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Rework logic for CPL_ALBAV xml variable

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Moving this over from https://github.com/ESMCI/cime/issues/120

Here were the comments from there (from 2016), but I think it's still relevant:

This is related to issue ESMCI/cime#119: The logic for CPL_ALBAV in driver_cpl/cime_config/config_component.xml currently looks like this:

```

logical
true,false
false

true
true

run_component_cpl
env_run.xml

Only used for compsets with DATM and POP (currently C and G):
If true, compute albedos to work with daily avg SW down
If false (default), albedos are computed with the assumption that downward
solar radiation from the atm component has a diurnal cycle and zenith-angle
dependence. This is normally the case when using an active atm component
If true, albedos are computed with the assumption that downward
solar radiation from the atm component is a daily average quantity and
does not have a zenith-angle dependence. This is often the case when
using a data atm component. Only used for compsets with DATM and POP (currently C and G)


```

Really, it seems that this shouldn't depend on the compset, but rather should depend on some property of the atmospheric forcing. So this should be set by the atmosphere component, either at build-namelist time or at runtime. It seems possible to set this in datm's config_component.xml. But it seems like, to really make this robust and avoid duplicated logic (which is likely to become incorrect over time), it might need to be set at runtime, by the atmosphere component setting some flag (e.g., in infodata??).

This is an issue for the new J compset that Jeremy Fyke and I are putting together: all active except a data atmosphere. We haven't determined what datm forcing to use for this compset, and will likely iterate on this a bit. It appears that CPL_ALBAV should have a different value if we're using (e.g.) CORE forcing (so datm acts like it does in C & G compsets) or CRU forcing (so datm acts like it does in I compsets).

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