restructure the approach to read in the Noah MP parameter table

[HelinWei-NOAA]

Description
Noah MP parameter table is part of the source code in the current version. The UFS model has to be recompiled whenever there is any parameter change in the table. Therefore we propose to change this structure and the table will become one of the input file to the model.

Requirements
The Noah MP table has to be put somewhere in the global workflow and the running script needs to specify the path of this file (softlink or copy this file to the running directory)

Acceptance Criteria (Definition of Done)
I suggest this table file should be put into the directory parm. But I don't know which subdirectory? Or create a new one para_land?

ush/forecast_postdet.sh needs to be modified to link or copy this table file

[aerorahul]

@HelinWei-NOAA Thank you for opening this issue.
Is this file/table part of the ufs-weather-model repository? If so, we can pick directly from there into the global-workflow.

[HelinWei-NOAA]

@aerorahul Yes. It can be part of the ufs-weather-model repository (under ccpp-physics)

@HelinWei-NOAA Thank you for opening this issue. Is this file/table part of the ufs-weather-model repository? If so, we can pick directly from there into the global-workflow.

[HelinWei-NOAA]

@aerorahul What part of global workflow do we need to modify to accomplish this goal? Now the table is sitting in the ccpp-physics repo.

[WalterKolczynski-NOAA]

@HelinWei-NOAA An entry needs to be added to sorc/link_workflow.sh to copy/link the appropriate file(s) from UFS to somewhere in parm (we can discuss where). Then one of the scripts for the forecast job (likely ush/forecast_postdet.sh or ush/parsing_namelists_FV3.sh) will need to be updated to copy the file from parm to the working directory when the forecast job runs. If workflow needs to allow multiple options for this file, a setting can be added to the fcst and efcs config files.

Are these tables templates that need to have information substituted at runtime, or are they static?

[HelinWei-NOAA]

@WalterKolczynski-NOAA Can we create a sub_dir para_land under parm and put this file here? The table is static and there is no information substituted at runtime.

[WalterKolczynski-NOAA]

Create a new parm/ufs/land directory and put the new file(s) there.

[HelinWei-NOAA]

@WalterKolczynski-NOAA I have created a branch for this PR. How can I link it here? Or I need to create a new PR?

[WalterKolczynski-NOAA]

Depends.

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Refs #1614

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Resolves #1614