The International Soil Modelling Consortium (ISMC) Soil and GEWEX Water Initiative (SoilWat) brings together two research communities to improve the representation of soil and subsurface processes in weather and climate models. The subsurface modeling community, broadly represented ISMC, and the climate modeling community, represented by GEWEX, e.g. via its GLASS (Global Land Atmosphere Systems Study) panel, are working together to identify the most pressing challenges related to this effort and ways forward.
The ISMC – GEWEX SoilWat meeting 2025 serves as a continuation of the first first GEWEX SoilWat Initiative Planning Workshop held in Leipzig, Germany, in June 2016. The 2025 workshop aims to assess achievements and identify research gaps since our last meeting. The main objective is to write a paper that will outline a roadmap, identifying the next frontiers and challenges in this field, and how collaboration can address these. This is especially important since significant developments have taken place within the climate and soil modeling communities in recent years, in particular those relating to Machine Learning, Digital Twins, and high-resolution Earth System modeling.
The topics of this meeting are:
Discussion will take place in three Break-out sessions
All participants will be asked to provide the organizers with a number of slides, ideally by 16 June, but at the very latest by 30 June 2025, following a template, that outlines:
For the slide deck template click here. We kindly ask that you send your slide deck to Anne Verhoef and Yijian Zeng no later than June 16.
If you have received an invitation but have not yet registered and would still like to participate, please register as soon as possible.
Click here for the Agenda.
If you are going to give a presentation, please use the slide deck template and send to Anne Verhoef and Yijian Zeng no later than June 16.
The ISMC – GEWEX SoilWat meeting will take place at:
University of Reading
Whiteknights Campus,
JJ Thomson building
Slingo Lecture Theatre (G02)
Pepper Ln,
Reading RG6 6ED,
United Kingdom
The ISMC–GEWEX SoilWat Meeting 2025 is ‘by invitation only’. If you have received an invitation and plan on attending, please register here.
Practical information, including visa requirements, lodging and transportation, can be found at Venue & Travel.
Additional background information:
1st GEWEX SoilWat Initiative Planning Workshop, Leipzig, Germany, June 2016 – Discussions and Outcomes
SoilWat’s vision GEWEX Quarterly Vol 31, no.2, 2021, pg 4–9
The ISMC – GEWEX SoilWat meeting 2025 has wrapped up!
Huge thanks to all participants for joining SoilWat@25 and making it such a lively and engaging workshop! The energy, great discussions, and shared enthusiasm to collaborate on our key activities were truly inspiring. A special shoutout to the University of Reading for hosting this important meeting and making it all possible.
From left to right, standing:
Souhail Boussetta, Matthias Cuntz, Yong Wang, Attila Nemes, Anne Verhoef, Filip Kiałka, Manon Sabot, Martine Van der Ploeg, Nurit Agam, Tobias Weber, Eleanor Blyth, Nick Jarvis, Liz Cooper, John Edwards, Nina Raoult, Lutz Weihermüller, Jan Vanderborght, Nathaniel Chaney, Martin Best, Narender Reddy KangariFrom left to right, sitting:
Rajsekhar Kandala, Shijie Jiang, Nunzio Romano, Sinikka Paulus, Yijian Zeng, Taiqi Lian, Xuelong Chen, Ashley Bonner
Background image courtesy of USDA NRCS Montana
Banner courtesy of (left to right) Ronald Saunders – WALKING TOWARDS CAVERSHAM BRIDGE, Nick Sologoub – Reading. UK, Tristram Brelstaff – Reading University Panorama with Whiteknights House
