Urban snow should use the same albedo calculation as snow everywhere else
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Description
It seems weird that urban snow albedos are calculated completely differently from snow albedos everywhere else. It seems like these should be consistent, with urban using SNICAR just like other landunits.
https://github.com/ESCOMP/ctsm/blob/2632be6af65ad7d1c0d23ae501c76b3cf68d0d6c/src/biogeophys/UrbanAlbedoMod.F90#L436-L511
@olyson is there a reason for this difference?
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