A number of problems concerning hydrological and/or thermal processes in the soil-plant-atmosphere system can be elucidated using the model. Both applied and basic scientific problems have been solved including:
• simulation of regulating factors for biological and chemical processes in the soil
• simulation of coupled biological and abiotic processes
• simulation of coupled atmosphere and soil processes
• assessment of the importance of different factors
• identification of gaps in our present knowledge
• formulation of new hypotheses
• generalisation of results to new soils, climates and time periods
• prediction of the influence of management e.g. soil heat extraction, mulching, drainage, irrigation and plant husbandry