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Peer-reviewed journal publications

Lala, J., Regassa, M. D., Zhang, Y., You, L., & Block, P. (2023). Incorporating Seasonality into an Agroeconomic Model of Ethiopia. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 149(2), 05022018. doi:10.1061/JWRMD5.WRENG-5785 

Juturu, P., Conlon, T., Zhang, Y., Avraam, C., Siddiqui, S., Simane, B., & Zaitchik, B. (2023). Optimal grid expansion under future electricity demand for groundwater irrigation in Ethiopia. Energy for Sustainable Development, 72, 351-377. doi:10.1016/j.esd.2022.12.006 

Zhang, Y., Binsted, M., Iyer, G., Kim, S., Wild, T., & Zhao, M. (2022). Long-term basin-scale hydropower expansion under alternative scenarios in a global multisector model. Environmental Research Letters, 17(11), 114029. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ac9ac9 

Bazzana, D., Foltz, J., & Zhang, Y. (2022). Impact of climate smart agriculture on food security: An agent-based analysis. Food Policy, 111, 102304. doi:10.1016/j.foodpol.2022.102304 

Snyder, A., Waldhoff, S., Ollenberger, M., & Zhang, Y. (2021). Empirical estimation of weather-driven yield shocks using biophysical characteristics for U.S. rainfed and irrigated maize, soybeans, and winter wheat. Environmental Research Letters, 16(9), 094007. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ac15ce 

Avraam, C., Zhang, Y., Sankaranarayanan, S., Zaitchik, B., Moynihan, E., Juturu, P., Neff, R., & Siddiqui, S. (2021). Optimization-Based Systems Modeling for the Food-Energy-Water Nexus. Current Sustainable/Renewable Energy Reports, 8(1), 4-16. doi:10.1007/s40518-020-00161-5 

Zhang, Y., Riera, J., Ostrow, K., Siddiqui, S., de Silva, H., Sarkar, S., Fernando, L., & Gardner, L. (2020). Modeling the relative role of human mobility, land-use and climate factors on dengue outbreak emergence in Sri Lanka, BMC Infectious Diseases, 20(1), 649. doi:10.1186/s12879-020-05369-w

Sankaranarayanan, S., Zhang, Y., Carney, J., Nigussie, Y., Amphune, B. E., Birhanu, B, S., Zaitchik, B., & Siddiqui, S. (2020). What Are the Domestic and Regional Impacts From Ethiopia's Policy on the Export Ban of Teff?, Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 4: 4. doi:10.3389/fsufs.2020.00004

Zhang, Y., You, L., Lee, D., & Block, P. (2020). Integrating Climate Prediction and Regionalization into an Agro-economic Model to Guide Agricultural Planning, Climatic Change, 158(3), 435-451.  doi:10.1007/s10584-019-02559-7

Blum, A. G., Zaitchik, B., Alexander, S., Wu, S., Zhang, Y., Shukla, S., Alemneh, T., & Block, P. (2019). A Grand Prediction: Communicating and Evaluating 2018 Summertime Upper Blue Nile Rainfall and Streamflow Forecasts in Preparation for Ethiopia's New Dam. Frontiers in Water, 1(3). doi:10.3389/frwa.2019.00003

Zhang, Y., Moges, S., & Block, P. (2018). Does objective cluster analysis serve as a useful precursor to seasonal precipitation prediction at local scale? Application to western Ethiopia. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 22(1), 143-157. doi:10.5194/hess-22-143-2018

Zhang, Y., Moges, S., & Block, P. (2016). Optimal Cluster Analysis for Objective Regionalization of Seasonal Precipitation in Regions of High Spatial-Temporal Variability: Application to Western Ethiopia. Journal of Climate, 29(10), 3697-3717. doi:10.1175/Jcli-D-15-0582.1

Zhang, Y., Erkyihum, S. T., & Block, P. (2016). Filling the GERD: evaluating hydroclimatic variability and impoundment strategies for Blue Nile riparian countries. Water International, 41(4), 593-610. doi:10.1080/02508060.2016.1178467

Zhang, Y., Block, P., Hammond, M., & King, A. (2015). Ethiopia's Grand Renaissance Dam: Implications for Downstream Riparian Countries. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 141(9), 05015002. doi:10.1061/(Asce)Wr.1943-5452.0000520

刘晖, 胡天觉, 曾光明, 吴娟娟, 杨春平, 张滢, & 沈莹. (2012). 以两种酚类有机物为基质的微生物燃料电池产电特性. 环境工程学报, 6(1), 212-217. 链接.

Liu, H., Hu, T., Zeng, G., Wu, J., Yang, C., Zhang, Y., & Shen, Y. (2012). Power Generation using Two Kinds of Phenolic Compounds as Substrates in Microbial Fuel Cell. Chinese Journal of Environmental Engineering, 6(1), 212-217. Link.

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Binsted, M., Suchyta, H., Zhang, Y., Vimmerstedt, L., Mowers, M., Ledna, C., Muratori, M., & Harris, C. (2022). Renewable Energy and Efficiency Technologies in Scenarios of U.S. Decarbonization in Two Types of Models: Comparison of GCAM Modeling and Sector-Specific Modeling. United States. doi:10.2172/1903177 

Book Chapter

Zhang, Y., Erkyihum, S. T., & Block, P. (2017). From projecting hydroclimate variability to filling the GERD: upstream hydropower generation and downstream releases. In Z. Yihdego, A. Rieu-Clarke, & A. E. Cascão (Eds.), The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam and the Nile Basin: Implications for Transboundary Water Cooperation. New York, NY: Routledge, Taylor & Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315160122