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Grass · biogenic co2grass evidence record

alpha_bio_co20.031
beta_bio_co25.4973
resp_a2.1
resp_b0.06
biogen-co2grassespoositeZheng Y. 2023

Parameters

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

Labelled fields override the record-level citation or scope; unlabelled fields use the record metadata.

alpha_bio_co20.031 Zheng Y. 2023
beta_bio_co25.4973 Zheng Y. 2023
resp_a2.1 Järvi 2019
resp_b0.06 Järvi 2019
min_res_bioco20.6 Järvi 2019

Provenance evidence

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Published value · assessed by provenance-audit · 2026-09-01. Agent assessment is evidence preparation, not human verification.

Simulating heat and CO2 fluxes in Beijing using SUEWS V2020b: Sensitivity to vegetation phenology and maximum conductanceLater compilation

Where: ModelRuns/Input/SUEWS_BiogenCO2.txt, code 33

Carries the stored tuple and is commented Modified from Ossinlampi, Kumpula grassland.

Where: ModelRuns/Input/SUEWS_Veg.txt, code 993, columns BiogenCO2Code

Points the Beijing surfaces at biogenic code 33.

Where: ModelRuns/Input/SUEWS_SiteSelect.txt, Beijing grid 1 (2015 and 2016)

Assigns Code_EveTr 991, Code_DecTr 992, Code_Grass 993 and IrrigationCode 5 to the modelled Beijing grid, so those rows are the ones the published runs used.

Simulating heat and CO2 fluxes in Beijing using SUEWS V2020b: Sensitivity to vegetation phenology and maximum conductanceParameter source

Applies to: parameters.beta_bio_co2

Where: Table 2, SUEWS biogenic model parameters used for all case runs, p. 4559

Publishes Fpho,max, ai and bi with their credits; alpha and theta are absent from the article.

Where: Eq. (15), soil and vegetation respiration, p. 4554

States that 0.6 umol m-2 s-1 is the minimum respiration in winter time.

Where: Appendix D, Fitting the maximum photosynthetic rate for the grass and lawn vegetation type, p. 4572

Locates the eddy covariance lawn in Espoo, Finland, describes the nonlinear least-squares and bootstrap fit, reports Fpho,max = 5.497 +/- 0.110 umol m-2 s-1, and states that this value is used for grass and lawn in the Beijing simulation.

Simulating heat and CO2 fluxes in Beijing using SUEWS V2020b: Sensitivity to vegetation phenology and maximum conductanceParameter source

Applies to: parameters.alpha_bio_co2

Where: ModelRuns/Input/SUEWS_BiogenCO2.txt, code 33, alpha column

The pinned model input is the only located artifact that states alpha 0.031 for this exact grass row; the journal article does not publish alpha.

Simulating heat and CO2 fluxes in Beijing using SUEWS V2020b: Sensitivity to vegetation phenology and maximum conductanceLater compilation

Where: Sect. 3, Study site and measurements, p. 4554

The model domain is a 1 km circle around the IAP tower, covering roughly 80 % of the accumulated flux footprint; no city-wide domain is modelled.

Spatial Modeling of Local-Scale Biogenic and Anthropogenic Carbon Dioxide emissions in HelsinkiParameter source

Applies to: parameters.resp_a, parameters.resp_b, parameters.min_res_bioco2

Where: Table A1, grass respiration parameters for Torni, p. 15

Publishes agrass = 2.1 +/- 0.8 and bgrass = 0.06 +/- 0.03 for the Torni Helsinki site, which Zheng adopts in its released configuration.

Where: Eq. 11 and accompanying text, p. 5

Sets the 0.6 umol m-2 s-1 floor from winter soil-chamber measurements in a boreal forest in central Finland.

Assessment findings

Namesupported
The row is the grass entry of the archived Beijing run.
Targetsupported
Veg code 993 of the modelled Beijing grid points at biogenic code 33.
Valuessupported
Code 33 of SUEWS_BiogenCO2.txt carries alpha 0.031, beta 5.4973, resp_a 2.1, resp_b 0.06 and min_respi 0.6, which is the record exactly, and Veg code 993 points at it. Appendix D reports the fitted median Fpho,max = 5.497 +/- 0.110, so the archive carries one digit more than the article publishes. Järvi Table A1 gives grass a = 2.1 and b = 0.06 for Torni and Eq. 11 documents the 0.6 minimum; Zheng Table 2 adopts those respiration values and rounds Fpho,max to 5.5. The stored alpha appears only in the archive, and the quarantined theta of -999 matches the archive's empty column.
Sourcesupported
Parameter-level provenance now keeps Zheng et al. as the source for the archive-only alpha and their fitted Espoo beta, while assigning Järvi et al. to the adopted Torni grass respiration coefficients and Finnish respiration floor. Zheng remains the record-envelope source for the exact Beijing run configuration.
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Placesupported
The envelope place is Espoo, where Appendix D fits beta. Parameter overrides locate the adopted respiration pair at Torni in Helsinki and the minimum floor at its central-Finland chamber site. The stable Beijing path and origin retain the later application lineage.
Representativenesssupported
Site is the supported scope for every leaf: Appendix D uses one 0.7 ha Espoo lawn, Table A1 reports the Torni site fit, and the floor comes from one central-Finland chamber site.
Methodsupported
The record-level literature method describes adoption of the published Zheng run configuration. Parameter overrides identify beta and the Järvi respiration coefficients as fitted, the respiration floor as an explicit model assumption, and the archive-only alpha as a literature configuration value.
Identitysupported
Biogenic code 33 is a distinct row in the archive and the stored tuple is distinct from the other Beijing biogenic record in the database.

Scientific note

The active place and scope identify the Espoo lawn where Zheng et al. fitted beta, rather than the Beijing application. The stable Beijing path, origin lineage, target, values, envelope source and legacy identity remain unchanged. Parameter-level provenance now records the mixed tuple without overclaiming: Zheng et al. publish the fitted Espoo beta and the archive-only alpha in their released configuration, while Järvi et al. publish the adopted Torni respiration coefficients and set the 0.6 respiration floor from a central-Finland winter soil-chamber site. Leaf-level place and scope overrides keep those production sites distinct from the Espoo beta fit.

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

theta-999
alpha_enh-999
beta_enh-999

Model-ready fragment

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

alpha_bio_co2:
  value: 0.031
  ref:
    ID: zheng-y2023
    DOI: 10.5194/gmd-16-4551-2023
    desc: espoo, site
beta_bio_co2:
  value: 5.4973
  ref:
    ID: zheng-y2023
    DOI: 10.5194/gmd-16-4551-2023
    desc: espoo, site
resp_a:
  value: 2.1
  ref:
    ID: jarvi2019
    DOI: 10.1029/2018JD029576
    desc: helsinki, site
resp_b:
  value: 0.06
  ref:
    ID: jarvi2019
    DOI: 10.1029/2018JD029576
    desc: helsinki, site
min_res_bioco2:
  value: 0.6
  ref:
    ID: jarvi2019
    DOI: 10.1029/2018JD029576
    desc: finland, site

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Record metadata

Placeespoo
Scopesite
Targetland_cover.grass · docs
Origin“Beijing” (verbatim legacy string)
Schema2026.5 · legacy row 30240001

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