Upgrade to Spack-Stack 1.9.0

[DavidHuber-NOAA]

What new functionality do you need?

The global-workflow and subcomponents should all be upgraded to spack-stack 1.8.0. 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 1.8.0) 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 1.8.0 environments is CRTM v3.1.1, which will need to be incorporated into (at least) the GSI, UPP, UFS, and GDASApp.

Upstream Issues/PRs

• [ ] https://github.com/ufs-community/ufs-weather-model/issues/2450
• [ ] https://github.com/ufs-community/ufs-weather-model/pull/2453
• [ ] https://github.com/ufs-community/ufs-weather-model/issues/2331
• [ ] https://github.com/ufs-community/ufs-weather-model/issues/2345
• [ ] https://github.com/ufs-community/ufs-weather-model/issues/2346
• [ ] https://github.com/NOAA-EMC/GSI/issues/783
• [ ] https://github.com/NOAA-EMC/GSI/issues/662
• [ ] https://github.com/NOAA-EMC/GSI/issues/642
• [x] https://github.com/NOAA-EMC/UPP/issues/1020 closed by https://github.com/NOAA-EMC/UPP/pull/1062
• [ ] https://github.com/NOAA-EMC/GSI-utils/issues/48
• [ ] https://github.com/NOAA-EMC/gfs-utils/issues/29
• [ ] https://github.com/NOAA-EMC/gfs-utils/issues/36
• [ ] https://github.com/NOAA-EMC/gfs-utils/issues/76
• [ ] https://github.com/NOAA-EMC/GSI-Monitor/issues/104
• [ ] https://github.com/NOAA-EMC/EMC_verif-global/issues/118
• [ ] https://github.com/ufs-community/UFS_UTILS/issues/983
• [ ] https://github.com/ufs-community/UFS_UTILS/pull/985
• [ ] https://github.com/NOAA-EMC/GDASApp/issues/1283
• [ ] https://github.com/NOAA-EMC/GDASApp/issues/1268
• [ ] https://github.com/NOAA-EMC/global-workflow/issues/2756
• [ ] https://github.com/JCSDA/spack-stack/issues/1185
• [ ] https://github.com/NOAA-EMC/WCOSS2-requests/issues/9
• [ ] https://github.com/NOAA-EMC/WCOSS2-requests/issues/10

What are the requirements for the new functionality?

• [ ] All supported platforms move to spack-stack 1.8.0
• [ ] All submodules update to spack-stack 1.8.0
• [ ] WCOSS2 module files should be updated for all submodules to match spack-stack 1.8.0 versions

Acceptance Criteria

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

• [ ] Hera
• [ ] WCOSS2
• [ ] Orion
• [ ] Hercules
• [ ] Gaea C5

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

• [ ] Jet
• [ ] PW-AWS
• [ ] PW-Azure
• [ ] PW-GCP
• [ ] S4 (also going through Rocky 8 upgrade)

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.