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  1. Tracing Mercury from Land to River: Global Sources, Retention, and Implications for Sustainability

    Article • Environmental Science & Technology, July 2026, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Zeli Tan

  2. Significant Rural Contributions to Severe Coastal Urban Flooding Through Flow Connectivity

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, July 2026, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Zeli Tan

  3. Enhancing the Advanced Lake Biogeochemistry Model for Application to Thermokarst Lakes on Qinghai‐Tibet Plateau

    Article • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, July 2026, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Zeli Tan

  4. Lake sediment heatwaves under global warming

    Article • Nature Geoscience, June 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Zeli Tan

  5. An Integrated Modeling Framework for Sediment Dynamics During Urban Flooding: Application to Hurricane Harvey in Houston

    Article • Water Resources Research, May 2026, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Zeli Tan

  6. Systematic evaluation of atmospheric forcing, surface datasets, and mesh effects on Kilometer-Scale land surface and river modeling

    Article • Journal of Hydrology, April 2026, Elsevier

    Dr Zeli Tan

  7. Development of a River Dynamical Core for E3SM to simulate compound flooding on Exascale-class heterogeneous supercomputers

    Article • Environmental Modelling & Software, February 2026, Elsevier

    Dr Zeli Tan

  8. ELM‐MOSART‐DOC: A Large‐Scale Riverine Dissolved Organic Carbon Model and Its Application Over the United States

    Article • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, February 2026, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Zeli Tan

  9. How deep is your soil? Quantifying and spatially analyzing understudied deep soil in the United States

    Article • Geoderma, February 2026, Elsevier

    Dr Zeli Tan

  10. Improving the prediction of daily reservoir releases over the CONUS using conditioned LSTM

    Article • Journal of Hydrology, November 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Zeli Tan

  11. A new biogeochemical modelling framework (FLaMe-v1.0) for lake methane emissions on the regional scale: development and application to the European domain

    Article • Earth System Dynamics, October 2025, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Zeli Tan

  12. A Comparative Study of Physics‐Informed and Data‐Driven Neural Networks for Compound Flood Simulation at River‐Ocean Interfaces: A Case Study of Hurricane Irene

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Machine Learning and Computation, October 2025, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Zeli Tan

  13. Disentangling atmospheric, hydrological, and coupling uncertainties in compound flood modeling within a coupled Earth system model

    Article • Natural Hazards and Earth System Science, September 2025, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Zeli Tan

  14. An efficient hybrid downscaling framework to estimate high-resolution river hydrodynamics

    Article • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, August 2025, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Zeli Tan

  15. Transformation rate maps of dissolved organic carbon in the contiguous US

    Article • Earth System Science Data, June 2025, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Zeli Tan

  16. Human perturbations to mercury in global rivers

    Article • Science Advances, June 2025, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Dr Zeli Tan

  17. A multi-model assessment of global freshwater temperature and thermoelectric power supply under climate change

    Article • Environmental Research Water, June 2025, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Zeli Tan

  18. Evaluation of Flow Routing on the Unstructured Voronoi Meshes in Earth System Modeling

    Article • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, May 2025, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Zeli Tan

  19. Drivers and impacts of sediment deposition in Amazonian floodplains

    Article • Nature Communications, April 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Zeli Tan

  20. Uncertainties in Simulating Flooding During Hurricane Harvey Using 2D Shallow Water Equations

    Article • Water Resources Research, January 2025, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Zeli Tan

  21. A Lake Biogeochemistry Model for Global Methane Emissions: Model Development, Site‐Level Validation, and Global Applicability

    Article • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, October 2024, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Zeli Tan

  22. Impacts of Sea‐Level Rise on Coastal Groundwater Table Simulated by an Earth System Model With a Land‐Ocean Coupling Scheme

    Article • Earth s Future, August 2024, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Zeli Tan

  23. A multi-algorithm approach for modeling coastal wetland eco-geomorphology

    Article • Frontiers in Earth Science, July 2024, Frontiers

    Dr Zeli Tan

  24. Simulation of Compound Flooding Using River‐Ocean Two‐Way Coupled E3SM Ensemble on Variable‐Resolution Meshes

    Article • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, June 2024, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Zeli Tan

  25. Quantifying the impacts of land cover change on the hydrologic response to Hurricane Ida in the Lower Mississippi River Basin

    Article • Journal of Hydrometeorology, April 2024, American Meteorological Society

    Dr Zeli Tan

  26. Climate change will reduce North American inland wetland areas and disrupt their seasonal regimes

    Article • Nature Communications, March 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Zeli Tan

  27. Disentangling the hydrological and hydraulic controls on streamflow variability in Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM) V2 – a case study in the Pantanal region

    Article • Geoscientific Model Development, February 2024, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Zeli Tan

  28. Ensemble modeling of global lake evaporation under climate change

    Article • Journal of Hydrology, January 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Zeli Tan

  29. Understanding the compound flood risk along the coast of the contiguous United States

    Article • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, November 2023, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Zeli Tan

  30. Topological Relationship‐Based Flow Direction Modeling: Stream Burning and Depression Filling

    Article • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, November 2023, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Zeli Tan

  31. Current and future global lake methane emissions: A process‐based modeling analysis

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences, March 2023, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Zeli Tan

  32. Understanding the Compound Flood Risk along the Coast of the Contiguous United States

    Article • February 2023, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Zeli Tan

  33. Physics‐Informed Neural Networks of the Saint‐Venant Equations for Downscaling a Large‐Scale River Model

    Article • Water Resources Research, February 2023, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Zeli Tan

  34. Investigating coastal backwater effects and flooding in the coastal zone using a global river transport model on an unstructured mesh

    Article • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, November 2022, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Zeli Tan

  35. Topological relationship-based flow direction modeling: stream burning and depression filling

    Article • November 2022, Wiley

    Dr Zeli Tan

  36. Investigating coastal backwater effects and flooding in the coastal zone using a global river transport model on an unstructured mesh

    Article • July 2022, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Zeli Tan

  37. A framework for ensemble modelling of climate change impacts on lakes worldwide: the ISIMIP Lake Sector

    Article • Geoscientific Model Development, June 2022, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Zeli Tan, Dr Klaus Dieter Joehnk

  38. AWESOME: Archive for Water Erosion and Sediment Outflow MEasurements

    Article • March 2022, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Zeli Tan

  39. Median bed-material sediment particle size across rivers in the contiguous US

    Article • Earth System Science Data, February 2022, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Zeli Tan

  40. A new large-scale suspended sediment model and its application over the United States

    Article • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, February 2022, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Zeli Tan

  41. Advances in hexagon mesh-based flow direction modeling

    Article • Advances in Water Resources, February 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Zeli Tan

  42. Representing global soil erosion and sediment flux in Earth System Models

    Article • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, December 2021, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Zeli Tan

  43. Winter inverse lake stratification under historic and future climate change

    Article • Limnology and Oceanography Letters, December 2021, Wiley

    Dr Zeli Tan

  44. Author Correction: Attribution of global lake systems change to anthropogenic forcing

    Article • Nature Geoscience, November 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Zeli Tan

  45. Attribution of global lake systems change to anthropogenic forcing

    Article • Nature Geoscience, October 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Zeli Tan

  46. Trade‐offs of forest management scenarios on forest carbon exchange and threatened and endangered species habitat

    Article • Ecosphere, October 2021, Wiley

    Dr Zeli Tan

  47. A new large-scale suspended sediment model and its application over the United States

    Article • September 2021, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Zeli Tan

  48. Median bed-material sediment particle size across rivers in the contiguous U.S.

    Article • July 2021, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Zeli Tan

  49. Intercomparison of Thermal Regime Algorithms in 1‐D Lake Models

    Article • Water Resources Research, June 2021, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Zeli Tan

  50. Increased extreme rains intensify erosional nitrogen and phosphorus fluxes to the northern Gulf of Mexico in recent decades

    Article • Environmental Research Letters, May 2021, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Zeli Tan

  51. Phenological shifts in lake stratification under climate change

    Article • Nature Communications, April 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Zeli Tan

  52. 'Unified' unstructured ocean, land and river modelling in the coastal zone

    Article • March 2021, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Zeli Tan

  53. Validation and Sensitivity Analysis of a 1‐D Lake Model Across Global Lakes

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, February 2021, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Zeli Tan

  54. <i>SoilErosionDB</i>: A global database for surface runoff and soil erosion evaluation

    Article • October 2020, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Zeli Tan, Ben Bond-Lamberty

  55. Global heat uptake by inland waters

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, June 2020, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Mr Hannes Müller Schmied, Dr Zeli Tan

  56. Rising methane emissions from boreal lakes due to increasing ice-free days

    Article • Environmental Research Letters, May 2020, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Zeli Tan

  57. Simulation of greenhouse gas transfer between lakes and the atmosphere

    Article • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, February 2020, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Klaus Dieter Joehnk, Dr Zeli Tan

  58. Rising methane emissions from Finnish lakes due to climate warming and increasing ice-free days

    Article • January 2020, Wiley

    Dr Zeli Tan

  59. A substantial role of soil erosion in the land carbon sink and its future changes

    Article • Global Change Biology, January 2020, Wiley

    Dr Zeli Tan

  60. Parameterizing Perennial Bioenergy Crops in Version 5 of the Community Land Model Based on Site‐Level Observations in the Central Midwestern United States

    Article • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, January 2020, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Zeli Tan

  61. Flood Inundation Generation Mechanisms and Their Changes in 1953‐2004 in Global Major River Basins

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, October 2019, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Zeli Tan

  62. Tundra landscape heterogeneity, not interannual variability, controls the decadal regional carbon balance in the Western Russian Arctic

    Article • Global Change Biology, September 2018, Wiley

    Dr Zeli Tan

  63. Modeling Sediment Yield in Land Surface and Earth System Models: Model Comparison, Development, and Evaluation

    Article • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, September 2018, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Zeli Tan

  64. A Small Temperate Lake in the 21st Century: Dynamics of Water Temperature, Ice Phenology, Dissolved Oxygen, and Chlorophyll a

    Article • Water Resources Research, July 2018, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Zeli Tan

  65. A Global Data Analysis for Representing Sediment and Particulate Organic Carbon Yield in Earth System Models

    Article • Water Resources Research, December 2017, Wiley

    Dr Zeli Tan

  66. Modeling CO2 emissions from Arctic lakes

    Article • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, September 2017, Wiley

    Dr Zeli Tan

  67. Detectability of Arctic methane sources at six sites performing continuous atmospheric measurements

    Article • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics", July 2017, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Zeli Tan

  68. Constrain pan-Arctic methane emissions using satellite observations

    Article • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics", October 2016, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Zeli Tan

  69. Do maize models capture the impacts of heat and drought stresses on yield? Using algorithm ensembles to identify successful approaches

    Article • Global Change Biology, July 2016, Wiley

    Dr Zeli Tan

  70. Methane emissions from pan‐Arctic lakes during the 21st century: An analysis with process‐based models of lake evolution and biogeochemistry

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences, December 2015, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Zeli Tan

  71. Mapping pan-Arctic methane emissions at high spatial resolution using an adjoint atmospheric transport and inversion method and process-based wetland and lake biogeochemical models

    Article • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions, November 2015, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Zeli Tan

  72. Arctic lakes are continuous methane sources

    Article • Environmental Research Letters, May 2015, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Zeli Tan

  73. Modeling methane emissions from lakes

    Article • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, April 2015, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Zeli Tan

  74. An analysis of atmospheric CH4 concentrations from 1984 to 2008 with a single box atmospheric chemistry model

    Article • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions, November 2012, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Zeli Tan