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

Inferring Plant Acclimation and Improving Model Generalizability With Differentiable Physics-Informed Machine Learning of Photosynthesis

Aboelyazeed, D., Xu, C., Gu, L., Luo, X., Liu, J., Lawson, K. & Shen, C., Jul 2025, In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. 130, 7, e2024JG008552.

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Deep Learning and Remote-Sensed Observations Reveal Global Underestimation of River Obstructions

He, M., Niu, J., Riley, W. J., Shen, C., Zheng, Y., Melack, J. M., Gui, D., Qiu, H., Xie, M., Sun, L., Liu, D., Fu, Y., Wu, Q., Zhou, S., Wu, P. & Hu, B. X., Sep 2025, In: Water Resources Research. 61, 9, e2024WR039692.

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Update hydrological states or meteorological forcings? Comparing data assimilation methods for differentiable hydrologic models

Jamaat, A., Song, Y., Rahmani, F., Liu, J., Lawson, K. & Shen, C., Dec 2025, In: Journal of Hydrology. 663, 134137.

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Does grouping watersheds by hydrographic regions offer any advantages in fine-tuning transfer learning model for temporal and spatial streamflow predictions?

Khoshkalam, Y., Rousseau, A. N., Rahmani, F., Shen, C. & Abbasnezhadi, K., Apr 2025, In: Journal of Hydrology. 650, 132540.

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Technical note: How many models do we need to simulate hydrologic processes across large geographical domains?

Knoben, W. J. M., Raman, A., Gründemann, G. J., Kumar, M., Pietroniro, A., Shen, C., Song, Y., Thébault, C., Van Werkhoven, K., Wood, A. W. & Clark, M. P., Jun 4 2025, In: Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. 29, 11, p. 2361-2375 15 p.

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Advancing Sub-Seasonal to Seasonal Streamflow Forecasting in Canada: A Review of Conventional and Emerging Approaches for Operational Applications

Nguyen, D. H., Elshorbagy, A., Khaliq, M. N., Shen, C., Akhtar, M. K., Moghairib, M., Unduche, F., Razavi, S. & Lamontagne, P., Sep 2025, In: Results in Engineering. 27, 106345.

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Probabilistic Diffusion Models Advance Extreme Flood Forecasting

Ou, Z., Nai, C., Pan, B., Zheng, Y., Shen, C., Jiang, P., Liu, X., Tang, Q., Li, W. & Pan, M., Aug 16 2025, In: Geophysical Research Letters. 52, 15, e2025GL115705.

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Uncertainties as a Guide for Global Water Model Advancement

Reinecke, R., Stein, L., Gnann, S., Andersson, J. C. M., Arheimer, B., Bierkens, M., Bonetti, S., Güntner, A., Kollet, S., Mishra, S., Moosdorf, N., Nazari, S., Pokhrel, Y., Prudhomme, C., Schewe, J., Shen, C. & Wagener, T., May 1 2025, In: Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water. 12, 3, e70025.

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Improving differentiable hydrologic modeling with interpretable forcing fusion

Sawadekar, K., Song, Y., Pan, M., Beck, H., McCrary, R., Ullrich, P., Lawson, K. & Shen, C., Oct 2025, In: Journal of Hydrology. 659, 133320.

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High-Resolution National-Scale Water Modeling Is Enhanced by Multiscale Differentiable Physics-Informed Machine Learning

Song, Y., Bindas, T., Shen, C., Ji, H., Knoben, W. J. M., Lonzarich, L., Clark, M. P., Liu, J., van Werkhoven, K., Lamont, S., Denno, M., Pan, M., Yang, Y., Rapp, J., Kumar, M., Rahmani, F., Thébault, C., Adkins, R., Halgren, J. & Patel, T. & 3 others, Patel, A., Sawadekar, K. A. & Lawson, K., Apr 2025, In: Water Resources Research. 61, 4, e2024WR038928.

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Calibration of the High-Resolution Common Land Model in Simulating the Soil Moisture Over the Northeastern China Using an Adaptive Parameter Learning Method

Yang, L., Li, J., Dai, Y., Lu, X., Shen, C., Zhao, P., Zhang, G. & Zhang, Y., Apr 28 2025, In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 130, 8, e2024JD043230.

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Global Daily Discharge Estimation Based on Grid Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) Model and River Routing

Yang, Y., Feng, D., Beck, H. E., Hu, W., Abbas, A., Sengupta, A., Delle Monache, L., Hartman, R., Lin, P., Shen, C. & Pan, M., Jun 2025, In: Water Resources Research. 61, 6, e2024WR039764.

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Widespread Advances in Corn and Soybean Phenology in Response to Future Climate Change Across the United States

Yang, Y., Tao, B., Ruane, A. C., Shen, C., Matteson, D. S., Cousin, R. & Ren, W., Apr 2025, In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. 130, 4, e2024JG008266.

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Spatiotemporal Variability of Channel Roughness and its Substantial Impacts on Flood Modeling Errors

Al Mehedi, M. A., Saki, S., Patel, K., Shen, C., Cohen, S., Smith, V., Rajib, A., Anagnostou, E., Bindas, T. & Lawson, K., Jul 2024, In: Earth's Future. 12, 7, e2023EF004257.

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Improving River Routing Using a Differentiable Muskingum-Cunge Model and Physics-Informed Machine Learning

Bindas, T., Tsai, W. P., Liu, J., Rahmani, F., Feng, D., Bian, Y., Lawson, K. & Shen, C., Jan 2024, In: Water Resources Research. 60, 1, e2023WR035337.

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