Hi Patrick,
Thanks for your help with this. Following your instructions, I found the desired directory listed as $ROSE_DATA/etc/ancil/qrclim.land.
Now that still left me wondering what directory $ROSE_DATA is referring to exactly, but I was then able to find a list of different qrclim.land files in /work/y07/shared/umshared/ancil/atmos (inspired by this post). A search in that folder returns several matches for “qrclim.land”, all of which are albedo files. I’m still not 100% clear on what the difference between all of them is and which one is being actually used in the run, as there are 15 different ones just for the n96e resolution, but they all seem to be in the same format so I think either will work for the creation of my own ancil file.
I will create my own SW albedo ancil file with forcings included and, unless anyone reading this thinks it’s an absolutely stupid idea and will not work, I am going to go ahead and change the existing stash request 244,245 to 243 so that I can input the SW albedo, instead of having to specify VIS and NIR separately (in Configure ancils and initialise dump fields).
Michaela