Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ngo Duc Thanh – “passionate” scientist in meteorology and climate change research
Sharing with PV Dan Viet, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Thanh said that global climate change is a contemporary challenge that humanity is facing. Many computational and human resources are focused on the world to come up with future climate change scenarios under different assumptions.
In 2012, at an international conference in Vietnam led by Assoc.Prof.Dr. Ngo Duc Thanh co-organised, the detailed regional climate coordination project CORDEX-SEA (Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiments – Southeast Asia) was established with the goal of sharing computing resources, human resources and promoting Research for Southeast Asia.
As soon as CORDEX-SEA was initiated, Assoc. Ngo Duc Thanh and his colleagues embarked on a project to simulate rain and temperature extremes for Southeast Asia. The study focuses on a number of climate factors for the whole Southeast Asia region such as the number of heavy rainy days, the number of consecutive rainy or no rain days, the number of days when the temperature is too hot or too cold…
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According to this expert, there are now many models with different parameter configurations that can be used to calculate future climate change for the world as well as for individual regions such as Southeast Asia. However, different models will give different errors in different countries, regions, and times.
During more than 4 years of implementation, Assoc.Prof.Dr. Ngo Duc Thanh and international colleagues have performed 18 simulation experiments to find the most suitable and optimal model configuration capable of representing the extreme climatic factors rain and heat on the earth. area. 18 experiments are also ranked, thereby selecting the most optimal set of model parameters, serving to run long-term climate change projections until the end of the 21st century.
After being published, the work received the attention of the research community inside and outside the region. With the introduction of the most optimal set of model parameters for long-term simulation experiments in Southeast Asia, the work is extremely important, helping to significantly save resources and computation time. future climate change projections for the entire region.
Research results are initially positive, but things have not stopped. Assoc.Prof.Dr. Ngo Duc Thanh said, along with the obtained results, many big questions were opened: What is the cause of the different increase and decrease in rainfall in different regions of the region? How do changes in temperature and precipitation regimes affect extreme events such as floods, droughts, heat waves, etc.?
However, what Assoc.Prof.Dr. Ngo Duc Thanh feels most secure and confident that it is the handshake cooperation of international scientists. Never before has inter-country cooperation in such a challenging field as meteorology and climate change been so closely coordinated.
Talking more about the success of the project, Assoc. Prof.Dr. Thanh said: This is not only an honor for individual scientists but also an opportunity for the “quiet” field of meteorology/climatology and picky learners, workers receive more attention and attention of society.
Concerned that this field has not been paid much attention by many people, he expressed: Currently, very few young people are interested in studying this field because this is also a challenging issue. “In recent years, each course has only recruited very few students, leading to the fact that this industry often gets relatively low scores, while it is an industry that urgently needs people who are good at math, physics and computer science.”
In addition, in the course of his work, he has witnessed “flows of people coming and going” in some hydrometeorological research units, partly due to working conditions and insufficient income to cover life. Life did not attract them. “We need the push to create a team of high-quality meteorologists who can be dedicated and passionate about the industry. Only then will we be able to meet the needs of society and solve practical and urgent problems such as forecasting natural disasters or researching climate change”, said Assoc. Prof. Dr. Thanh.
Assoc.Prof.Dr. Ngo Duc Thanh, born in 1979. He graduated with a bachelor’s and master’s degree from Paris Polytechnic University (France) and a doctorate from Paris VI University. His doctoral thesis was awarded the best prize in the field of basic science by the Association of Paris Universities and the best thesis award by the French Academy of Agriculture.
In 2005, he went to the University of Tokyo, Japan to do post-doctoral research. When he returned home, he worked at the Cao No Meteorological Station, the General Department of Meteorology and Hydrology; Lecturer of the Department of Meteorology, Hydrology and Oceanography, University of Natural Sciences, Vietnam National University, Hanoi. He was appointed Associate Professor in 2014.
From March 2016, he transferred to Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology.
With excellent research work, along with the impact of the results of a number of other publications for Southeast Asia, Assoc.Prof.Dr. Ngo Duc Thanh was invited to join the drafting committee of the 6th Climate Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as lead author.
This is the world’s most important report on climate change expected to be published in 2021. IPCC after the 4th Assessment Report was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, according to information from https:// www.ipcc.ch/authors/, Assoc.Prof.Dr. Ngo Duc Thanh is the only researcher from Vietnam out of 795 main authors.
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