[develop:] Updated UFS_UTILS, ufs-weather-model hashes; use of new sfc_data.nc format (v2) for the FV3atm

[natalie-perlin]

DESCRIPTION OF CHANGES:

• Updated UFS_UTILS and ufs-weather-model hashes to a recent develop
  • use new format for the surface data, sfc_data.nc (V2), to prepare initial conditions for the FV3atm. The new format includes two dimensions for a vertical coordinate:
    • zaxis_1 for soil levels (i.e., 4 or 9);
    • zaxis_2 for ice levels (2 ). This is hard-coded at the moment, in ./UFS_UTILS/sorc/chgres_cube.fd/write_data.F90. Chgres_cube prepares data for coldstart.
      In SRW, kice is set to 9 for RUC_LSM and a restart (not COLDSTART).
• Use updated topography and landcover data for make_orog task from the netcdf files, instead of older binary files.
  ${FIXorg}/topography.antarctica.ramp.30s.nc
  ${FIXorg}/landcover.umd.30s.nc
  ${FIXorg}/topography.gmted2010.30s.nc

Type of change

• Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
• Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to not work as expected)
• This change requires a documentation update

TESTS CONDUCTED:

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Experiment name                                                  | Status    | Core hours used 
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grid_RRFS_CONUScompact_25km_ics_HRRR_lbcs_RAP_suite_RRFS_v1beta_2  COMPLETE              18.44
(*)grid_RRFS_CONUS_25km_ics_FV3GFS_lbcs_FV3GFS_suite_GFS_v15p2_20250  DEAD                   3.41
(*)grid_RRFS_CONUS_25km_ics_FV3GFS_lbcs_FV3GFS_suite_GFS_v17_p8_plot  DEAD                   3.04
(**)grid_RRFS_CONUScompact_25km_ics_HRRR_lbcs_HRRR_suite_HRRR_2025021  DEAD                  12.93
grid_SUBCONUS_Ind_3km_ics_HRRR_lbcs_RAP_suite_WoFS_v0_20250212120  COMPLETE              34.20
grid_RRFS_CONUS_25km_ics_NAM_lbcs_NAM_suite_GFS_v16_2025021212075  COMPLETE              81.57
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(*) - get errors in make_ics, make_lbcs:

 - FATAL ERROR: UNRECOGNIZED INPUT DATA TYPE.
 - IOSTAT IS:   

(**) - cold start vertical coordinate kice=2, need kice=9 for RUC_LSM, yet to find an approach to reconcile

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[MichaelLueken]

@natalie-perlin -

I was able to get the grid_RRFS_CONUS_25km_ics_FV3GFS_lbcs_FV3GFS_suite_GFS_v15p2 and grid_RRFS_CONUS_25km_ics_FV3GFS_lbcs_FV3GFS_suite_GFS_v17_p8_plot tests to pass on Orion using the current HEAD of UFS_UTILS by adding:

"-DCHGRES_ALL=ON"

to sorc/CMakeLists.txt under list(APPEND UFS_UTILS_ARGS:

# Build UFS utilities
if(BUILD_UFS_UTILS)
  list(APPEND TARGET_LIST UFS_UTILS)
  list(APPEND UFS_UTILS_ARGS
    "-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}"
    "-DCMAKE_INSTALL_BINDIR=${CMAKE_INSTALL_BINDIR}"
    "-DBUILD_TESTING=OFF"
    "-DCHGRES_ALL=ON"
  )

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Experiment name                                                  | Status    | Core hours used
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grid_RRFS_CONUScompact_25km_ics_HRRR_lbcs_RAP_suite_RRFS_v1beta_2  COMPLETE              18.11
grid_RRFS_CONUS_25km_ics_FV3GFS_lbcs_FV3GFS_suite_GFS_v15p2_20250  COMPLETE              13.17
grid_RRFS_CONUS_25km_ics_FV3GFS_lbcs_FV3GFS_suite_GFS_v17_p8_plot  COMPLETE              44.00
grid_RRFS_CONUScompact_25km_ics_HRRR_lbcs_HRRR_suite_HRRR_2025021  DEAD                  11.74
grid_SUBCONUS_Ind_3km_ics_HRRR_lbcs_RAP_suite_WoFS_v0_20250213083  COMPLETE              34.26
grid_RRFS_CONUS_25km_ics_NAM_lbcs_NAM_suite_GFS_v16_2025021308354  COMPLETE              81.05
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Total                                                              DEAD                 202.33

In order to get the grid_RRFS_CONUScompact_25km_ics_HRRR_lbcs_HRRR_suite_HRRR test to pass, the two levels for tiice will need to be interpolated to nine levels, presumably in the weather model's fv3atm/io/fv3atm_sfc_io.F90.