Rethinking Soils in Land Surface Models

Anne Verhoef; Yijian Zeng; Nurit Agam; Martin Best; Sara Bonetti; Souhail Boussetta; Nathaniel Chaney; Matthias Cuntz; John Edwards; Surya Gupta; Josh Heitman; Min Huang; Nicholas Jarvis; Shijie Jiang; Rajsekhar Kandala; Filip Kialka; Taiqi Lian; Mengyuan Mu; Attila Nemes; Sinikka J. Paulus; Nina Raoult; Kangari Narender Reddy; Nunzio Romano; Manon Sabot; Jan Vanderborght; Martine Van Der Ploeg; Peter Van Oevelen; Yong Wang; Yunquan Wang; Tobias Karl David Weber; Toby Marthews; Lutz Weihermuller

doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-26-0003.1

Rethinking Soils in Land Surface Models

Anne Verhoef
, Yijian Zeng
, Nurit Agam
, Martin Best
, Sara Bonetti
, Souhail Boussetta
, Nathaniel Chaney
, Matthias Cuntz
, John Edwards
, Surya Gupta
, Josh Heitman
, Min Huang
, Nicholas Jarvis
, Shijie Jiang
, Rajsekhar Kandala
, Filip Kialka
, Taiqi Lian
, Mengyuan Mu
, Attila Nemes
, Sinikka J. Paulus

Nina Raoult, Kangari Narender Reddy, Nunzio Romano, Manon Sabot, Jan Vanderborght, Martine Van Der Ploeg, Peter Van Oevelen, Yong Wang, Yunquan Wang, Tobias Karl David Weber, Toby Marthews, Lutz Weihermuller

Department of Soil and Environment

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Abstract

The ISMC-GEWEX SoilWat 2025 Meeting What: The International Soil Modeling Consortium (ISMC)-Global Energy and Water Exchanges project (GEWEX) Soil and GEWEX Water Initiative (SoilWat) 2025 meeting brought together a diverse group of similar to 40 experts from the subsurface modeling community (broadly represented by members of the ISMC) and the climate modeling community (represented by those active in GEWEX). The main objective of the meeting was to identify the next frontiers and challenges relating to the modeling of soil and subsurface processes in weather and climate models. When: 14-16 July 2025 Where: University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom, and online streaming (https://www.gewexevents.org/meetings/ismc-soilwat2025/)

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	E665-E674
Number of pages	10
Journal	Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Volume	107
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-26-0003.1
Publication status	Published - 2026

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Keywords

Atmosphere-land interaction
Soil moisture
Soil temperature
Land surface model
Numerical weather prediction/ forecasting
Parameterization

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Verhoef, A., Zeng, Y., Agam, N., Best, M., Bonetti, S., Boussetta, S., Chaney, N., Cuntz, M., Edwards, J., Gupta, S., Heitman, J., Huang, M., Jarvis, N., Jiang, S., Kandala, R., Kialka, F., Lian, T., Mu, M., Nemes, A., ... Weihermuller, L. (2026). Rethinking Soils in Land Surface Models. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 107(3), E665-E674. https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-26-0003.1

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Rethinking Soils in Land Surface Models

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