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Buildings · albedo — Woodbldgs evidence record unreferenced

alb0.22
albedobldgsgenericgenericunreferenced

Parameters

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

alb0.22

Provenance evidence

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Assumed · assessed by provenance-audit · 2026-08-25. Agent assessment is evidence preparation, not human verification.

SUEWS database pre-migration workbook: database.xlsxLater compilation

Where: Pre-migration Albedo row 41240026

Stores Buildings, Wood, Origin Gothenburg, 0.22/0.22 and Ref 90240001. This establishes release and migration lineage only.

Boundary Layer ClimatesValidation

Where: Table 8.2, Walls — Wood row, p. 281

The complete second edition prints emissivity 0.90 for Wood but leaves its albedo cell blank. Full text search found no other Wood 0.22 and no Gothenburg or Goteborg occurrence. Private manifestation SHA-256 2b2e2935cfbc01d06d28341c0c0bf1f66ab389302cf8d10519824c01b6e3becf.

Assessment findings

Namesupported
Wood is the historical configuration label and a material category present in Oke Table 8.2; removing trailing whitespace changes no identity or scientific claim.
Targetsupported
The migrated row assigns the value to the Buildings surface class.
Valuessupported
Albedo 0.22 is supported as the exact migrated configuration value only. Oke Table 8.2 leaves the Wood albedo cell blank, so the value is not represented as an Oke parameter.
Sourcesupported
Unreferenced is correct because the cited book does not publish 0.22 for Wood. source_legacy_ref 90240001 preserves the former registry link without exporting it as proof.
issue #360
Placesupported
Generic removes the unsupported geographic claim. Gothenburg remains only in the stable path and origin field as migration and application history.
Representativenesssupported
Generic avoids presenting an archived point value as city-wide Gothenburg evidence.
Methodsupported
Assumed denotes retention of an executable historical value whose scientific derivation is not recorded.
Identitysupported
Stable path, origin, legacy ID 41240026, target and value preserve the historical configuration identity while the unsupported scientific and geographic attribution is removed.

Scientific note

This correction closes the false Oke/Gothenburg attribution without claiming that the first scientific origin of Wood 0.22 has been recovered. The exact value remains available as an explicit archived configuration assumption. Iqbal and Gubareff remain discoverable research leads, but neither is exported as the source. No parameter value or stable identity changes.

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

Alb_max0.22

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

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Record metadata

Sourceunreferenced — no citation was recorded in the legacy database; treat with care
Placegeneric
Scopegeneric
Targetland_cover.bldgs · docs
Origin“Gothenburg” (verbatim legacy string)
Schema2026.5 · legacy row 41240026

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