Journal article
Evaluation of 30 urban land surface models in the Urban-PLUMBER project: Phase 1 results
MJ Lipson, S Grimmond, M Best, G Abramowitz, A Coutts, N Tapper, JJ Baik, M Beyers, L Blunn, S Boussetta, E Bou-Zeid, MG De Kauwe, C de Munck, M Demuzere, S Fatichi, K Fortuniak, BS Han, MA Hendry, Y Kikegawa, H Kondo Show all
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society | WILEY | Published : 2024
DOI: 10.1002/qj.4589
Abstract
Accurately predicting weather and climate in cities is critical for safeguarding human health and strengthening urban resilience. Multimodel evaluations can lead to model improvements; however, there have been no major intercomparisons of urban-focussed land surface models in over a decade. Here, in Phase 1 of the Urban-PLUMBER project, we evaluate the ability of 30 land surface models to simulate surface energy fluxes critical to atmospheric meteorological and air quality simulations. We establish minimum and upper performance expectations for participating models using simple information-limited models as benchmarks. Compared with the last major model intercomparison at the same site, we f..
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Funding Acknowledgements
The project's coordinating team is supported by UNSW Sydney, the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science (grant CE110001028), University of Reading, the Met Office UK, the Bureau of Meteorology, Australia, the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes (grant CE170100023) and ERC urbisphere (grant 855005). Computation support from National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) Australia. G.J. Steeneveld and A. Tsiringakis acknowledge support from the NWO VIDI grant 'The Windy City' under number 864.14.007. M. Demuzere acknowledges support from the ENLIGHT project, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) under grant No. 437467569. Y. Takane acknowledges support from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) KAKENHI Grand Number 20KK0096. Contributions by K.W. Oleson are supported by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Cooperative Agreement No. 1852977. Computing and data storage resources for CLMU5, including the Cheyenne supercomputer (doi:10.5065/D6RX99HX), were provided by the Computational and Information Systems Laboratory (CISL) at NCAR. K. Nice acknowledges support from NHMRC/UKRI grant (1194959). J.-J. Baik acknowledges support from the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) under grant 2021R1A2C1007044. E. Bou-Zeid was supported by the US National Science Foundation under award number AGS 2128345 and the Army Research Office under contract W911NF2010216. Work with TERRA model performed by M. Varentsov was supported by the Russian Science Foundation, grant no. 21-17-00249. S.-H. Lee acknowledges support from the Nuclear Safety and Security Commission (NSSC) of the Republic of Korea (No. 2105036). M. De Kauwe acknowledges support from the Natural Environment Research Council (NE/W010003/1). N. Meili and S. Fatichi acknowledge the support of the National University of Singapore through the project 'Bridging scales from below: The role of heterogeneities in the global water and carbon budgets', Award No. 22-3637-A0001. T. Sun was supported by UKRI NERC Independent Research Fellowship (NE/P018637/1 and NE/P018637/2). D.-I. Lee acknowledges support from the Korea Meteorological Administration Research and Development Program under grant KMI(KMI2021-03512). We acknowledge the participants of the first urban model comparison project (PILPS-Urban) and all those involved in model development since then. We also acknowledge all scientists involved in collecting and providing observations used to derive benchmarks in this study. Thank you to Belinda Roux, Asiful Islam and Vinod Kumar (Bureau of Meteorology) for reviewing this manuscript. This project uses modified Copernicus Climate Change Service Information. Open access publishing facilitated by University of New South Wales, as part of the Wiley - University of New South Wales agreement via the Council of Australian University Librarians.