Global (environmental / climate) change is affecting terrestrial systems at all scales
These physical system changes will be accompanied by major state changes of land surfaces and ecosystems and of the services provided by them with multiple (socioeconomic) impacts
Many processes are still poorly understood or reproduced by models
Motvation
Supercomputing offers new perspectives for the simulation, understanding and sustainable management of terrestrial systems
Demanding numerical models to investigate terrestrial system processes due to:
1. Complex, ninlinear transport of energy, mass and momentum
2. Interactions and feedback mechanisms between different compartments of the coupled geo-ecosystem (subsurface, land-surface, atmosphere, reservoirs)
3. Multiple spatio-temporal scales, high resolutions, potentially long runtime
4. The need for ensemble simulations to estimate uncertainties
Strong record of Geoverbund ABC/J scientists in computational geosciences and terrestrial system simulations
