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The work reported in this paper is funded by the Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 51279144 and 11432015) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. KZZD-EW-05-01-03). The comments of anonymous reviewers and editors helped improve the manuscript, which are very much appreciated.

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Received: Sep 5, 2015
Accepted: Sep 20, 2016
Published online: Jan 23, 2017
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Zhixian Cao [email protected]
Professor, State Key Laboratory of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering Science, Wuhan Univ., Wuhan 430072, China; Professor, Institute for Infrastructure and Environment, Heriot-Watt Univ., Edinburgh EH14 4AS, U.K. (corresponding author). E-mail: [email protected]
Chunchen Xia [email protected]
Ph.D. Candidate, State Key Laboratory of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering Science, Wuhan Univ., Wuhan 430072, China. E-mail: [email protected]
Gareth Pender [email protected]
Professor, Institute for Infrastructure and Environment, Heriot-Watt Univ., Edinburgh EH14 4AS, U.K. E-mail: [email protected]
Qingquan Liu [email protected]
Professor, Dept. of Mechanics, School of Aerospace Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China. E-mail: [email protected]

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