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Mass flux vs volume flux as boundary flux convention

Open kmdeck opened this issue 1 year ago • 0 comments

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Currently, the land model expects/comutes P_liq, P_snow, evaporation, and sublimation in terms of a volume flux of liquid water (m/s). This is typically the unit these fluxes have in data (flux tower sites, I think reanalysis e.g.) but this is not the unit that we will get from the atmosphere in coupled runs. The coupler handles the unit conversion currently. Move this task to the land model.

Describe the solution you'd like Land model expects mass fluxes

@LenkaNovak @juliasloan25 @glwagner

kmdeck avatar Feb 06 '24 17:02 kmdeck