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Water-Energy Nexus and Environmental Sustainability
 

Publications

2020

  • Liu L., X. Zhou, L. Dueñas-Osorio, L. Stadler, and Q. Li (2020), Distributed urban water system enhances system resilience to disruptive incidents (in preparation).
  • Liu L., E. Lopez, L. Dueñas-Osorio, L. Stadler, Y. Xie, P. Alvarez, and Q. Li (2020), The importance of system configuration for distributed direct potable water reuse, Nature Sustainability. DOI: 10.1038/s41893-020-0518-5
  • Li X., Y. Zhou, Y. Liu, X Zhang, P. Kyle, L. Liu, M. Hejazi, G. Jia, and W. Gutowski (2020), Rising challenges of thermoelectric cooling water withdrawal in the Western United States, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the United States of America (under review).

2019

  • Zhang X. H. Li, R. Leung, L. Liu, M. Hejazi, B. Forman, and W. Yigzaw (2020), River regulation alleviates the impacts of climate change on US thermoelectricity production, Journal of Geophysical Research. DOI: 10.1029/2019JD031618.
  • Liu L., M. Hejazi, G. Iyer, and B. Forman (2019), Implications of water constraints on electricity capacity expansion in the United States, Nature Sustainability. DOI: 10.1038/s41893-019-0235-0.

2018

  • Liu L., S. Parkinson, M. Gidden, E. Byers, Y. Satoh, K. Riahi, and B. Forman (2018), Quantifying the potential for reservoirs to secure future surface water yields in the world’s largest river basins, Environmental Research Letters. DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/aab2b5.

2017

  • Liu L., M. Hejazi, H. Li, B. Forman, and X. Zhang (2017), Vulnerability of US thermoelectric power generation to climate change when incorporating state-level environmental regulations, 2, 17109, Nature Energy. DOI: 10.1038/nenergy.2017.109.
  • Voisin N., M. I. Hejazi, L. R. Leung, L. Liu, M. Huang, H. Li, and T. Tesfa (2017), Effects of sectoral water withdrawals, allocation and consumptive use on the redistribution of water resources in an integrated water model, Water Resources Research. DOI: 10.1002/2016WR019767.

2016

  • Talati S., H. Zhai, P. Kyle, M.G. Morgan, P. Patel, L. Liu (2016), Consumptive water use from electricity generation in the Southwest under alternative climate, technology and policy futures, Environmental Science and Technology. DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.6b01389.
  • Scott M. J., D. S. Dalya, M. I. Hejazi, P. G. Kyle, L. Liu, H.C. McJeon, A. Mundra, P. L. Patel, J. S. Rice, N. Voisin (2016), Sensitivity of future U.S. Water shortages to socioeconomic and climate drivers: a case study in Georgia using an integrated human-earth system modeling framework, Climatic Change. DOI: 10.1007/s10584-016-1602-8.

2015

  • Li, H.-Y., L. Ruby Leung, T. Tesfa, N. Voisin, M. Hejazi, L. Liu, Y. Liu, J. Rice, H. Wu, and X. Yang (2015), Modeling stream temperature in the Anthropocene: An earth system modeling approach, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 7, 16611679, DOI: 10.1002/2015MS000471.
  • Kim S., M. Hejazi, L. Liu, K. Calvin, L. Clarke, J. Edmonds, P. Kyle, P. Patel, M. Wise, E. Davies (2015), Balancing global water availability and use at basin scale in an integrated assessment model. Climatic Change. DOI: 10.1007/s10584-016-1604-6.
  • Hejazi M., N. Voisin, L. Liu, L. Bramer, D. Fortin, J. Hathaway, M. Huang, P. Kyle, L.R. Leung, H.Y. Li, Y. Liu, P. Patel, T. Pulsipher, J. Rice, T. Tesfa, C. Vernon, Y. Zhou (2015), 21st century United States emissions mitigation could increase water stress more than the climate change it is mitigating. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 112 (34), DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1421675112.
  • Liu L., Hejazi M., Patel P., Kyle P., Davies E., Zhou Y., Clarke L., Edmonds J. (2015), Water demands for electricity generation in the U.S.: Modeling different scenarios for the water energy nexus. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 94, 318-334, DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2014.11.004.

2013

  • Voisin, N., L. Liu, Hejazi, M., Tesfa, T., Li, H., Huang, M., Liu, Y., and Leung, L. R. (2013), One-way coupling of an integrated assessment model and a water resources model: evaluation and implications of future changes over the US Midwest, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 17, 4555-4575, DOI: 10.5194/hess-17-4555-2013.
  • Zhang N., Y. Hong, Q. Qin, L. Liu (2013), VSDI: a visible and shortwave infrared drought index for monitoring soil and vegetation moisture based on optical remote sensing. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 34(13): 4585-4609. DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2013.779046.

2012

  • Liu L., Y. Hong, J. Looper, R. Riley, B. Yong, Z. Zhang, J. Hocker, M. Shafer (2012), Climatological Drought Analyses and Projection using SPI and PDSI: A Case Study for Arkansas Red River Basin. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering. DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)HE.1943-5584.0000619.
  • Liu L., Y. Hong, J. E. Hocker, M. A. Shafer, C. N. Bednarczyk (2012), Hydro-climatological Drought Analyses and Projection using Meteorological and Hydrological Drought Indices: A Case Study in Blue River Basin, Oklahoma, Water Resources Management. DOI: 10.1007/S11269-012-0044-y.
  • Liu L., Y. Hong, E. J. Hocker, M. A. Shafer, L. M. Carter, J. J. Gourley, C. N. Bednarczyk, P. Adhikari (2012), Analyzing Projected Changes and Trends of Temperature and Precipitation in the Southern U.S. from 16 Downscaled Global Climate Models under Different Emission Scenarios, Theoretical and Applied Climatology. DOI: 10.1007/s00704-011-0567-9.