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The Team

The names behind every release

SUEWS has been built through an international academic collaboration over more than a decade. The entries below name who shipped what, and when.

Contributors are grouped below by scope of involvement — active leads, major contributors past and present, and further contributors who shipped specific physics, tooling, or documentation.

Lead

Sue Grimmond

Team Leader

OHM, evaporation-interception, resistances, NARP, irrigation, anthropogenic heat.

v2011b → present

Ting Sun

Lead Developer

AnOHM, documentation system, WRF-SUEWS coupling, SuPy (Python wrapper).

v2017b → present

Fredrik Lindberg

UMEP Lead

UMEP plugin development, NARP, ESTM.

v2011b → present

Major contributors

Leena Järvi

Past Lead

Snow-related physics, anthropogenic emissions, CO2. Lead developer v2011b–v2014b.

v2011b – v2019a

Helen C. Ward

Past Lead

OHM improvements, resistance calculation, anthropogenic heat. Lead developer v2016a–v2017.

v2016a – v2017b

Lewis Blunn

SUEWS-SPARTACUS coupling, RSL improvement.

v2021a

Matthew Paskin

Co-Lead Developer (v2024a+)

Documentation, model physics enhancements, build system, YAML configuration.

v2023a → present

Other contributors

Zhenkun Li

WRF-SUEWS coupling (WRF v3.9 / SUEWS v2018b).

v2018b – v2018c

Xiaoxiong Xie

SuPy utilities (TMY, ERA5 forcing); RSL/FAI improvement.

v2020a → present

Silvia Rognone

YAML configuration system, testing framework.

v2024a → present

Keisuke Nakao

Wind speed profile parameterisation, RSL.

v2024a → present

Yihao Tang

Stability, air temperature.

v2018b – v2018c