1. Steps Overview¶

This is a tutorial to calculate various SUEWS parameters before running the model for the specific site and vegetation type. The parameters discussed here are: LAI, albedo, surface conductances, surface roughness and zero displacement height. Figures below shows how the process of parameters derivation should be conducted:

Process of deriving SUEWS parameters

For more details of the tutorials, refer to here

This tutorial is based on:

Omidvar, H., Sun, T., Grimmond, S., Bilesbach, D., Black, A., Chen, J., Duan, Z., Gao, Z., Iwata, H., and McFadden, J. P.: Surface [Urban] Energy and Water Balance Scheme (v2020a) in non-urban areas: developments, parameters and performance, Geosci. Model Dev. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2020-148, in review, 2020.

1.1. Data¶

The meteorological observations used from Ameriflux (https://ameriflux.lbl.gov/) data are air temperature, incoming shortwave radiation, upwelling shortwave radiation, station pressure, relative humidity, wind speed, precipitation, net all-wave radiation, sensible heat flux and evaporation flux.