SUEWS parameter database

curated values, linked and searchable, a citation on every one Home · Map · suews.io
browse · records/ohm/generic--unreferenced--grass.yml

OHM coefficients — Short grass [30] evidence record

a10.32
a20.54
a3-27.4
ohmLand-cover classGrimmond 1991

Parameters

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

a10.32
a20.54
a3-27.4

Provenance evidence

Awaiting sign-off

Fitted · assessed by provenance-audit · 2026-08-21. Agent assessment is evidence preparation, not human verification.

Assessment findings

Namesupported
Targetsupported
Valuessupported
Sourcesupported
Placenot applicable
Representativenessnot applicable
Applicable Scalesupported
Section 7a treats the listed coefficients as belonging to individual surface types that are weighted by their area fractions to obtain site coefficients, and Table 4 lists Short grass as one such surface-cover type; the triplet therefore describes a land-cover input before site aggregation.
Methodsupported
Identitysupported

Scientific note

Grimmond et al. (1991) is the canonical parameter publication; Doll et al. supplied the underlying observations. Grimmond and Oke (1999) later describe the triplet as a short-grass surface-cover input that is area-weighted during site aggregation. The sidecar preserves the role distinction without attributing the fitted coefficients to Doll et al.

Model-ready fragment

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

a1:
  value: 0.32
  ref:
    ID: grimmond1991b
    DOI: 10.1016/0957-1272(91)90003-W
    desc: land_cover
a2:
  value: 0.54
  ref:
    ID: grimmond1991b
    DOI: 10.1016/0957-1272(91)90003-W
    desc: land_cover
a3:
  value: -27.4
  ref:
    ID: grimmond1991b
    DOI: 10.1016/0957-1272(91)90003-W
    desc: land_cover

Evidence review

Awaiting sign-offSign off evidence on GitHub

Raises a prefilled sign-off issue. CI accepts it only when the issue author is in the verifier registry and the evidence revision is still current.

Review procedure

Record metadata

Applicable scaleLand-cover class
Targetohm_coefficients · docs
Schema2026.5 · legacy row 50240009

Used by 5 typologies

Report an issue