Original Closing Critical Terrestrial Water-Cycle Gaps in Earth System Models: Linking Physical Processes, Biosphere Feedbacks, and Climate Assessment.

CLEAR-WATER: Closing Land-Atmosphere Coupling ESM Ambiguities and Reducing Uncertainties in Terrestrial WATER Cycle Changes

Proposal responding to Horizon CL5-2026-08-Two-Stage-D1-06 . Budget 5 to 9 M Euro.

Consortium: CNR, ECMWF?, CNRM?, JULICH, NORESM, TUDelft, TUWien, UniBo, CNR-IRPI, CICERO, Imperial, LUND.

Concatenated minutes of all scoping meetings last week (13/02, 16/02 18/02):
MINUTES OF SCOPING MEETINGs 13/02-16/02-18/02 concatenated 

According with the discussion the concept note has been updated also including comments and some discussion with Rosie Fisher (NorESM), who was invited to join (according with the discussion) and expressed interest in our consortium:
CONCEPT NOTE UPDATE

Some additional working material (including infographics and first tentative WP structure to be discussed) was added to the updated presentation slides at following link:
SCOPING MEETING PRESENTATION UPDATE

Please, have a look at the updated material and edit/comment/feedback

-Further contacts:
Wim Thiery (WUB) - contacted
C Prentice/S Harrison - under consideration
LPJGuess people - under consideration
Regional modeling groups - under consideration

-While the consortium composition is forming, the proposal Title/Structure, budget and WP/work organization are ongoing; For this we are organizing a sharepoint for the material; to have access to the sharepoint you'll be required to send (you and any collaborator from your institutions) an email request where you "confirm that any shared information related to our proposal will be treated as strictly confidential and will not be disclosed outside of the project consortium." To proceed, let's schedule the next meeting in the coming week; please fill your availability at following when2meet https://www.when2meet.com/?35176756-O4ZUk