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: 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 24.5571 -21.1865 0.768939 0.941587 1.35358 86.5571 42.3318 0.378446 21.1865 0.231062 0.0584134 0.134153 0.234571 0.104553
SWup detailed 22.6587 -18.8934 0.784176 0.940319 1.30812 83.1657 40.8846 0.374407 18.8934 0.215826 0.059681 0.164989 0.290461 0.0933061
LWup baseline 8.92738 6.79892 1.04662 0.993198 3.13843 14.8187 11.5108 0.12811 6.79892 0.0466205 0.00680218 0.0908098 0.195662 0.0693891
LWup detailed 9.70509 7.5384 1.07139 0.99239 2.58806 22.7836 13.0128 0.146296 7.5384 0.071384 0.00761005 0.211564 0.00463665 0.0727534
Qle baseline 18.9232 4.87986 1.02929 0.840534 2.01436 13.6879 32.2351 0.5737 4.87986 0.0292902 0.159466 0.031735 0.255592 0.0973867
Qle detailed 18.9243 4.87599 1.02929 0.840493 2.01436 13.6879 32.2385 0.573773 4.87599 0.0292926 0.159507 0.0316843 0.255533 0.0974726
Qh baseline 26.7181 -3.41191 1.00032 0.871378 11.3973 14.8416 42.7549 0.507274 3.41191 0.000322487 0.128622 0.406506 1.28515 0.156952
Qh detailed 26.296 -5.68885 0.989728 0.872865 8.49069 9.15021 42.5376 0.501761 5.68885 0.0102728 0.127135 0.398867 1.28029 0.138725
Qg baseline 23.4158 -1.69034 1.06091 0.715844 15.0191 13.2633 34.8181 0.77887 1.69034 0.0609039 0.284156 0.302515 0.105109 0.141094
Qg detailed 23.4158 -1.69034 1.06091 0.715844 15.0191 13.2633 34.8181 0.77887 1.69034 0.0609039 0.284156 0.302515 0.105109 0.141094
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
SoilTemp baseline 3.65968 -3.14312 1.13462 0.966665 7.77203 2.64951 4.50875 0.306215 3.14312 0.134623 0.0333348 7.46503 0.1332 0.271233
SoilTemp detailed 3.65968 -3.14312 1.13462 0.966665 7.77203 2.64951 4.50875 0.306215 3.14312 0.134623 0.0333348 7.46503 0.1332 0.271233

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subset_SWup_v0-9

NOAH-SLUCM_US-Minneapolis1_subset_SWup_v0-9.png

out of range: baseline

out of range: detailed

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