Publications

@article{nokey,

title = {Societal and environmental interconnections: future directions for flood inundation models},

author = {Zhi Li and Steven Gorelick},

doi = {10.1088/1748-9326/ae21f4},

year  = {2025},

date = {2025-12-02},

urldate = {2025-12-02},

journal = {Environmental Research Letters},

volume = {20},

keywords = {Flood modeling, Floods},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{nokey,

title = {Severe floods significantly reduce global rice yields},

author = {Zhi Li and Lorenzo Rosa and Steven Gorelick},

doi = {10.1126/sciadv.adx7799},

year  = {2025},

date = {2025-11-14},

urldate = {2025-11-14},

journal = {Science Advances},

volume = {11},

keywords = {Climate change, Floods},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{nokey,

title = {Introducing Flashiness-Intensity-Duration-Frequency (F-IDF): A New Metric to Quantify Flash Flood Intensity},

author = {Zhi Li and Shang Gao and Mengye Chen and Jiaqi Zhang and Jonathan Gourley and Yixin Wen and Tiantian Yang and Yang Hong},

doi = {10.1029/2023GL104992},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-12-07},

urldate = {2023-12-07},

journal = {Geophysical Research Letters},

volume = {50},

issue = {23},

pages = {e2023GL104992},

keywords = {Flash floods, Flood modeling, Floods},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{nokey,

title = {Future Heavy rainfall and flood risks for Native America under climate and demographic changes: A case study in Oklahoma},

author = {Zhi Li and Theresa Tsoodle and Mengye Chen and Shang Gao and Jiaqi Zhang and Yixin Wen and Tiantian Yang and Farina King and Yang Hong},

doi = {10.1175/WCAS-D-23-0005.1},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-10-09},

urldate = {2023-10-09},

journal = {Weather, Climate, and Society},

keywords = {climate injustice, Flash floods, Floods},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{nokey,

title = {Spatiotemporal characteristics of US floods: Current status and forecast under a future warmer climate},

author = {Zhi Li and Shang Gao and Mengye Chen and Jonathan Gourley and Yang Hong },

url = {https://doi.org/10.1029/2022EF002700},

doi = {10.1029/2022EF002700},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-10-01},

urldate = {2022-10-01},

journal = {Earth's Future},

volume = {10},

pages = {e2022EF002700},

note = {Quantify extreme rainfall and flood seasonality identifying more frequent, widespread, yet less seasonal rainfall and flood events in the future},

keywords = {Climate change, Floods},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{nokey,

title = {Can re-infiltration process be ignored for flood inundation mapping and prediction during extreme storms? A case study in Texas Gulf Coast region},

author = {Zhi Li and Mengye Chen and Shang Gao and Yixin Wen and Jonathan Gourley and Tiantian Yang and Randall Kolar and Yang Hong},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2022.105450},

doi = {10.1016/j.envsoft.2022.105450},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-09-01},

urldate = {2022-09-01},

journal = {Environmental Modelling and Software},

volume = {155},

pages = {105450},

note = {Answered the scientific question of whether re-infiltration process in Hydrology is important and can be ignored in flood inundation mapping during extreme events},

keywords = {Flood modeling, Floods},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{nokey,

title = {A flood predictability study for Hurricane Harvey with the CREST-iMAP model using high-resolution quantitative precipitation forecasts and U-Net deep learning precipitation nowcasts},

author = {Mengye Chen and Zhi Li and Shang Gao and Ming Xue and Jonathan Gourley and Randall Kolar and Yang Hong},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-09-01},

urldate = {2022-09-01},

journal = {Journal of Hydrology},

volume = {612},

pages = {128168},

note = {Comparing different QPFs and their impact on flood inundation},

keywords = {Flood modeling, Floods, Precipitation},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{nokey,

title = {CREST-iMAP v1. 0: A fully coupled hydrologic-hydraulic modeling framework dedicated to flood inundation mapping and prediction},

author = {Zhi Li and Mengye Chen and Shang Gao and Xiangyu Luo and Jonathan Gourley and Pierre Kirstetter and Tiantian Yang and Randall Kolar and Amy McGovern and Yixin Wen and Bo Rao and Teshome Yami and Yang Hong},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2021.105051},

doi = {10.1016/j.envsoft.2021.105051},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-07-01},

journal = {Environmental Modelling and Software},

volume = {141},

pages = {105051},

note = {Developed a coupled system that integrates hydrologic process and hydraulic routing for flood prediction},

keywords = {Flood modeling, Floods, Remote Sensing},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}