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doc: mpas constants changed from v4 to v5
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This document describes the DART interface module for the atmospheric component
of the Model for Prediction Across Scales
`MPAS <https://ncar.ucar.edu/what-we-offer/models/model-prediction-across-scales-mpas>`__
(or briefly, MPAS-ATM) global model, which uses an unstructured Voronoi grid mesh,
(or briefly, MPAS-ATM) global model.

The DART interface has constants set to match MPAS v5.0 onwards as defined in
`MPAS-Model/src/framework/mpas_constants.F <https://github.com/MPAS-Dev/MPAS-Model/blob/master/src/framework/mpas_constants.F>`__.
If you need to reproduce work with DART and MPAS v4 you will need to change the model_mod.f90
parameters ``cp``, ``cv`` and ``rvord`` to match MPAS v4.


The mpas-atm model uses an unstructured Voronoi grid mesh,
formally Spherical Centriodal Voronoi Tesselations (SCVTs). This allows for both
quasi-uniform discretization of the sphere and local refinement. The MPAS/DART
interface was built on the SCVT-dual mesh and does not regrid to regular lat/lon
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