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: UT&C

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 10.2436 -8.18367 0.878588 0.984514 3.03891 24.833 13.3339 0.204821 8.18367 0.121412 0.0154856 2.57203 0.0675315 0.124882
SWup detailed 6.07445 -2.15585 0.967207 0.990095 2.79514 8.81481 7.62245 0.142251 2.15585 0.0327933 0.00990473 1.67996 0.0364731 0.103554
LWup baseline 8.05218 3.61877 1.002 0.992541 9.7256 13.2948 10.1769 0.122279 3.61877 0.00200359 0.0074591 0.465203 0.462175 0.0761853
LWup detailed 9.15459 6.64112 1.02703 0.992946 9.85608 20.1936 11.6702 0.123365 6.64112 0.0270275 0.00705358 0.451307 0.449372 0.0709977
Qle baseline 12.9382 4.59968 0.811568 0.650698 5.50001 11.3646 21.5955 0.77619 4.59968 0.188432 0.349302 0.361692 0.273242 0.312103
Qle detailed 12.8125 1.20073 0.667156 0.59774 5.52104 22.6139 21.9077 0.80469 1.20073 0.332844 0.40226 0.127282 0.69186 0.350099
Qh baseline 21.2634 8.12879 1.09635 0.949173 4.00333 44.7641 32.6624 0.347465 8.12879 0.0963534 0.0508271 0.103834 0.470014 0.158263
Qh detailed 25.6364 19.0692 1.07607 0.953257 18.3823 50.1338 35.2909 0.326164 19.0692 0.0760709 0.0467427 0.0843584 0.317507 0.415753
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

UT&C_US-WestPhoenix_subset_SWup_v0-9.png

out of range: baseline

out of range: detailed

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