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 Improve Performance of soil canopy model
 - PR [#666]
 Add base global soil canopy run to benchmark and experiments
-- PR [#591]
+- PR [#591] adds benchmark run
+- PR [#669] adds topmodel runoff
 
 v0.12.4
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