Peter Hjort Lauritzen

@mgduda and @PeterHjortLauritzen met to discuss this. Current process for generating MPAS initial conditions is (@mgduda please correct me if I am wrong here): 1. generate horizontal grid (standalone MPAS...

I am not sure. Would be good to get @johnmauff opinion on this.

Can we set tau_0_ubc=.true. in the namelist using the model_top="mt" specifier instead of setting tau_0_ubc in the use case? (we would like all "mt" configurations to use tau_0_ubc=.true.)

Also tools/definehires and tools/definesurf can be removed (all taken care of in new topo software)

FYI: Related discussion in E3SM: https://github.com/E3SM-Project/E3SM/issues/2680

Here is summary of my findings: The variable state%exner is computed in dp_coupling.F90 as  This quantity would have been the inverse Exner function...