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: UCLEM

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 39.3959 -38.4745 0.521369 0.861392 1.6195 159.673 70.5976 0.611244 38.4745 0.478632 0.138608 0.582407 0.968316 0.164672
SWup detailed 27.0359 -17.0803 0.710493 0.842413 1.2207 101.992 56.3711 0.554746 17.0803 0.289508 0.157587 0.58018 0.989935 0.100152
LWup baseline 16.9185 15.9782 1.0473 0.984654 11.351 22.619 20.8814 0.185421 15.9782 0.0472993 0.015346 0.293333 0.389442 0.120173
LWup detailed 11.3738 4.08869 1.06913 0.98295 6.0769 15.0961 15.2802 0.203067 4.08869 0.0691266 0.0170501 0.356519 0.121361 0.0849129
Qle baseline 21.5293 -6.24357 1.31181 0.761953 11.4286 28.5471 47.5968 0.84957 6.24357 0.311808 0.238047 1.05537 1.06482 0.136261
Qle detailed 23.0858 -4.61014 1.37385 0.775289 12.5679 41.3878 48.5492 0.870172 4.61014 0.373848 0.224711 0.997957 0.835211 0.206895
Qh baseline 29.0553 15.0633 0.938472 0.853675 26.6544 6.7381 46.821 0.527665 15.0633 0.0615296 0.146325 0.293129 2.2241 0.240311
Qh detailed 24.9045 7.62535 1.04089 0.862949 13.2158 9.8055 45.6487 0.535707 7.62535 0.040888 0.137051 0.28892 2.09161 0.115482
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 0.109206 -0.0700853 0.700724 0.758746 0.0026152 0.2122 0.167027 0.653966 0.0700853 0.299277 0.241254 0.100161 0.259296 0.158288
Qtau detailed 0.149665 -0.146866 0.49882 0.801868 0.0052152 0.3883 0.213762 0.669959 0.146866 0.50118 0.198132 2.82332 54.456 0.312421
SoilTemp baseline nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan
SoilTemp detailed nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan

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subset_SWup_v0-9

UCLEM_US-Minneapolis1_subset_SWup_v0-9.png

out of range: baseline

out of range: detailed

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