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Remove Gecros crop option in Noah-MP#1346

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Remove Gecros crop option in Noah-MP#1346
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Remove the gecros crop option (opt_crop=2) in Noah-MP

TYPE: feature removed

KEYWORDS: Noah-MP, crop, gecros

SOURCE: Cenlin He (NCAR/RAL)

DESCRIPTION OF CHANGES:
Th gecros crop model in Noah-MP (opt_crop=2) has been removed and no longer supported by the Noah-MP LSM team. The reasons are that (1) gecros is not well coupled into Noah-MP with some inconsistency in using Noah-MP variables (e.g., photosynthesis variable), (2) the Noah-MP LSM has decided to no longer maintain and support this crop option. So there is only one crop scheme in Noah-MP currently (opt_crop=1, Liu et al., 2016). More advanced crop schemes fully coupled with Noah-MP are under development too. Users would like to use the gecros scheme can refer to an older version of WRF.

ISSUE: For use when this PR closes an issue.
Fixes #123

LIST OF MODIFIED FILES: list of changed files (use git diff --name-status develop to get formatted list)
Note: the following files are changed compared with WRF develop branch
M Registry/Registry.EM_COMMON
M Registry/Registry.NMM
M Registry/registry.dimspec
M Registry/registry.noahmp
M dyn_em/module_first_rk_step_part1.F
M dyn_em/start_em.F
M dyn_nmm/module_PHYSICS_CALLS.F
M dyn_nmm/start_domain_nmm.F
M main/depend.common
M phys/Makefile
M phys/module_physics_init.F
D phys/module_sf_gecros.F
M phys/module_sf_noahmpdrv.F
M phys/module_sf_noahmplsm.F
M phys/module_surface_driver.F
M run/README.namelist

TESTS CONDUCTED:

  1. Successful tests have been done for compilation and em_real simulations in Cheyenne (by Cenlin He, NCAR)

RELEASE NOTE: Remove the gecros crop option (opt_crop=2) in Noah-MP which is no longer supported.

Synchronize the develop branch from official WRF GitHub
…ption (iopt_crop=2); It was not fully coupled into Noah-MP and might cause inconsistency in some relevant energy flux
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This PR is closed because the Noah-MP team decided not to remove Gecros from Noah-MP for the upcoming WRF release.

@cenlinhe cenlinhe closed this Jan 29, 2021
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