Cloud-J 8.0.0

Release date: 29 Aug 2024

From CHANGELOG.md

Added

• Added M. Prather's new Cloud-J v8 feature of UV absorption by water (source of differences between v7.7 and v8)
• Added Cloud-J input to specify whether to turn on UV absorption by water
• Added MODEL_GEOSCHEM C-preprocessor blocks to skip reading dat-files not used
• Added MODEL_STANDALONE C-preprocessor block to only read T and O3 climatology and H2O and CH4 profiles if using standalone
• Added H2O cross-sections to tables/FJX_spec.dat

Changed

• Applied no-diff changes made by M. Prather between v7.7 and v8
• Moved most parameters set in CJ77_inp.dat to arguments passed to CLOUD_JX
• Hard-coded NRANDO where it is used rather than pass as configurable input
• Updated all files in tools/AddXs to be a copy of M. Prather's files included in his Cloud-J v8 release
• Renamed cldj_osa_sub_mod.F90 to cldj_fjx_osa_mod.F90
• Hardcoded physical constants in the cldj_cmn_mod module
• Renamed CLOUDJ_STANDALONE C-preprocessor switch to MODEL_STANDALONE
• Changed default standalone model setting for spherical correction from flat earth to spherical
• Changed default standalone model temperature climatology to be read from file
• Renamed Cloud-J standalone driver file from CJ77.F90 to cldj_standalone.F90

Removed

• Removed subroutines SOLAR_JX and private subroutines it used
• Removed unused parameters and code related to RRTMG
• Removed configuration file CJ77_inp.dat

Pull Requests Included

• Feature/cloudj v8 by @lizziel in #24

Full Changelog: 7.7.3...8.0.0