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Anthropogenic emissions — Suburban residential evidence record

heat.qf_a.working_day0.1446
heat.qf_a.holiday0.1329
heat.qf_b.working_day0
heat.qf_b.holiday0
anthropogenicswindonsiteWard 2016

Parameters

Names follow the SUEWS YAML specification; click one for its definition in the configuration reference.

heat.qf_a.working_day0.1446
heat.qf_a.holiday0.1329
heat.qf_b.working_day0
heat.qf_b.holiday0
heat.qf_c.working_day0.0037
heat.qf_c.holiday0.0038

Context

Conditions the set was derived under; not model inputs themselves.

context.qf_model2

Provenance evidence

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Fitted · assessed by provenance-audit · 2026-08-24. Agent assessment is evidence preparation, not human verification.

Surface Urban Energy and Water Balance Scheme (SUEWS): Development and evaluation at two UK sitesParameter source

Where: Section 4.3, Equation 5, p. 11, 12

Defines the anthropogenic heat model and states that separate weekday and weekend coefficients were fitted to the Kc and Sw data after removing cooling-degree dependence.

Where: Table 3, Sw weekday and weekend columns, p. 12

Prints Sw qf_a as 0.1446 and 0.1330, qf_b as zero, and qf_c as 0.0037 and 0.0038.

SUEWS v2016a release workbook: SUEWS_SiteInfo18_Lo.xlsmLater compilation

Where: SUEWS_AnthropogenicHeat.txt, code 551

Preserves the Swindon fit as 0.1445807, 0, 0.0037491 on weekdays and 0.1329150, 0, 0.0037537 on weekends, establishing why the four-decimal migrated weekend value is 0.1329.

Assessment findings

Namesupported
Ward et al. identify Sw as a suburban residential site, and the release registry labels code 551 as the Swindon fit.
Targetsupported
Equation 5 and Table 3 define the temperature-dependent anthropogenic heat coefficients represented by the record's qf_a, qf_b and qf_c fields.
Valuessupported
Table 3 prints the Sw weekday tuple as 0.1446, 0, 0.0037 and the weekend tuple as 0.1330, 0, 0.0038. Historical code 551 preserves the underlying fit at greater precision, including weekend qf_a 0.1329150; the migrated record consistently stores four decimal places and therefore retains 0.1329 rather than replacing it with the publication's printed 0.1330. No active value is changed.
issue #103
Sourcesupported
Ward et al. publish and describe the fitted coefficients. The v2016a coefficient registry is later implementation and precision-preservation evidence, not a replacement parameter source.
Placesupported
The coefficients are fitted to the Swindon suburban site and code 551 is explicitly labelled Swindon fit.
Representativenesssupported
Ward et al. derive the coefficients for the single suburban Sw study site. That supports the record's site reach without asserting city-wide Swindon representativeness.
issue #713
Methodsupported
Section 4.3 explicitly says the UK-site coefficients were derived by fitting the Kc and Sw data, and Table 3 distinguishes those fitted columns from literature values.
Identitysupported
Historical code 551 contains the same Swindon fit and explains the record's stable legacy identity. Retaining the four-decimal migrated values preserves that identity.

Scientific note

Ward et al. publish the Swindon anthropogenic-heat fit at Table 3 precision, while the pinned v2016a coefficient registry preserves the underlying coefficients at seven decimal places. The record's 0.1329 is the consistent four-decimal representation of release value 0.1329150; replacing it with the table's printed 0.1330 would discard stable migration precision. The record now declares the source-established fitted method and site representativeness. No parameter value, source, place, target, legacy ID, origin or stable path changed.

Legacy values (verbatim original columns; not SUEWS model inputs)

BaseT_HC18.2
AHMin_WD-999
AHMin_WE-999
AHSlope_Heating_WD-999
AHSlope_Heating_WE-999
AHSlope_Cooling_WD-999
AHSlope_Cooling_WE-999
TCritic_Heating_WD-999
TCritic_Heating_WE-999
TCritic_Cooling_WD-999
TCritic_Cooling_WE-999
MinQFMetab-999
MaxQFMetab-999
MinFCMetab-999
MaxFCMetab-999
FrPDDwe-999
FrFossilFuel_Heat-999
FrFossilFuel_NonHeat-999
EF_umolCO2perJ-999
EnEF_v_Jkm-999
FcEF_v_kgkmWD-999
FcEF_v_kgkmWE-999
CO2PointSource-999
TrafficUnits-999

Model-ready fragment

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

heat:
  qf_a:
    working_day: 0.1446
    holiday: 0.1329
  qf_b:
    working_day: 0
    holiday: 0
  qf_c:
    working_day: 0.0037
    holiday: 0.0038

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Record metadata

Placeswindon
Scopesite
Targetanthropogenic_emissions · docs
Origin“Swindon, UK” (verbatim legacy string)
Schema2026.5 · legacy row 53240040

Same study, same place

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