2026 Pan-GLASS Conference
Pan-GLASS is the GEWEX Global Land-Atmosphere System Studies Panel and will hold its first conference “Back to the Drawing Board: Accelerating Improvements in the Modeling of the Coupled Land-Atmosphere System” from 6-9 July 2026 in Stuttgart, Germany.
This international meeting will bring together modelers, observationalists, and theoreticians working across scales and disciplines to advance understanding and modeling of land-atmosphere interactions. Pan-GLASS 2026 will be primarily an in-person event with limited online participation options.
Topics will span from fundamental processes to operational modeling, including but not limited to:
- Advancing soil processes for understanding the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum: from bedrock to stomata.
- Observing and parameterizing turbulence at the land-atmosphere interface.
- Leveraging machine learning to benchmark and rethink the modeling of land-atmosphere interactions.
- Understanding and modeling the role of heterogeneity over the land surface in the coupled land-atmosphere system.
- Investigations of cloud and precipitation feedbacks over land.
- Representing anthropogenic influences in the water and energy cycles: Implications for surface fluxes and PBL dynamics.
Pan-GLASS 2026 will support in-depth discussion and coordination across global research efforts, with a focus on improving representations of the coupled land-atmosphere system in Earth system models.
Registration and abstract submission will open around New Year.