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-WestPhoenix: SUEWS

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 17.2124 -17.1693 0.818429 0.993349 2.82769 31.4463 20.264 0.209414 17.1693 0.181571 0.00665067 0.152669 0.0081525 0.118892
SWup detailed 4.79667 -2.69108 0.998509 0.993349 2.05884 1.84033 6.50635 0.115255 2.69108 0.00149159 0.00665067 0.152669 0.0081525 0.0699414
LWup baseline 13.6102 -0.918605 0.825228 0.987049 11.689 33.6763 17.7485 0.22786 0.918605 0.174772 0.0129511 0.498227 0.382677 0.0944498
LWup detailed 13.9235 -1.93535 0.818995 0.986027 11.2937 36.0892 18.452 0.235902 1.93535 0.181005 0.0139725 0.516884 0.401947 0.0946863
Qle baseline 19.3459 -14.8579 0.301552 0.0174348 3.81566 59.4886 31.9243 1.03943 14.8579 0.698448 0.982565 4.28387 23.5088 0.476908
Qle detailed 18.7465 -14.6674 0.291092 0.0965535 3.81571 55.0255 31.2279 1.01416 14.6674 0.708908 0.903447 1.63119 4.77788 0.49887
Qh baseline 102.626 102.414 1.53806 0.928895 35.564 184.143 121.25 0.712904 102.414 0.538059 0.0711055 0.432932 1.72817 0.549802
Qh detailed 36.1575 28.6861 1.29208 0.945406 0.278392 77.2531 51.9563 0.475805 28.6861 0.292083 0.054594 0.280653 1.35564 0.257617
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 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

SUEWS_US-WestPhoenix_subset_SWup_v0-9.png

out of range: baseline

out of range: detailed

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