Adviser: Chris Duffy
PhD, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, 2014
Current Research: Wetland hydrology, hyporheic hydrology, Distributed watershed modeling for ecosystem services
2016
Cyber-Innovated Watershed Research at the Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory. Yu Xuan, Christopher Duffy, Yolanda Gil, Lorne Leonard, Gopal Bhatt, and Evan Thomas (2016): IEEE SYSTEMS JOURNAL, 10 (3): 1239 - 1250
2016
Open science in practice: learning integrated modeling of coupled surface-subsurface flow processes from scratch. Yu Xuan; Christopher J. Duffy; Alain N. Rousseau; Gopal Bhatt; Álvaro Pardo Álvarez; Dominique Charron (2016): Earth and Space Science, 3 (5): 190–206
2016
Virtual experiments guide calibration strategies for a real-world watershed application of coupled surface-subsurface modeling . Yu, Xuan; Christopher Duffy; Yu Zhang; Gopal Bhatt; Yuning Shi (2016): Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 21 (11):
2015
Simulating high resolution soil moisture patterns in the Shale Hills watershed using a land surface hydrologic model. Shi, Y., D. C. Baldwin, K. J. Davis, X. Yu, C. J. Duffy, and H. Lin (2015): Hydrological Processes, Vol 29, Issue 21, pages 4624–4637.
2015
Parameter estimation of a physically-based land surface hydrologic model using an ensemble Kalman filter: A multivariate real-data experiment. Shi, Y., K. J. Davis, F. Zhang and C. J. Duffy, and X. Yu (2015): Advances in Water Resources, vol 83, 421–427
2015
A coupled surface-subsurface modeling framework to assess the impact of climate change on freshwater wetlands: a case study of seven watersheds of the Susquehanna River Basin. Yu Xuan, Gopal Bhatt, Christopher Duffy, Denice Wardrop, Raymond Najjar, Andrew Ross, Matthew Rydzik (2015): Climate Research, 66:211-228
2015
Reanalysis of water and carbon cycle models at a critical zone observatory. Yu, X., C. J. Duffy, J. Kaye, W. T. Crow, G. Bhatt, and Y. Shi (2015): In Remote Sensing of the Terrestrial Water Cycle, Geophysical Monograph 206, First Edition, Edited by Venkat Lakshmi
2015
Modelling long-term water yield effects of forest management in a Norway spruce forest. Yu, Xuan, Anna Lamačová, Christopher Duffy, Pavel Krám, Jakub Hruška, Tim White & Gopal Bhatt (2015): Hydrological Sciences Journal, 60:2, 174-191
2015
Hydrological model uncertainty due to spatial evapotranspiration estimation methods. Yu, Xuan, Anna Lamačová, Christopher J. Duffy, Pavel Krám, Jakub Hruška (2015): Computers & Geosciences, 90, 90–101
2014
Parameter estimation of a physically-based land surface hydrologic model using the ensemble Kalman Filter: A synthetic experiment. Shi, Y., K. J. Davis, F. Zhang, C. J. Duffy, and X. Yu (2014): Water Resources Research, 50, 706—724
2014
The role of macropores and multi-resolution soil survey datasets for distributed surface–subsurface flow modeling. Yu Xuan, Christopher Duffy, Doug C. Baldwin, and Henry Lin (2014): Journal of Hydrology, 516:97-106
2013
Development of a Coupled Land Surface Hydrologic Model and Evaluation at a Critical Zone Observatory. Shi, Y., K. J. Davis, C. J. Duffy, and X. Yu (2013): Journal of Hydrometeorology, 14, 1401—1420
2013
Parameterization for distributed watershed modeling using national data and evolutionary algorithm. Yu, X., Bhatt, G., Duffy C. J., and Shi, Y. (2013): Computers & Geosciences 58:80-90
Papers and books that explicitly acknowledge a CZO grant are highlighted in PALE ORANGE.
2015
Comparison of Two Conceptually Different Physically-based Hydrological Models – Looking Beyond Streamflows . Rousseau, Alain N, Alvaro Pardo Álvarez, Xuan Yu, Stephane Savary and Christopher Duffy (2015): H23E-1624 Intercomparison Studies of Hydrological Models: Beyond Comparing Streamflows, Snow Water Equivalent, and Evapotranspiration Posters, presented at 2015 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA, 14-18 Dec.
2014
Model-data synthesis of the carbon and water cycles at very high resolution in complex topography. Kenneth Davis, Chris Duffy, David Eissenstat, Yuning Shi, Susan Brantley, Yuting He, Jason Kaye, Margot Kaye, Henry Lin, Andrew Neal, Xuan Yu, Fuqing Zhang (2014): AmeriFlux Annual Meeting, May 4-5, 2014
2014
MODELING, PARAMETER OPTIMIZATION, AND ECOHYDROLOGIC ASSESSMENT OF WATERSHED SYSTEMS. Xuan Yu (2014): Doctor of Philosophy, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, p. 130
2014
H43G-1032 Exploring the Influence of Topography on Belowground C Processes Using a Coupled Hydrologic-Biogeochemical Model . Yuning Shi • Kenneth Davis • David Eissenstat • Jason Kaye • Christopher Duffy • Xuan Yu • Yuting He (2014): 2014 AGU Annual Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Dec 15-19th
2013
The Catchment Isoscape: Theory and Experimental Evidence for the Isotopic Age of Water in a Critical Zone Observatory (Invited) . Duffy, C., Thomas, E., Sullivan, P.L., Bhatt, G., Yu, X. (2013): Abstract H41L-05 presented at 2013 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA, 9-13 Dec.
2013
Resolving the High Resolution Soil Moisture Pattern at the Shale Hills Watershed Using a Land Surface Hydrologic Model. Shi, Y., Baldwin, D.C., Davis, K.J., Yu, X., Duffy, C., Lin, H. (2013): Abstract H23F-1332 presented at 2013 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA, 9-13 Dec.
2012
A Two-Scale Parameterization for Distributed Watershed Modeling Using National Data and Evolutionary Algorithm. Yu, X., Bhatt, G., Duffy, C., Shi, Y. (2012): AGU Annual Fall Conference Proceedings
2011
'Age' of water: a physics based, fully coupled, distributed model for watershed assessment. Bhatt, G., Yu, X., Duffy, C., Kemanian, A., Kumar, M., Leonard, L.N. (2011): AGU Annual Fall Conference Proceedings
2011
The Virtual Watershed Observatory: Cyberinfrastructure for Model-Data Integration and Access (Invited). Duffy, C., Leonard, L.N., Giles, L., Bhatt, G., Yu, X (2011): AGU Annual Fall Conference Proceedings
2011
A Watershed Scale Groundwater-Land-Surface Model Poster. Shi, Y., K. J. Davis, C. J. Duffy, and X. Yu (2011): 25th Conference on Hydrology, Seattle, WA. American Meteorological Society
2011
Hyporheic Zone Study at Susquehanna/Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory. Yu, X., Duffy, C., Bhatt, G., Kumar, M. (2011): AGU Annual Fall Conference Proceedings
2011
Wetlands Response to Climate Change across Susquehanna River Basin. Yu, X., Duffy, C., Bhatt, G., Kumar, M. (2011): AGU Annual Fall Conference Proceedings
2010
Watershed reanalysis: data assimilation from strip charts to embedded sensor networks (Invited). Duffy, C., Kumar, M., Bhatt, G., Leonard, L.N., Yu, X., Shi, Y., Davis, K.J., Holmes, G. (2010): AGU Annual Fall Conference Proceedings
2010
Real-Time Implementation of the Penn State Integrated Hydrologic Modeling System: The Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory. Yu, X., Duffy, C., Bhatt, G., Shi, Y., Leonard, L.N., Kumar, M. (2010): AGU Annual Fall Conference Proceedings
Modeling, parameter optimization, and ecohydrologic assessment of watershed systems
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MODELING, OPTIMIZATION, AND ECOHYDROLOGIC ASSESSMENT OF WATERSHED SYSTEMS
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Critical Zone Seminar Series - All Hands Fall 2012
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Eco-Hydrological research flow at SSHCZO -- watershed heat flow modeling
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