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SOLWEIGinput

Posture
Requirement:

Required

Description:

Determines the posture of a human for which the radiant fluxes should be considered

Configuration:
Value Comments
1 Standing (default)
2 Sitting
usevegdem
Requirement:

Required

Description:

Vegetation scheme

Configuration:
Value Comments
1 Vegetation scheme is active (Lindberg and Grimmond 2011 [19] )
2 No vegetation scheme used
onlyglobal
Requirement:

Required

Description:

Global radiation

Configuration:
Value Comments
0 Diffuse and direct shortwave radiation taken from met forcing file.
1 Diffuse and direct shortwave radiation calculated from Reindl et al. (1990) [Re90]
SOLWEIGpoi_out
Requirement:

Required

Description:

Write output variables at point of interest (see below)

Configuration:
Value Comments
0 No POI output
Tmrt_out
Requirement:

Required

Description:
Configuration:
Value Comments
0 No grid output
1 Write grid to file (saves as ERSI Ascii grid)
Lup2d_out
Requirement:

Required

Description:
Configuration:
Value Comments
0 No grid output
1 Write grid to file (saves as ERSI Ascii grid)
Ldown2d_out
Requirement:

Required

Description:
Configuration:
Value Comments
0 No grid output
1 Write grid to file (saves as ERSI Ascii grid)
Kup2d_out
Requirement:

Required

Description:
Configuration:
Value Comments
0 No grid output
1 Write grid to file (saves as ERSI Ascii grid)
Kdown2d_out
Requirement:

Required

Description:
Configuration:
Value Comments
0 No grid output
1 Write grid to file (saves as ERSI Ascii grid)
GVF_out
Requirement:

Required

Description:
Configuration:
Value Comments
0 No grid output
1 Write grid to file (saves as ERSI Ascii grid)
SOLWEIG_ldown
Requirement:

Required

Description:
Configuration:
Value Comments
0 Not active (use SUEWS to estimate Ldown above canyon)
1 Use SOLWEIG to estimate Ldown above canyon
RunForGrid
Requirement:

Required

Description:

Grid for which SOLWEIG should be run.

Configuration:
Value Comments
-999 All grids (use with care)
absK
Requirement:Required
Description:Recommended value: 0.70
Configuration:to fill
absL
Requirement:Required
Description:Recommended value: 0.97
Configuration:to fill
BuildingName
Requirement:Required
Description:Boolean matrix for locations of building pixels
Configuration:to fill
CDSMname
Requirement:Required
Description:Vegetation canopy DSM
Configuration:to fill
col
Requirement:Required
Description:Y coordinate for point of interest. Here all variables from the model will written to SOLWEIGpoiOUT.txt
Configuration:to fill
DSMname
Requirement:Required
Description:Ground and Building DSM
Configuration:to fill
DSMPath
Requirement:Required
Description:Path to Digital Surface Models (DSM).
Configuration:to fill
heightgravity
Requirement:Required
Description:Recommended value for a standing man: 1.1 m
Configuration:to fill
OutInterval
Requirement:Required
Description:Output interval. Set to 60 in current version.
Configuration:to fill
row
Requirement:Required
Description:X coordinate for point of interest. Here all variables from the model will written to SOLWEIGpoiOUT.txt
Configuration:to fill
SVFPath
Requirement:Required
Description:Path to SVFs matrices (See Lindberg and Grimmond (2011) [19] for details)
Configuration:to fill
SVFSuffix
Requirement:Required
Description:Suffix used (if any)
Configuration:to fill
TDSMname
Requirement:Required
Description:Vegetation trunk zone DSM
Configuration:to fill
TransMax
Requirement:Required
Description:Recommended value: 0.50 (Konarska et al. 2014 [Ko14])
Configuration:to fill
TransMin
Requirement:Required
Description:Recommended value: 0.02 (Konarska et al. 2014 [Ko14] )
Configuration:to fill