INITIATE is organised around three scientific work packages that cover the range of temporal and spatial scales of climate-solid Earth interaction

• WP1 NOW has the objectives to construct and use very high-resolution Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) combined with rainfall data (derived from in-station and remote-sensing observations) and assimilate these into deterministic and probabilistic models to constrain the trigger(s) of landslides and debris flows, in part using machine-learning techniques, and to assess whether and under which conditions anthropogenic climate change will modify the frequency and amplitude of these extreme geomorphic events.\
• WP2 PAST aims to use data-integrative 3D structural models containing mechanical, thermal, and hydrological properties of sedimentary basins to constrain and validate thermo-hydro-mechanical models of the subsurface. These will be used to predict its dynamical response to rapid Holocene climate change (including the Anthropocene) with a special emphasis on its reservoir capacity. WP2 will also use sophisticated 2D and 3D coupled landscape and tectonic evolution models to simulate the long-term effects of fluvial and tectonic processes, and their dependence on rainfall magnitude and variability
  
• WP3 DEEP-TIME objectives are to use coupled Landscape Evolution Models (LEM) with models of the deformation of the underlying lithosphere and mantle, ranging from 3D and 2D thermo-mechanical models (TMM) to simple models of lithospheric flexure and integrate these with high-resolution seismic data and field geological observations to validate the models; constrain links between tectonic and climate processes in active mountain belts and rift zones and quantify these links; and unravel the contributions of mantle flow and climate on the long-term evolution of continental interiors.