Rather than pursue #2276 I think we should add a system test that runs a run_tower to setup and run a few cases under run_tower so we know it's working. This will also help with making sure that externals updates don't break run_tower as we saw in #2437. And as discussed here: #2437 (comment) we should add this to the prealpha test list so that new externals updates will be tested with CESM alpha tags and we can find problems sooner.
(Updated Jul/23/2026 to say run_tower rather than run_neon)
Rather than pursue #2276 I think we should add a system test that runs a run_tower to setup and run a few cases under run_tower so we know it's working. This will also help with making sure that externals updates don't break run_tower as we saw in #2437. And as discussed here: #2437 (comment) we should add this to the prealpha test list so that new externals updates will be tested with CESM alpha tags and we can find problems sooner.
(Updated Jul/23/2026 to say run_tower rather than run_neon)