Publications

Selected publications by Dr. Abeshu and collaborators that ground the research direction of the Abeshu Hydrosystems Intelligence Lab.

Research Outputs

Selected publications shaping the lab's research direction

These publications reflect the scholarly foundation around which the Abeshu Hydrosystems Intelligence Lab is being launched. Lab-authored outputs will be added here as the lab's first projects mature.

Full publication list on Google Scholar
34 Selected outputs
17 Peer-reviewed papers
1 Preprints
16 Conference outputs

Output Type

Peer-Reviewed Papers

17 listed

2026

  • ELM-MOSART-DOC: A Large-Scale Riverine Dissolved Organic Carbon Model and Its Application Over the United States Lingbo Li, Hong-Yi Li, Guta Abeshu, Xiaojuan Yang, Jinyun Tang, Zeli Tan, Chang Liao, Dongyu Feng, Peter Thornton, and L. Ruby Leung Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 18(2), e2025MS005307, 2026 DOI
  • A unified scheme for modeling saturation and infiltration excess runoff Yuanqi Hong, Guta Wakbulcho Abeshu, Hong-Yi Li, Dingbao Wang, Mengqi Zhao, Thomas Wild, Gunter Bloschl, and L. Ruby Leung Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 30, 4293-4303, 2026 DOI

2025

  • Differential responses of plant and microbial respiration to extreme precipitation and drought during spring and summer in the Eurasian meadow steppe Tsegaye Gemechu Legesse, Jingfeng Xiao, Gang Dong, Xiaobing Dong, Nano Alemu Daba, Guta Wakbulcho Abeshu, Luping Qu, Wen Zhu, Lulu Wang, Xiaoping Xin, and Changliang Shao Environmental Research, 269, 2025 DOI
  • Causal relationships of vegetation productivity with root zone water availability and atmospheric dryness at the catchment scale Guta Wakbulcho Abeshu, Hong-Yi Li, Mingjie Shi, and L. Ruby Leung Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 29, 1847-1864, 2025 DOI
  • Transformation rate maps of dissolved organic carbon in the contiguous US Lingbo Li, Hong-Yi Li, Guta Abeshu, Jinyun Tang, L. Ruby Leung, Chang Liao, Zeli Tan, Hanqin Tian, Peter Thornton, and Xiaojuan Yang Earth System Science Data, 17, 2713-2733, 2025 DOI

2024

  • Generalized Relationship Linking Water Balance and Vegetation Productivity across Site-to-Regional Scales Guta Wakbulcho Abeshu, Hong-Yi Li, Mingjie Shi, Jack Brookshire, Jingyun Tang, Chonggang Xu, Nate G. McDowell, and L. Ruby Leung Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 29(5), 2024 DOI
  • Exploring the food-energy-water nexus in coupled natural-human systems under climate change with a fully integrated agent-based modeling framework Jiaorui Zhang, Y. C. Ethan Yang, Guta W. Abeshu, Hongyi Li, Fengwei Hung, Chung-Yi Lin, and L. Ruby Leung Journal of Hydrology, 636, 131048, 2024 DOI
  • GCAM-GLORY v1.0: representing global reservoir water storage in a multi-sector human-Earth system model Mengqi Zhao, Thomas B. Wild, Neal T. Graham, Son H. Kim, Matthew Binsted, A. F. M. Kamal Chowdhury, Siwa Msangi, Pralit L. Patel, Chris R. Vernon, Hassan Niazi, Hong-Yi Li, and Guta W. Abeshu Geoscientific Model Development, 17, 5587-5617, 2024 DOI

2023

  • Panta Rhei benchmark dataset: socio-hydrological data of paired events of floods and droughts Heidi Kreibich, Kai Schroter, Giuliano Di Baldassarre, Anne F. Van Loon, Maurizio Mazzoleni, Guta Wakbulcho Abeshu, et al. Earth System Science Data, 15, 2009-2023, 2023 DOI
  • Enhancing the representation of water management in global hydrological models Guta Wakbulcho Abeshu, Fuqiang Tian, Thomas Wild, Mengqi Zhao, Sean Turner, A. F. M. Kamal Chowdhury, Chris R. Vernon, Hongchang Hu, Yuan Zhuang, Mohamad Hejazi, and Hong-Yi Li Geoscientific Model Development, 16, 5449-5472, 2023 DOI

2022

  • A new large-scale suspended sediment model and its application over the United States Hong-Yi Li, Zeli Tan, Hongbo Ma, Zhenduo Zhu, Guta Wakbulcho Abeshu, Senlin Zhu, Sagy Cohen, Tian Zhou, Donghui Xu, and L. Ruby Leung Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 26, 665-688, 2022 DOI
  • Median bed-material sediment particle size across rivers in the contiguous US Guta Wakbulcho Abeshu, Hong-Yi Li, Zhenduo Zhu, Zeli Tan, and L. Ruby Leung Earth System Science Data, 14, 929-942, 2022 DOI
  • The challenge of unprecedented floods and droughts in risk management Heidi Kreibich, Anne F. Van Loon, Kai Schroter, Philip J. Ward, Maurizio Mazzoleni, Nivedita Sairam, Guta Wakbulcho Abeshu, et al. Nature, 608, 80-86, 2022 DOI

2021

  • Horton Index: Conceptual Framework for Exploring Multi-Scale Links Between Catchment Water Balance and Vegetation Dynamics Guta W. Abeshu and Hong-Yi Li Water Resources Research, 57, e2020WR029343, 2021 DOI

2019

  • Maximum carbon uptake rate dominates the interannual variability of global net ecosystem exchange Zheng Fu, Paul C. Stoy, Benjamin Poulter, Tobias Gerken, Zhen Zhang, Guta Wakbulcho Abeshu, and Shuli Niu Global Change Biology, 25, 3381-3394, 2019 DOI
  • The DOE E3SM Coupled Model Version 1: Overview and Evaluation at Standard Resolution Jean-Christophe Golaz, Peter M. Caldwell, Luke P. Van Roekel, Mark R. Petersen, Qi Tang, Jonathan D. Wolfe, Guta Abeshu, et al. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 11(7), 2089-2129, 2019 DOI

2014

  • Characterization of Ethiopian mega hydrogeological regimes using GRACE, TRMM and GLDAS datasets Joseph L. Awange, Mekonnen Gebremichael, Ehsan Forootan, Guta Wakbulcho Abeshu, Richard Anyah, Vagner G. Ferreira, and Tenalem Alemayehu Advances in Water Resources, 74, 64-78, 2014 DOI

Output Type

Conference Abstracts

16 listed

2024

  • Transfer-learning and meta-learning for hydrological signatures regionalization Guta Wakbulcho Abeshu, Hong-Yi Li, Taher Chegini, Zeli Tan, and L. Ruby Leung AGU Fall Meeting 2024, IN23A-2195, 2024

2023

  • Lag in catchment vegetation response to water availability and atmospheric dryness Guta Wakbulcho Abeshu and Hong-Yi Li EGU General Assembly 2023, EGU23-7302, 2023 DOI
  • Advances in Understanding Climate, Vegetation, Soil, and Topographic Controls on Hydrologic Patterns, Processes, and Functions at the Watershed and Larger Scales II Guta Wakbulcho Abeshu, Hong-Yi Li, and Solomon Ayalew Koriche AGU Fall Meeting 2023, 2023
  • Advancing Global Hydrological Models with a Novel Approach to Global Lake Modeling Guta Wakbulcho Abeshu, Hong-Yi Li, Thomas Wild, and Mengqi Zhao AGU Fall Meeting 2023, H53U-161, 2023

2022

  • Representing Lakes in the Global Hydrological Model Xanthos Guta Wakbulcho Abeshu, Hong-Yi Li, Thomas Wild, and Mengqi Zhao AGU Fall Meeting 2022, H32P-1127, 2022
  • A simple ecohydrological model for simulating global vegetation carbon uptake Guta Wakbulcho Abeshu, Hong-Yi Li, and L. Ruby Leung AGU Fall Meeting 2022, H26D-07, 2022

2021

  • A new global water management module: Distributed vs. Lumped representations Guta Wakbulcho Abeshu, Hong-Yi Li, Mohamad Hejazi, Thomas Wild, Chris R. Vernon, and Mengqi Zhao AGU Fall Meeting 2021, GC25L-0768, 2021
  • A unified functional relationship between catchment water balance and vegetation productivity Guta Wakbulcho Abeshu, Hong-Yi Li, Jack Brookshire, Jinyun Tang, Chonggang Xu, Nathan McDowell, and L. Ruby Leung AGU Fall Meeting 2021, H13A-07, 2021
  • Advances in Understanding Climate, Vegetation, Soil, Topographic, and Precipitation Processes, and Their Subgrid-Scale Parameterization at the Watershed and Larger Scales I Guta Wakbulcho Abeshu, Hong-Yi Li, Sisi He, and Elizabeth Anne Kalina AGU Fall Meeting 2021, 2021

2020

  • Advances in Understanding and Modeling of Climate, Water, Soil, and Vegetation Interactions at the Catchment Scale Guta Wakbulcho Abeshu, Hong-Yi Li, and Hailong Li AGU Fall Meeting 2020, 2020
  • Analytical Expression of Horton Index Using Generalized Proportionality Hypothesis Guta Wakbulcho Abeshu and Hong-Yi Li AGU Fall Meeting 2020, H099-03, 2020

2019

  • Droughts Dynamics under the Impacts of Climate, Vegetation and Their Interactions Guta Wakbulcho Abeshu AGU Fall Meeting 2019, 2019
  • Catchment-scale vegetation water use efficiency: patterns, processes and implications Guta Wakbulcho Abeshu and Hong-Yi Li AGU Fall Meeting 2019, H23P-2123, 2019
  • Global Stream Temperature Simulation and Affected Ecosystem Factors Analysis with an Earth System Modeling Approach Guta Wakbulcho Abeshu, Wondmagegn Yigzaw, Xue Zhang, Hong-Yi Li, Senlin Zhu, Tian Zhou, and L. Ruby Leung AGU Fall Meeting 2019, GC51K-1000, 2019

2018

  • Drought propagation through natural-human systems: the nonlinear filtering effects Guta Wakbulcho Abeshu and Hong-Yi Li AGU Fall Meeting 2018, H41N-2297, 2018

2017

  • Reservoir-induced Alterations in Flood Seasonality: Patterns, Processes, and Implications Guta Wakbulcho Abeshu, Hong-Yi Li, Wondmagegn Yigzaw, Mohamad Hejazi, Jinyun Tang, and Yonas Demissie AGU Fall Meeting 2017, H31A-1485, 2017

Output Type

Preprints

1 listed

2025

  • The past and future changes of river suspended sediment in the U.S. Mid-Atlantic Zeli Tan, Donghui Xu, Tian Zhou, Dongyu Feng, Lingbo Li, Matt G. Cooper, Chang Liao, Gautam Bisht, Guta Wakbulcho Abeshu, and L. Ruby Leung ESS Open Archive, 2025 DOI