ESCOMP / ESCOMP/CTSM

MIMICS litter allocation, fmet, is not currently applied

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Description

Currently MIMICS is running with the litter fractions defined for each PFT that are allocated to metabolic and structural litter pools (both for C and N). This happens in the [CNLitterToColumn](https://github.com/ESCOMP/CTSM/blob/c030c2342dac53d30ed419aca262db8fa7213ee6/src/biogeochem/CNPhenologyMod.F90#L3857) subroutine of `CNPhenologyMod`.

This is different than the MIMICS approach that calculates this allocation based on litter chemistry (`fmet`, or fraction of metabolic litter which is a function of lignin:N ratio of litter inputs). Note, fmet is then used in the parameterization of mimics fluxes in the BGC code too.

For now I don't think it's worth addressing now, but we may want to consider this down the road.

Also tagging @elisacw

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