Cherry-pick commits from #535

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Cherry-picking commit(s) 2e37e99 from #535 into dev-historical+concentrations.

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!test repro

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✅ The Bitwise Reproducibility Check Succeeded ✅

When comparing:

• cherry_pick_from_pr535_into_dev-historical+concentrations (checksums created using commit f81921c), against
• dev-historical+concentrations (checksums in commit 0ec7135)

Further information

The experiment can be found on Gadi at /scratch/tm70/repro-ci/experiments/access-esm1.6-configs/pr547/cherry_pick_from_pr535_into_dev-historical+concentrations/f81921cd586fcb2dd2746905c8a8d42eadbf8c49, and the test results at https://github.com/ACCESS-NRI/access-esm1.6-configs/runs/65983528196.

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/22750239711/artifacts/5792291360.

The checksums compared against are found here https://github.com/ACCESS-NRI/access-esm1.6-configs/tree/0ec71351eb52dc2201c470a82edec946748c2c27/testing/checksum

Test summary:
✅ test_repro_historical
✅ test_repro_determinism