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Bug fix for calculating effective radius of rain, snow, and graupel#1027

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Bug fix for calculating effective radius of rain, snow, and graupel#1027
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@YaliWu0219 YaliWu0219 commented Dec 3, 2019

TYPE: bug fix

KEYWORDS: effective radius, lamda calculation

SOURCE: Yali Wu (NCAR)

DESCRIPTION OF CHANGES: Subroutine da_cld_eff_radius uses exponential distribution for calculating the effective radius of different hydrometeor particles.

Slope parameters should be calculated following:

sqrt(sqrt(piover6*rho_x*n0_x/(rho*qx)))

but this was incorrectly typed, so that rho is in the numerator:

sqrt(sqrt(piover6*rho_x*n0_x*rho/qx)))

where, x denotes rain, snow, and graupel.

LIST OF MODIFIED FILES:
M var/da/da_radiance/da_cld_eff_radius.inc

TESTS CONDUCTED: Conducted tests before and after bugfix on Cheyenne. The model simulated MW radiances were slightly improved for a typhoon case, while the simulated IR radiances seemed to have no difference.

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@YaliWu0219 YaliWu0219 requested a review from a team as a code owner December 3, 2019 22:16
@davegill davegill changed the base branch from master to release-v4.1.4 December 3, 2019 22:27
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davegill commented Dec 3, 2019

@liujake @jjguerrette
Folks,

  1. The modified file is consistent with text-based description of the proposed change.
  2. I changed the target repo base to be "release-v4.1.4"
  3. The PR message seems complete, and includes supporting figures to indicate the impact

I have reviewed this, but am not allowed to approve

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@davegill, I agree that this should go on the release branch. Is it ok to merge now? I remember there were issues recently...

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davegill commented Dec 4, 2019

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JJ,
Go ahead and feel free to merge this onto release-v4.1.4 whenever you are ready.

@liujake liujake merged commit 794988e into release-v4.1.4 Dec 4, 2019
@liujake liujake deleted the wrfda_re_lamda branch December 4, 2019 06:06
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