Information - HS8.3 Translating vadoze zone science in soil and water management: indicators, models, monitoring and decision making.
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Large scale soil and water resources management requires a thorough understanding of the vadoze zone processes and the integration of this knowledge into holistic management and engineering tools. While considerable progress has been made in elucidating vadoze zone processes through advanced experimental, theoretical and modelling analysis, it is still difficult to predict their evolution at the space and time scales of interest for environmental planning. Given the European Water Framework Directive and Thematic Strategy on Soil, there is a challenge to integrate the most advanced and cost-effective characterization of vadoze zone processes with simulation models so that reliable indicators of soil and water functions can be established. Rather than using static indicators (such as field water capacity), it is essential to assess functional indicators accounting for the dynamics of the vadoze zone processes.
To discuss these problems and bridge the gap between fundamental vadose zone science and soil and water management, this session welcomes contributions related to the following topics:
* Use of cost-effective and parsimonious methods to parameterize soil hydraulic behavior at large scales (e.g., pedotransfer functions, etc.);
* Development of indicators of the physical, chemical and biological quality of the vadose zone;
* Aggregation of indicators for vadose zone transport processes and properties;
* Assimilation of monitoring into effective vadose zone models;
* Role and sensitivity of vadose zone processes in soil and water resources management;
* Control of vadose zone processes;
* Integration of vadose zone science in holistic approaches of land and water resource management.
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