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Neutral equivalent U10 sent to atm, not stability corrected #451

Open megandevlan opened 7 months ago

megandevlan commented 7 months ago

This has been a part of the Large & Pond flux scheme in shr_flux_mod for a long time, but it's worth noting that right now the neutral equivalent 10m wind speed (u10n) is sent to the atm and ocn models. This is the necessary field for the ocean to compute gas exchanges, but it leads to inconsistency for the atmosphere since CTSM shares a stability-corrected version of U10.

We propose to implement a fix that continues sending the traditional u10n to the ocean but a stability corrected version to the atmosphere. This is separate from the gustiness project, but we have a modification that I'm trying to implement now on top of cmeps0.14.60. Will open a PR when it's ready to go.