I have a view points of confusion here. Does each tile have it’s own soil column in the ESM model? I was under the impression that we effectively have only one soil column per grid cell, even though the machinery exists to have one per vegetation type.
What exactly does “from file” mean here? Just about all the fields labeled “from file” are CASA quantities that I think need to be quite selectively filled given how slow they are to equilibriate. In my mind, the fields labelled as “average” here are the fields that would per grid cell averaged, and those labelled “from file” would be by-tile averaged (see the process Rachel used here).