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Updates to SGS cloud interstitials, adding C-B cloud fraction for convection schemes#116

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Description: Enhancement - This modification adds:

  1. A new cloud fraction (Chaboureau and Bechtold 2005) for the GF convection scheme.
  2. The capability to separate frozen subgrid clouds into both snow and ice (no longer just ice).
  3. Had to switch array "ud_mf" from interstitial to TBD block and add it to the restart files.

The following files are affected (in ccpp-physics):
--- a/physics/module_SGSCloud_RadPost.F90
--- a/physics/module_SGSCloud_RadPost.meta
--- a/physics/module_SGSCloud_RadPre.F90
--- a/physics/module_SGSCloud_RadPre.meta
--- a/physics/GFS_debug.F90

The following files are affected (in fv3atm):
--- a/ccpp/data/GFS_typedefs.F90
--- a/ccpp/data/GFS_typedefs.meta
--- a/ccpp/driver/GFS_restart.F90

Issue(s) addressed

The modifications in this PR improve the radiation balance in the tropics by providing a cloud fraction diagnostic that seems to be more compatible with the GF convective scheme.

Testing

This code was tested within case studies and short retros on Hera with the Intel compiler.
Are the changes covered by regression tests? Not yet...

  • hera.intel
  • hera.gnu
  • orion.intel
  • cheyenne.intel
  • cheyenne.gnu
  • gaea.intel
  • jet.intel
  • wcoss_cray
  • wcoss_dell_p3
  • opnReqTest for newly added/changed feature
  • CI

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PR #122 in ccpp-physics

@joeolson42 joeolson42 changed the title Updates to SGS cloud interstitials with updated submodule pointer for fv3atm and ccpp-physics Updates to SGS cloud interstitials, adding C-B cloud fraction for convection schemes Feb 24, 2022
@SamuelTrahanNOAA SamuelTrahanNOAA self-requested a review February 24, 2022 20:58
@SamuelTrahanNOAA SamuelTrahanNOAA merged commit a2a6a22 into NOAA-GSL:gsl/develop Feb 24, 2022
@joeolson42 joeolson42 deleted the sgsradpre branch March 22, 2022 12:51
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