From 5b7c4e4ff864e1195988ac0d6de544b2e01a505a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Soroosh.Mani" <Soroosh.Mani@noaa.gov>
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2023 10:37:07 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Remove unnessary abs

---
 ensembleperturbation/perturbation/atcf.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/ensembleperturbation/perturbation/atcf.py b/ensembleperturbation/perturbation/atcf.py
index 49e40e4d..da213843 100644
--- a/ensembleperturbation/perturbation/atcf.py
+++ b/ensembleperturbation/perturbation/atcf.py
@@ -809,7 +809,7 @@ def perturb(
                 alpha = 0
 
             # compute the next point and retrieve back the lat-lon geographic coordinate
-            new_point = current_point - abs(alpha) * normal_offset
+            new_point = current_point - alpha * normal_offset
             new_coordinates.append(
                 transformer.transform(
                     new_point[0].magnitude,