Donghui Xu
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    • Systematic evaluation of atmospheric forcing, surface datasets, and mesh effects on kilometer-scale land surface and river modeling
    • Significant Rural Contributions to Severe Coastal Urban Flooding Through Flow Connectivity
    • Integrating Maximum Entropy Production Theory and Machine Learning to Improve Global Evapotranspiration Modeling
    • An Integrated Modeling Framework for Sediment Dynamics During Urban Flooding: Application to Hurricane Harvey in Houston
    • The Value of Forecasters-in-the-Loop in Real-Time Flood Forecasting in the Age of Machine Learning
    • Development of a River Dynamical Core for E3SM to simulate compound flooding on Exascale-class heterogeneous supercomputers
    • Capturing Sub-Kilometer Flood Inundation Dynamics During the California Rain-on-Snow Events of 2017
    • An efficient hybrid downscaling framework to estimate high-resolution river hydrodynamics
    • CAMELSH: A Large-Sample Hourly Hydrometeorological Dataset and Attributes at Watershed-Scale for CONUS
    • Divergent responses of historic rain-on-snow flood extremes to a warmer climate
    • Evaluation of Flow Routing on the Unstructured Voronoi Meshes in Earth System Modeling
    • Drivers and impacts of sediment deposition in Amazonian floodplains
    • Interactions Between Climate Mean and Variability Drive Future Agroecosystem Vulnerability
    • Uncertainties in Simulating Flooding During Hurricane Harvey Using 2D Shallow Water Equations
    • Impacts of Sea-Level Rise on Coastal Groundwater Table Simulated by an Earth System Model With a Land-Ocean Coupling Scheme
    • Simulation of Compound Flooding Using River-Ocean Two-Way Coupled E3SM Ensemble on Variable-Resolution Meshes
    • Climate change will reduce North American inland wetland areas and disrupt their seasonal regimes
    • Ground Heat Flux Reconstruction Using Bayesian Uncertainty Quantification Machinery and Surrogate Modeling
    • Disentangling the hydrological and hydraulic controls on streamflow variability in Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM) V2 -- a case study in the Pantanal region
    • Development of inter-grid-cell lateral unsaturated and saturated flow model in the E3SM Land Model (v2.0)
    • Understanding the compound flood risk along the coast of the contiguous United States
    • Topological Relationship-Based Flow Direction Modeling: Stream Burning and Depression Filling
    • A cleaner snow future mitigates Northern Hemisphere snowpack loss from warming
    • Closing in on Hydrologic Predictive Accuracy: Combining the Strengths of High-Fidelity and Physics-Agnostic Models
    • Energy Surplus and an Atmosphere-Land-Surface “Tug of War” Control Future Evapotranspiration
    • Topological Relationship-Based Flow Direction Modeling: Mesh-Independent River Networks Representation
    • Investigating coastal backwater effects and flooding in the coastal zone using a global river transport model on an unstructured mesh
    • Development of Land-River Two-Way Hydrologic Coupling for Floodplain Inundation in the Energy Exascale Earth System Model
    • Using a surrogate-assisted Bayesian framework to calibrate the runoff-generation scheme in the Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM) v1
    • A new large-scale suspended sediment model and its application over the United States
    • A framework for estimating water ingress due to hurricane rainfall
    • Advances in hexagon mesh-based flow direction modeling
    • Breaking Down the Computational Barriers to Real-Time Urban Flood Forecasting
    • Peak Runoff Timing Is Linked to Global Warming Trajectories
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    • Estimation of Evapotranspiration of Amazon Rainforest Using the Maximum Entropy Production Method
    • On the use of observations in assessment of multi-model climate ensemble
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    • Co-authored paper featured as EOS Research Spotlight: Keeping Humans in the Loop Improves Flood Forecasting
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RDycore

Jun 17, 2025 · 1 min read
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An open-source numerical library solves 2D Shallow Water Equations, with support for heterogeneous computing.

Last updated on Jun 17, 2025
High-Fidelity Flood Modeling Numerical Libary
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