Urban-PLUMBER

A multi-site model evaluation project for urban areas

Phase 2 Phase 1 Download project protocol
Mathew Lipson (UNSW), Sue Grimmond (Reading), Martin Best (Met Office),
with observational and modelling participants.

US-Baltimore: NOAH-SLUCM

NOTE: Results presented here are highly dependent on how models are configured in this experiment and may be subject to variable output formatting errors. Results are not intended to indicate the quality of any individual model, but to help participants better understand and improve modelling approaches in different urban environments.

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Error metrics

flux experiment MAE MBE nSD R 5th 95th RMSE cRMSE AMBE 1-nSD 1-R nSkewness nKurtosis Overlap
SWup baseline 19.4612 18.4323 1.56738 0.964202 0.476 50.5103 28.7738 0.658887 18.4323 0.567376 0.0357978 0.836142 2.46319 0.183872
SWup detailed 13.979 12.3681 1.43176 0.956294 0.244644 35.2667 22.435 0.558185 12.3681 0.43176 0.0437064 1.07299 3.50566 0.137073
LWup baseline 12.5192 5.63356 1.19049 0.972632 3.56226 38.8663 18.482 0.318515 5.63356 0.190493 0.0273684 7.39207 0.521033 0.0772177
LWup detailed 17.2311 9.24672 1.28414 0.952645 3.92459 58.6492 26.5239 0.449839 9.24672 0.284138 0.0473546 11.023 0.83232 0.0844268
Qle baseline 25.2284 -4.03362 0.85135 0.815126 13.266 41.5752 42.1794 0.580415 4.03362 0.14865 0.184874 0.192418 0.577554 0.149044
Qle detailed 25.2334 -4.025 0.851677 0.815005 13.2831 41.5678 42.1928 0.580613 4.025 0.148323 0.184995 0.193088 0.580244 0.149096
Qh baseline 29.3615 -7.07252 0.796637 0.857903 15.496 43.7175 46.4282 0.517452 7.07252 0.203364 0.142097 0.0834045 0.247703 0.132618
Qh detailed 28.6678 -7.58137 0.807778 0.864482 13.4155 43.2881 45.4938 0.505852 7.58137 0.192223 0.135518 0.0584055 0.177512 0.126191
SoilTemp baseline 2.24922 -1.73122 1.01263 0.973474 2.0191 2.56149 2.77668 0.232123 1.73122 0.0126287 0.0265257 2.81343 0.045182 0.13652
SoilTemp detailed 2.24922 -1.73122 1.01263 0.973474 2.0191 2.56149 2.77668 0.232123 1.73122 0.0126287 0.0265257 2.81343 0.045182 0.13652
Qtau baseline nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan
Qtau detailed nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan

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subset_SWup_v0-9

NOAH-SLUCM_US-Baltimore_subset_SWup_v0-9.png

out of range: baseline

out of range: detailed

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