Session: On the Scaling Behavior of Subsurface Flow and Soil Hydraulic Properties in Hydrologic and Earth System Models Oral

Division: SSSA Division: Soil Physics and Hydrology

Title: On the Scaling Behavior of Subsurface Flow and Soil Hydraulic Properties in Hydrologic and Earth System Models Oral

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Format: Oral Topical Session
Keywords: earth system models, hydraulic properties, scaling and subsurface flow

Session Description: Land surface modeling at field scales (10-100 m) has been recognized as one of the grand challenges of hydrologic modeling. Despite advances in computational power to simulate processes at finer spatial scales, the conceptualization and characterization of the land surface remains a pervasive challenge. This session aims to bring together soil physics and hydrologic modeling communities to explore new frontiers for interlinking pore-scale hydrologic processes to landscape hydrologic expressions at large scales for improved hydrologic prediction. We solicit presentations that focus on recent advances for exploring scaling behavior of soil hydraulic properties and methods on representing sub-grid spatial heterogeneity.