[Fang summer '24 PR 2] More improvements to fire model - Githubissues

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Community Terrestrial Systems Model (includes the Community Land Model of CESM)

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[Fang summer '24 PR 2] More improvements to fire model #2615

Open samsrabin opened 6 days ago

samsrabin commented 6 days ago

Description of changes

Improves peat burning dependence on climate
Improves dependence of deforestation burning on climate.
Allows lightning ignitions in tropical closed forest. (Human ignitions, other than deforestation, still not allowed.)
Adds effect of landscape fragmentation on ignitions and fire duration.
Recalibrates some parameters.
Adds fire_method li2021crujra.

Specific notes

Contributors other than yourself, if any: @lifang0209

CTSM Issues Fixed (include github issue #): None

Are answers expected to change (and if so in what way)? Yes; various

Any User Interface Changes (namelist or namelist defaults changes)?

Several namelist parameters get new default values for fire_method li2021gswpfrc.
Adds fire_method li2021crujra.

Does this create a need to change or add documentation? Did you do so? No

Testing performed, if any:

Fang has done some testing of these changes (offline CLM) in conjunction with those from #2576 as well as some forthcoming PRs. Results of those tests will be discussed later.
aux_clm suite to be run before merging this PR