MPAS-Dev/MPAS-Model: MPAS Version 7.2

Published February 14, 2022 | Version v7.2

Software Open

1. National Center for Atmospheric Research
2. @Google
3. Los Alamos National Laboratory
4. LANL
5. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Earth System Research Laboratory, Global Systems Division
6. UCAR/NCAR - MMM
7. OU
8. Berkeley National Laboratory
9. NCAR/MMM
10. NCAR

This minor release addresses several issues in the MPAS-Atmosphere model.

MPAS-Atmosphere:

Correct the use of uninitialized memory in the init_atm_case_squall_line routine by initializing the qvb array to zero before its first use.
Fix a bug in the vertical extrapolation of relative humidity and specific humidity to model levels below the lowest first-guess level when first-guess levels are given in top-to-bottom order in the input intermediate file.
Fix reproducibility issues in several fields within the Noah LSM over land-ice points when running with different MPI task counts; however, only one of these fields -- smstav, the surface moisture availability field -- persists outside of the physics driver and is written to MPAS-Atmosphere restart files.
Correct the units and description attributes for the GWDO fields var2d, con, oa1, oa2, oa3, oa4, ol1, ol2, ol3, and ol4 in both the init_atmosphere and atmosphere core Registry.xml files.
Add code that had inadvertently been omitted for computing dtheta_dt_mp, the potential temperature heating rate from microphysics. Prior to this change, the dtheta_dt_mp field would always contain a constant zero value when written to model output files.
Correct a check on the availability of the dtheta_dt_mix variable when computing depv_dt_mix in the PV diagnostics module.
Correct the parallel computation of iLev_DT (and other fields that depend on it, including u_pv, v_pv, theta_pv, vort_pv, depv_dt_diab_pv, and depv_dt_fric_pv) in the PV diagnostics module.

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