Chaopeng Shen

Affiliate Researcher
IEE Fellow
Titles and Affiliations
Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Summary

Areas of Interest: Large scale computational hydrology Land surface processes Water-carbon-nutrient interactions under global change Hydrologic scaling issues High performance subsurface reactive transport modeling

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Recent Publications

Comprehensive Global Assessment of 24 Gridded Precipitation Datasets Across 18 428 Catchments Using Hydrological Modeling

Abbas, A., Yang, Y., Pan, M., Tramblay, Y., Shen, C., Ji, H., Gebrechorkos, S. H., Pappenberger, F., Pyo, J. C., Feng, D., Huffman, G., Nguyen, P., Massari, C., Brocca, L., Tan, J. & Beck, H. E., Jun 3 2026, In: Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. 30, 11, p. 3399-3423 25 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Thank You to Our Peer Reviewers in 2025

Camporeale, E., Marino, R., Berger, T., Chen, Y., Folini, D., Fox, G., John, C. M., Li, X., Lucas, D., O’Malley, D., Tobias, S., Reichstein, M., Rundle, J., Shen, C., Wentzcovitch, R. & Wen, Y., Apr 2026, In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Machine Learning and Computation. 3, 2, e2026JH001360.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review

A Community Dataset for Large-Scale River Nitrogen Modeling in the United States

Chang, S. Y., Aboelyazeed, D., Sawadekar, K., Chavda, D., Shen, C. & Van Meter, K. J., Dec 2026, In: Scientific Data. 13, 1, 836.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Comment on Williams (2025): “Friends don't let friends use NSE or KGE for hydrologic model accuracy evaluation: A rant with data and suggestions for better practice”

Clark, M. P., Knoben, W. J. M., Spieler, D., Gründemann, G. J., Thébault, C., Vásquez, N. A., Wood, A. W., Song, Y., Shen, C., Carney, S. & van Werkhoven, K., Feb 2026, In: Environmental Modelling and Software. 197, 106869.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

A multi-objective physics-informed machine learning framework for landslide susceptibility mapping

Cui, H., Pei, T., Devineni, N., Tian, Y., Shen, C. & Ji, J., 2026, In: Georisk. 20, 2, p. 531-555 25 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Toward transferable models for efficient spatiotemporal flood prediction across coastal-estuarine systems

Daramola, S., Muñoz, D. F. & Shen, C., Jun 4 2026, In: Cambridge Prisms: Coastal Futures. 4, e13.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Thank You to Our 2025 Reviewers

Destouni, G., Castelletti, A., Fatichi, S., Islam, S., Jha, M. K., Kollet, S., Long, D., Miao, C., Moradkhani, H., Sawyer, A., Shen, C., Singha, K., Stahl, K., Wohl, E. & Zheng, Y., Apr 2026, In: Water Resources Research. 62, 4, e2026WR044159.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review

SWOT, Empiricism, and River Modeling

Gleason, C. J., Bates, P. D., Durand, M. T., Feng, D., Getirana, A., Lin, P., Oubanas, H., Pavelsky, T. M., Shen, C., Smith, L. C., Wang, J., Yamazaki, D., Yang, Y., An, H., Bennitt, F. B., Chuter, S. J., Fang, C., Flores, J. A., Friedmann, E. & Jarugula, S. & 18 others, Ji, H., Langhorst, T., Long, D., Vu, D. T., Yin, Z., Allen, G. H., Andreadis, K. M., Biancamaria, S., Brown, C. M., David, C. H., Pan, M., Neal, J. C., Coss, S. P., Harlan, M. E., Saemian, P., Simmons, T. T., Tebaldi, N. & Tourian, M. J., Aug 28 2026, In: Geophysical Research Letters. 53, 16, e2026GL124323.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

A novel hybrid fine-tuning method for supercharging deep learning model development for hydrological prediction

Jahangir, M. S., Quilty, J., Shen, C., Scott, A., Steinschneider, S. & Adamowski, J., Jun 2026, In: Environmental Modelling and Software. 201, 106978.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Geospatial Foundation Embeddings as Transferable Catchment Descriptors

Liu, J., Shen, C., Yang, Y., Ji, H., Lawson, K. & Kraabel, N., Aug 28 2026, In: Geophysical Research Letters. 53, 16, e2026GL122814.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Regionalization of Hydrologic Behavior and Pothole Water Storage Dynamics in the Prairie Pothole Region

Rahmani, J., Shen, C. & Ameli, A. A., Feb 2026, In: Water Resources Research. 62, 2, e2025WR040280.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

DMFS: differentiable modeling for frozen soil thermodynamic characteristics

Ren, Y., Gou, L., Xiao, M., Liu, Z. & Shen, C., 2026, In: Canadian Geotechnical Journal. 63

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Analyzing the deep learning approach-based modeling framework to understand the critical environmental factors of predicting daily nitrate concentrations

Saha, G. K., Rahmani, F., Jacob, A., Shen, C., Duncan, J. & Cibin, R., Apr 15 2026, In: Journal of Environmental Management. 404, 129539.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Physics-Informed, Differentiable Hydrologic Models for Capturing Unseen Extreme Events

Song, Y., Sawadekar, K., Frame, J. M., Pan, M., Clark, M. P., Knoben, W. J. M., Wood, A. W., Lawson, K. E., Patel, T. & Shen, C., Feb 2026, In: Water Resources Research. 62, 2, e2025WR040414.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Comparing multi-model mosaic and multi-model combination methods to simulate streamflow across the contiguous USA

Thébault, C., Knoben, W. J. M., Addor, N., Newman, A. J., Spieler, D., Vásquez, N. A., Song, Y., Gründemann, G. J., Carney, S., Kumar, M., van Werkhoven, K., Shen, C., Wood, A. W. & Clark, M. P., Jun 29 2026, In: Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. 30, 12, p. 3945-3977 33 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review