Post-Doctor: Univ. of Tokyo, Japan, Oct 2005-Apr 2008, Oki and Kanae Lab
- Ph.D.: Meteorology, Univ. of Paris VI, France, 2005, Advisors: K. Laval, J. Polcher, A. Cazenave
- Master: Ecole Polytechnique, France, 2002
- Engineer: Ecole Polytechnique (X98), France, 2001
Achievements
- Lead author of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6).
- Member of the Scientific for Earth Sciences of The Vietnam National Foundation for Science and Technology Development (NAFOSTED) (since 2019)
Research interests
Regional climate modeling, climate change, air-sea interaction, climate extremes, machine learning applications in atmospheric sciences
Selected publications
1. Thomas, F., T. Ngo-Duc, T. Nguyen-Ngoc-Minh, 2025: The Climate Archives of Indochina – And their contribution in understanding climate change in Vietnam and Southeast Asia. AFD Research Papers, (ISSN: 2492 – 2846), no 394., 51 pp. https://www.afd.fr/en/resources/climate-archives-indochina-and-their-contribution-understanding-climate-change-vietnam
2. Desmet, Q., Herrmann, M., and Ngo-Duc, T., 2025: Optimizing physical scheme selection in RegCM5 for improved air–sea fluxes over Southeast Asia, Geoscientific Model Development, 18(22), 8855–8886. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-8855-2025
3. Nguyen-Duy, T., T. Ngo-Duc*, D. Nguyen-Le, Nguyen-Xuan, T., Q. Tran-Anh, 2025: Increasing compound heat and precipitation extremes and population exposure in a warming Vietnam. Natural Hazards, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-025-07696-0.
4. Nguyen-Xuan, T., Z. Zhou, T. Nguyen-Duy, D. Nguyen-Le, T. Ngo-Duc*, 2025: Optimizing configurations for the Regional Climate Model (RegCM5) using a micro-GA approach: a case study over Vietnam. SOLA, 21, 439−449, doi:10.2151/sola.2025-053.
5. Nguyen-Xuan, T., D. Nguyen-Le, Q. Tran-Anh, T. Nguyen-Duy, T. Ngo-Duc*, 2025: Assessment of future droughts in Vietnam using high-resolution downscaled CMIP6 projections. Natural Hazards, 121, 20251–20283, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-025-07651-z.
6. Nguyen-Thanh, H., T. Ngo-Duc*, M. Herrmann, 2025: Quantifying air-sea heat fluxes over Southeast Asia and their response to climate change. Journal of Climate, 38(18), 4885–4905. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-24-0389.1
7. Ngo-Duc, T.*, T. Nguyen-Duy, Q. Desmet, L. Trinh-Tuan, L. Ramu, F. Cruz, J.M. Dado, J.X. Chung, T. Phan-Van, H. Pham-Thanh, K. Truong-Ba, F.T. Tangang, L. Juneng, J. Santisirisomboon, R. Srisawadwong, D. Permana, U.A. Linarka, D. Gunawan, 2024: Performance Ranking of Multiple CORDEX-SEA Sensitivity Experiments: Towards an Optimum Choice of Physical Schemes for RegCM over Southeast Asia. Climate Dynamics, 62, 8659–8673, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-024-07353-5.
8. Tran-Anh, Q., T. Ngo-Duc*, 2024: Probabilistic projections of temperature and rainfall for climate risk assessment in Vietnam. Journal of Water and Climate Change, 15 (5): 2015–2032, https://doi.org/10.2166/wcc.2024.461.
9. Nguyen-Duy, T., T. Ngo-Duc*, D. Nguyen-Le, T. Nguyen-Xuan, T. Phan-Van, 2024: Identification and Trend Analysis of Compound Meteorological Hazards along Vietnam’s Coastline. Natural Hazards, 120, 5667–5683, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-024-06486-4
10. Le, H.H., N. Hall, T. Ngo-Duc, 2024: Remote influence on regional scale intraseasonal rainfall variability over Vietnam. International Journal of Climatology, 44, 1171–1189, https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.8377.
11. Nguyen-Duy, T., T. Ngo-Duc*, Q. Desmet, 2023: Performance evaluation and ranking of CMIP6 global climate models over Vietnam. Journal of Water and Climate Change, 14(6), 1831, https://doi.org/10.2166/wcc.2023.454
12. Tran-Anh, Q., T. Ngo-Duc*, E. Espagne, L. Trinh-Tuan, 2023: A 10-km CMIP6 downscaled dataset of temperature and precipitation for historical and future Vietnam climate. Scientific Data, 10:257, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02159-2
13. Kreibich H., Van Loon, A.F., Schröter, K., …., T. Ngo-Duc, et al., 2023: Panta Rhei benchmark dataset: socio-hydrological data of paired events of floods and droughts. Earth System Science Data, 15, 2009–2023, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-2009-2023.
14. Nguyen-Thanh, H., T. Ngo-Duc*, M. Herrmann, 2023: The distinct impacts of the two types of ENSO on rainfall variability over Southeast Asia. Climate Dynamics, 61, 2155–2172, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-023-06673-2.
15. Kreibich, H., Van Loon, A.F., Schröter, K., …., T. Ngo-Duc, et al., 2022: The challenge of unprecedented floods and droughts in risk management. Nature 608, 80–86. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04917-5
16. Tran-Anh, Q., T. Ngo-Duc*, E. Espagne, L. Trinh-Tuan, 2022: A High-Resolution Projected Climate Dataset for Vietnam: construction and preliminary application in assessing future change. Journal of Water and Climate Change, 13 (9): 3379–3399. https://doi.org/10.2166/wcc.2022.144.
17. Nguyen, P-L., M. Bador, L. V. Alexander, T. P. Lane, T. Ngo-Duc, 2022: More intense daily precipitation in CORDEX-SEA regional climate models than their forcing global climate models over Southeast Asia. International Journal of Climatology, 42( 12), 6537– 6561. https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.7619.
18. Vu, D.Q., Q.V. Doan, T. Ngo-Duc, N. Dinh, D.D. Nguyen, 2022: Offshore wind resource in the context of global climate change: a case study of a tropical sea. Applied Energy, 308, 118369, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2021.118369.
19. Herrmann, M., T. Nguyen-Duy, T. Ngo-Duc, F. Tangang, 2022: Climate change impact on sea surface winds in Southeast Asia. International Journal of Climatology, 42, 3571-3595. https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.7433
20. Espagne E., T. Ngo-Duc, M-H. Nguyen, E. Pannier, M-N. Woillez, A. Drogoul, T. P. L. Huynh, T. T. Le, T. T. H. Nguyen, T. T. Nguyen, T. A. Nguyen, F. Thomas, C. Q. Truong, Q. T. Vo, C. T. Vu. 2021. Climate change in Viet Nam; Impacts and adaptation. A COP26 assessment report of the GEMMES Viet Nam project. Paris. Agence Française de Développement. 612pp. https://www.afd.fr/en/ressources/climate-change-viet-nam-impacts-and-adaptation
21. Arias, P.A., N. Bellouin, E. Coppola, …, T. Ngo-Duc, et al., 2021: Technical Summary. In Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Masson-Delmotte, V. et al. (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA, pp. 33−144, doi:10.1017/9781009157896.002
22. Gutiérrez, J.M., R.G. Jones, G.T. Narisma, L.M. Alves, M. Amjad, I.V. Gorodetskaya, M. Grose, N.A.B. Klutse, S. Krakovska, J. Li, D. Martínez-Castro, L.O. Mearns, S.H. Mernild, T. Ngo-Duc, B. van den Hurk, and J.-H. Yoon, 2021: Atlas. In Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Masson-Delmotte, V. et al. (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA, pp. 1927–2058, doi:10.1017/9781009157896.021.
23. Desmet, Q. and T. Ngo-Duc*, 2021: A novel method for ranking CMIP6 Global Climate Models over the Southeast Asian region. International Journal of Climatology, 42(1), 97–117, https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.7234.
24. Nguyen-Thi, T., T. Ngo-Duc*, F. Tangang, F. Cruz, L. Juneng, J. Santisirisomboon, E. Aldrian, T. Phan‐Van, G. Narisma., 2021: Climate analogue and future appearance of novel climate in Southeast Asia. International Journal of Climatology, 41v(Suppler. 1): E392-E409. https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.6693.
25. Nguyen-Thuy, H., T. Ngo-Duc*, L. Trinh-Tuan, F. Tangang, F. Cruz, T. Phan-Van, L. Juneng, G. Narisma, J. Santisirisomboon, 2021: Time of Emergence of Climate Signals over Vietnam detected from the CORDEX-SEA experiments. International Journal of Climatology, 41(3), 1599-1618. https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.6897.
For further publications of Assoc. Prof. Ngo Duc Thanh, please read below:
| ORCID ID/Link | https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1444-7498 | |
| Google scholar link | https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=RivfmqAAAAAJ | |
| Research gate link | https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Thanh-Ngo-Duc | |
