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Buildings · albedo — Industry, dark roofsbldgs evidence record unreferenced

alb0.11
albedobldgsgenericgenericunreferenced

Parameters

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

alb0.11

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 41240025

Stores Buildings, Industry dark roofs, Origin Gothenburg, 0.11/0.11 and Ref 90240001. This establishes release and migration lineage only.

Boundary Layer ClimatesValidation

Where: Table 8.2, radiative properties of typical urban materials, p. 281

The complete second edition gives albedo ranges 0.08-0.18 for tar and gravel roofs, 0.10-0.16 for corrugated iron roofs, and 0.02-0.15 for black paint. It supplies no exact 0.11, industrial class, row-level mapping or Gothenburg scope. Private manifestation SHA-256 2b2e2935cfbc01d06d28341c0c0bf1f66ab389302cf8d10519824c01b6e3becf.

Assessment findings

Namesupported
Industry, dark roofs is retained as the historical configuration label; Oke contains generic roof-material classes but does not publish this industrial class.
Targetsupported
The migrated row assigns the value to the Buildings surface class.
Valuessupported
Albedo 0.11 is supported as the exact migrated configuration value only. Oke gives broad ranges for several dark roof materials but no exact 0.11 selection or mapping to this industrial label.
Sourcesupported
Unreferenced is correct because the cited book does not publish this exact configured point and class. source_legacy_ref 90240001 preserves the former registry link without exporting it as proof.
issue #361
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 selection as city-wide Gothenburg evidence.
Methodsupported
Assumed denotes retention of an executable historical value whose point selection and scientific derivation are not recorded.
Identitysupported
Stable path, name, origin, legacy ID 41240025, target and value preserve the historical configuration identity while unsupported scientific and geographic attribution is removed.

Scientific note

Being numerically inside several Oke ranges does not identify which material, transformation or point selection produced 0.11. This correction therefore preserves the value as an explicit archived configuration assumption without claiming Oke authorship or Gothenburg determination. A future original compiler source can replace the assumption without changing the value or stable path.

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

Alb_max0.11

Model-ready fragment

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

alb:
  value: 0.11
  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 41240025

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