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Bare soil · thermal layersbsoil evidence record

thermal_layers.dz[0.1, 0.25, 1, 3]
thermal_layers.k[0.76, 0.74, 0.63, 0.63]
thermal_layers.rho_cp[1500000, 1900000, 1200000, 1200000]
thermal-layersbsoillodzsiteCity centreOfferle 2005

Parameters

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

thermal_layers.dz[0.1, 0.25, 1, 3]
thermal_layers.k[0.76, 0.74, 0.63, 0.63]
thermal_layers.rho_cp[1500000, 1900000, 1200000, 1200000]

Provenance evidence

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Published value · assessed by provenance-audit · 2026-08-23. Agent assessment is evidence preparation, not human verification.

Heat storage and anthropogenic heat flux in relation to the energy balance of a central European city centreParameter source

Where: Title and abstract, city-centre and downtown wording, p. 1405

Where: Section 2.1.2, downtown Łódź site and coordinates, p. 1409

Where: Table I, Lipowa DUD/BEB and Oke UCZ 2 classification, p. 1409

Where: Section 2.1.3, 500 by 500 m grid and source-area description, p. 1410

Heat storage and anthropogenic heat flux in relation to the energy balance of a central European city centreParameter source

Where: Section 2.1.1, road and soil properties averaged into one model element, p. 1409

Where: Table III, Road thermal properties, p. 1411

The Road row gives the exact four-layer tuple stored in the record and states that the material properties are based on ASHRAE (1981).

Heat storage and anthropogenic heat flux in relation to the energy balance of a central European city centreParameter source

Where: Section 2.1.1, averaging of road and soil fractions, p. 1409

Where: Section 2.1.3, grid model elements and surface fractions, p. 1410

Where: Table III, tuple labelled Road rather than Bare Soil, p. 1411

Assessment findings

Namecuration required
The paper calls this construction the road element or the road and soil element, not an independent Bare Soil construction.
Targetcuration required
The source deliberately averages road and vegetated-soil fractions into one model element, so neither land_cover.bsoil nor a record-local retargeting to paved can be established from the paper alone.
Valuessupported
Table III publishes all four thickness, conductivity and volumetric heat-capacity values exactly as stored after converting MJ m-3 K-1 to J m-3 K-1.
Sourcesupported
Placesupported
Representativenesssupported
The approximately 500 by 500 m grid represents the local flux source area, supporting site rather than city-wide representativeness.
Urban Settingsupported
The paper identifies the site as downtown and as a central European city centre. It does not identify the site as a central business district.
Methodsupported
The published model-input tuple is adopted from the literature rather than fitted in this record.
Identitycuration required
Resolving the combined road-and-soil construction requires a maintainer decision or a composite construction model; a record-local rename or retarget would overstate the source.

Scientific note

The complete value tuple and its Łódź city-centre setting are source-supported, but the paper defines a combined road-and-soil model element rather than an independent Bare Soil construction. Human curation must decide how that combined identity should be represented; no value, stable path or target is changed here.

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

Surf_thick5-999
Surf_k5-999
Surf_rhoCp5-999
Wall_thick1-999
Wall_k1-999
Wall_rhoCp1-999
Wall_thick2-999
Wall_k2-999
Wall_rhoCp2-999
Wall_thick3-999
Wall_k3-999
Wall_rhoCp3-999
Wall_thick4-999
Wall_k4-999
Wall_rhoCp4-999
Wall_thick5-999
Wall_k5-999
Wall_rhoCp5-999
Internal_thick1-999
Internal_k1-999
Internal_rhoCp1-999
Internal_thick2-999
Internal_k2-999
Internal_rhoCp2-999
Internal_thick3-999
Internal_k3-999
Internal_rhoCp3-999
Internal_thick4-999
Internal_k4-999
Internal_rhoCp4-999
Internal_thick5-999
Internal_k5-999
Internal_rhoCp5-999
nroom-999
Internal_albedo-999
Internal_emissivity-999
Internal_CHwall-999
Internal_CHroof-999
Internal_CHbld-999

Model-ready fragment

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

thermal_layers:
  dz:
    value:
    - 0.1
    - 0.25
    - 1
    - 3
    ref:
      ID: offerle2005
      DOI: 10.1002/joc.1198
      desc: lodz, city_centre, site
  k:
    value:
    - 0.76
    - 0.74
    - 0.63
    - 0.63
    ref:
      ID: offerle2005
      DOI: 10.1002/joc.1198
      desc: lodz, city_centre, site
  rho_cp:
    value:
    - 1500000
    - 1900000
    - 1200000
    - 1200000
    ref:
      ID: offerle2005
      DOI: 10.1002/joc.1198
      desc: lodz, city_centre, site

Evidence review

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Record metadata

Placelodz
Scopesite
Urban settingCity centre
Targetland_cover.bsoil · docs
Origin“Lodz, Poland” (verbatim legacy string)
Schema2026.5 · legacy row 52240004

Same study, same place

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