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: CLMU5VEG

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 32.8261 -30.1012 0.645649 0.944998 1.34082 107.606 52.4378 0.443383 30.1012 0.354352 0.0550018 0.257166 0.499959 0.17315
SWup detailed 33.0655 -31.0738 0.671451 0.957133 1.34765 102.506 50.1774 0.406831 31.0738 0.32855 0.0428675 0.0683597 0.142227 0.190234
LWup baseline 9.95457 8.35482 0.998584 0.99179 10.2351 8.75449 12.4902 0.128055 8.35482 0.00141649 0.00820966 0.120604 0.284505 0.0897216
LWup detailed 10.4644 9.16778 1.01679 0.991843 9.19202 11.0214 13.1427 0.129884 9.16778 0.0167922 0.00815693 0.1844 0.346192 0.0841687
Qle baseline 15.9354 -0.581196 0.830765 0.835974 4.51021 5.969 30.486 0.548793 0.581196 0.169235 0.164026 0.22375 0.626179 0.215344
Qle detailed 15.183 -5.00931 0.743799 0.853698 4.10198 21.5022 29.9825 0.532239 5.00931 0.256201 0.146302 0.157226 0.531749 0.219526
Qh baseline 28.3719 10.256 1.06605 0.883361 7.7439 36.0502 43.4912 0.50304 10.256 0.066048 0.116639 0.166453 0.485427 0.128775
Qh detailed 29.2886 10.7382 1.10624 0.887037 7.33511 46.476 44.2637 0.511095 10.7382 0.106242 0.112963 0.174123 0.443275 0.121682
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 0.116768 -0.103626 0.498044 0.899756 0.0203545 0.327613 0.172187 0.593137 0.103626 0.501957 0.100244 0.0729293 0.0148788 0.308627
Qtau detailed 0.148198 -0.143719 0.398775 0.88468 0.00706987 0.417157 0.212199 0.673383 0.143719 0.601226 0.11532 0.0849068 0.0379312 0.353439
SoilTemp baseline 3.23404 -1.7103 1.1293 0.956931 3.58465 1.61688 3.95337 0.337629 1.7103 0.129303 0.0430694 1.28516 0.138836 0.217638
SoilTemp detailed 3.01366 -0.707082 1.17846 0.956907 3.55926 3.25363 3.9203 0.365264 0.707082 0.178472 0.0430934 0.386905 0.135221 0.177403

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subset_SWup_v0-9

CLMU5VEG_US-Minneapolis1_subset_SWup_v0-9.png

out of range: baseline

out of range: detailed

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