Overview
Availability
- Dr Ralph Trancoso is:
- Available for supervision
Qualifications
- Bachelor (Honours) of Environmental Engineering, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ)
- Masters (Research) of Hydrology, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia
- Masters (Research) of Remote Sensing, Universidade de Brasília (UnB)
- Doctor of Philosophy of Hydrology, The University of Queensland
Works
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2025
Journal Article
Impacts on compound drought heatwave events in Australia per global warming level
Chapman, Sarah, Syktus, Jozef I, Trancoso, Ralph, Toombs, Nathan and Eccles, Rohan (2025). Impacts on compound drought heatwave events in Australia per global warming level. Environmental Research Letters, 20 (5), 054070-5. doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/adc8bd
2025
Journal Article
Evaluating the association between heatwave vulnerability index and related deaths in Australia
Amoatey, Patrick, Trancoso, Ralph, Xu, Zhiwei, Darssan, Darsy, Osborne, Nicholas J. and Phung, Dung (2025). Evaluating the association between heatwave vulnerability index and related deaths in Australia. Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 112 107812, 1-12. doi: 10.1016/j.eiar.2025.107812
2025
Journal Article
A longitudinal study of heatwave-health vulnerability in Australia
Amoatey, Patrick, Osborne, Nicholas J., Xu, Zhiwei, Trancoso, Ralph and Phung, Dung (2025). A longitudinal study of heatwave-health vulnerability in Australia. Urban Climate, 60 102346, 1-16. doi: 10.1016/j.uclim.2025.102346
2025
Conference Publication
Human vulnerability to heatwave in Australia: a country-wide suburb level longitudinal study
Amoatey, Patrick, Osborne, Nicholas, Xu, Zhiwei, Trancoso, Ralph and Phung, Dung (2025). Human vulnerability to heatwave in Australia: a country-wide suburb level longitudinal study. 105th Annual Meeting American Meteorological Society, New Orleans, LA USA, 12-16th January 2025.
2024
Journal Article
Projected changes in mean climate and extremes from downscaled high-resolution CMIP6 simulations in Australia
Chapman, Sarah, Syktus, Jozef, Trancoso, Ralph, Toombs, Nathan and Eccles, Rohan (2024). Projected changes in mean climate and extremes from downscaled high-resolution CMIP6 simulations in Australia. Weather and Climate Extremes, 46 100733, 100733. doi: 10.1016/j.wace.2024.100733
2024
Journal Article
Downscaled climate model erosivity projections and drivers of change across distinct climate regions
Bulovic, Nevenka, McIntyre, Neil, Trancoso, Ralph, Bolz, Pascal and Shaygan, Mandana (2024). Downscaled climate model erosivity projections and drivers of change across distinct climate regions. Catena, 244 108250, 108250. doi: 10.1016/j.catena.2024.108250
2024
Journal Article
Climate change risks to mine closure
Bulovic, Nevenka, McIntyre, Neil and Trancoso, Ralph (2024). Climate change risks to mine closure. Journal of Cleaner Production, 465 142697, 1-14. doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2024.142697
2024
Journal Article
Assessing the impact of bias correction approaches on climate extremes and the climate change signal
Zhang, Hong, Chapman, Sarah, Trancoso, Ralph, Toombs, Nathan and Syktus, Jozef (2024). Assessing the impact of bias correction approaches on climate extremes and the climate change signal. Meteorological Applications, 31 (3) e2204, 1-18. doi: 10.1002/met.2204
2024
Journal Article
Significantly wetter or drier future conditions for one to two thirds of the world’s population
Trancoso, Ralph, Syktus, Jozef, Allan, Richard P., Croke, Jacky, Hoegh-Guldberg, Ove and Chadwick, Robin (2024). Significantly wetter or drier future conditions for one to two thirds of the world’s population. Nature Communications, 15 (1) 483, 1-11. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-44513-3
2023
Journal Article
Impacts of climate change on nutrient and sediment loads from a subtropical catchment
Eccles, Rohan, Zhang, Hong, Hamilton, David, Trancoso, Ralph and Syktus, Jozef (2023). Impacts of climate change on nutrient and sediment loads from a subtropical catchment. Journal of Environmental Management, 345 118738, 1-13. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.118738
2023
Journal Article
Evaluation of dynamically downscaled CMIP6‐CCAM models over Australia
Chapman, Sarah, Syktus, Jozef, Trancoso, Ralph, Thatcher, Marcus, Toombs, Nathan, Wong, Kenneth Koon‐Ho and Takbash, Alicia (2023). Evaluation of dynamically downscaled CMIP6‐CCAM models over Australia. Earth's Future, 11 (11) e2023EF003548, 1-20. doi: 10.1029/2023ef003548
2023
Journal Article
Carbon density in boreal forests responds non-linearly to temperature: an example from the Greater Khingan Mountains, northeast China
Liu, Yang, Trancoso, Ralph, Ma, Qin, Ciais, Philippe, Gouvêa, Lidiane P., Yue, Chaofang, Assis, Jorge and Blanco, Juan A. (2023). Carbon density in boreal forests responds non-linearly to temperature: an example from the Greater Khingan Mountains, northeast China. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 338 109519, 1-12. doi: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2023.109519
2023
Journal Article
A CMIP6-based multi-model downscaling ensemble to underpin climate change services in Australia
Grose, Michael R., Narsey, Sugata, Trancoso, Ralph, Mackallah, Chloe, Delage, Francois, Dowdy, Andrew, Di Virgilio, Giovanni, Watterson, Ian, Dobrohotoff, Peter, Rashid, Harun A., Rauniyar, Surendra, Henley, Ben, Thatcher, Marcus, Syktus, Jozef, Abramowitz, Gab, Evans, Jason P., Su, Chun-Hsu and Takbash, Alicia (2023). A CMIP6-based multi-model downscaling ensemble to underpin climate change services in Australia. Climate Services, 30 100368, 100368. doi: 10.1016/j.cliser.2023.100368
2023
Conference Publication
Evaluating downscaled CMIP5 and CMIP6 for rainfall erosivity projections
Bulovic, N., McIntyre, N., Trancoso, R., Bolz, P. and Shaygan, M. (2023). Evaluating downscaled CMIP5 and CMIP6 for rainfall erosivity projections. MODSIM2023, 25th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, Darwin, NT, Australia, 9-14 July 2023. Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand. doi: 10.36334/modsim.2023.bulovic428
2023
Journal Article
Mortality associated with heatwave severity in the three largest Australian cities
Xu, Zhiwei, Varghese, Blesson Mathew, Trancoso, Ralph, Wilson, Louise F., Cheng, Jian and Tong, Shilu (2023). Mortality associated with heatwave severity in the three largest Australian cities. Epidemiology, 34 (1), e3-e4. doi: 10.1097/ede.0000000000001551
2023
Conference Publication
Climate change risks to mine closure – Planning for a range of impacts
Bulovic, N., McIntyre, N. and Trancoso, R. (2023). Climate change risks to mine closure – Planning for a range of impacts. Life of Mine 2023, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 2-4 August 2023. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy.
2023
Conference Publication
Bias-correcting regional climate models for rainfall erosivity projections: How much does it matter?
Bulovic, N., McIntyre, N., Trancoso, R., Bolz, P. and Shaygan, M. (2023). Bias-correcting regional climate models for rainfall erosivity projections: How much does it matter?. MODSIM2023, 25th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, Darwin, NT, Australia, 9-14 July 2023. Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand. doi: 10.36334/modsim.2023.bulovic618
2022
Journal Article
Converting tropical forests to agriculture increases fire risk by fourfold
Trancoso, Ralph, Syktus, Jozef I., Salazar, Alvaro, Thatcher, Marcus J., Toombs, Nathan, Wong, Kenneth Koon-Ho, Meijaard, Erik, Sheil, Douglas and McAlpine, Clive Alexander (2022). Converting tropical forests to agriculture increases fire risk by fourfold. Environmental Research Letters, 17 (10) 104019, 1-16. doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/ac8f5c
2021
Journal Article
Changing Amazon deforestation patterns: urgent need to restore command and control policies and market interventions
Trancoso, Ralph (2021). Changing Amazon deforestation patterns: urgent need to restore command and control policies and market interventions. Environmental Research Letters, 16 (4), 041004. doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/abee4c
2021
Journal Article
Impacts of climate change on streamflow and floodplain inundation in a coastal subtropical catchment
Eccles, Rohan, Zhang, Hong, Hamilton, David, Trancoso, Ralph and Syktus, Jozef (2021). Impacts of climate change on streamflow and floodplain inundation in a coastal subtropical catchment. Advances in Water Resources, 147 103825, 1-15. doi: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2020.103825
Funding
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Available projects
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Impact assessments with high resolution climate projections
Prospective students interested in developing projects using high resolution downscaled climate projections for impact assessments in Australasia are welcome to get in touch. I might be available for HDR co-supervion.
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High resolution future climate hazards, impacts and outreach
Our research group runs the Queensland Future Climate Science Program - a collaborative climate science program between the Department of Environment and Science (Queensland Government) and the University of Queensland - which developed CMIP5 an CMIP6 downscaled climate projections to support climate adaptation in Australia. We do regional climate modelling, analysis of climate extremes and hazards and the designing of climate services (dashboard portals and other communication resources) to inform stakeholders. Prospective HDR students interested in undertaking projects within these areas are welcome to get in touch. I might be available for HDR co-supervion.
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