Upgrade to Spack-Stack 1.9.1

[DavidHuber-NOAA]

What new functionality do you need?

The global-workflow and subcomponents should all be upgraded to spack-stack 1.9.1. Among other things, this upgrade will allow the workflow to use the same Python and BUFR libraries across all subcomponents. There will still be a need for a "gsi-addon" environment (a misnomer as of 1.9.1) to enable the use of MET/METplus 9.1.3/3.1.1 in EMC_verif-global, but this environment will include all of the same modules as the unified-dev environment. Also, an upstream requirement not yet in spack-stack 1.9.1 environments is CRTM v3.1.1, which will need to be incorporated into (at least) the GSI, UPP, UFS, and GDASApp.

Upstream Issues/PRs

• Upcoming ip v5 changes ufs-community/ufs-weather-model#2331
• Testing ESMF 8.6.1 in UFS weather model ufs-community/ufs-weather-model#2345
• Test MAPL v2.53.0 in UFS weather model ufs-community/ufs-weather-model#2346
• Test ESMF 8.8.0 in UFS weather model ufs-community/ufs-weather-model#2541
• Upgrade UFS-WM to spack-stack/1.9.1 ufs-community/ufs-weather-model#2619
• Upgrade UFS-WM to spack-stack/1.9.1 ufs-community/ufs-weather-model#2650
• Update GSI to work with CRTMv3.1.1 GSI#783
• Update UPP with spack-stack 1.8.0 UPP#1020 closed by Spack Stack 1.8.0 UPP#1062
• Update to spack-stack v1.9.1 ufs-community/UFS_UTILS#983
• Update GDASApp to spack-stack/1.9.1 GDASApp#1283
• Upgrade to BUFR 12.1.0 #2756
• [INSTALL]: CRTM 3.1.1 for emc JCSDA/spack-stack#1185
• Install ip v5.0.0 WCOSS2-requests#9
• Install BUFR 12.1.0 WCOSS2-requests#10
• CRTM v3.1.1-build1 builds little-endian binaries JCSDA/spack-stack#1561

What are the requirements for the new functionality?

• All supported platforms move to spack-stack 1.9.1
• All submodules update to spack-stack 1.9.1
• WCOSS2 module files should be updated for all submodules to match spack-stack 1.9.1 versions

Acceptance Criteria

All builds and CI tests are successful on all tier-1 platforms:

• Hera
• WCOSS2
• Hercules
• Gaea C6

Ideally all builds and tests are successful on tier-2/3 platforms as well:

• Orion
• Gaea C5
• PW-AWS
• PW-Azure
• PW-GCP

Suggest a solution (optional)

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[DavidHuber-NOAA]

It looks like things are moving along in the UFS, so I am un-blocking this.

[DavidHuber-NOAA]

The spack-stack developers expect version 1.9.0 to be more stable and robust than 1.8.0. I have renamed this issue to reflect that we should move to 1.9.0 instead of 1.8.0 and will reapply the blocked label until the weather model upgrades to 1.9.0.