Updates to FATES zenith angles on the first step of non-continue restarts

[rgknox]

These changes ensure that zenith angles are passed to FATES on non-continue restarts on the first step. The legacy FATES radiative transfer scheme (Norman) was not sensitive to this, but the newer two-stream scheme needs this information at this point in the call sequence.

[rgknox]

Hehe, @bishtgautam , I was able to make it way simpler. I don't know how all that extra logic got in there. Anyway, take a look and see what you think. Thanks for the suggestion

[rgknox]

NorESM has these land-model tests called Land Tuning Mode. I think that these tests simulate frequency of the radiation boundary conditions when running coupled with the atmosphere, although it still uses a data atmosphere for the information. Do we have these types of tests in E3SM? I would add them to the FATES test list.

[bishtgautam]

Hi @rgknox, thanks for simplifying the logic. How about also adding a comment explaining what is happening? something like the following, based on your first comment.

! On the first step, send the solar zenith angles to FATES on non-continue restarts
! for the two-stream radiation scheme.

[glemieux]

@bishtgautam I talked with Ryan and I'll add your comment and then kick off e3sm land developer tests soon.

[glemieux]

Regression testing e3sm_land_developer against the master baseline is underway on perlmutter.

[glemieux]

Regression testing against the master baseline on perlmutter is complete and showing only B4B differences for the subset of FATES test mods. @rgknox is this expected?

Results: /global/homes/g/glemieux/scratch/e3sm-tests/pr7899-zenith.fates.pm-cpu..E3d3963866b-F5bb36cba2

[glemieux]

Regression testing against the master baseline on perlmutter is complete and showing only B4B differences for the subset of FATES test mods. @rgknox is this expected?

Results: /global/homes/g/glemieux/scratch/e3sm-tests/pr7899-zenith.fates.pm-cpu..E3d3963866b-F5bb36cba2

I'm thinking this is likely due to the fact that I didn't rebase this against master prior to testing. The code only impacts two-stream runs and Norman is currently the default. I'm currently retesting this after rebasing.

[glemieux]

I'm thinking this is likely due to the fact that I didn't rebase this against master prior to testing. The code only impacts two-stream runs and Norman is currently the default. I'm currently retesting this after rebasing.

I'm still seeing unexpected diffs. I'm generating my own baseline using master to triple check, just in case the master baseline wasn't built with the commits I think it's should be representing.

[glemieux]

@peterdschwartz this is good to move forward.