Halos wrap around y-direction in some gungho vertical slice tests #175
Description
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Brief description
Some gungho vertical slice tests have a halo depth that is too large, and wraps around itself.
e.g. the Schar mountain test has 8 cells in the y-direction, but halo depth of 4. This means that the furthest cell in the +ve and -ve halos are the same. In the depths of the past this has caused some unexpected issues (and is why many vertical slice tests have 10 cells in the y-direction).
It also explains why KGOs are changed in #174.
It seems unlikely that infrastructure will ever support only having halos in the x-direction for this case (which will be used operationally). The appropriate action for the short term is to reduce dep_pt_stencil_extent to 1 for these tests, which would also allow the number of cells to be reduced to 4 in the y-direction.
Further details of the issue.
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