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Warning
DEPRECATED: This table-based input format is deprecated as of 2025. Please use the modern YAML format instead. See our transition guide for migration help.
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) [Reindl et al., 1990]
- 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 [Konarska et al., 2013])
- Configuration:
to fill
- TransMin#
- Requirement:
Required
- Description:
Recommended value: 0.02 (Konarska et al. 2014 [Konarska et al., 2013] )
- Configuration:
to fill