1. Urban hydrology, Urban flooding

2. Extreme rainfall-flood events

3. Climate change

4. Coastal Engineering 
   

1. Satial heterogeneity of Rainfall and its impact on urban hydrological resposne. NSFC, 2020-2022. 

2. A comparative study of storm variation and its impact on water quality in megacities of China and Russia. NSFC-RFBR,2021-2022.

Gu, J., Liu, S., Zhou, Z.*, Chalov, S. R., Zhuang, Q.. A Stacking Ensemble Learning Model for Monthly Rainfall Prediction in the Taihu Basin, China. Water, 2022, 14(3): 492.

Zhou, Z.*, Ren J., He, X., Liu, S. A comparative study of extensive machine learning models for predicting long‐term monthly rainfall with an ensemble of climatic and meteorological predictors. Hydrological processes, 2021;35:e14424.

Zhou, Z.*, Smith, J.A., Baeck, M.L., Wright, D.B., Smith, B.K., Liu S. The impact of the spatiotemporal structure of rainfall on flood frequency over a small urban watershed: an approach coupling stochastic storm transposition and hydrologic modeling. Hydrology and Earth System Science, 2021, 25(8): 4701-4717.

Zhuang, Q., Liu S., Zhou Z*. Spatial Heterogeneity Analysis of Short-Duration Extreme Rainfall Events in Megacities in China. Water, 2020, 12(12), 3364.

Hu, Z., Liu, S., Zhong, G., Lin, H., Zhou, Z. Modified Mann-Kendall trend test for hydrological time series under the scaling hypothesis and its application. Hydrological Sciences Journal, 2020,65(14): 2419-2438.

 Zhou, Z. *, Wright, D.B., and Liu, S. Analysis of urban design storm based on stochastic storm transposition. Advances in water science, 2020, 31(4): 583-591.

Zhou, Z. *, Smith, J.A., Wright, D.B., Baeck, M.L., Yang, L., and Liu, S. Storm catalog-based analysis of rainfall heterogeneity and frequency in a complex terrain. Water Resources Research, 2018, 55(3), 1871-1889

Ten Veldhuis, M.-C.*, Zhou, Z.*, Yang, L., Liu, S., and Smith, J. The role of storm scale, position and movement in controlling urban flood response. Hydrology and Earth System Science, 2018, 22(1), 417-436.

Zhou, Z. *, Smith, J.A., Yang, L., Baeck, M.L., Chaney, M., Ten Veldhuis, M.C., Deng, H. and Liu, S. The complexities of urban flood response: Flood frequency analyses for the Charlotte Metropolitan Region. Water Resources Research, 2017, 53(8), 7401-7425

Zhou, Z., Liu, S., Hu, Y., Liang, Y., Lin, H. and Guo, Y. Analysis of precipitation extremes in the Taihu Basin of China based on the regional L-moment method. Hydrology Research, 2016, 48(2), 468-479

Zhou, Z., Liu, S., Zhong, G. and Cai, Y. Flood disaster and flood control measurements in Shanghai. Natural Hazards Review, 2017, 18(1), p.B5016001

Zhou, Z., Liu, S., Hua, H., Chen, C.S., Zhong, G., Lin, H. and Huang, C.W. Frequency analysis for predicting extreme precipitation in Changxing station of Taihu Basin, China. Journal of Coastal Research, 2014, 68(sp1), 144-151

Zhang, X., Hu Y., Liu, S., Zhong, G., Zhou, Z. A comparison of parameter estimation methods using typical precipitation data in palin river networks: case study in Taihu Basin, China. Proceedings of the 26th International Ocean and Polar Engineering Conference. Rhodes, Greece, June 26-July1, 2016. ISOPE, 2016, 792-797.