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Default rad_climate for cam5 physics

Hi CESM CAM users,I am using CESM 1.2.2 CAM5.3, using aerosol MAM3. I am trying to quantitfy present-day total aerosol radiative forcings. I followed the online manual to start from editting the default rad_climate by removing the three modes of aerosols and put this in rad_diag_1. However, I found there were several discrepancies between the default rad_climate that my case generated and the ones that listed on the manual. Specifically, CO2, O3, N2O, CH4, CFC11 and CFC12 all are listed as Advected species ("A") as in my case while they were Non-advected ones ("N") from CESM online manual. From my side, the default rad_climate setting is:  rad_climate = 'A:Q:H2O', 'N:O2:O2', 'A:CO2:CO2', 'A:O3:O3', 'A:N2O:N2O', 'A:CH4:CH4', 'A:CFC11:CFC11', 'A:CFC12:CFC12', 'M:mam3_mode1:/**/atm/cam/physprops/mam3_mode1_rrtmg_c110318.nc', 'M:mam3_mode2:/**/atm/cam/physprops/mam3_mode2_rrtmg_c110318.nc', 'M:mam3_mode3:/**/atm/cam/physprops/mam3_mode3_rrtmg_c110318.nc'

However, the online manual shows 
rad_climate = 'A:Q:H2O', 'N:O2:O2', 'N:CO2:CO2', 'N:ozone:O3', 'N:N2O:N2O', 'N:CH4:CH4', 'N:CFC11:CFC11', 'N:CFC12:CFC12', 'M:mam3_mode1:/CSMDATA/atm/cam/physprops/mam3_mode1_rrtmg_c110318.nc', 'M:mam3_mode2:/CSMDATA/atm/cam/physprops/mam3_mode2_rrtmg_c110318.nc', 'M:mam3_mode3:/CSMDATA/atm/cam/physprops/mam3_mode3_rrtmg_c110318.nc'Can someone give an explanation or confirm which one is correct? Or there is something that I miss? Thanks.  
 
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