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<PRE>
     Given temperature, moisture and wind profiles at the model's 
     pressure levels, this module returns tendencies of temperature, 
     moisture and wind due to cumulus convection. It also returns the
     convective precipitation rate.

     If run with the prognostic cloud scheme (strat_cloud), the
     routine converts a fraction of the condensed water to
     stratiform liquid and ice as w