Shih-Chieh Kao Program Manager, Water Power Program Contact kaos@ornl.gov | 865.576.1259 All Publications Assessing climate-change-induced flood risk in the Conasauga River watershed: an application of ensemble hydrodynamic inundat... The implications of future climate change on the blue water footprint of hydropower in the contiguous US... Exploring Hydrologic Model Process Connectivity at the Continental Scale Through an Information Theory Approach... Quantifying the Effects of Urbanization on Floods in a Changing Environment to Promote Water Security — A Case Study of Two... Variability of Precipitation Areal Reduction Factors in the Conterminous United States... Assessing Shifts in Regional Hydroclimatic Conditions of U.S. River Basins in Response to Climate Change over the 21st Centur... Machine Learning Assisted Hybrid Models Can Improve Streamflow Simulation in Diverse Catchments across the Conterminous US... High-performance computing in water resources hydrodynamics... Streamflow in the Columbia River Basin: Quantifying Changes Over the Period 1951‐2008 and Determining the Drivers of Those ... How Do Modeling Decisions Affect the Spread Among Hydrologic Climate Change Projections? Exploring a Large Ensemble of Simula... Contribution of environmental forcings to US runoff changes for the period 1950–2010... Hydropower capacity factors trending down in the United States Thermal, water, and land cover factors led to contrasting urban and rural vegetation resilience to extreme hot months Indicators of thermal alteration in US waters reveal patterns of climate risk at the energy-water nexus Functionally Assembled Terrestrial Ecosystem Simulator (FATES) for Hurricane Disturbance and Recovery Explainable machine learning model for multi-step forecasting of reservoir inflow with uncertainty quantification Unraveling the 2021 Central Tennessee flood event using a hierarchical multi-model inundation modeling framework... An ultrahigh-resolution E3SM land model simulation framework and its first application to the Seward Peninsula in Alaska Bayesian-Motivated Probabilistic Model of Hurricane-Induced Multimechanism Flood Hazards A Data Toolkit for Ultrahigh-resolution E3SM Simulation on Massively Parallel Processing Systems... Estimating Future Surface Water Availability Through an Integrated Climate-Hydrology-Management Modeling Framework at a Basin... Evaluating Enhanced Reservoir Evaporation Losses From CMIP6-Based Future Projections in the Contiguous United States Impacts of climate change on subannual hydropower generation: a multi-model assessment of the United States federal hydropower plant Impacts of climate change on future hurricane induced rainfall and flooding in a coastal watershed: A case study on Hurricane Harvey Insights From Dayflow: A Historical Streamflow Reanalysis Dataset for the Conterminous United States... Pagination Current page 1 Page 2 Page 3 … Next page ›› Last page Last » Key Links Curriculum Vitae Google Scholar ORCID LinkedIn Personal website Google scholar Organizations Biological and Environmental Systems Science Directorate Environmental Sciences Division Biodiversity and Sustainable Systems Section Water Resource Science and Engineering Group User Facilities Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility Climate Change Science Institute Energy Science and Technology Directorate Water Power Program