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The physics and dynamics coupling with tendencies dribbling #1122

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Particularly as models move toward higher resolutions and more complex multi-physics interactions. The coupling between physical parameterizations and fluid dynamical cores shapes the major source of model error, numerical instability and uncertainties. The UFS-WM dynamics and physics are solved separately in a sequential way. And has a much larger time step and uses dt_atmost=k_split*dt_dyn, this means the UFS-WM calling dynamics multiple times before calling physics. The model error grows with the length of time step which means that the current UFS-WM is sensitive to the timestep. Then an new methodology is implemented as an option (PDC=.T./.F.) to account for the lack of physics tendencies in the dynamics which could briefly be on the second time step, we use the physics/coupling tendencies from the previous step and then allocate the tendency containers at a time. Reset the state variables to the saved state from the end of the previous time step, add the new tendencies piecemeal on each acoustic step.

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