The new ‘Landscape’ cluster represents sub-projects working at sub-regional (landscape scale) spatial scales, investigating the interface between atmosphere, landscape and subsurface. It focuses on the evolution of aridity, emphasising how landscapes, surface features, subsurface soils, and atmospheric interactions contribute to the arid characteristics of the regional scale.

For the 3rd funding period the CRC encompasses 18 research sub-projects allocated into the three new research clusters Environment, Landscape and Critical Zone. The research is coordinated and supported by six sub-projects in the Z-cluster. To more easily monitor the development of subprojects through all funding phases of the CRC, the established labels of the subprojects were kept. Two new sub-projects (L01, CZ02) will enter the cluster for phase three while five sub-projects of the 2nd funding period are either merged or terminated.