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@alanjhewitt Alan J Hewitt (alanjhewitt) commented Jul 30, 2026

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I developed the original lfric to radaer functionality in 2020. Like a lot of developments back then, it was needed in a hurry and so I developed a fudged solution with technical debt.

We will need user flexibility soon to be able to run radaer with different user settings, hence this part two of two development.

In part two, the previously hard coded lists (from part one) are instead generated from user settings based on the value of i_mode_setup if running with setting "ukca". For settings "glomap_clim" and "dust_and_clim", the user is not allowed to set i_mode_setup as this will always be setting "8" aka SUBCOCSSDU7mode.

These lists are to be determined during the initialisation step and saved for the rest of the run.

I will also include some documentation to describe the RADAER API.

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https://wwwspice/~alan.j.hewitt/lfric_apps/radaer_api_la_side_4/html/science_guide/radaer/index.html

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Alan J Hewitt (alanjhewitt) requested review from Cameron Bateman (cameronbateman-mo) and removed request for a team July 30, 2026 10:01
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Alan J Hewitt (alanjhewitt) marked this pull request as draft July 30, 2026 10:01
@github-actions github-actions Bot added the cla-modified The CLA has been modified as part of this PR - added by GA label Jul 30, 2026
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⚠️ Hello Alan J Hewitt (@alanjhewitt)!

Your CLA signature was found on the base branch, but you appear to have modified the CONTRIBUTORS.md file in this PR.

Please do not edit the CONTRIBUTORS.md file. If you have already signed the CLA, revert changes to the file and your signature will be picked up.

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