Primary Convener:
Tobias Weber, Soil Science Section, University of Kassel

Convener:
Efstathios Diamantopoulos, Soil Physics, University of Bayreuth
Yijian Zeng, University of Twente

Early Career Convener:
Tobias Weber, Soil Science Section, University of Kassel

Chair:
Tobias Weber, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ
Efstathios Diamantopoulos, Soil Physics, University of Bayreuth

The Critical Zone (CZ) regulates a many natural processes. Within the CZ, physical, chemical, and biological processes act at different spatial and temporal scales and tt is a highly complex system with strong non-linear interactions. Recent advances highlight the importance to integrate novel measurement techniques with sophisticated modeling approaches to enhance process understanding 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 advanced modeling approaches (machine learning, data assimilation, process-based models, ...) with the aim to foster comprehensive understanding of Critical Zone processes. Topics may include: Processes in land-atmosphere interactions, interactions between soil hydrology and biogeochemical cycles, model-data integration, parameterization of soil processes across scales, nutrient dynamics, emerging pollutants, pedotransfer functions and the role of soil information, processes in the soil-plant system, and integrated surface-groundwater dynamics

Index Terms
3322 Land|atmosphere interactions
0416 Biogeophysics
1865 Soils
1875 Vadose zone

Co-Organized Sessions:
Earth and Planetary Surface Processes
Biogeosciences

Cross-Listed:
A - Atmospheric Sciences
B - Biogeosciences
EP - Earth and Planetary Surface Processes

Neighborhoods:
3. Earth Covering