Cherry-pick commits from #525

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Cherry-picking commit(s) 95e9333 3a79280 from #525 into dev-amip+CN.

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!test repro commit

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❌ The Bitwise Reproducibility Check Failed ❌

When comparing:

• cherry_pick_from_pr525_into_dev-amip+CN (checksums created using commit 8f1de8b), against
• dev-amip+CN (checksums in commit 30754b3)

🔧 The new checksums will be committed to this PR, if they differ from what is on this branch.

Further information

The experiment can be found on Gadi at /scratch/tm70/repro-ci/experiments/access-esm1.6-configs/pr533/cherry_pick_from_pr525_into_dev-amip+CN/8f1de8b3f2cf4ef4943602d105c43f4f7c520f70, and the test results at https://github.com/ACCESS-NRI/access-esm1.6-configs/runs/65976129027.

The checksums generated by this !test command are found in the testing/checksum directory of https://github.com/ACCESS-NRI/access-esm1.6-configs/actions/runs/22747937044/artifacts/5791413508.

The checksums compared against are found here https://github.com/ACCESS-NRI/access-esm1.6-configs/tree/30754b37ce8d38488273440eee2009c48f752da4/testing/checksum

Test summary:
❌ test_repro_historical
✅ test_repro_determinism