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Published November 24, 2021 | Version 2020a
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SUEWS: Surface Urban Energy and Water Balance Scheme

  • 1. University of Reading
  • 2. University College London
  • 3. University of Helsinki
  • 4. Met Office
  • 5. KNMI
  • 6. University of Gothenburg
  • 7. Shanghai Climate Centre

Description

Improvement
  • A ponding water scheme is added in the automatic irrigation calculation; useful when a certain depth of ponding water to maintain in irrigation (e.g., flooding irrigation in rice crop-field).
  • Irrigation fraction can be specified for all surfaces (previously only available for vegetated surfaces)
  • A U-shape approach for calculating HDD/CDD is introduced to account for a wide comfort zone between heating and cooling critical temperatures.
Changes
  • A new RoughLenHeatMethod option 5: adaptively choose option 1 for fully pervious surface or 2 otherwise (if any impervious surface exists).
  • A new column H_maintain is added in SUEWS_Irrigation.txt to set ponding water depth.
  • New columns to specify irrigation fractions for non-vegetated surfaces in SUEWS_SiteSelect.txt.
  • A new scheme option BaseTMethod in RunControl.nml to set calculation scheme for HDD/CDD.
Fix

NONE.

Known issues

Wind direction is not currently downscaled so non -999 values will cause an error.

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