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Fix inconsistencies in the ND51/ND51b output fields
Bo Zheng wrote: We encountered a potential issue in the satellite diagnostic ND51b in v11-01. We find some kind of discontinuity in total column AOD (a sum of all aerosol species) along the west-east direction. It feels like data are missing/reduced occasionally in every other pixels alone the W-E direction. We are running v11-01 with full chemistry + UCX driven by MERRA2. The same problem remains after switching to MERRA. We checked AOD maps in monthly output which looks normal. This issue was traced to an inconsistency in ND51/ND51b species numbers in a CASE statement in routine WRITE_DIAG51. In v11-02 and higher, the ND51/ND51b tracers were renumbered starting with 500 to account for the larger number of advected species. But some of the old tracer numbers were used to determine which species should have been divided by array GOOD_CT_CHEM. Also: now update all ND51/ND51b quantities on every dynamic timestep, instead having some quantities be updated every timestep and others be updated only every chemistry timestep. NOTE: There may be other issues in ND51/ND51b but fixing these will be a lower priority, as the bpch diagnostic output is slated to be removed from GEOS-Chem in the near future. Signed-off-by: Bob Yantosca <yantosca@seas.harvard.edu>
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