Cherry-pick commits from #678

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Cherry-picking commit(s) 2259971 from #678 into dev-flat10.

[blimlim]

!test repro commit

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❌ The Bitwise Reproducibility Check Failed ❌

When comparing:

• cherry_pick_from_pr678_into_dev-flat10 (checksums created using commit 7342319), against
• dev-flat10 (checksums in commit f17e372)

🔧 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/pr681/cherry_pick_from_pr678_into_dev-flat10/73423190acab47345060c9776010e056a2b5baa5, and the test results at https://github.com/ACCESS-NRI/access-esm1.6-configs/runs/71195502185.

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/24377839036/artifacts/6419281671.

The checksums compared against are found here https://github.com/ACCESS-NRI/access-esm1.6-configs/tree/f17e372c29b7f9b091129ad398290a823ce342bb/testing/checksum

Test summary:
❌ test_repro_historical
✅ test_repro_determinism