Dr. Shih-Chieh Kao

Distinguished R&D Staff

Environmental Sciences Division

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

P.O. Box 2008, MS-6038

Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6038, USA

Phone: (865) 576-1259

Email: kaos@ornl.gov

Recent Updates:

June, 2026 - Paper accepted by Water Resources Research - Sedimentation and Nonlinear Trapping in Texas Reservoirs Identified Using Remote Sensing and Bathymetric Survey Records

April, 2026 - Paper accepted by International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications - Enabling Kilometer-Scale E3SM Land Model Simulation over North America: A New Integrated Framework Solution

March, 2026 - Paper accepted by Journal of Hydrology - Intercomparison of Flood Inundation Models Across Land Use Types and Hydrological Flood Stages

December, 2025 - Paper accepted by Journal of Hydrology - Advancing Stream Temperature Prediction with a Generalizable Large-Sample Framework Across CONUS River Reaches

November, 2025 - Paper accepted by Earth's Future - Evaluating Extreme Storm Events in an Ensemble of High-Resolution Projections

August, 2025 - Paper accepted by Earth's Future - An Integrated Hydroclimatic Assessment of Future Reservoir and Hydropower Operations in the U.S.

July, 2025 - Paper accepted by Environmental Research Letters - Projected Evolution of Droughts and Human Exposure in the Contiguous United States under SSP5-8.5: A Regional Downscaling Perspective

June, 2025 - Paper accepted by Data in Brief - Second-Generation Downscaled Earth System Model Data using Generative Machine Learning

June, 2025 - Paper accepted by Scientific Data - Forty Year Hydropower Generation Reanalysis for Conterminous United States

April, 2025 - Paper accepted by npj Climate and Atmospheric Science - Dynamically Downscaled Seasonal Heat Wave Projections in the CONUS

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