SaLEM (v1.0) – the Soil and Landscape Evolution Model (SaLEM) for simulation of regolith depth in periglacial environments

Bock, Michael; Conrad, Olaf; Günther, Andreas; Gehrt, Ernst; Baritz, Rainer; Böhner, Jürgen

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-1641-2018

Articles | Volume 11, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-1641-2018

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https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-1641-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 11, issue 4

Model description paper

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27 Apr 2018

Model description paper |

| 27 Apr 2018

SaLEM (v1.0) – the Soil and Landscape Evolution Model (SaLEM) for simulation of regolith depth in periglacial environments

Michael Bock, Olaf Conrad, Andreas Günther, Ernst Gehrt, Rainer Baritz, and Jürgen Böhner

Model code and software

SAGA - System for Automated Geoscientific Analyses, Version 6.0.0 O. Conrad https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1063915

Short summary

We introduce the Soil and Landscape Evolution Model (SaLEM) for the prediction of soil parent material evolution following a lithologically differentiated approach. The GIS tool is working within the software framework SAGA GIS. Weathering, erosion and transport functions are calibrated using extrinsic and intrinsic parameter data. First results indicate that our approach shows evidence for the spatiotemporal prediction of soil parental material properties.