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Reduce the value of nt_c in polar regions for Thompson microphysics init #1077

Open thomasuhoh opened 1 year ago

thomasuhoh commented 1 year ago

This PR adjusts the values of the _ntc Variable in the subroutine init_thompson_clouddroplets_forMPAS according to the latitude for polar regions.

The values for _ntc are lowered in the polar regions which is closer to what is used in Polar WRF (Hines, K. M., and D. H. Bromwich, 2017: Simulation of late summer Arctic clouds during ASCOS with Polar WRF. Mon. Wea. Rev., 145, 521-541, doi: 10.1175/MWR-D-16-0079.1)