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Tag name: ctsm5.1.dev146
Originator(s): glemieux (Gregory Lemieux, LBNL, [email protected])
Date: Mon Oct 23 15:22:00 PM MDT 2023
One-line Summary: FATES cross-grid seed dispersal

Purpose and description of changes
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This PR enables FATES to disperse seeds across neighboring grid cells using MPI.
The API update includes calls to new fates dispersal procedures. There are
four parameters that are utilized to control the dispersal kernel, although
these were introduced in ctsm5.1.dev130 so no new default FATES parameter file
is necessary with this update. A new namelist parameter has been added to
enable the use of the seed dispersal mode.

Significant changes to scientifically-supported configurations
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Does this tag change answers significantly for any of the following physics configurations?
(Details of any changes will be given in the "Answer changes" section below.)

[Put an [X] in the box for any configuration with significant answer changes.]

[ ] clm5_1

[ ] clm5_0

[ ] ctsm5_0-nwp

[ ] clm4_5


Bugs fixed or introduced
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Known bugs introduced in this tag (include issue #):
- ESCOMP/CTSM#1089 (Cross-grid seed dispersal mechanism is not b4b for PE layout changes)

Notes of particular relevance for users
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Changes to CTSM's user interface (e.g., new/renamed XML or namelist variables):
- New namelist option, fates_seeddisp_cadence, added. This option Setting the switch
value to zero turns off dispersal. Setting the switch to 1, 2, or 3 sets the dispersal
cadence to daily, monthly or yearly.

Substantial timing or memory changes:
- Users should be careful to limit the maximum dispersal distance parameter,
fates_seed_dispersal_max_dist, to a reasonable value based on the gridcell
resolution used. Using a very large value will increase the memory requirements
to store the gridcell neighborhood information.

Notes of particular relevance for developers:
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Caveats for developers (e.g., code that is duplicated that requires double maintenance):
- This PR introduces MPI calls to subroutines that are called by clm_driver.
Comments have been provided in code to make future developers aware of these
calls so as to avoid moving them into OpenMP threaded regions.

Changes to tests or testing:
- Two new testmods have been added into the fates suite to test seed
dispersal. One of the tests is to track issue CTSM#1089 which was introduced
with this PR.

Testing summary:
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[PASS means all tests PASS; OK means tests PASS other than expected fails.]

regular tests (aux_clm: https://github.com/ESCOMP/CTSM/wiki/System-Testing-Guide#pre-merge-system-testing):

cheyenne ---- OK
izumi ------- PASS

fates tests: (give name of baseline if different from CTSM tagname, normally fates baselines are fates-<FATES TAG>-<CTSM TAG>)
cheyenne ---- OK
izumi ------- OK

Answer changes
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Changes answers relative to baseline: Only fates testmods in aux_clm are
answer changing due to science updates associated with externals update.

Other details
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List any externals directories updated (cime, rtm, mosart, cism, fates, etc.):
- fates: sci.1.67.2_api.27.0.0 -> sci.1.68.0_api.28.0.0

Pull Requests that document the changes (include PR ids):
https://github.com/ESCOMP/CTSM/pull/2077
https://github.com/NGEET/fates/pull/1005

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Tag name: ctsm5.1.dev145
Originator(s): @cenlinhe (Cenlin He,UCAR/RAL), slevis (Samuel Levis,UCAR/TSS,303-665-1310)
Date: Thu Oct 19 14:34:25 MDT 2023
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Tag Who Date Summary
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ctsm5.1.dev146 glemieux 10/23/2023 FATES cross-grid seed dispersal
ctsm5.1.dev145 slevis 10/19/2023 SNICAR snow albedo scheme updates
ctsm5.1.dev144 samrabin 10/19/2023 Remove a deprecated shr_mpi_bcast call
ctsm5.1.dev143 rgknox 10/13/2023 Zeroing of wood product fluxes on fates columns
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