Cherry-pick commits from #689

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Cherry-picking commit(s) 8ba6abf from #689 into dev-preindustrial+concentrations.

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!test repro commit

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✅ The Bitwise Reproducibility Check Succeeded ✅

When comparing:

• cherry_pick_from_pr689_into_dev-preindustrial+concentrations (checksums created using commit 061c2c9), against
• dev-preindustrial+concentrations (checksums in commit 19b3c31)

Further information

The experiment can be found on Gadi at /scratch/tm70/repro-ci/experiments/access-esm1.6-configs/pr692/cherry_pick_from_pr689_into_dev-preindustrial+concentrations/061c2c90dad6c9bb2ce146a03a797639fe03218e, and the test results at https://github.com/ACCESS-NRI/access-esm1.6-configs/runs/71220536536.

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/24385917835/artifacts/6422245774.

The checksums compared against are found here https://github.com/ACCESS-NRI/access-esm1.6-configs/tree/19b3c31f93b18e06fdedc88720aaa75ddeb3095b/testing/checksum

Test summary:
✅ test_repro_historical
✅ test_repro_determinism