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Bug-fixes for "no ice in turb" option used with CASIM #250

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The "no ice in turb" option is supposed to completely decouple the boundary-layer / turbulence scheme from the prognosed ice-cloud. However, some dependencies of the parameterised turbulence on ice have accidentally remained, causing some worrying inconsistencies in the code.

  1. The microphysical tendencies in Tl and qw are passed to the boundary-layer scheme for estimating the forcing of turbulence; these wrongly still include the ice tendency when "no ice in turb" is switched on.

  2. The Leonard term fluxes are calculated in terms of Tl and qw including the ice terms ( -Ls/cp qcf for Tl, +qcf for qw), but the boundary-layer scheme's increments calculated from these ignore those terms, which leads to spurious heat and vapour fluxes in the
    presence of ice.

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