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| Comments: | 32 pages (including supplementary information), 11 figures. Submitted to Water Research. Partially presented at HydroML 2025 Symposium, Minnesota Water Resources Conference 2025, and AGU Fall Meeting 2025 |
| Subjects: | Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE) |
| Cite as: | arXiv:2511.04556 [cs.AI] |
| (or arXiv:2511.04556v2 [cs.AI] for this version) | |
| https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2511.04556 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite |
From: Kun Zhang [view email]
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