Literature sources for function values (heat stress and water storage)

Ellie

I am using Tygron for academic purposes, therefore it is useful for me to know the literature sources used for the function values. In particular I am interested in water storage, infiltration and heat stress.
Is this documentation available somewhere?
For example, where did you get the function values for "city park" to be; water storage = 0 and heat effect = -8?

In the heat stress documentation, table 5.3 gives values for some features but not all. Also, where are the values in table 5.3 sourced from?

Hedi

Hi Ellie, you have already found the documentation available for heat stress (Verbeek 2010). Not all function values are defined based on (academic) sources. Some of these values are for instance defined using client or stakeholder input during projects. This could be based on experience - such as: a road type with water infiltration will give a positive effect in comparison to a road type without water infiltration when it is used for the waterstorage indicator.
In case you have your own literature available as a source, you can easily overwrite the values in the Platform with these sources manually. More information about this can be found on our wiki page on function values http://support.tygron.com/wiki/Functions#Function_values

Ellie W

Hi again Hedi, I would like to find the exact reference for Verbeek, 2010. When I type it into google and google scholar along with the key words heat stress there are no relevant papers. Could you perhaps upload the document, link to the document or full reference that this is referring to?

In addition to this, I am wondering if the heat stress indicator and overlay take shading into account. I understand this will be found in the UNESCO-IHE documentation. Do you also have access to the more detailed account of the original UNESCO-IHE documentation? (Similar to above I cannot find it in google/google scholar)

Thanks!

Ellie W

Hi Hedi, do you have an update on this? I have really tried to find the Veerbeek documentation online but have had no luck...

Hansje

Hello Ellie,

unfortunately we do not have any other documentation on Veerbeek other than the documentation on our wiki. We have spoken to him recently and asked him about this info and he confirmed that this is still accurate and he himself didn't have any additional info as well.
I think there is not much more we can do for you to help you get your answers sorry. Like Hedi said, if you have your own literature you want to make use of, please adjust the fanction values to the desired value to work with.

Ellie W

Thanks for the follow-up Hansje
Do you perhaps know if the heat stress model accounts for shading of trees?

Hansje

Hi Ellie,

I know this is not taken into account. It just counts the surface of the grid cell and the grid cells around it. Based on the surface type and the corresponding function value the calculation is made. Height and shade is not part of the calculation. If you want to make it count in the calculation you could change the function value but this will be counted for all gridcells with that surface type so I would advice to use an average number which counts for shade and no shade gridcells for trees. But this is free to your own choice of course ;P

I hope this helps.

Godelief

In our new Heat stress overlay, which is in accordance with the DPRA Heat stress report, the shading of trees is included. Read more about this topic on our Wiki.

This new Heat stress overlay is available on the Preview server at the start of January 2020 and will be released on the LTS server in the first quarter of 2020.

jpueyo

https://community.tygron.com/forum/discussion/comment/197#Comment_197

Hi,

I'm also interested in the reference of Veerbeek (2010) just for citation purposes. However, I'm not able to find it. In the wiki document there is the in-line citation but not the referece: https://support.tygron.com/w/downloads/climategame/Heatstress.pdf

May you provide this reference, please?

Hansje

Hello Josep,

The link you mention in your post is all we have available as a reference.

It was a an oral contribution from Veerbeek during making the Climategame. We backchecked with his like a year or two ago and he confirmed this was still his statement now days.

So unfortunately we cannot help you on other materials about this.

jpueyo

Hi! I revisited this comment. I understand that this came from an oral conversation. However, it is said that the values in the table came from UNESCO-IHE barometer. Can it be found somewhere? I'm not able to find it anywhere. Not in UNESCO's website neither in IHE's website.

Thank you.

vincent.rd

Dear @jpueyo ,

Unfortunately we can not help you with any reference to the term 'Unesco-IHE barometer' either, as the term probably also was communicated to us verbally. The Unesco-IHE heat stress model was implemented in our Climategame, as it was the most accurate model at that time. Last year we implemented the more accurate DRPA based model in the Tygron Geodesign Platform, which has a wide consensus in the international climate science field, and is much better (scientifically) documented as well.

Kind regards,

Vincent

Tygron Support Team

RudolfNL

In the full Climategame Manual, a longer list of all references is still present and available, although I cannot vouch for whether this is still a perfect trail on which to follow up for heat stress specifically. The full manual can be found here:

Climategame - Tygron Support wiki

https://support.tygron.com/wiki/Climategame#Documentation

The Climategame Delft is a typical example of one of the projects developed to create a shared insight between stakeholders by using Tygron Technology. In a Climategame Delft session the participants take on the challenge of making the Delft University district climate adaptive. Users actively discover the interaction between water, climate, spatial planning, costs and building.

Direct link:

Tygron EN Geodesign Platform | Geodesign Platform

https://www.tygron.com/downloads/climategame/Climategamemainmanual_v1.0.pdf

The Tygron Geodesign Platform offers a sophisticated High Performance Computing (HPC) solution to solve the biggest challenges engineers, governments, planners and designers are facing today.

I suspect that perhaps the reference of "Veerbeek, W. (2010). Delft Spetterstad omschrijving hittestress. Delft" may be the one relevant for you. At the very least it features a name of a report or document. Beyond that, I have no further references or links.

vincent.rd

Thank you @RudolfNL!

For completeness, as I am redirected to Tygron Main page when selecting the direct link, the file you are referring to is called 'Climategame reference book- full version(PDF)', in the documentation paragraph in the main article.

Regards, Vincent