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01-05-2013 | Editorial

WESS: an interdisciplinary approach to catchment research

Authors: Olaf Kolditz, Hermann Rügner, Peter Grathwohl, Peter Dietrich, Thilo Streck

Published in: Environmental Earth Sciences | Issue 2/2013

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Predicting how environmental change (climate, land use, etc.) will affect hydrological response and water quality on the long term is a grand challenge in Environmental Earth Sciences. It requires fundamental understanding of functioning of catchments and landscapes:

How do they process pollutants on the large scale (natural attenuation of diffuse pollution)?
How are processes such as flow, transport and reaction coupled?
What is the role of interfaces (atmosphere–plants–soil–groundwater–surface waters)?
How can we monitor and model water and solute fluxes across the different scales involved?

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Title: WESS: an interdisciplinary approach to catchment research
Authors: Olaf Kolditz
Hermann Rügner
Peter Grathwohl
Peter Dietrich
Thilo Streck
Publication date: 01-05-2013
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published in: Environmental Earth Sciences / Issue 2/2013
Print ISSN: 1866-6280
Electronic ISSN: 1866-6299
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-013-2466-0

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