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-Minneapolis2: 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 40.4572 -39.8464 0.505321 0.829182 1.6468 161.165 74.1722 0.646021 39.8464 0.49468 0.170818 0.628362 1.05067 0.166684
SWup detailed 25.6581 -15.1434 0.730746 0.869761 1.2043 99.4036 51.9056 0.51268 15.1434 0.269255 0.130239 0.560201 0.956864 0.0978059
LWup baseline 14.6996 13.1242 1.02802 0.984813 9.5524 17.0034 18.453 0.178915 13.1242 0.0280167 0.0151872 0.391072 0.363058 0.106121
LWup detailed 17.0922 2.154 1.12244 0.963917 16.7055 19.0278 22.5666 0.309829 2.154 0.122437 0.0360835 0.426371 0.0235995 0.109816
Qle baseline 21.7225 0.125008 1.14458 0.898302 2.7503 42.2988 38.8313 0.503693 0.125008 0.144579 0.101698 0.106522 0.365256 0.210492
Qle detailed 25.612 4.5298 1.26081 0.897133 7.4981 64.5734 44.3445 0.572201 4.5298 0.26081 0.102867 0.163922 0.499741 0.243554
Qh baseline 26.4016 19.998 1.10067 0.868095 21.774 40.3647 40.0968 0.548179 19.998 0.100667 0.131905 0.127424 0.542257 0.211526
Qh detailed 21.2462 10.6127 1.01074 0.869668 18.1991 19.0796 34.2355 0.513401 10.6127 0.0107446 0.130332 0.0958927 0.613363 0.166129
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 0.119159 -0.108489 0.522167 0.803179 0.00374557 0.397855 0.208261 0.658689 0.108489 0.477833 0.196821 2.21777 23.6209 0.18728
Qtau detailed 0.13855 -0.132545 0.514402 0.777121 0.00474557 0.420155 0.226817 0.681986 0.132545 0.485599 0.222879 2.41647 25.644 0.259931
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-Minneapolis2_subset_SWup_v0-9.png

out of range: baseline

out of range: detailed

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