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Surface conductance — Stewart (1988) evidence record

g_max23.53
g_k104.4
g_q_base0.0812
g_q_shape9.44
conductancethetford-forestsiteStewart 1988

Parameters

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

g_max23.53
g_k104.4
g_q_base0.0812
g_q_shape9.44
g_t18.35
g_sm0.081
th40
tl0
s11.08
s269.7
kmax1000

Context

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

context.surface_conductance_model1

Provenance evidence

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Modelling surface conductance of pine forest.Parameter source

Where: Site and measurements, p. 20

Locates the instrumented Scots pine stand near the centre of Thetford Forest, Norfolk, at 52 degrees 25 minutes N, 0 degrees 40 minutes E and 46 m altitude.

Where: Table 2, non-linear functions, All days row, p. 27

Gives K1 23.53, K2 104.4, K3 0.0812, K4 9.44, K5 18.35 and K6 0.0810, matching g_max, g_k, g_q_base, g_q_shape, g_t and g_sm.

Where: Equations 17-18, radiation response, p. 25

Defines the radiation-response form and its 1000 W m-2 reference, matching kmax.

Where: Equations 20-21, temperature response, p. 26

States the low and high temperature limits as 0 and 40 degrees C, matching tl and th.

Where: Equations 22-24, soil-moisture response, p. 26

Gives K10 1.08 and K11 69.7, matching s1 and s2.

The all-days row was fitted to all measurement hours from 1974, 1975 and 1976 at Thetford Forest.

Assessment findings

Namesupported
Stewart (1988) identifies the publication and fitted conductance model represented by this record.
Targetsupported
Equations 9-24 define the surface-conductance model and its environmental response functions.
Valuessupported
Table 2's all-days non-linear-model row and Eqs. 17-24 reproduce every stored coefficient at the published precision.
Sourcesupported
Stewart (1988) is the parameter publication that derives and reports the fitted values.
Placesupported
The Site and measurements section places the observations near the centre of Thetford Forest, Norfolk, at 52 degrees 25 minutes N, 0 degrees 40 minutes E and 46 m altitude, matching the record and place registry.
Representativenesssupported
The coefficients were fitted to dry-canopy observations from one instrumented Scots pine stand at Thetford Forest, so site is the source-supported evidence scale.
Methodsupported
Table 2 states that the parameters were obtained by optimisation against the Thetford Forest measurements; the record is therefore a fitted parameter set.
Identitysupported
No exact duplicate of this coefficient set occurs in the current conductance-record inventory.

Scientific note

The original article supports the current source and all eleven conductance coefficients. It establishes that the values are a site-scale parameter set fitted to dry-canopy observations from the instrumented Scots pine stand at Thetford Forest, rather than generic pine-forest coefficients.

Model-ready fragment

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

g_max:
  value: 23.53
  ref:
    ID: stewart1988
    DOI: 10.1016/0168-1923(88)90003-2
    desc: thetford-forest, site
g_k:
  value: 104.4
  ref:
    ID: stewart1988
    DOI: 10.1016/0168-1923(88)90003-2
    desc: thetford-forest, site
g_q_base:
  value: 0.0812
  ref:
    ID: stewart1988
    DOI: 10.1016/0168-1923(88)90003-2
    desc: thetford-forest, site
g_q_shape:
  value: 9.44
  ref:
    ID: stewart1988
    DOI: 10.1016/0168-1923(88)90003-2
    desc: thetford-forest, site
g_t:
  value: 18.35
  ref:
    ID: stewart1988
    DOI: 10.1016/0168-1923(88)90003-2
    desc: thetford-forest, site
g_sm:
  value: 0.081
  ref:
    ID: stewart1988
    DOI: 10.1016/0168-1923(88)90003-2
    desc: thetford-forest, site
th:
  value: 40
  ref:
    ID: stewart1988
    DOI: 10.1016/0168-1923(88)90003-2
    desc: thetford-forest, site
tl:
  value: 0
  ref:
    ID: stewart1988
    DOI: 10.1016/0168-1923(88)90003-2
    desc: thetford-forest, site
s1:
  value: 1.08
  ref:
    ID: stewart1988
    DOI: 10.1016/0168-1923(88)90003-2
    desc: thetford-forest, site
s2:
  value: 69.7
  ref:
    ID: stewart1988
    DOI: 10.1016/0168-1923(88)90003-2
    desc: thetford-forest, site
kmax:
  value: 1000
  ref:
    ID: stewart1988
    DOI: 10.1016/0168-1923(88)90003-2
    desc: thetford-forest, site

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Record metadata

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Targetconductance · docs
Origin“Thetford Forest, Norfolk” (verbatim legacy string)
Schema2026.5 · legacy row 44240003
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