HR4 and SFS baseline update: Improve convection/radiation interaction in the GFS physics suite

[lisa-bengtsson]

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• All sub component pull requests have been reviewed by their code managers.
• Run the full Intel+GNU RT suite (compared to current baselines) on either Hera/Derecho/Hercules
• Commit 'test_changes.list' from previous step

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Description:

The GFS physics suite at 100km yields too large cloud cover and optical depth, causing too much cloud shielding and a drift in Sea Surface Temperatures, SST for seasonal prediction. This is an issue for the Seasonal Forecast System baseline. The issue was identified to be related to too much convective cloud condensate passed in from the cumulus convection scheme.

A scale adaptive solution is proposed and tested for SFS and GFS resolutions, outputting updraft values of in-cloud condensate. We propose to add this change to SFS baselines as well as the HR4 prototype of the GFS. In testing we also tune the minimum background diffusivity in the inversion layer near the PBL top (xkinv1) from xkinv1=0.4 to xkinv1=0.15 in order to not reduce convective clouds too much in marine stratocumulus.

Commit Message:

  * FV3 - update pointer to ccpp-physics
    * ccpp-physics - update convection and PBL schemes to improve cloud/convection interaction
   

Priority:

• High: Time-sensitive project (HR4 of GFS and SFS baselines)

Git Tracking

UFSWM:

Sub component Pull Requests:

• FV3: HR4 and SFS baseline update: Improve convection/radiation interaction in the GFS physics suite NOAA-EMC/fv3atm#851
  • ccpp-physics: HR4 and SFS baseline update: Improve convection/radiation interaction in the GFS physics suite ccpp-physics#216

UFSWM Blocking Dependencies:

• None

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Changes

Regression Test Changes (Please commit test_changes.list):

• PR Updates/Changes Baselines.

Input data Changes:

• None.

Library Changes/Upgrades:

• No Updates

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Testing Log:

• RDHPCS
  • Hera
  • Orion
  • Hercules
  • Jet
  • Gaea
  • Derecho
• WCOSS2
  • Dogwood/Cactus
  • Acorn
• CI
• opnReqTest (complete task if unnecessary)

[grantfirl]

@lisa-bengtsson It looks like there was a merge issue with the test_changes.list and the Hera log. I'm seeing that those files need to be merged manually (contains "<<<HEAD" etc.). Could you check this?

[jkbk2004]

@lisa-bengtsson can you sync up branch? I like to test on my side as well.

[lisa-bengtsson]

@lisa-bengtsson can you sync up branch? I like to test on my side as well.

I just synced up the branch, after addressing the issue causing seg fault. Could you kindly test on your end? I will restart the full RT suite now.

[zach1221]

@lisa-bengtsson could you add user epic-cicd-jenkins as a collaborator to this PR's branch? It's just to enable the pipeline to post logs.

[lisa-bengtsson]

@lisa-bengtsson could you add user epic-cicd-jenkins as a collaborator to this PR's branch? It's just to enable the pipeline to post logs.

Sure, how do I do that?

[jkbk2004]

@lisa-bengtsson could you add user epic-cicd-jenkins as a collaborator to this PR's branch? It's just to enable the pipeline to post logs.

Sure, how do I do that?

@lisa-bengtsson You can add the user epic-cicd-jenkins in your repo: settings/access/Collaborators-and-Teams

[lisa-bengtsson]

@lisa-bengtsson could you add user epic-cicd-jenkins as a collaborator to this PR's branch? It's just to enable the pipeline to post logs.

Sure, how do I do that?

@lisa-bengtsson You can add the user epic-cicd-jenkins in your repo: settings/access/Collaborators-and-Teams

Ok, I added epic-cicd-jenkins from my fork, hopefully that works?

[FernandoAndrade-NOAA]

Hera baseline creation timed out for cpld_control_nowave_noaero_p8 gnu, rerunning. The rest of the tests seem to be fine. @BrianCurtis-NOAA FYI we are starting testing for this PR.

[zach1221]

Ok I think we're ready to begin merge process.

[grantfirl]

@zach1221 ufs-community/ccpp-physics#216 is merged and NOAA-EMC/fv3atm#851 is updated and ready for merge.

[zach1221]

@lisa-bengtsson FV3atm PR-815 is merged. Please update hash and revert .gitmodule url.
Hash: NOAA-EMC/fv3atm@2527c11