This is a template for how the results of each modeling effort should be organized, the idea being that each model can be reviewed in the same manner. Use the README.md file to give a brief overview of the model, and the results supplied. If you are including data not specified in the standard dataset, please describe the differences.
If you have multiple results, please follow this same format, but use different base directories; prefixed with results, for example, the prescriptive ET calculation method may include results_cdl/ and results_nasa/ directories to describe results from two different landcover maps.
Note, that you are required to supply the files: wy2015/monthly.csv and
the raster wy2015/monthly/ET.tif.
Throughout the results the following parameter names should be used. The values in () specify the units for the parameters. For monthly or yearly summaries, the values should still be scaled to the daily estimates. For example, the monthly ET for June should be represented as the average daily value.
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ET (mm/day) Evapotranspiration. This is the actual/estimated values. Daily, monthly, and yearly estimates can be supplied, but should be scaled to a per day estimate.
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ETo (mm/day) Reference Evapotranspiration--Short Grass. This is the ASCE reference value for short grass.
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ETa (mm/day) Reference Evapotranspiration--Alfalfa. This is the ASCE reference value for alfalfa.
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Kc (unitless) Crop coefficient, defined as ET/ETo.
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Kca (unitless) Crop coefficient (alfalfa) defined as ET/ETa.
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Ts (C) Surface Temperature. This is the modeled value of the actual surface. For
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H (Wh/m^2) Sensible Heat Flux. This is the measured/modeled value. This is the daily value. For instantaneous values use iH (W/m^2).
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G (Wh/m^2 ) Soil Heat Flux. For instantaneous values use iG (W/m^2).
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lc_dwr or lc_cdl (categorical) DWR Land Cover Crop types. You can either specify what landcover map you are using of those supplied, eg.
or specify a landcover map yourself. If you specify your own, you must use either the Cropland Data Layer identifiers, or the DWR Landcover classes.
Some satellite based products will want to report some of these values as their instantaneous value, for comparison. Typically we use a i prefix on the values. They usually have different units as well. The time the instantaneous value is measured needs to be referenced.
- iET (mm/hr)
- iETo (mm/hr)
- iETa (mm/day)
- iTs (C) For a satellite overpass, this is the instantaneous temperature.
- iH (W/m^2)
- iG (W/m^2 )
- iRn (W/m^2)
Hi-resolution images can be supplied in a projection consistent with the underlying landsat data product. They should be supplied in EPSG:26910, with the lower left coordinate (ll)=596898, 4162595 and upper right coordinate (ur)=656748, 4276385at 30 (m) resolution. This results in images that are of size1995,3793```.
Images should be named for the parameter they represent. Multiple bands for an image will always be different times, not different parameters. You should supply the data as floating point values for each pixel.
Please do not supply complete landsat images in you results, only for the region described above.
Additional weather specific parameters have been defined in the the ssj-weather project. Please use the same naming scheme there. Please note the difference in Radiation, defined in units (MJ/m^2) as opposed to some of the other defined energy fluxes, (Wh/m^2) 1MJ=277.778 Wh. This is to maintain consistency with results from the Spatial CIMIS application.