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Rename `specific_humidity` #38

Closed MayeulDestouches closed 1 year ago

MayeulDestouches commented 1 year ago

Description

This PR follows discussion in issue #36 about the ambiguous definition of specific humidity. Specific humidity is usually defined as the mixing ratio of the mass of water vapor to the mass of moist air, but moist air includes hydrometeors or not depending on who you are talking to.

This PR modifies rule 5 on mixing ratios:

This PR also modifies the standard names specific_humidity and specific_humidity_at_2m into their explicit versions water_vapor_mixing_ratio_wrt_moist_air [ _and_condensed_water ] [ _at_2m ].

Issue addressed

Notes

I haven't replaced the 22 other names that are built on variants specific_humidity. If required, I can replace them by the current CCPP definition which is water_vapor_mixing_ratio_wrt_moist_air.

climbfuji commented 1 year ago

@grantfirl I assume we need updates to ccpp-physics, scm, ufs-weather-model and neptune to reflect this change?