About the Investigator
Dr. Zhongbo YuEarth System Science Center
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802
phone: (814) 865-1781; fax: (814) 865-3191; email: yu@essc.psu.edu
EDUCATION
Ph.D. 1996, Hydrology/Hydrogeology, The Ohio State University
M.S. 1992, Hydrogeology, The University of Southern Mississippi
B.S. 1983, Engineering Geology, Hohai (hehai) University
AWARDS
Presidential Fellow, The Ohio State University, 1993-94.
Silver Medal, State Youth Math Competition, 1979.
MEMBERSHIP
American Geophysical Union.
Geological Society of America.
National Ground Water Association.
American Water Resources Association.
The Society for Computer Simulation.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Member, Large-Scale Field Experimentation Committee of American Geophysical Union, 1998-present.
Editor, Journal of Global and Planetary Change, the special issue of " Regional Climate - Hydrology Interactions", 1998-present.
Invited Presentation. A coupled distributed hydrologic modeling system. American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting and Science Innovation Exposition, 1998.
Chair, H11F and H12B - Integrated Study of Regional Climate and Hydrology in Basin-Scale Field Experiments (I, II), AGU Fall Metting, San Francisco, 1997.
Invited Lecture. Modeling study of regional hydrologic processes in the Susquehanna River Basin. Department of Meteorology, The Pennsylvania State University, 1997.
Convenor, H04 - Integrated Study of Regional Climate and Hydrology in Basin-Scale Field Experiments, AGU Fall Metting, San Francisco, 1997.
Judge, Hydrology Section Student Presentation, AGU Spring Meeting, Baltimore, 1997; San Francisco, Dec., 1997; AGU Spring Meeting, Boston, May, 1998.
REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS (since 1985)
Yu, Z., 1998. Simulating the basin response to single storm events of various resolution described by a mesoscale meteorological model. Journal of Geophysical Research, in review.
Yu, Z., 1998. Assessing the response of subgrid hydrologic processes to atmospheric forcing with a hydrologic model system. Global and Planetary Change, in review.
Yu, Z., and E.J. Barron, 1998. Preface, Global and Planetary Change, in review.
Yarnal, B., Z. Yu et al., 1998. A system of linked meteorological and hydrological models in the Susquehanna River Basin. Global and Planetary Change, in review.
Shangguan, X., Z. Yu, D. Pollard, and E.J. Barron, 1998. Observing and simulating methane emission and production from wetlands as influenced by water table. Global Geochemical Cycle, in review.
Yu, Z., W.J. Gburek, and F.W. Schwartz, 1998. On evaluating the spatial distribution of water balance in a small watershed, Pennsylvania. Hydrological Processes, in review.
Yu, Z., et al., 1998. Simulation of the hydrologic system response to atmospheric forcing in large river basins: linking a mesoscale meteorological model and a hydrologic model system. Journal of Hydrology, under revision.
Yu, Z., Y. Guo, J. Voortman, R. White, and D.A. Miller, 1997. Storm simulation using Geographical Information System with a distributed approach. Transactions in GIS, under revision.
Lakhtakia, M.N., Z. Yu et al., 1998. The river-basin response to varying resolutions of mesoscale meteorological forcing. Climate Research. in review, in review.
Lakhtakia, M.N., others, and Z. Yu, 1998. A simulation of river-basin response to mesoscale meteorological forcing: the Susquehanna River Basin Experiment (SRBEX). Journal of American Water Resources Association, in press.
Yu, Z., X. Shangguan, T. Shun, C. Duffy, and F.W. Schwartz, 1998. On evaluating the interaction of surface water and ground water in watersheds. Physical, Chemical, and Biological Aspects of Aquifer-Stream Relations, in press.
Yu, Z., and F. W. Schwartz, 1998. Automated calibration applied to constrained ground-water flow modeling. Hydrological Processes, in press.
Yu, Z., 1997. Grid-spacing effect on watershed hydrologic simulations. Journal of Hydrological Science and Technology, v. 13, no. 1-4, p. 75-85.
Yu, Z., 1997. Application of vector and parallel supercomputers to ground-water modeling. Computer & Geosciences, v. 23, no. 9, p. 917-927.
Yu, Z., and F. W. Schwartz, 1998. An image processing method for multi-layer porous media in determining concentration fields of tracer plumes in flow-tank experiments. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, in press.
Yu, Z., and F. W. Schwartz, 1998. Application of integrated Basin-Scale Hydrologic Model to simulate surface water and ground-water interactions in Big Darby Creek Watershed, Ohio. Journal of American Water Resources Association, v. 34, no. 2, p. 1-17.
Yu, Z., and F. W. Schwartz, 1995. A blueprint for a Basin-Scale Hydrologic Model. Advances in Model Use and Development for Water Resources, American Water Resources Association, v. 95(3), p. 109- 117.
Yu, Z., and F. W. Schwartz, 1995. Strategies for optimizing the performance of groundwater codes on the Cray Y-MP and T3D. High Performance Computing, The Society for Computer Simulation, v. 1, p. 134-140.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Yu, Z., E.J. Barron, and F.W. Schwartz, October 26-29, 1998. Distributed modeling of surface water and groundwater flow responding to climate forcing in large watersheds. GSA Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada.
Lakhtakia, M.N., Z. Yu, W.M. Lapenta, B. Yarnal, R.A. White, and D.A. Miller, 1998. Some problems associated with regional climate and hydrologic modeling. AMS 14th conference on Hydrology, Dallas.
Yu, Z., E.J. Barron et al., June 8-12, 1998. Simulating the basin response to single-storm events of various resolutions in the Susquehanna River Basin Experiment (SRBEX). The GCIP Mississippi River Climate Conference, St. Louis.
Shangguan, X., Z. Yu, D. Pollard, and E.J. Barron, 1998. Methane emission and production from wetlands as influenced by water table a processbased model. AGU spring meeting, Boston.
Yu, Z., and T.N. Carlson, 1998. The dynamics of soil moisture variation during the storm event. AGU spring meeting, Boston.
Yu, Z., and others, February 12-17, 1998 (invited). A coupled distributed hydrologic modeling system. in press, 1998 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting and Science Innovation Exposition, Philadelphia.
Barron, E.J., others, and Z. Yu, 1998. Global water cycle: extension across the earth sciences. Report to NASA Earth Observeing System (NAGW-2686; NAG 5-4553), 64 p.
Bindlish, R., Z. Yu, M.N. Lakhtakia, and A. P. Barros, 1997. Scale issues in linking atmospheric and hydrologic models. EOS, 78(46), p. F209.
Yarnal, B., M.N. Lakhtakia, Z. Yu, D.A. Miller, R.A. White, and B.J. Frakes, 1997. A system of linked meteorological and hydrological models in the Susquehanna River Basin. EOS, 78(46), p. F203.
Yu, Z., 1997 (invited lecture). An integrated study of basin-scale climate and hydrology with linked meteorological and hydrological models. Department of Geological Science, The Ohio State University.
Yu, Z., 1997. Grid size effects on surface water and ground water simulations in watershed. Annual Conference of American Water Resources Association.
Yu, Z., Y. Guo, J. Voortman, R. White, and D. A. Miller, 1997. Terrain Analysis on Geographical Information Systems for Watershed Hydrologic Simulations. GSA Annual Meeting.
Yu, Z., C. Swartz, F. W. Schwartz, and C. Duffy 1997. An image processing procedure to determine spatial distribution of concentration fields in laboratory flow-tank experiments. EOS, 78(17), p. S133-134.
Yu, Z., and F. W. Schwartz, 1996. Automated calibration applied to surface-water and ground-water flow simulations. Midwest Groundwater Conference, p.14.
Yu, Z., and F. W. Schwartz, 1995. Simulation of basin-scale hydrologic processes with high performance computers: application to Big Darby Creek Watershed, Ohio. EOS, 76(46), p. F207.
Yu, Z., and F. W. Schwartz, 1995. The performance optimization of a groundwater code on the Cray Y-MP and T3D. Frontier of Massively Parallel Machines.
Patrick, D., J. How, and Z. Yu, 1992. Engineering investigation of Yazoo Clay (bentonite) in Mississippi. Mississippi Mineral Resources Institute (MMRI-92-2F), 64 p.
Comments and Questions
8/26/98