1. Senior Engineer, Dept. of Project Planning, Changjiang River, Scientific Research Institute, 23#, Huangpu Rd., Wuhan 430010, China (corresponding author). ORCID: .
2. Associate Professor, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Univ. of Houston, Houston, TX 77204.
3. Assistant Professor, Dept. of Statistics, Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR 97331.
4. Associate Professor, Dept. of Mathematics, Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR 97331.
5. Associate Professor, School of Hydropower and Information Engineering, Huazhong Univ. of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China.