Changes since release 22.04

The following lists shortly describe the main differences between release 22.10 and the release 21.04.

Bugfixes:

• total domain boundaries have not been written to restart file in case of cyclic_fill mode
• missing initialization of turbulent inflow boundaries during restarts
• wrong calculation of latent heat flux at roofs
• wrong calculation of momentum flux at downward facing surfaces
• problem with SALSA in case of mesoscale nesting
• wrong dynamic pressure output for ocean mode
• missing division by density for various flux output profiles
• wrong extreme heat sinks during night above metal surfaces
• bug in optimized MG solver in case of an-elastic approximation
• leading empty time levels in output files of restart runs have been removed
• bug in reading surface data in restart runs

New features:

• optional interpolation to grid center for all 2d/3d output
• new method for generating a turbulent inflow using time dependent cross section data from a precursor run as inflow boundary condition (turbulent_inflow_method = 'read_from_file'), new script palm_cti (create turbulent inflow) to generate a dynamic driver file from the precursor data
• offline nesting with synthetic turbulence generator for neutral cases
• cloud ice considered in radiation model
• radiation and biometeorological quantities added to virtual measurement output
• topography is allowed to be used in precursor runs
• Ambrosia plant added to pollen model

Improvements:

• localized raytracing in RTM
• extended topography filtering
• optimized 3D-NetCDF output by transposing 3d-arrays to get first dimension 0:nx, in order to allow output of larger contiguous data chunks
• improved divergence correction for Wicker-Skamarock advection scheme
• several additional checks for static driver data
• new namelist runtime parameters section_xy_m, section_xz_m, and section_yz_m to give cross section position in m

Changes:

• new namelist &turbulent_inflow_parameters for all parameters releated to turbulent inflow methods
• namelist parameter complex_terrain has been renamed terrain_following_mapping
• default I/O method for restart data has been changed from 'fortran_binary' to 'mpi_shared_memory'
• initializing_actions = 'inifor' is deprecated, 'read_from_file' should be used instead
• output of sky view factors has been changed from 3D to surface data
• effects of nacelle on the flow has been re-activated for the wind turbine module
• timeseries of Lagrangian particle quantities and statistical Lagrangian particle quantities have been merged to one output file (local filename DATA_1D_PTS_NETCDF, file suffix _pts)

Removed:

• output of lat/lon and UTM coordinates to NetCDF data files
• wall_salinity_flux (ocean mode)