01.05.2013 | Editorial
WESS: an interdisciplinary approach to catchment research
Erschienen in: Environmental Earth Sciences | Ausgabe 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)?
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How are processes such as flow, transport and reaction coupled?
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What is the role of interfaces (atmosphere–plants–soil–groundwater–surface waters)?
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How can we monitor and model water and solute fluxes across the different scales involved?