Cherry-pick commits from #707

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Cherry-picking commit(s) d284c86 from #707 into dev-preindustrial+emissions.

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!test repro commit

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❌ The Bitwise Reproducibility Check Failed ❌

When comparing:

• cherry_pick_from_pr707_into_dev-preindustrial+emissions (checksums created using commit 25340ad), against
• dev-preindustrial+emissions (checksums in commit 2e35307)

🔧 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/pr712/cherry_pick_from_pr707_into_dev-preindustrial+emissions/25340ad7a746ddf5cfcffab3893dba1b1a78e80c, and the test results at https://github.com/ACCESS-NRI/access-esm1.6-configs/runs/72307669275.

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/24720157411/artifacts/6553737940.

The checksums compared against are found here https://github.com/ACCESS-NRI/access-esm1.6-configs/tree/2e3530774c6f8a0fe9e92f6ddceb132f219fedf5/testing/checksum

Test summary:
❌ test_repro_historical
✅ test_repro_determinism
✅ test_repro_payu_setup