Investigation of eco-hydrological processes and feedbacks in the soil-plant continuum at different spatio-temporal scales (C01)

• Subject Area: Hydrogeology, Hydrology, Limnology, Urban Water Management, Water Chemistry, Integrated Water Resources Management
• Term: from 2007 to 2018
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 15232683

Key goals are (a) to analyze soil-plant-atmosphere interactions between soil hydrologic conditions, tree water use and growth using CLM, (b) to derive parameters and boundary conditions for representing subsurface water flow of ParFlow by using stable isotopes, (c) to investigate land-use change effects on travel times of water by comparison of grassland, forest and deforested catchments, and (d) use results of (a), (b) and (c) to optimize simulations of TerrSysMP of soil water content (SWC) fields. Local and non-local controls will be investigated by modeling and derived scaling approaches will optimize data assimilation approaches within the TR32.

• DFG Programme: CRC/Transregios
• Subproject of: TRR 32: Patterns in Soil-Vegetation-Atmosphere Systems: Monitoring, Modelling and Data Assimilation
• Applicant Institution: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
• Co-Applicant Institution: Forschungszentrum Jülich
• Project Heads: Dr. Heye Bogena; Professor Dr. Bernd Diekkrüger; Dr. Andreas Lücke