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Adjust precipitation rate calculations for units#67

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JosephMouallem:precip_unit_fix
Mar 30, 2026
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Adjust precipitation rate calculations for units#67
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JosephMouallem:precip_unit_fix

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IPD_Data(nb)%Sfcprop%tprcp(ix) is in m or (kg/m^2 * 1e-3).
We add *1000 to convert it to kg/m^2.
The final fields passed to the coupler, Atmos%lprec and Atmos%fprec, are in kg/m^2/s as expected by the land and ocean models.
NOTE: although some comments in the model suggest these field represent the accumulated rain quantity per time-step, they in fact represent the precipitation rate.

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Comment thread SHiELD/atmos_model.F90
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@vithikashah001 This can be merged

@vithikashah001 vithikashah001 merged commit 0ba6fdc into NOAA-GFDL:main Mar 30, 2026
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