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In the Registry, the pv_vertex, pv_edge, and pv_cell variables are described as "absolute vorticity/rho_zz", but the density component was previously removed from the model code. This request updates the descriptions and units of these variables to be consistent with the absolute vertical vorticity.
In Line 4816 of mpas_atm_time_integration.F (v7.3): "the original definition of pv_edge had a factor of 1/density. We have removed that factor given that it was not integral to any conservation property of the system"
Relative vertical vorticity is calculated beginning at Line 5606 (in v7.3) as:
(with 'u' as the uncoupled normal component of horizontal velocity), and planetary vorticity is added to get absolute vorticity at Line 5754:
pv_vertex(k,iVertex) = (fVertex(iVertex) + vorticity(k,iVertex))
Thus, pv_vertex is the absolute vertical vorticity at a vertex.