Wenbo Zhou¹, Valeriy Yu Ivanov², Aleksey Y Sheshukov³, Jingfeng Wang⁴, Husayn Ahmad El Sharif⁵, Desheng Liu⁶, Valeriy Mazepa⁷, Stepan Shiyatov⁷ and Alexander Sokolov⁸, (1)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (2)University of Michigan, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (3)Kansas State University, Biological & Agricultural Engineering, Manhattan, KS, United States, (4)GA Ins of Tech-Civil & Env Eng, Atlanta, GA, United States, (5)Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Lake Worth, FL, United States, (6)The Ohio State University, Department of Geography, Columbus, OH, United States, (7)Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Yekaterinburg, Russia, (8)Arctic Research Station, Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Labytnangi, Russia