Fix Missing Aerosol Scattering Jacobians and Restore Backscatter Logic#285
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…and copy routines. This change ensures that adjoint sensitivities for Relative Humidity, calculated in low-level aerosol routines, are correctly propagated back to the user-facing Atmosphere_K structure.
Added initialization and adjoint summation for aerosol Effective_Variance in the atmosphere layer supplementation routines. This completes the propagation link for aerosol size variance sensitivities.
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All ctests pass, and all changes look good. |
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I removed the IF aerosol scheme GEOS5 type lines, it's unnecessarily restrictive. |
…ficient, but if not present, fall back to default GEOS5 coefficient. This will prevent ctest failures until we can get the new backscattering coefficient into the tarball and distributed.
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Description
This PR addresses critical gaps in the CRTMv3 Aerosol Scattering module by restoring missing Jacobian calculations for key state variables and re-enabling backscatter coefficient logic that had been inadvertently disabled. These changes ensure that sensitivities for aerosol concentration, relative humidity, and effective radius are correctly propagated through the Tangent Linear (TL), Adjoint (AD), and K-Matrix interfaces.
Key Changes
1. Restored Relative Humidity Jacobians
CRTM_AerosolScatter.f90(Forward, TL, and AD).2. Restored Backscatter & Asymmetry Logic
kb) and Asymmetry_Factor (g) interpolation and accumulation into theASvar_typestructure and aerosol scattering routines.3. Comprehensive Unit Testing
test_AerosolScatter_TL.f90to verify non-zero sensitivities for relative humidity and aerosol concentration using MODIS (visible/IR) channels instead of ATMS (microwave), which bypasses aerosol scattering.test_AerosolScatter_AD.f90to validate TL/AD consistency via the dot-product test (passes to machine precision).test_AerosolScatter_K.f90to confirm correct propagation of sensitivities to the top-levelAtmosphere_Kstructure.Validation
Impact
This fix is mandatory for assimilation and retrieval applications involving aerosols where humidity dependence or backscatter (active sensors) is relevant. Without these corrections, the model assumes zero sensitivity to key aerosol properties, leading to incorrect gradients and potential convergence failures in variational (e.g., 4D-Var) systems.