Rain intensity needs to included as a parameter in the model about ascotracer HOT 8 CLOSED

I am going to close this issue as it has been addressed with the rainfall_multiplier branch of this repo. More experimentation is needed to discover actual coefficients that could be used as an estimator for the volume of spores dispersed in a spread event.
As a note from eyeballing the model in the rainfall_multiplier branch against field data it seems a better fit than without a rainfall multiplier. I suggest running permutations of the model with different rainfall multiplier values against field data to find the best coefficient here

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There is a rain cauchy mulitplier for rain splash dispersal reported by both Art and Coventry. I tried my best but couldn't find anything else. Would these work?

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But these are related to the distance spread. We want something related to the amount of spore release?

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Yes, something related to rainfall in millimetres influencing the number of "effective spores" spread

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On another note the model at the moment the model uses the number of new growing points produced in the last day (24h) to influence the max_interception_probability.

In the table above there is a reference that new growing points might influence max_interception_probability for the 4-5 days prior?

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Actually now I think about this...
That would explain the 5 *
multiplier, so disregard that question

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Yes, that calculation should take of that. Indirectly, max_interception_probability or deposition probability would depend on the number of susceptible growing points that are not infected yet

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