AutoCF: An Automated LLM-Assisted Ecosystem for Compound Flood Simulation, Evaluation, and Impact Attribution
Abstract
Compound coastal flooding (CCF) arises from interacting coastal, precipitation, and river processes, yet modeling workflows often separate simulation, evaluation, and impact analysis. We present AutoCF, an automated ecosystem integrating data harmonization, model construction, observational evaluation, exposure analysis, complete factorial driver attribution, and cross-platform execution. The automated Hurricane Harvey simulation achieves a median root mean square error of 0.147 m and correlation of 0.951 across eight observational gauges, and a correlation of 0.942 with 55 high-water marks. Maximum water-level fields from CPU and GPU implementations agree within 0.01 m for 98.8% of cells. Attribution analysis shows that during Harvey, precipitation dominated building and population exposure, whereas coastal forcing becomes increasingly important for deep and persistent inundation. The introduced Driver Impact Shift metric further quantifies whether each driver contributed disproportionately to societal consequences relative to its flooded-area contribution. Overall, AutoCF provides a reproducible pathway from CCF model construction to evaluation and driver-specific impact interpretation.
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BibTeX
@misc{radfar2026autocf,
title = {{AutoCF: An Automated LLM-Assisted Ecosystem for Compound Flood Simulation, Evaluation, and Impact Attribution}},
author = {Soheil Radfar and Faezeh Maghsoodifar and Ning Lin and Hamed Moftakhari},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.35753},
eprint = {2609.35753},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.35753},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - AutoCF: An Automated LLM-Assisted Ecosystem for Compound Flood Simulation, Evaluation, and Impact Attribution
AU - Soheil Radfar
AU - Faezeh Maghsoodifar
AU - Ning Lin
AU - Hamed Moftakhari
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/28
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.35753
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.35753
AB - Compound coastal flooding (CCF) arises from interacting coastal, precipitation, and river processes, yet modeling workflows often separate simulation, evaluation, and impact analysis. We present AutoCF, an automated ecosystem integrating data harmonization, model construction, observational evaluation, exposure analysis, complete factorial driver attribution, and cross-platform execution. The automated Hurricane Harvey simulation achieves a median root mean square error of 0.147 m and correlation of 0.951 across eight observational gauges, and a correlation of 0.942 with 55 high-water marks. Maximum water-level fields from CPU and GPU implementations agree within 0.01 m for 98.8% of cells. Attribution analysis shows that during Harvey, precipitation dominated building and population exposure, whereas coastal forcing becomes increasingly important for deep and persistent inundation. The introduced Driver Impact Shift metric further quantifies whether each driver contributed disproportionately to societal consequences relative to its flooded-area contribution. Overall, AutoCF provides a reproducible pathway from CCF model construction to evaluation and driver-specific impact interpretation.
ER -