SOIL,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
10(2), P. 587 - 617
Published: Sept. 9, 2024
Abstract.
To
effectively
guide
agricultural
management
planning
strategies
and
policy,
it
is
important
to
simulate
water
quantity
quality
patterns
quantify
the
impact
of
land
use
climate
change
on
soil
functions,
health,
hydrological
other
underlying
processes.
Environmental
models
that
depict
alterations
in
surface
groundwater
at
catchment
scale
require
substantial
input,
particularly
concerning
movement
retention
unsaturated
zone.
Over
past
few
decades,
numerous
information
sources,
containing
structured
data
diverse
basic
advanced
parameters,
alongside
innovative
solutions
estimate
missing
data,
have
become
increasingly
available.
This
study
aims
(i)
catalogue
open-source
datasets
pedotransfer
functions
(PTFs)
applicable
simulation
studies
across
European
catchments;
(ii)
evaluate
performance
selected
PTFs;
(iii)
present
compiled
R
scripts
proposing
estimation
address
physical,
hydraulic,
chemical
needs
gaps
catchment-scale
environmental
modelling
Europe.
Our
focus
encompassed
properties,
bulk
density,
porosity,
albedo,
erodibility
factor,
field
capacity,
wilting
point,
available
saturated
hydraulic
conductivity,
phosphorus
content.
We
aim
recommend
widely
supported
sources
pioneering
prediction
methods
maintain
physical
consistency
them
through
streamlined
workflows.
Reviews of Geophysics,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
63(1)
Published: Jan. 25, 2025
Abstract
The
soil
health
assessment
has
evolved
from
focusing
primarily
on
agricultural
productivity
to
an
integrated
evaluation
of
biota
and
biotic
processes
that
impact
properties.
Consequently,
shifted
a
predominantly
physicochemical
approach
incorporating
ecological,
biological
molecular
microbiology
indicators.
This
shift
enables
comprehensive
exploration
microbial
community
properties
their
responses
environmental
changes
arising
climate
change
anthropogenic
disturbances.
Despite
the
increasing
availability
indicators
(physical,
chemical,
biological)
data,
holistic
mechanistic
linkage
not
yet
been
fully
established
between
functions
across
multiple
spatiotemporal
scales.
article
reviews
state‐of‐the‐art
monitoring,
understanding
how
soil‐microbiome‐plant
contribute
feedback
mechanisms
causes
in
properties,
as
well
these
have
functions.
Furthermore,
we
survey
opportunities
afforded
by
soil‐plant
digital
twin
approach,
integrative
framework
amalgamates
process‐based
models,
Earth
Observation
data
assimilation,
physics‐informed
machine
learning,
achieve
nuanced
comprehension
health.
review
delineates
prospective
trajectory
for
monitoring
embracing
systematically
observe
model
system.
We
further
identify
gaps
opportunities,
provide
perspectives
future
research
enhanced
intricate
interplay
hydrological
processes,
hydraulics,
microbiome,
landscape
genomics.
Water Resources Research,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
59(3)
Published: Feb. 25, 2023
Abstract
The
extent
and
mechanisms
by
which
precipitation
extremes
affect
hydrological
processes
in
the
critical
zone
(CZ)
of
loess
possessing
a
thick
unsaturated
remains
poorly
understood.
To
this
end,
we
here
employed
coupled
liquid‒vapor‒heat‒airflow
STEMMUS
(simultaneous
transfer
energy,
mass,
momentum
soil)
model
to
investigate
impact
extreme
precipitation,
at
both
event
annual
scales,
on
CZ
within
semiarid
site
vegetated
apple
trees
China's
Loess
Plateau.
At
scale,
vapor
flux
was
two
orders
magnitude
lower
than
liquid
water
flux.
However,
thermal
penetrated
depths
200
cm,
whereas
isothermal
only
infiltrated
100
cm
during
study
period,
implying
that
thermal‐gradient‐driven
is
an
important
mechanism
for
deep‐layer
recharge
(DLR).
DLR
below
extremely
wet
years
6.5
times
larger
dry
years.
In
contrast,
changes
climate
had
limited
impacts
evapotranspiration;
difference
between
averaged
35
mm,
much
less
310
mm.
showed
higher
ratio
(0.58)
transpiration
evapotranspiration
did
(0.51).
findings
reported
improve
our
understanding
related
regions.
Hydrology and earth system sciences,
Journal Year:
2021,
Volume and Issue:
25(8), P. 4243 - 4257
Published: Aug. 3, 2021
Abstract.
Freezing-induced
groundwater-level
decline
is
widely
observed
in
regions
with
a
shallow
water
table,
but
many
existing
studies
on
freezing-induced
groundwater
migration
do
not
account
for
water-level
fluctuations.
Here,
by
combining
detailed
field
observations
of
liquid
soil
content
and
fluctuations
at
site
the
Ordos
Plateau,
China,
numerical
modeling,
we
showed
that
interaction
dynamics
was
controlled
wintertime
atmospheric
conditions
topographically
driven
lateral
inflow.
With
an
initial
table
depth
120
cm
inflow
rate
1.03
mm
d−1,
freezing
thawing-induced
level
are
well
reproduced.
By
calculating
budget
groundwater,
mean
upward
flux
loss
1.46
d−1
93
d,
while
recharge
as
high
3.94
32
d.
These
results
could
be
useful
local
resources
management
when
encountering
seasonally
frozen
soils
future
two-
or
three-dimensional
transient
flow
semi-arid
regions.
comparing
models
under
series
conditions,
found
magnitude
decreases
increases
We
also
fixed-head
lower
boundary
condition
would
overestimate
shallow.
Therefore,
accurate
characterization
critical
to
quantifying
contribution
hydrological
ecological
processes
cold
The cryosphere,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
16(3), P. 825 - 849
Published: March 11, 2022
Abstract.
Convective
heat
transfer
(CHT)
is
one
of
the
important
processes
that
control
near-ground
surface
in
permafrost
areas.
However,
this
process
has
often
not
been
considered
most
studies,
and
its
influence
on
freezing–thawing
active
layer
lacks
quantitative
investigation.
The
Simultaneous
Heat
Water
(SHAW)
model,
few
land
models
which
CHT
well
incorporated
into
soil
heat–mass
transport
processes,
was
applied
study
to
investigate
impacts
thermal
dynamics
at
Tanggula
station,
a
typical
site
eastern
Qinghai–Tibet
Plateau
with
abundant
meteorological
temperature
moisture
observation
data.
A
experiment
carried
out
quantify
changes
affected
by
vertical
advection
liquid
water.
Three
experimental
setups
were
used:
(1)
original
SHAW
model
full
consideration
CHT,
(2)
modified
ignores
due
infiltration
from
surface,
(3)
completely
system.
results
show
events
occurred
mainly
during
thaw
periods
melted
shallow
(0–0.2
m)
intermediate
(0.4–1.3
depths,
their
depths
significantly
greater
spring
melting
than
summer.
impact
minimal
freeze
deep
layers.
During
periods,
temperatures
simulated
under
scenario
considering
average
about
0.9
0.4
∘C
higher,
respectively,
scenarios
ignoring
CHT.
ending
dates
zero-curtain
effect
substantially
advanced
when
heating
effect.
opposite
cooling
also
present
but
as
frequently
upward
fluxes
differences
between
In
some
flow
cold
reduced
depth
an
−1.0
−0.4
∘C,
respectively.
overall
annual
flux
increase
favor
thawing
frozen
ground
site.
