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Buildings · surfaces — Nordic Functionalism, Woodbldgs composite

Surface bundlesbldgsswedenregional

Composition

This composite is assembled from the entries below. Each evidence record keeps its own scientific review; a separate composition review assesses why these components were selected and how they are mapped.

albedoWood generic Awaiting sign-off
alb 0.22
emissivityBuilding generic Awaiting sign-off
emis 0.95
water_storageBuilding generic Awaiting sign-off
storage_drain_params.store_min 0.25 · storage_drain_params.store_max 0.25
drainageBuilding generic Awaiting sign-off
storage_drain_params.drain_eq 3 · storage_drain_params.drain_coef_1 10 · storage_drain_params.drain_coef_2 3
constructionNordic Functionalism, mid 1900s sweden Source inaccessible
roof [{'material': 'records/materials/generic--unreferenced--clay-tile', 'thickness': 0.054}, {'material': 'records/materials/generic--hertwig2024a--wood-wool-slab', 'thickness': 0.025}, {'material': 'records/materials/generic--hertwig2024a--waterproof-roof-covering', 'thickness': 0.005}, {'material': 'records/materials/generic--hertwig2024a--wood-wool-slab', 'thickness': 0.025}, {'material': 'records/materials/generic--bellucco2017--air', 'thickness': 0.03}] · roof_insulation_layer 4 · wall [{'material': 'records/materials/generic--cibse2015--limestone-bright', 'thickness': 0.025}, {'material': 'records/materials/generic--hertwig2024a--brick-protected', 'thickness': 0.012}, {'material': 'records/materials/generic--hertwig2024a--brick-protected', 'thickness': 0.012}, {'material': 'records/materials/generic--hertwig2024a--mineral-wool-batts', 'thickness': 0.05}, {'material': 'records/materials/generic--hertwig2024a--plaster-dense', 'thickness': 0.025}]
snow_lim_patchBuildings generic Awaiting sign-off
snowpack_limit 190
ohm · summer_wetRoof (own for SMEAR III, Helsinki) [750] helsinki Awaiting sign-off
a1 0.19 · a2 0.54 · a3 -15.125
ohm · summer_dryRoof (own for SMEAR III, Helsinki) [750] helsinki Awaiting sign-off
a1 0.19 · a2 0.54 · a3 -15.125
ohm · winter_wetRoof (own for SMEAR III, Helsinki) [750] helsinki Awaiting sign-off
a1 0.19 · a2 0.54 · a3 -15.125
ohm · winter_dryRoof (own for SMEAR III, Helsinki) [750] helsinki Awaiting sign-off
a1 0.19 · a2 0.54 · a3 -15.125

Composition provenance

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Assembled · assessed by provenance-audit · 2026-08-23. Agent assessment is composition review preparation, not human verification.

WoodSelected component

Fills albedo. The record is named Wood, declares target land_cover.bldgs, place generic, representativeness generic, source unreferenced and method assumed; Gothenburg survives only as origin history.

BuildingSelected component

Fills emissivity. The record is named Building, declares target land_cover.bldgs, place generic, representativeness generic, applicable_scale land_cover, source jarvi2011 and method literature.

BuildingSelected component

Fills water_storage. The stable Helsinki-path record declares target land_cover.bldgs, name Building, place generic, representativeness generic, applicable_scale land_cover, source jarvi2011 and method literature. Its Helsinki origin preserves migration/application lineage; the value is published as a generic Building parameter.

BuildingSelected component

Fills drainage. The record is named Building, declares target land_cover.bldgs, place generic, representativeness generic and applicable_scale land_cover.

Nordic Functionalism, mid 1900s Selected component

Fills construction. The record is named 'Nordic Functionalism, mid 1900s ', declares target construction, place sweden and representativeness regional. Its five wall layers are records/materials/generic--cibse2015--limestone-bright, records/materials/generic--hertwig2024a--brick-protected twice, records/materials/generic--hertwig2024a--mineral-wool-batts and records/materials/generic--hertwig2024a--plaster-dense, none of them wood; its roof layers are clay tile, wood-wool slab twice, a waterproof roof covering and air.

BuildingsSelected component

Fills snow_lim_patch. The stable path and origin retain Helsinki migration lineage, while the record declares target land_cover.bldgs, name 'Buildings', place generic, representativeness generic, applicable_scale land_cover, source jarvi2014 and method literature, and carries snowpack_limit. It is the only buildings snowpack_limit record in the database.

Roof (own for SMEAR III, Helsinki) [750]Selected component

Fills ohm.summer_wet, ohm.summer_dry, ohm.winter_wet and ohm.winter_dry. The record is named 'Roof (own for SMEAR III, Helsinki) [750]', declares target ohm_coefficients, place helsinki and representativeness city, and declares no season_label.

Assessment findings

Composite identitycuration required
The composite is named 'Nordic Functionalism, Wood'. The construction it selects, records/constructions/sweden--bjork2002--nordic-functionalism-mid-1900s, is named 'Nordic Functionalism, mid 1900s ' and carries no wood qualifier: its five wall layers are limestone, brick twice, mineral wool batts and dense plaster, with no wood among them, and its roof is clay tile over wood-wool slab, waterproof covering and air. The only component supporting the composite's Wood qualifier is the albedo row records/surfaces/bldgs/gothenburg--oke1987--albedo--wood, named Wood. That construction is also the only Nordic Functionalism record in records/constructions, so no wood variant was passed over. A maintainer should decide whether the composite's name claims more than it assembles or whether a wood-framed fabric record is missing.
Composite targetsupported
The composite's own target, land_cover.bldgs, is right for a building-surface typology, and every slot takes a component declared for it: the albedo, emissivity, water_storage, drainage and snow_lim_patch slots each take a record declaring target land_cover.bldgs, the construction slot takes a record declaring target construction, and the ohm positions take records declaring target ohm_coefficients. No record under records/surfaces/bldgs or records/ohm declares attaches_to, which in this database is carried only by the profile records, so slot fit here is judged on the components' declared target.
Own parameter valuesnot applicable
The composite declares no parameters block of its own, so it asserts no value beyond the components it selects.
Composition rationalenot applicable
The composite claims no composition source, and the repository records no published rationale for this selection. The components' own sources belong to their evidence assessments, not to this review.
Place applicabilitycuration required
The composite claims Sweden. Construction declares sweden; OHM declares helsinki; albedo, emissivity, water storage, drainage and snow_lim_patch are generic. The non-Swedish and default substitutions remain a curation decision.
Representativenesscuration required
The regional composite has one regional construction, two city components, emissivity and OHM, and four generic components. Their national-scale use remains a curation decision.
Slot and season mappingsupported
An assembly of existing records into slots; the composite produces no value of its own. records/ohm/helsinki--jarvi2014--buildings fills all four ohm positions, so the composite draws no summer/winter and no wet/dry distinction, and that record declares no season_label of its own.
Completeness and uniquenesssupported
All seven slots are filled and the composite remains distinguishable: it differs from archetypes/surfaces/bldgs/sweden--detached-houses-wood and from archetypes/surfaces/bldgs/sweden--mixed-city only in the construction slot, and that is the slot carrying the typology's identity. No second Nordic Functionalism composite exists.

Scientific note

The composite promises a wood variant of Nordic Functionalism and does not assemble one. Its construction, records/constructions/sweden--bjork2002--nordic-functionalism-mid-1900s, is Swedish, regional and correctly named for the period, but its wall is limestone, brick, mineral wool and plaster with no wood layer, and it is the only Nordic Functionalism construction the database holds. The Wood in the composite's name is carried by the albedo alone, now a generic archived row named Wood. Either the name claims a variant the database cannot yet describe, in which case the fabric record is missing, or the name should say what the construction says; a maintainer has to choose, and this review will not choose for them. Alongside that, the composite declares representativeness regional while one of its seven components is a city row; OHM comes from Helsinki, while albedo, emissivity, snowpack_limit, water storage and drainage are generic because no Swedish record for those quantities exists. None of this requires a component value to change.

Model-ready fragment

Paste under land_cover.bldgs in a SUEWS YAML configuration; every value carries its citation.

alb:
  value: 0.22
  ref:
    ID: unreferenced
    DOI: null
    desc: generic, generic
emis:
  value: 0.95
  ref:
    ID: jarvi2011
    DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2011.10.001
    desc: generic, generic, land_cover
storage_drain_params:
  store_min:
    value: 0.25
    ref:
      ID: jarvi2011
      DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2011.10.001
      desc: generic, generic, land_cover
  store_max:
    value: 0.25
    ref:
      ID: jarvi2011
      DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2011.10.001
      desc: generic, generic, land_cover
  drain_eq:
    value: 3
    ref:
      ID: jarvi2011
      DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2011.10.001
      desc: generic, generic, land_cover
  drain_coef_1:
    value: 10
    ref:
      ID: jarvi2011
      DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2011.10.001
      desc: generic, generic, land_cover
  drain_coef_2:
    value: 3
    ref:
      ID: jarvi2011
      DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2011.10.001
      desc: generic, generic, land_cover
wet_threshold:
  value: 0.25
  ref:
    ID: jarvi2011
    DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2011.10.001
    desc: generic, generic, land_cover
snowpack_limit:
  value: 190
  ref:
    ID: jarvi2014
    DOI: 10.5194/gmd-7-1691-2014
    desc: generic, generic, land_cover
ohm_coef:
  summer_wet:
    a1:
      value: 0.19
      ref:
        ID: unreferenced
        DOI: null
        desc: helsinki, city, facet
    a2:
      value: 0.54
      ref:
        ID: unreferenced
        DOI: null
        desc: helsinki, city, facet
    a3:
      value: -15.125
      ref:
        ID: unreferenced
        DOI: null
        desc: helsinki, city, facet
  summer_dry:
    a1:
      value: 0.19
      ref:
        ID: unreferenced
        DOI: null
        desc: helsinki, city, facet
    a2:
      value: 0.54
      ref:
        ID: unreferenced
        DOI: null
        desc: helsinki, city, facet
    a3:
      value: -15.125
      ref:
        ID: unreferenced
        DOI: null
        desc: helsinki, city, facet
  winter_wet:
    a1:
      value: 0.19
      ref:
        ID: unreferenced
        DOI: null
        desc: helsinki, city, facet
    a2:
      value: 0.54
      ref:
        ID: unreferenced
        DOI: null
        desc: helsinki, city, facet
    a3:
      value: -15.125
      ref:
        ID: unreferenced
        DOI: null
        desc: helsinki, city, facet
  winter_dry:
    a1:
      value: 0.19
      ref:
        ID: unreferenced
        DOI: null
        desc: helsinki, city, facet
    a2:
      value: 0.54
      ref:
        ID: unreferenced
        DOI: null
        desc: helsinki, city, facet
    a3:
      value: -15.125
      ref:
        ID: unreferenced
        DOI: null
        desc: helsinki, city, facet

Composition review

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Composite metadata

Placesweden
Scoperegional
Targetland_cover.bldgs · docs
Origin“Sweden” (verbatim legacy string)
Schema2026.5 · legacy row 20240006

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