Heye R Bogena¹, Steffen Zacharias², Kiese Ralf³, Ingo Heinrich⁴, Thomas Puetz⁵, Ralf Kunkel⁶, Martin Schrön², Peter Dietrich², Hans Peter E Schmid⁷, Harald Kunstmann⁸, Bruno Merz⁹, Achim Brauer¹⁰, Eckart Priesack¹¹, Erik Borg¹², Irena Hajnsek¹³ and Harry Vereecken¹⁴, (1)Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich 52428, Germany, (2)Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, (3)Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany, (4)GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Telegrafenberg, 14473, Potsdam, Germany, (5)Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Agrosphere (IBG-3), Institute of Bio- and Geosciences, Jülich, Germany, (6)Forschungszentrum Jülich, Juelich, Germany, (7)Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, IMK-IFU, KIT-Campus Alpin, Karlsruhe, Germany, (8)Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, IMK-IFU, KIT-Campus Alpin, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, (9)GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany, (10)GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Section 5.2 - Climate Dynamics and Landscape Evolution, Potsdam, Germany, (11)Helmholtz Zentrum München, Institute of Soil Ecology, Munich, Germany, (12)German Aerospace Center DLR Cologne, Cologne, Germany, (13)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (14)Forschungszentrum Julich GmbH, Agrosphere (IBG-3), Institute of Bio- and Geosciences, Julich, Germany