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Additional methods for switching to height-varying gravity
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Description
### Are there any linked Issues or Pull Requests?
https://github.com/mo-cjsmith/lfric_apps/tree/gravity_switch
### Brief description
Although the shallow atmosphere approximation is not used by the UM(ENDgame) , it still retains the constant gravity field of earlier models. If LFRic is to run with true height-varying gravity, initialisation from a UM start-dump must take account of the change in gravity between the two models to avoid a significant change to the meteorology of the data.
The existing code to do this has a known defect, which is to be corrected here. An additional variation of this method is added, along with the option to use a method that takes another approach to the problem.
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