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Added Features of New Gridscale Cloud+Precip Scheme
Extensive, computationally efficient lookup tables store calculations for rain and precipitation ice
Smoother transition between upper-and lower tropospheric ice clouds by merging mass-diameter and fall speed-diameter relationships for ice
Fall speed of rimed ice increases based on rime density (calculated), results stored in lookup tables
Generalized form for microphysical equations, allows for stable calculations of rapid rates for large model time steps
Assumes size of precipitation ice is primarily a function of temperature (Ryan et al., 1996)