Han Qiu Ph.D.

Han Qiu Ph.D.

I am a broadly trained hydrologist, water resources and environmental engineer with transdisciplinary expertise spanning computational hydrology and hydrodynamics, water quality and biogeochemistry, environmental and earth system modeling, coupled human-earth system modeling and integrated assessment modeling, developed through extensive research across diverse systems.

Publications

An integrated watershed-scale framework to model nitrogen transport and transformations

Published in Science of the Total Environment, 2023

This paper is about the number 2. The number 3 is left for future work.

Recommended citation: Qiu, Han, Jie Niu, Dean G. Baas, and Mantha S. Phanikumar. 2023. An integrated watershed-scale framework to model nitrogen transport and transformations. Science of The Total Environment 882, 163348. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.163348. "Paper Title Number 2." Journal 1. 1(2). https://qhgogogo.github.io/han-qiu-hydrolab/files/paper2.pdf

Publications

(*corresponding author, +: paper with students mentored)

  1. Sun, Zhenting, Lei Ma, Quan Li, Yaping Deng, Han Qiu, Haichun Ma and Jiazhong Qian. “Three-Dimensional Discrete Fracture Network Identification Based on Deep Learning and Reversible Jump Markov Chain Monte Carlo Algorithm.” International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences 197 (January 2026): 106327. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijrmms.2025.106327. (2026)
  2. Tong, Yiming, Yu Chen, Yanping Qu, Virgílio A. Bento, Han Qiu, Jingyu Zeng, Qianfeng Wang. “Global Rainfall Erosivity: Observation, Attribution, and Projection.” International Soil and Water Conservation Research, December 19, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iswcr.2025.12.005. (2025)
  3. Yang, Xiaofan, Yu Chen, Han Qiu, Virgílio A. Bento, Hongquan Song, Wei Shui, Jingyu Zeng, and Qianfeng Wang . “Enhancing Evapotranspiration Estimates Under Climate Change: The Role of CO2 Physiological Feedback and CMIP6 Scenarios.” Hydrology and Earth Systems Sciences, 29, no. 20 (2025): 5645–64. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-5645-2025. (2025).
  4. Tong, Yiming, Yu Chen, Yanping Qu, Virgílio A. Bento, Han Qiu, Wei Shui and Qianfeng Wang. “Evolution and Prediction of Drought-Flood Abrupt Alternation in mainland China Using an Improved Index.” Climate Dynamics 63, no. 10 (2025): 392. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-025-07885-4. (2025)
  5. He, Mingxia, Jie Niu, William J. Riley, Chaopeng Shen, John M. Melack, Han Qiu, Bill X. Hu et al. “Deep Learning and Remote-Sensed Observations Reveal Global Underestimation of River Obstructions.” Water Resources Research 61, no. 9 (2025): e2024WR039692. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024WR039692. (2025).
  6. Niu, Jie, Mengyu Xie, Yanqun Lu, Liwei Sun, Han Qiu, Chuanhao Wu, Pan Wu. “Refining Marine Net Primary Production Estimates: Advanced Uncertainty Quantification through Probability Prediction Models.” Biogeosciences 22, no. 19: 5463–82 (2025).
  7. Qiu, Han*, Ryna Cui, Xin Zhao, Xuesong Zhang, Ming Pan and Min Chen. Uncertain global terrestrial carbon cycles complicate the predictability of global energy transition pathways, Earth’s Future, https://doi. org/10.1029/2024EF005283 (2025).
  8. Wang, Qianfeng, Xiaofan Yang, Yanping Qu, Han Qiu, Yiping Wu, Junyu Qi, Hongquan Song, Yu Chen, Huaqiang Chu, and Jingyu Zeng. “Global Climate Change Exacerbates Socioeconomic Drought Severity Across Vegetation Zones During 1901–2018.” International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, April 7, (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13753-025-00631-8.
  9. Chen, Huixia, Han Qiu, Virgílio A. Bento, and Qianfeng Wang. “Representing Low Temperature Events and Uncovering Their Dynamics between 1979 and 2018 amid Climate Change.” Climate Dynamics 63, no. 2 (February 18, 2025): 127. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-025-07631-w (2025).
  10. Xu, Donghui, Gautam Bisht, Dongyu Feng, Zeli Tan, Lingcheng Li, Han Qiu, and L. Ruby Leung. “Impacts of Sea-Level Rise on Coastal Groundwater Table Simulated by an Earth System Model With a Land-Ocean Coupling Scheme.” Earth’s Future 12, no. 8, 2024: e2024EF004479. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024EF004479. (2024)
  11. Qiu, Han*, Gautam Bisht, Lingcheng Li, Dalei Hao, and Donghui Xu. Development of Inter-Grid Cell Lateral Unsaturated and Saturated Flow Model in the E3SM Land Model (v2.0). Geoscientific Model development, 17, 143–167, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-143-2024 (2024).
  12. Niu, Jie, Yanqun Lu, Mengyu Xie, Linjian Ou, Lei Cui, Han Qiu, and Songhui Lu. Prediction of Aureococcus Anophageffens Using Machine Learning and Deep Learning. Marine Pollution Bulletin 200: 116148. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2024.116148. (2024)
  13. Ma, Lei, Chen Zuo, Han Qiu, Haichun Ma, Man Yang, Chunyin Zhou, and Jiazhong Qian. A Multilevel Classification Strategy for the Identification of Discontinuities from 3D Point Clouds of Complicated Rock Surfaces. Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00603-024-04109-9 (2024)
  14. Niu, Jie, Wei Xu, Han Qiu*+, Shan Li and Feifei Dong, 1-D Coupled Surface Flow and Transport Equations revisited via the Physics-Informed Neural Network Approach. Journal of Hydrology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2023.130048 (2023)
  15. Wells, Jon M., Maricar Aguilos, Xin Huang, Enqing Hou, Han Qiu, Yuan Gao, Lifen Jiang, Yiqi Luo, et al. Attributing Interannual Variability of Net Ecosystem Exchange to Modeled Ecological Processes in Forested Wetlands of Contrasting Stand Age. Landscape Ecology, September 8, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-023-01768-x (2023)
  16. Qiu, Han, Jie Niu, Dean G. Baas, and Mantha S. Phanikumar, An integrated watershed-scale framework to model nitrogen transport and transformations. Science of The Total Environment 882, 163348. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.163348 (2023)
  17. Niu,Jie, Shan Li, Wei Xu, Feifei Dong, Han Qiu and Fen Huang. An Efficient LSTM Network for Predicting the Tailing and Multi-Peaked Breakthrough Curves. Journal of Hydrology 624 (September): 129914. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2023.129914 (2023)
  18. Qiu, Han*, Xuesong Zhang, Anni Yang, Kimberly P. Wickland, Edward G. Stets, and Min Chen. 2023. Watershed Carbon Yield Derived from Gauge Observations and River Network Connectivity in the United States. Scientific Data 10 (1): 278. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02162-7 (2023)
  19. Qiu, Han*, Dalei Hao, Yelu Zeng, Xuesong Zhang, and Min Chen. Global and northern-high-latitude net ecosystem production in the 21st century from CMIP6 experiments. Earth System Dynamics 14, 1, 1–16. DOI:https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-14-1-2023 (2023)
  20. Campbell, D. Anthony, Temilola Fatoyinbo, Sean P. Charles, Laura L. Bourgeau-Chavez, Joaquim Goes, Helga Gomes, Meghan Halabisky, James Holmquist, Steven Lohrenz, Catherine Mitchell, L. Monika Moskal, Benjamin Poulter, Han Qiu, Celio H. Resende De Sousa, Michael Sayers, Marc Simard, Anthony J. Stewart, Debjani Singh, Carl Trettin, Jinghui Wu, Xuesong Zhang, and David Lagomasino. 2022. A review of carbon monitoring in wet carbon systems using remote sensing. Environ. Res. Lett. 17, 2 (February 2022), 025009. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac4d4d (2022)
  21. Liao, Cuijuan, Wenjuan Huang, Jon Wells, Ruiying Zhao, Keanan Allen, Enqing Hou, Xin Huang, Han Qiu, Feng Tao, Lifen Jiang, Maricar Aguilos, Lin Lin, Xiaomeng Huang, and Yiqi Luo. 2022. Microbe-iron interactions control lignin decomposition in soil. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 173, (October 2022), 108803. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2022.108803 (2022)
  22. Xu,Wei, Jie Niu, Wenyu Gan, Siyu Gou, Shuai Zhang, Han Qiu, and Tianjiu Jiang. 2022. “Identification of Paralytic Shellfish Toxin-Producing Microalgae Using Machine Learning and Deep Learning Methods.” Journal of Oceanology and Limnology 40 (6): 2202–17. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00343-022-1312-1 (2022)
  23. Zhang, Juan, Ziyang Feng, Jie Niu, John M. Melack, Jin Zhang, Han Qiu, Bill X. Hu, and William J. Riley. 2022. “Spatiotemporal Variations of Evapotranspiration in Amazonia Using the Wavelet Phase Difference Analysis.” Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 127 (10): e2021JD034959. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JD034959 (2022)
  24. Yang, Anni, Matthew Rodriguez, Di Yang, Jue Yang, Wenwen Cheng, Changjie Cai, and Han Qiu. 2022. “Leveraging Machine Learning and Geo-Tagged Citizen Science Data to Disentangle the Factors of Avian Mortality Events at the Species Level.” Remote Sensing 14 (10): 2369 (2022)
  25. Hao, Dalei, Yelu Zeng, Zhaoying Zhang, Yongguang Zhang, Han Qiu, Khelvi Biriukova, Marco Celesti, et al. 2022. “Adjusting Solar-Induced Fluorescence to Nadir-Viewing Provides a Better Proxy for GPP.” ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 186 (April): 157–69. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2022.01.016 (2022)
  26. Zeng, Yelu, Min Chen, Dalei Hao, Alexander Damm, Grayson Badgley, Uwe Rascher, Jennifer E. Johnson, Han Qiu , Vera Krieger et al. 2022. “Combining Near-Infrared Radiance of Vegetation and Fluorescence Spectroscopy to Detect Effects of Abiotic Changes and Stresses.” Remote Sensing of Environment 270 (March): 112856. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2021.112856 (2022)
  27. Zeng, Yelu, Dalei Hao, Grayson Badgley, Alexander Damm, Uwe Rascher, Youngryel Ryu, Jennifer Johnson, Han Qiu, Vera Krieger, and Shengbiao Wu. 2021. “Estimating Near-Infrared Reflectance of Vegetation from Hyperspectral Data.” Remote Sensing of Environment 267: 112723 (2021)
  28. Qiu, Han, Junyu Qi, Sangchul Lee, Glenn E. Moglen, Gregory W. McCarty, Min Chen, and Xuesong Zhang. 2021. Effects of temporal resolution of river routing on hydrologic modeling and aquatic ecosystem health assessment with the SWAT model. Environmental Modelling & Software 146, 105232. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2021.105232 (2021)
  29. Sun, Liwei, Jie Niu, Fen Huang, Jing-Chun Feng, Chuanhao Wu, Han Qiu, Bill X. Hu. An Efficient Fractional-in-Time Transient Storage Model for Simulating the Multi-peaked Breakthrough Curves, Journal of Hydrology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126570 (2021)
  30. Wang, Qianfeng, Junyu Qi, Han Qiu, Jia Li, Jefferson Cole, Stephanie Waldhoff, and Xuesong Zhang. 2021. “Pronounced Increases in Future Soil Erosion and Sediment Deposition as Influenced by Freeze–Thaw Cycles in the Upper Mississippi River Basin.” Environmental Science & Technology 55 (14): 9905–15. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.1c02692 (2021)
  31. Ma, Lei, Tingwei Huang, Han Qiu, Zhangxian Yang, Xiaorui He, Jiazhong Qian. Hydrogeochemical characteristic evaluation and irrigation suitability assessment of shallow groundwater in Dangshan County, China. Geosciences Journal, 1-18. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12303-020-0064-1 (2021)
  32. Yang, Anni, Jue Yang, Di Yang, Rongting Xu, Yaqian He, Amanda Aragon, and Han Qiu. 2021. “Human Mobility to Parks Under the COVID-19 Pandemic and Wildfire Seasons in the Western and Central United States.” GeoHealth 5 (12): e2021GH000494. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GH000494 (2021)
  33. Yang, Di, Anni Yang, Jue Yang, Rongting Xu, Han Qiu. Unprecedented Migratory Bird Die‐off: A Citizen‐based Analysis on the Spatiotemporal Patterns of Mass Mortality Events in the Western United States. GeoHealth, e2021GH000395. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GH000395 (2021)
  34. Hao, Dalei, Yelu Zeng, Han Qiu, Khelvi Biriukova, Marco Celesti, Mirco Migliavacca, Micol Rossini, Ghassem R Asrar, Min Chen. Practical approaches for normalizing directional solar-induced fluorescence to a standard viewing geometry. Remote Sensing of Environment, 255, 112171. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2020.112171 (2021)
  35. Qiu, Han, Stephen K Hamilton, Mantha S Phanikumar. Modeling the effects of vegetation on stream temperature dynamics in a large, mixed land cover watershed in the Great Lakes region. Journal of Hydrology, 581, 124283. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j. jhydrol.2019.124283 (2020)
  36. Liu, HaiFan, Heng Dai, Jie Niu, Bill X Hu, Dongwei Gui, Han Qiu, Ming Ye, Xingyuan Chen, Chuanhao Wu, Jin Zhang, William Riley. Hierarchical sensitivity analysis for a large-scale process-based hydrological model applied to an Amazonian watershed. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 24(10), 4971-4996. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-4971-2020 (2020)
  37. Sun, Liwei, Han Qiu+, Chuanhao Wu, Jie Niu, Bill X Hu. A review of applications of fractional advection–dispersion equations for anomalous solute transport in surface and subsurface water. WIREs Water 7, e1448. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1448 (2020)
  38. Sun, Liwei, Han Qiu+, Jie Niu, Bill X Hu, James F Kelly, Diogo Bolster, Mantha S Phanikumar. Comparison of negative skewed space fractional models with time nonlocal approaches for stream solute transport modeling. Journal of Hydrology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2019.124504 (2020)
  39. Qiu, Han, Phillip Blaen, Sophie Comer‐Warner, David M Hannah, Stefan Krause, Mantha S Phanikumar. Evaluating a coupled phenology‐surface energy balance model to understand stream‐subsurface temperature dynamics in a mixed‐use farmland catchment. Water Resources Research, 55(2), 1675-1697. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1029/ 2018WR023644 (2019)
  40. Zhang, Juan, Xiaoying Zhang, Jie Niu, Bill X Hu, Mohamad Reza Soltanian, Han Qiu, Lei Yang. Prediction of groundwater level in seashore reclaimed land using wavelet and artificial neural network-based hybrid model. Journal of Hydrology, 577, 123948. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2019.123948 (2019)
  41. Qiu, Han, Jie Niu, Mantha S Phanikumar. Quantifying the space–time variability of water balance components in an agricultural basin using a process-based hydrologic model and the Budyko framework. Science of the Total Environment, 676, 176-189. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.04.147 (2019)
  42. Qiu, Han, Jie Niu, Bill X Hu. Quantifying the integrated water and carbon cycle in a data-limited karst basin using a process-based hydrologic model. Environmental Earth Sciences, 78(11), 1-10. DOI: 10.1007/s12665-019-8324-y (2019)
  43. Yang, Di, Anni Yang, Han Qiu, Yao Zhou, Hannah Herrero, Chiung-Shiuan Fu, Qiang Yu, Jingyin Tang. A Citizen-Contributed GIS Approach for Evaluating the Impacts of Land Use on Hurricane-Harvey-Induced Flooding in Houston Area. Land 8, no. 2: 25. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/land8020025 (2019)
  44. Zhang, Juan, Han Qiu, Xiaoyu Li, Jie Niu, Meredith B Nevers, Xiaonong Hu, Mantha S Phanikumar. Real-Time nowcasting of microbiological water quality at recreational beaches: A wavelet and artificial neural network-based hybrid modeling approach. Environmental Science & Technology, 52(15), 8446-8455. DOI: https://doi.org/ 10.1021/acs.est.8b01022 (2018)
  45. Ammar Safaie, Chinh Dang, Han Qiu, Hayder Radha, Mantha S Phanikumar. Manifold methods for assimilating geophysical and meteorological data in Earth system models and their components. Journal of Hydrology, 544, 383-396. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2016.11.009 (2017)
  46. Shao Sen-Lin, Jiangyun Li, Han Qiu, 2011, “Numerical simulation analysis for improving the performance of Vortex Diode”, Journal of Engineering Thermo-Physics, printed in Chinese. (2011)