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15. Notation¶
- λF
- Frontal area index
- ΔQS
- Storage heat flux
- BLUEWS
Boundary Layer part of SUEWS
- CDD
- Cooling degree days
- GDD
- Growing degree days
- HDD
- Heating degree days
- Bldgs
- Building surface
- CBL
- Convective boundary layer
- DEM
- Digital Elevation Model
- DSM
- Digital surface model
- DTM
- Digital Terrain Model
- DecTr
- Deciduous trees and shrubs
- EveTr
- Evergreen trees and shrubs
- ESTM
- Element Surface Temperature Method (Offerle et al.,2005 [OGF2005])
- Grass
- Grass surface
- BSoil
- Unmanaged land and/or bare soil
- Runoff
- The water that drains freely off the impervious surface
- SoilStore
- The water stored in the underlying soil that infiltrates from the pervious surface
- L↓
- Incoming longwave radiation
- LAI
- Leaf area index
- LUMPS
- Local-scale Urban Meteorological Parameterization Scheme (Loridan et al. 2011 [L2011])
- MU
- Parameters which must be supplied and must be specific for the site/grid being run.
- MD
- Parameters which must be supplied and must be specific for the site/grid being run (but default values may be ok if these values are not known specifically for the site).
- O
- Parameters that are optional, depending on the model settings in RunControl.nml. Set any parameters that are not used/not known to ‘-999’.
- L
- Codes that are used to link between the input files. These codes are required but their values are completely arbitrary, providing that they link the input files in the correct way. The user should choose these codes, bearing in mind that the codes they match up with in column 1 of the corresponding input file must be unique within that file. Codes must be integers. Note that the codes must match up with column 1 of the corresponding input file, even if those parameters are not used (in which case set all columns except column 1 to ‘-999’ in the corresponding input file), otherwise the model run will fail.
- NARP
- Net All-wave Radiation Parameterization (Offerle et al. 2003 [O2003], Loridan et al. 2011 [L2011])
- OHM
- Objective Hysteresis Model (Grimmond et al. 1991 [G91OHM], Grimmond & Oke 1999a [GO99QS], 2002 [GO2002])
- Paved
- Paved surface
- Q*
- Net all-wave radiation
- QE
- Latent heat flux
- QF
- Anthropogenic heat flux
- QH
- Sensible heat flux
- SOLWEIG
- The solar and longwave environmental irradiance geometry model (Lindberg et al. 2008 [FL2008], Lindberg and Grimmond 2011 [FL2011])
- SVF
- Sky view factor
- θ
- Potential temperature
- tt
- Time step of data
- UMEP
- Urban Multi-scale Environmental Predictor
- Water
- Water surface
- WATCH
- The WATCH project has produced a large number of data sets which should be of considerable use in regional and global studies of climate and water. see WATCH webpage
- zi
- Convective boundary layer height