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ISMC - The International Soil Modeling Consortium

ISMC - linking soil modeling experts

The International Soil Modeling Consortium aims to integrate and advance soil systems modeling, data gathering,and observational capabilities, through:

  • bringing together leading experts in modelling soil processes within all major soil disciplines
  • addressing  major scientific gaps in describing key processes and their long term impacts with respect to the different functions and ecosystem services provided by soil;
  • promoting integration of soil modelling expertise in neighboring disciplines (climate, land surface, eco, hydro, and other models)
  • performing soil model intercomparison studies at local to global scales
  • consolidating soil and other data platforms for modeling purposes
  • integrating societal and environmental considerations into soil and ecosystem functioning


ISMC respects, values, and welcomes all people and their differences, and we are committed to action that fosters diversity, equity, and inclusion in all activities.
We trust ISMC members and visitors to ISMC activities to show that same respect.


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ISMC/ GEWEX Water Initiative (SoilWat) Workshop

ISMC/ GEWEX Water Initiative (SoilWat) Workshop at Reading July 2025

The International Soil Modelling Consortium and the GEWEX Water Initiative (SoilWat) jointly organized a 3 days workshop at Reading UK to bring 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, worked together to identify the most pressing challenges related to this effort and ways forward.

Participants of the ISMC/ GEWEX Water Initiative (SoilWat) Workshop at Reading

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 aimed to assess achievements and identify research gaps since the last meeting. The main objective were 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 been 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.

Report of Findings

Report

 

2nd ISMC conference
5-7 November 2018
New perspectives
on soil models
 

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Become full individual or institutional member of the ISMC Association and
contribute to the grassroots movement either through direct donation or payment or
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Further details at https://soil-modeling.org/about/membership

 

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