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+Add run-time ability to debug ePBL sensitivities
Added the ability to passively run ePBL_column twice in a diagnostic mode and then provide diagnostics of the differences in the diffusivities and boundary layer depths that are generated with the two options. This is controlled by the new runtime parameter EPBL_OPTIONS_DIFF, which is an integer that specifies which options to change or 0 (the default) to disable this capability. Associated with this are the new diagnostics ePBL_opt_diff_Kd_ePBL, ePBL_opt_maxdiff_Kd_ePBL and ePBL_opt_diff_h_ML, which only are registered when the differencing is enabled. For now, only changes associated with the settings of EPBL_ORIGINAL_PE_CALC and EPBL_ANSWER_DATE can be evaluated, but this list will grow as new options are added. As a part of these changes, there were some other reforms to the way that MOM_energetic_PBL handles diagnostics, with the 2-d and 3-d arrays changed from allocatable arrays with enduring memory commitments in the energetic_PBL_CS type into simple arrays in energetic_PBL, relying on the fact that compilers will be smart enough to avoid actually allocating this memory when it is unused to avoid expanding the overall memory requirements of MOM6. A number of allocate and deallocate calls were eliminated by these changes. In addition, explicit 'units=' descriptors were added to numerous register_diag_field calls to help identify inconsistent conversion factors. Also, the diagnostic of the number of boundary layer depth iterations was added to the ePBL_column_diags, which enabled the intent of the CS and G arguments to ePBL_column to be changed to intent(in). The unnecessary extra logic associated with the use of the OBL_converged variable in ePBL_column was eliminated, but the results are uneffected. Because the MOM_parameter_doc files were changing anyway, and because this commit is only a diagnostic change, about 6 spelling errors were corrected in ePBL parameter descriptions as a part of this commit. All answers are bitwise identical, but there is a new runtime parameter and there may be new diagnostics depending on the choice of a non-default value for that new parameter.
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