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-Minneapolis1: CLMU5

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 64.4628 -64.4525 0.332719 0.904183 1.96882 222.943 94.4872 0.713459 64.4525 0.667281 0.095817 0.112352 0.680814 0.420717
SWup detailed 21.1631 -15.4228 0.769223 0.908978 1.17051 98.9124 45.2833 0.439648 15.4228 0.230778 0.0910219 0.373074 0.646003 0.089707
LWup baseline 14.7279 13.7249 0.991793 0.988981 16.7908 10.8914 17.425 0.148072 13.7249 0.00820747 0.0110195 0.246302 0.505118 0.113309
LWup detailed 10.0418 7.30773 0.976443 0.989332 9.37958 1.10284 12.8778 0.146248 7.30773 0.0235582 0.0106681 0.538126 0.562266 0.0934568
Qle baseline 23.5557 11.0763 1.25583 0.822611 3.966 58.448 41.2187 0.714835 11.0763 0.255831 0.177389 0.0715006 0.351702 0.107438
Qle detailed 23.4703 12.9463 1.35581 0.844706 3.84479 76.409 43.0947 0.740067 12.9463 0.35581 0.155294 0.13136 0.469134 0.142772
Qh baseline 45.949 33.7002 0.836554 0.843548 30.1135 3.68028 56.3214 0.5371 33.7002 0.163447 0.156452 0.238719 0.489625 0.404964
Qh detailed 32.4906 -9.14569 0.63636 0.851027 10.6918 80.7541 48.5337 0.567305 9.14569 0.363641 0.148973 0.194259 0.392657 0.205728
Qg baseline nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan
Qg detailed nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan
Qtau baseline 0.10726 0.0632233 0.91648 0.863274 0.0622183 0.0323672 0.133577 0.507532 0.0632233 0.0835216 0.136726 0.0671058 0.191548 0.233584
Qtau detailed 0.150646 -0.145421 0.355258 0.876687 0.00855562 0.438377 0.219546 0.709442 0.145421 0.644743 0.123313 0.0682318 0.278949 0.355405
SoilTemp baseline 3.43964 -1.16187 1.18685 0.948274 5.62283 2.12369 4.35023 0.39711 1.16187 0.186859 0.0517264 3.14601 0.245386 0.192537
SoilTemp detailed 3.59331 -1.46394 1.15403 0.940939 4.46191 1.70944 4.46978 0.400052 1.46394 0.154038 0.0590609 2.23181 0.193459 0.212329

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subset_SWup_v0-9

CLMU5_US-Minneapolis1_subset_SWup_v0-9.png

out of range: baseline

out of range: detailed

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