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Irrigation — No Irrigation evidence record

ie_start1
ie_end366
internalwateruse_h0
faut0
irrigationse-englandsiteUMEP-dev 2016

Parameters

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

ie_start1
ie_end366
internalwateruse_h0
faut0
daywat.sunday0
daywat.monday0
daywat.tuesday0
daywat.wednesday0
daywat.thursday0
daywat.friday0
daywat.saturday0
daywatper.sunday0
daywatper.monday0
daywatper.tuesday0
daywatper.wednesday0
daywatper.thursday0
daywatper.friday0
daywatper.saturday0

Provenance evidence

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Assumed · assessed by provenance-audit · 2026-09-02. Agent assessment is evidence preparation, not human verification.

SUEWS v2016a release workbook: SUEWS_SiteInfo18_Lo.xlsmParameter source

Where: SUEWS v2016a SUEWS_Irrigation.txt, rows 550 and 660

Publishes the exact No Irrigation tuples selected for the London and Swindon configurations, including the day range, zero schedule, faut and retained legacy controls.

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

Where: Section 3.2, model setup, p. 6

States that irrigation was assumed to be zero at the two UK sites; this supports the modelling choice but is not the direct table for every field in the tuple.

Assessment findings

Namesupported
The v2016a input table labels both selected rows No Irrigation, and Ward et al. state that irrigation was assumed zero for both UK simulations.
Targetsupported
The immutable SUEWS_Irrigation.txt fixture publishes the tuple in the irrigation input table.
Valuessupported
Rows 550 and 660 publish the same all-year, zero-water-use schedule and retained legacy controls as the record, at the available precision.
Sourcesupported
The pinned v2016a input is the direct source for the exact tuple. Ward et al. support the modelling rationale that both UK sites used no irrigation, but do not publish every stored field.
issue #1075
Placesupported
The shared record represents the same no-irrigation configuration applied at the London and Swindon sites. The stable se-england place describes that two-site application geography rather than a regional measurement.
Representativenesssupported
The configuration is documented for two site simulations, so site is the supported evidence reach; neither source establishes a regional determination.
Methodsupported
Ward et al. explicitly describe irrigation as assumed zero, matching method assumed.
Identitysupported
Stable path, target, origin, legacy ID and all parameter values are retained. The two identical v2016a site rows explain why one migrated SE England record represents both applications.

Scientific note

The record is an assumed model-input configuration, not a regional empirical irrigation estimate. The pinned v2016a input table supplies the exact fields, while Ward et al. document why zero irrigation was used for the London and Swindon evaluations. The correction separates numeric source from scientific rationale without changing any value, stable path, raw origin or legacy identity.

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

H_maintain-999
Ie_a10
Ie_a20
Ie_a30
Ie_m10
Ie_m20
Ie_m30

Model-ready fragment

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

ie_start:
  value: 1
  ref:
    ID: umep-dev2016a
    DOI: null
    desc: se-england, site
ie_end:
  value: 366
  ref:
    ID: umep-dev2016a
    DOI: null
    desc: se-england, site
internalwateruse_h:
  value: 0
  ref:
    ID: umep-dev2016a
    DOI: null
    desc: se-england, site
faut:
  value: 0
  ref:
    ID: umep-dev2016a
    DOI: null
    desc: se-england, site
daywat:
  sunday: 0
  monday: 0
  tuesday: 0
  wednesday: 0
  thursday: 0
  friday: 0
  saturday: 0
daywatper:
  sunday: 0
  monday: 0
  tuesday: 0
  wednesday: 0
  thursday: 0
  friday: 0
  saturday: 0

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Record metadata

Scopesite
Targetirrigation · docs
Origin“SE England” (verbatim legacy string)
Schema2026.5 · legacy row 61240050
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