Cherry-pick commits from #662

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Cherry-picking commit(s) db3e892 from #662 into dev-flat10.

[blimlim]

!test repro commit

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❌ The Bitwise Reproducibility Check Failed ❌

When comparing:

• cherry_pick_from_pr662_into_dev-flat10 (checksums created using commit 27fcd5f), against
• dev-flat10 (checksums in commit 5e29811)

🔧 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/pr671/cherry_pick_from_pr662_into_dev-flat10/27fcd5f2684eb0bf7d791deaffd3b57dec2dcf08, and the test results at https://github.com/ACCESS-NRI/access-esm1.6-configs/runs/69648362253.

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/23885642995/artifacts/6235611472.

The checksums compared against are found here https://github.com/ACCESS-NRI/access-esm1.6-configs/tree/5e29811dcced538d1c17757820b934e3de0a3cd1/testing/checksum

Test summary:
❌ test_repro_historical
✅ test_repro_determinism