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fixed a bug that linked shortwave to the wrong variable. Added a warn… #119

Closed trudeeidhammer closed 2 years ago

trudeeidhammer commented 2 years ago

TYPE: Bug fix,

KEYWORDS: Shortwave radiation code

SOURCE: Trude Eidhammer, NCAR

DESCRIPTION OF CHANGES: Bug fix. Shortwave forcing was given linked to the wrong variable in ra_driver. Added a warning at initialization that states that if running RRTMG, the mp_thompson_aer (option 5) should be used. This is currently the only microphysics scheme that calculates effective radius of cloud, ice and snow

If the microphysics scheme is not option 5, RRTMG will set effective cloud droplet radius: 10.5 micrometer effective cloud ice radius: 30 micrometer effective snow radius: 500 micrometer

TESTS CONDUCTED: Compiled and run a test case. Output was as expected.