*Fix new scaling bug in ML restrat minimum ustar #265
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There are extra US%T_to_s scaling factors in the expressions for ustar_min that were recently introduced with dev/gfdl PR #251; these are duplicative of the scaling factor that is already being applied when the parameter OMEGA is read in. The resulting expressions for ustar_min therefore effectively have units of [Z s T-2 ~> m s-1] when they should have units of [Z T-1 ~> m s-1]. Because ustar_min is a tiny floor on the magnitude of ustar, there is a range of values of T_RESCALE_POWER that will give the same answers as when it is 0, but for large enough values the answers will change, perhaps dramatically. This small commit removes these extra factors. Answers will change for some large values of T_RESCALE_POWER, but they are bitwise identical in the TC testing and in MOM6-examples based regression tests with modest or negative values.