KU Leuven

Description

For 600 years, KU Leuven has been driven by unending curiosity and a search for knowledge. It has the double honour of being the oldest university in the Low Countries and the oldest extant Catholic university in the world. One of history’s most important cartographers, Gerard Mercator, was based at KU Leuven. Since the late 20th century, several Geography researchers based at KU Leuven have become renowned worldwide for their research on soil erosion processes at various spatial and temporal scales, from field-based approaches to spatial modelling.

Role :

In Eurosion, KU Leuven will mainly contribute to the development of a model that dynamically simulates soil erosion by water at the continental scale. It will be responsible for defining data requirements for the erosion modelling suite and will further develop dynamic parametrization methods for factors such as rainfall erosivity, land use and cover, crop phenology and the representation of field boundaries in erosion models.

In WP4 - Design and development of multi-scale process-based soil erosion models, KUL is task leader of T4.2 - Establish data requirements for process-based models and develop universally applicable input parameters and T4.3 - Sensitivity analysis, calibration and validation of soil erosion models.