FAIL ERR_Ld3.ne30pg3_tn14.N1850.betzy_intel.allactive-defaultio COMPARE_base_rest failingg with latest alpha tag

[mvdebolskiy]

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• NorESM version: noresm2_5_alpha08d
• HPC platform: betzy
• Compiler (if applicable): intel
• Compset (if applicable):
• Resolution (if applicable):
• Error message (if applicable): FAIL ERR_Ld3.ne30pg3_tn14.N1850.betzy_intel.allactive-defaultio COMPARE_base_rest

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Run ./create_test -v --xml-category prealpha_noresm --xml-machine betzy --project nnXXXXk --test-root $TESTROOT
2. cd $TESTROOT
3. ./cs.status... -f
4. You will get the error message above

Expected behavior
FAIL ERR_Ld3.ne30pg3_tn14.N1850.betzy_intel.allactive-defaultio COMPARE_base_rest

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Additional context
Looking in the TestStatus.log:

SUMMARY of cprnc:
 A total number of     34 fields were compared
          of which      0 had non-zero differences
               and      0 had differences in fill patterns
               and      0 had different dimension sizes
               and      0 had different data types
 A total number of      2 fields could not be analyzed
 A total number of      0 time-varying fields on file 1 were not found on file 2.
 A total number of      0 time-constant fields on file 1 were not found on file 2.
 A total number of      0 time-varying fields on file 2 were not found on file 1.
 A total number of      0 time-constant fields on file 2 were not found on file 1.
  diff_test: the two files seem to be IDENTICAL

Looking in the ERR_Ld3.ne30pg3_tn14.N1850.betzy_intel.allactive-defaultio.20250115_174817_c5klq2.cam.h0a.0001-01-04-00000.nc.base.cprnc.out:

 SFDMS   (ncol,time)  t_index =      1     1
      35660    48600  ( 39994,     1) (  1002,     1) ( 39680,     1) ( 44629,     1)
               48600   1.500039682463607E-11   0.000000000000000E+00 1.0E-13  1.024045299036668E-11 2.9E-03  2.282735045464551E-18
               48600   1.493126759259822E-11   0.000000000000000E+00          1.013673748882364E-11          3.688119786089961E-18
               48600  ( 39994,     1) (  1002,     1)
          avg abs field values:    2.334597537561887E-12    rms diff: 1.4E-14   avg rel diff(npos):  2.9E-03
                                   2.331393656338199E-12                        avg decimal digits(ndif):  2.6 worst:  0.4
 RMS SFDMS                            1.3875E-14            NORMALIZED  5.9474E-03

Is this the problem due to the coupling timestep? Not sure why only SFDMS is different.