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Hongli Liu, PhD

Pronouns: she, her

Personal Website: https://h294liu.github.io/

Contact

Faculty of Engineering - Civil and Environmental Engineering Dept
Email
hongli7@ualberta.ca

Overview

Area of Study / Keywords

Professor Water Resources Engineering Surface Water Hydrology Hydrologic Modeling and Forecasting Climate Change Impacts on Hydrology


About

  • PhD, Civil Engineering, Collaborative Water Program, University of Waterloo, 2019
  • MSc, Environmental Science, Beijing Normal University, 2014
  • BSc, Geography, Shandong Normal University, 2011

Research

Our Computational Hydrology Group (Website) aims to advance hydrologic modeling and its applications in extreme event predictions (e.g., floods and droughts) and climate change impact assessments.

Selected Publications

  • Liu, H., Clark, M.P., Gharari, S., Sheikholeslami, R., et al., 2024. An improved copula‐based framework for efficient global sensitivity analysis. Water Resources Research. 10.1029/2022WR033808
  • Liu, H., Wood, A.W., Newman, A.J. and Clark, M.P., 2022. Ensemble dressing of meteorological fields: using spatial regression to estimate uncertainty in deterministic gridded meteorological datasets. Journal of Hydrometeorology. 10.1175/JHM-D-21-0176.1
  • Liu, H., Tolson, B.A., Newman, A.J. and Wood, A.W., 2021. Leveraging ensemble meteorological forcing data to improve parameter estimation of hydrologic models. Hydrological Processes. 10.1002/hyp.14410
  • Liu, H., Thiboult, A., Tolson, B., Anctil, F. and Mai, J., 2019. Efficient treatment of climate data uncertainty in ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) based on an existing historical climate ensemble dataset. Journal of Hydrology. 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2018.11.047
  • Liu, H., Tolson, B.A., Craig, J.R. and Shafii, M., 2016. A priori discretization error metrics for distributed hydrologic modeling applications. Journal of Hydrology. 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2016.11.008

Open-source Datasets and Toolboxes

  • pyVISCOUS global sensitivity analysis toolbox. link
  • Parameter estimation toolbox for SUMMA. link
  • Watershed discretization toolbox. link
  • Ensemble dressing of North American land data assimilation version 2 (EDN2). link