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HS8.3.2 | Advances in Critical Zone Understanding through Integration of Novel Measurement Techniques and Modelling Approaches
Advances in Critical Zone Understanding through Integration of Novel Measurement Techniques and Modelling Approaches
Convener: Tobias Karl David Weber | Co-conveners: Yijian Zeng, Anne Verhoef, Efstathios Diamantopoulos
The Critical Zone (CZ) regulates many natural processes. Within the CZ, physical, chemical, and biological processes act at different spatial and temporal scales and it is a highly complex system with strong non-linear interactions. Recent advances highlight the opportunities of integrating novel measurement techniques with sophisticated modelling approaches to enhance process understanding and representation of CZ dynamics. This inter-disciplinary session brings together scientists to explore how cutting-edge measurement techniques (remote sensing, isotopic tracing, and high-resolution sensor networks, …) can be combined with advances modelling approaches (machine learning, data assimilation, coupled process-based models, constraint-based modelling, …) with the aim to foster comprehensive understanding of CZ processes. Topics may include: advances in measurements and modelling, processes in land-atmosphere interactions, upscaling of soil processes, interactions between soil hydrology and biogeochemical cycles, processes in the soil-plant system, parameterisation of soil processes across scales, and model-data integration.