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Len J. Pietrafesa
Professor Emeritus, North Carolina State University Raleigh
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Investigating the compound effect to flooding area of coastal flood caused by the interactions between different rivers through coupling NWM and SCHISM
AGU 2024
hydrology | 12 december 2024
Hongyuan Zhang, Dongliang Shen, Huan Wang, Leonard...
Coastal regions present a complex system for water flow modeling due to the interplay of fluvial and coastal processes, compounded by intricate coasta...
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Interactions Between Key Processes in the Compounding Coastal Floods from A Landfall Hurricane: A Quantitative Study
COASTAL HYDROLOGY II POSTER
hydrology | 15 december 2023
Shaowu Bao, Hongyuan Zhang, Dongliang Shen, Leonar...
Coastal communities are severely threatened by floods caused by landfall hurricanes, particularly those stemming from complex interactions among multi...
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Extending the Current National Water Model from Inland to Coastal Ocean through Model Coupling
COASTAL HYDROLOGY II POSTER
hydrology | 15 december 2023
Shaowu Bao, Hongyuan Zhang, Dongliang Shen, Leonar...
Accurate forecasting of water dynamics, especially during extreme weather events, is crucial for environmental risk mitigation and human safety. The c...
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Mapping the Spatial Footprint of Sea Breeze Winds in the Southeastern United States
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: ATMOSPHERES
05 april 2023
Shaowu Bao, Leonard J. Pietrafesa, Paul T. Gayes, ...

Sea breeze winds are observed at various locations worldwide, but the spatially continuous mapping of sea breeze winds is rare. We have developed a...

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Assessment of the contributions of inland river discharge, ocean water level and rainfall to coastal compound flood extent in Northeastern South Carolina: a river and ocean coupled modeling study
OBSERVATIONALLY INTEGRATED EARTH SYSTEM MODELING FOR COASTAL ENVIRONMENTS III ORAL
ocean sciences | 16 december 2022
Hongyuan Zhang, Shaowu Bao, Leonard J. Pietrafesa,...
As previous research indicates an increase in coastal compound flooding along the East Coast of the United States, it is important to understand the m...
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Improving Numerical Model Predicted Float Trajectories by Deep Learning
EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE
15 september 2022
Dongliang Shen, Shaowu Bao, Leonard J. Pietrafesa,...

The Lagrangian tracking approach is often used in numerical modeling (NM) to simulate and predict the movement of marine particles such as plastic,...

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Dynamical Ocean Responses to Typhoon Malakas (2016) in the Vicinity of Taiwan
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: OCEANS
02 february 2021
Dongliang Shen, Xiaofeng Li, Jia Wang, Shaowu Bao,...

Saffir‐Simpson Category‐4 Typhoon Malakas crossed the Kuroshio, the Western Boundary Current of the North Pacific Ocean, and moved alon...

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Multi-Scale Atmospheric and Oceanic Weather, Seasonal, Sub-Seasonal and Climate Variability and Trends.
ADVANCES IN DATA ASSIMILATION, PREDICTABILITY, AND UNCERTAINTY QUANTIFICATION III POSTERS
nonlinear geophysics | 10 december 2019
Leonard J. Pietrafesa, Paul T. Gayes, Shaowu Bao
We present evidence that atmospheric and oceanic temporal multi-scale variability are the result of a mix of frequency and amplitude modulated nonline...
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