Increase initial soil moisture in fates runs #5508
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This PR changes the condition for a higher initial value of soil moisture so that all FATES runs, not just FATES-Hydro, will be initialized with higher soil moisture. This is to improve the establishment of forest in bare ground simulations.
See FATES issue here NGEET/fates#994 and discussion here NGEET/fates#985.
This change should be B4B in non-FATES runs and non-B4B in FATES runs.