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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