Zhang, Xinxuan

Xinxuan Zhang

Assistant Professor in Residence, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Email xinxuan.zhang@uconn.edu
Mailing Address Civil and Environmental Engineering 261 Glenbrook Road, Unit 3037 Storrs, CT 06269-3037
Campus Storrs
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Brief Bio

Dr. Xinxuan Zhang is an Assistant Research Professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Connecticut (UConn). She also serves as a Manager at the Eversource Energy Center at UConn. Her research focuses on various areas, including: She earned her Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Connecticut in 2018. She also held a Postdoctoral Research Fellow position at George Mason University before joining UConn as an Assistant Research Professor in August 2021. Her email address is xinxuan.zhang@uconn.edu. 
  • Numerical modeling and data assimilation of atmospheric and land surface processes 
  • Electric power outage prediction under weather events 
  • Analysis of coupling climate risk with infrastructure vulnerabilities 
  • Extreme weather analysis
  • Remote sensing of precipitation
Predicting storm outages through new representations of weather and vegetation
D Cerrai, DW Wanik, MAE Bhuiyan, X Zhang, J Yang, MEB Frediani, ...
IEEE Access 7, 29639-29654
Using NWP simulations in satellite rainfall estimation of heavy precipitation events over mountainous areas
X Zhang, EN Anagnostou, M Frediani, S Solomos, G Kallos
Journal of Hydrometeorology 14 (6), 1844-1858
The impact of weather condition and social activity on COVID-19 transmission in the United States
X Zhang, V Maggioni, P Houser, Y Xue, Y Mei
Journal of Environmental Management 302, 114085
The joint assimilation of remotely sensed leaf area index and surface soil moisture into a land surface model
A Rahman, V Maggioni, X Zhang, P Houser, T Sauer, DM Mocko
Remote Sensing 14 (3), 437
Evaluation of numerical weather model–based satellite precipitation adjustment in tropical mountainous regions
X Zhang, EN Anagnostou
Journal of Hydrometeorology 20 (3), 431-445
NWP-based adjustment of IMERG precipitation for flood-inducing complex terrain storms: Evaluation over CONUS
X Zhang, EN Anagnostou, CS Schwartz
Remote Sensing 10 (4), 642
Hydrologic evaluation of NWP-adjusted CMORPH estimates of hurricane-induced precipitation in the southern Appalachians
X Zhang, EN Anagnostou, H Vergara
Journal of Hydrometeorology 17 (4), 1087-1099
Assessing grid hardening strategies to improve power system performance during storms using a hybrid mechanistic-machine learning outage prediction model
W Hughes, PL Watson, D Cerrai, X Zhang, A Bagtzoglou, W Zhang, ...
Reliability Engineering & System Safety 248, 110169
A synthetic experiment to investigate the potential of assimilating LAI through direct insertion in a land surface model
A Rahman, X Zhang, Y Xue, P Houser, T Sauer, S Kumar, D Mocko, ...
Journal of Hydrology X 9, 100063
Global assimilation of remotely sensed leaf area index: the impact of updating more state variables within a land surface model
A Rahman, X Zhang, P Houser, T Sauer, V Maggioni
Frontiers in Water 3, 789352
The influence of assimilating leaf area index in a land surface model on global water fluxes and storages
X Zhang, V Maggioni, A Rahman, P Houser, Y Xue, T Sauer, S Kumar, ...
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 24 (7), 3775–3788
Optimal baseflow separation through chemical mass balance: Comparing the usages of two tracers, two concentration estimation methods, and four baseflow filters
Y Mei, D Wang, J Zhu, G Tang, C Cai, X Shen, Y Hong, X Zhang
Water Resources Research 60 (7), e2023WR036386
A study on degree-day’s change in China in the past fifty years
H Zhang, X Zhang, Z Sun, G Tang
Trans. Atmos. Sci 33 (5), 593-599
Assessing the efficiency of a random forest regression model for estimating water quality indicators
M Zavareh, V Maggioni, X Zhang
Meteorology Hydrology and Water Management. Research and Operational …
Rainfall estimation uncertainty and early warning procedures for post-fire debris flows.
E Nikolopoulos, C Schwartz, X Zhang, E Anagnostou
Geophysical Research Abstracts 21
Using NWP Analysis in Satellite Rainfall Estimation of Heavy Precipitation Events over Complex Terrain
X Zhang
University of Connecticut
Changes of Electric Distribution Network Storm Outages in Future Climate Scenarios: Evaluation for a Service Territory in Northeastern United States
X Zhang, E Anagnostou, S Emmanouil, F Yang, D Cerrai
EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts, EGU-9211
Investigating the Assimilation of Leaf Area Index Products at Different Temporal Resolutions in a Land Surface Model
X Zhang, V Maggioni, A Rahman
IGARSS 2020-2020 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium …
The Influence of Assimilating Leaf Area Index in a Land Surface Model on Global Water Fluxes and Storages
X Zhang, V Maggioni, A Rahman, P Houser, Y Xue, T Sauer, S Kumar, ...
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussions 2019, 1-28