diff --git a/.github/workflows/downgrade.yml b/.github/workflows/downgrade.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..ed08d112e21
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/downgrade.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+name: Downgrade
+on:
+  pull_request:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - main
+    tags: '*'
+
+# Needed to allow julia-actions/cache to delete old caches that it has created
+permissions:
+  actions: write
+  contents: read
+
+concurrency:
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
+jobs:
+  test:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        version: ['1']
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: julia-actions/setup-julia@latest
+        with:
+          version: ${{ matrix.version }}
+      - uses: julia-actions/cache@v2
+      - uses: julia-actions/julia-downgrade-compat@v1
+        with:
+          skip: Artifacts, Dates, LazyArtifacts, LinearAlgebra, Logging, Printf, Test, Statistics, Random, Pkg
+      - uses: julia-actions/julia-buildpkg@latest
+      - uses: julia-actions/julia-runtest@latest
diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index eb80f227b48..f1a7e57fd2b 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -18,11 +18,9 @@ ClimaUtilities = "b3f4f4ca-9299-4f7f-bd9b-81e1242a7513"
 CloudMicrophysics = "6a9e3e04-43cd-43ba-94b9-e8782df3c71b"
 Dates = "ade2ca70-3891-5945-98fb-dc099432e06a"
 DiffEqBase = "2b5f629d-d688-5b77-993f-72d75c75574e"
-DocStringExtensions = "ffbed154-4ef7-542d-bbb7-c09d3a79fcae"
 FastGaussQuadrature = "442a2c76-b920-505d-bb47-c5924d526838"
 Insolation = "e98cc03f-d57e-4e3c-b70c-8d51efe9e0d8"
 Interpolations = "a98d9a8b-a2ab-59e6-89dd-64a1c18fca59"
-IntervalSets = "8197267c-284f-5f27-9208-e0e47529a953"
 Krylov = "ba0b0d4f-ebba-5204-a429-3ac8c609bfb7"
 LazyArtifacts = "4af54fe1-eca0-43a8-85a7-787d91b784e3"
 LinearAlgebra = "37e2e46d-f89d-539d-b4ee-838fcccc9c8e"
@@ -47,37 +45,35 @@ Adapt = "4"
 ArgParse = "1"
 ArtifactWrappers = "0.2"
 Artifacts = "1"
-AtmosphericProfilesLibrary = "0.1.6"
+AtmosphericProfilesLibrary = "0.1.7"
 ClimaComms = "0.6.2"
 ClimaCore = "0.14.12"
-ClimaDiagnostics = "0.2"
+ClimaDiagnostics = "0.2.2"
 ClimaParams = "0.10.12"
 ClimaTimeSteppers = "0.7.33"
-ClimaUtilities = "0.1.3"
+ClimaUtilities = "0.1.14"
 CloudMicrophysics = "0.22"
 Dates = "1"
-DiffEqBase = "6"
-DocStringExtensions = "0.8, 0.9"
-FastGaussQuadrature = "0.4, 0.5, 1"
+DiffEqBase = "6.145"
+FastGaussQuadrature = "0.5, 1"
 Insolation = "0.9.2"
-Interpolations = "0.14, 0.15"
-IntervalSets = "0.5, 0.6, 0.7"
+Interpolations = "0.15.1"
 Krylov = "0.9"
 LazyArtifacts = "1"
 LinearAlgebra = "1"
 Logging = "1"
 NCDatasets = "0.14.2"
 NVTX = "0.3"
-Pkg = "1.8"
+Pkg = "1.9"
 Printf = "1"
 RRTMGP = "0.17"
 Random = "1"
-RootSolvers = "0.2, 0.3, 0.4"
-SciMLBase = "1, 2"
-StaticArrays = "1"
+RootSolvers = "0.4"
+SciMLBase = "2.12"
+StaticArrays = "1.7"
 Statistics = "1"
-StatsBase = "0.33, 0.34"
+StatsBase = "0.34"
 SurfaceFluxes = "0.11"
 Thermodynamics = "0.12.4"
 YAML = "0.4"
-julia = "1.7"
+julia = "1.9"
diff --git a/calibration/model_interface.jl b/calibration/model_interface.jl
index 93ea5fd63f6..8ded2498377 100644
--- a/calibration/model_interface.jl
+++ b/calibration/model_interface.jl
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ redirect_stderr(IOContext(stderr, :stacktrace_types_limited => Ref(false)))
 import ClimaAtmos as CA
 import YAML
 import ClimaComms
-@static pkgversion(ClimaComms) >= v"0.6" && ClimaComms.@import_required_backends
+ClimaComms.@import_required_backends
 using ClimaUtilities.ClimaArtifacts
 import ClimaCalibrate:
     set_up_forward_model,
diff --git a/calibration/test/Project.toml b/calibration/test/Project.toml
index e163e3f74c8..7f8e335b38e 100644
--- a/calibration/test/Project.toml
+++ b/calibration/test/Project.toml
@@ -12,4 +12,4 @@ MPI = "da04e1cc-30fd-572f-bb4f-1f8673147195"
 YAML = "ddb6d928-2868-570f-bddf-ab3f9cf99eb6"
 
 [compat]
-ClimaCalibrate = "0.0.2"
+ClimaCalibrate = "0.0.2, 0.0.3"
diff --git a/docs/Manifest.toml b/docs/Manifest.toml
index fb46e9b9851..80be86fe2cd 100644
--- a/docs/Manifest.toml
+++ b/docs/Manifest.toml
@@ -101,9 +101,9 @@ version = "0.4.0"
 
 [[deps.ArrayInterface]]
 deps = ["Adapt", "LinearAlgebra"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "f54c23a5d304fb87110de62bace7777d59088c34"
+git-tree-sha1 = "3640d077b6dafd64ceb8fd5c1ec76f7ca53bcf76"
 uuid = "4fba245c-0d91-5ea0-9b3e-6abc04ee57a9"
-version = "7.15.0"
+version = "7.16.0"
 
     [deps.ArrayInterface.extensions]
     ArrayInterfaceBandedMatricesExt = "BandedMatrices"
@@ -180,9 +180,9 @@ version = "0.4.7"
 
 [[deps.BandedMatrices]]
 deps = ["ArrayLayouts", "FillArrays", "LinearAlgebra", "PrecompileTools"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "88d4a97082bc70fad702f42302a8bd21079b8963"
+git-tree-sha1 = "dce2e49fc53490efb39161267d74f27be0ae2cee"
 uuid = "aae01518-5342-5314-be14-df237901396f"
-version = "1.7.3"
+version = "1.7.4"
 weakdeps = ["SparseArrays"]
 
     [deps.BandedMatrices.extensions]
@@ -276,9 +276,9 @@ version = "1.1.0"
 
 [[deps.CairoMakie]]
 deps = ["CRC32c", "Cairo", "Cairo_jll", "Colors", "FileIO", "FreeType", "GeometryBasics", "LinearAlgebra", "Makie", "PrecompileTools"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "57b139fd3cffdb82b7cc5756e9916ff68b88a690"
+git-tree-sha1 = "361dec06290d76b6d70d0c7dc888038eec9df63a"
 uuid = "13f3f980-e62b-5c42-98c6-ff1f3baf88f0"
-version = "0.12.7"
+version = "0.12.9"
 
 [[deps.Cairo_jll]]
 deps = ["Artifacts", "Bzip2_jll", "CompilerSupportLibraries_jll", "Fontconfig_jll", "FreeType2_jll", "Glib_jll", "JLLWrappers", "LZO_jll", "Libdl", "Pixman_jll", "Xorg_libXext_jll", "Xorg_libXrender_jll", "Zlib_jll", "libpng_jll"]
@@ -297,7 +297,7 @@ weakdeps = ["SparseArrays"]
     ChainRulesCoreSparseArraysExt = "SparseArrays"
 
 [[deps.ClimaAtmos]]
-deps = ["Adapt", "ArgParse", "ArtifactWrappers", "Artifacts", "AtmosphericProfilesLibrary", "ClimaComms", "ClimaCore", "ClimaDiagnostics", "ClimaParams", "ClimaTimeSteppers", "ClimaUtilities", "CloudMicrophysics", "Dates", "DiffEqBase", "DocStringExtensions", "FastGaussQuadrature", "Insolation", "Interpolations", "IntervalSets", "Krylov", "LazyArtifacts", "LinearAlgebra", "Logging", "NCDatasets", "NVTX", "Pkg", "Printf", "RRTMGP", "Random", "RootSolvers", "SciMLBase", "StaticArrays", "Statistics", "StatsBase", "SurfaceFluxes", "Thermodynamics", "YAML"]
+deps = ["Adapt", "ArgParse", "ArtifactWrappers", "Artifacts", "AtmosphericProfilesLibrary", "ClimaComms", "ClimaCore", "ClimaDiagnostics", "ClimaParams", "ClimaTimeSteppers", "ClimaUtilities", "CloudMicrophysics", "Dates", "DiffEqBase", "FastGaussQuadrature", "Insolation", "Interpolations", "Krylov", "LazyArtifacts", "LinearAlgebra", "Logging", "NCDatasets", "NVTX", "Printf", "RRTMGP", "Random", "RootSolvers", "SciMLBase", "StaticArrays", "Statistics", "StatsBase", "SurfaceFluxes", "Thermodynamics", "YAML"]
 path = ".."
 uuid = "b2c96348-7fb7-4fe0-8da9-78d88439e717"
 version = "0.27.4"
@@ -389,9 +389,9 @@ version = "0.1.13"
 
 [[deps.CloudMicrophysics]]
 deps = ["ClimaParams", "DocStringExtensions", "ForwardDiff", "HCubature", "LazyArtifacts", "QuadGK", "RootSolvers", "SpecialFunctions", "Thermodynamics"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "5d20d3452be63e6c6da766052ddce072e23b425e"
+git-tree-sha1 = "26ae1a08520651f7de266e6c76c06521ce7c54bb"
 uuid = "6a9e3e04-43cd-43ba-94b9-e8782df3c71b"
-version = "0.22.1"
+version = "0.22.2"
 
     [deps.CloudMicrophysics.extensions]
     EmulatorModelsExt = ["DataFrames", "MLJ"]
@@ -551,9 +551,9 @@ uuid = "ade2ca70-3891-5945-98fb-dc099432e06a"
 
 [[deps.DelaunayTriangulation]]
 deps = ["AdaptivePredicates", "EnumX", "ExactPredicates", "Random"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "b5f1c6532d2ea71e99b74231b0a3d53fba846ced"
+git-tree-sha1 = "88a2c530da3dd3bf4282267925d2c16c8efcd3fc"
 uuid = "927a84f5-c5f4-47a5-9785-b46e178433df"
-version = "1.1.3"
+version = "1.1.4"
 
 [[deps.DelimitedFiles]]
 deps = ["Mmap"]
@@ -597,9 +597,9 @@ version = "6.154.0"
 
 [[deps.DiffEqCallbacks]]
 deps = ["DataStructures", "DiffEqBase", "ForwardDiff", "Functors", "LinearAlgebra", "Markdown", "NonlinearSolve", "Parameters", "RecipesBase", "RecursiveArrayTools", "SciMLBase", "StaticArraysCore"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "befc86364d9b36abc6d874f91ab5d7b4d5e6bb62"
+git-tree-sha1 = "9c802bf34741e2b4942912709321e87b7cbed023"
 uuid = "459566f4-90b8-5000-8ac3-15dfb0a30def"
-version = "3.8.0"
+version = "3.9.0"
 
     [deps.DiffEqCallbacks.weakdeps]
     OrdinaryDiffEq = "1dea7af3-3e70-54e6-95c3-0bf5283fa5ed"
@@ -619,9 +619,9 @@ version = "1.15.1"
 
 [[deps.DifferentiationInterface]]
 deps = ["ADTypes", "Compat", "DocStringExtensions", "FillArrays", "LinearAlgebra", "PackageExtensionCompat", "SparseArrays", "SparseMatrixColorings"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "06955b4e80eff01df10552ccf0226571bde94d49"
+git-tree-sha1 = "e53e4eb7f8e7b25656ea17263b0c22f129091eeb"
 uuid = "a0c0ee7d-e4b9-4e03-894e-1c5f64a51d63"
-version = "0.5.14"
+version = "0.5.15"
 
     [deps.DifferentiationInterface.extensions]
     DifferentiationInterfaceChainRulesCoreExt = "ChainRulesCore"
@@ -665,9 +665,9 @@ uuid = "8ba89e20-285c-5b6f-9357-94700520ee1b"
 
 [[deps.Distributions]]
 deps = ["AliasTables", "FillArrays", "LinearAlgebra", "PDMats", "Printf", "QuadGK", "Random", "SpecialFunctions", "Statistics", "StatsAPI", "StatsBase", "StatsFuns"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "0e0a1264b0942f1f3abb2b30891f2a590cc652ac"
+git-tree-sha1 = "e6c693a0e4394f8fda0e51a5bdf5aef26f8235e9"
 uuid = "31c24e10-a181-5473-b8eb-7969acd0382f"
-version = "0.25.110"
+version = "0.25.111"
 
     [deps.Distributions.extensions]
     DistributionsChainRulesCoreExt = "ChainRulesCore"
@@ -756,15 +756,15 @@ uuid = "6b7a57c9-7cc1-4fdf-b7f5-e857abae3636"
 version = "0.8.5"
 
 [[deps.Extents]]
-git-tree-sha1 = "94997910aca72897524d2237c41eb852153b0f65"
+git-tree-sha1 = "81023caa0021a41712685887db1fc03db26f41f5"
 uuid = "411431e0-e8b7-467b-b5e0-f676ba4f2910"
-version = "0.1.3"
+version = "0.1.4"
 
 [[deps.FFMPEG_jll]]
 deps = ["Artifacts", "Bzip2_jll", "FreeType2_jll", "FriBidi_jll", "JLLWrappers", "LAME_jll", "Libdl", "Ogg_jll", "OpenSSL_jll", "Opus_jll", "PCRE2_jll", "Zlib_jll", "libaom_jll", "libass_jll", "libfdk_aac_jll", "libvorbis_jll", "x264_jll", "x265_jll"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "ab3f7e1819dba9434a3a5126510c8fda3a4e7000"
+git-tree-sha1 = "8cc47f299902e13f90405ddb5bf87e5d474c0d38"
 uuid = "b22a6f82-2f65-5046-a5b2-351ab43fb4e5"
-version = "6.1.1+0"
+version = "6.1.2+0"
 
 [[deps.FFTW]]
 deps = ["AbstractFFTs", "FFTW_jll", "LinearAlgebra", "MKL_jll", "Preferences", "Reexport"]
@@ -820,19 +820,24 @@ uuid = "8fc22ac5-c921-52a6-82fd-178b2807b824"
 version = "0.8.3"
 
 [[deps.FilePathsBase]]
-deps = ["Compat", "Dates", "Mmap", "Printf", "Test", "UUIDs"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "9f00e42f8d99fdde64d40c8ea5d14269a2e2c1aa"
+deps = ["Compat", "Dates"]
+git-tree-sha1 = "7878ff7172a8e6beedd1dea14bd27c3c6340d361"
 uuid = "48062228-2e41-5def-b9a4-89aafe57970f"
-version = "0.9.21"
+version = "0.9.22"
+weakdeps = ["Mmap", "Test"]
+
+    [deps.FilePathsBase.extensions]
+    FilePathsBaseMmapExt = "Mmap"
+    FilePathsBaseTestExt = "Test"
 
 [[deps.FileWatching]]
 uuid = "7b1f6079-737a-58dc-b8bc-7a2ca5c1b5ee"
 
 [[deps.FillArrays]]
 deps = ["LinearAlgebra"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "fd0002c0b5362d7eb952450ad5eb742443340d6e"
+git-tree-sha1 = "6a70198746448456524cb442b8af316927ff3e1a"
 uuid = "1a297f60-69ca-5386-bcde-b61e274b549b"
-version = "1.12.0"
+version = "1.13.0"
 weakdeps = ["PDMats", "SparseArrays", "Statistics"]
 
     [deps.FillArrays.extensions]
@@ -1023,9 +1028,9 @@ version = "1.0.2"
 
 [[deps.HCubature]]
 deps = ["Combinatorics", "DataStructures", "LinearAlgebra", "QuadGK", "StaticArrays"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "10f37537bbd83e52c63abf6393f209dbd641fedc"
+git-tree-sha1 = "19ef9f0cb324eed957b7fe7257ac84e8ed8a48ec"
 uuid = "19dc6840-f33b-545b-b366-655c7e3ffd49"
-version = "1.6.0"
+version = "1.7.0"
 
 [[deps.HDF5]]
 deps = ["Compat", "HDF5_jll", "Libdl", "MPIPreferences", "Mmap", "Preferences", "Printf", "Random", "Requires", "UUIDs"]
@@ -1040,16 +1045,16 @@ version = "0.17.2"
     MPI = "da04e1cc-30fd-572f-bb4f-1f8673147195"
 
 [[deps.HDF5_jll]]
-deps = ["Artifacts", "CompilerSupportLibraries_jll", "JLLWrappers", "LazyArtifacts", "LibCURL_jll", "Libdl", "MPICH_jll", "MPIPreferences", "MPItrampoline_jll", "MicrosoftMPI_jll", "OpenMPI_jll", "OpenSSL_jll", "TOML", "Zlib_jll", "libaec_jll"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "82a471768b513dc39e471540fdadc84ff80ff997"
+deps = ["Artifacts", "CompilerSupportLibraries_jll", "JLLWrappers", "LLVMOpenMP_jll", "LazyArtifacts", "LibCURL_jll", "Libdl", "MPICH_jll", "MPIPreferences", "MPItrampoline_jll", "MicrosoftMPI_jll", "OpenMPI_jll", "OpenSSL_jll", "TOML", "Zlib_jll", "libaec_jll"]
+git-tree-sha1 = "38c8874692d48d5440d5752d6c74b0c6b0b60739"
 uuid = "0234f1f7-429e-5d53-9886-15a909be8d59"
-version = "1.14.3+3"
+version = "1.14.2+1"
 
 [[deps.HarfBuzz_jll]]
-deps = ["Artifacts", "Cairo_jll", "Fontconfig_jll", "FreeType2_jll", "Glib_jll", "Graphite2_jll", "JLLWrappers", "Libdl", "Libffi_jll", "Pkg"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "129acf094d168394e80ee1dc4bc06ec835e510a3"
+deps = ["Artifacts", "Cairo_jll", "Fontconfig_jll", "FreeType2_jll", "Glib_jll", "Graphite2_jll", "JLLWrappers", "Libdl", "Libffi_jll"]
+git-tree-sha1 = "401e4f3f30f43af2c8478fc008da50096ea5240f"
 uuid = "2e76f6c2-a576-52d4-95c1-20adfe4de566"
-version = "2.8.1+1"
+version = "8.3.1+0"
 
 [[deps.HostCPUFeatures]]
 deps = ["BitTwiddlingConvenienceFunctions", "IfElse", "Libdl", "Static"]
@@ -1137,10 +1142,10 @@ weakdeps = ["ClimaParams"]
     CreateParametersExt = "ClimaParams"
 
 [[deps.IntelOpenMP_jll]]
-deps = ["Artifacts", "JLLWrappers", "Libdl"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "14eb2b542e748570b56446f4c50fbfb2306ebc45"
+deps = ["Artifacts", "JLLWrappers", "LazyArtifacts", "Libdl"]
+git-tree-sha1 = "10bd689145d2c3b2a9844005d01087cc1194e79e"
 uuid = "1d5cc7b8-4909-519e-a0f8-d0f5ad9712d0"
-version = "2024.2.0+0"
+version = "2024.2.1+0"
 
 [[deps.InteractiveUtils]]
 deps = ["Markdown"]
@@ -1206,9 +1211,9 @@ version = "1.0.0"
 
 [[deps.JLLWrappers]]
 deps = ["Artifacts", "Preferences"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "7e5d6779a1e09a36db2a7b6cff50942a0a7d0fca"
+git-tree-sha1 = "f389674c99bfcde17dc57454011aa44d5a260a40"
 uuid = "692b3bcd-3c85-4b1f-b108-f13ce0eb3210"
-version = "1.5.0"
+version = "1.6.0"
 
 [[deps.JSON]]
 deps = ["Dates", "Mmap", "Parsers", "Unicode"]
@@ -1260,9 +1265,9 @@ version = "0.6.0"
 
 [[deps.KernelAbstractions]]
 deps = ["Adapt", "Atomix", "InteractiveUtils", "MacroTools", "PrecompileTools", "Requires", "StaticArrays", "UUIDs", "UnsafeAtomics", "UnsafeAtomicsLLVM"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "35ceea58aa34ad08b1ae00a52622c62d1cfb8ce2"
+git-tree-sha1 = "cb1cff88ef2f3a157cbad75bbe6b229e1975e498"
 uuid = "63c18a36-062a-441e-b654-da1e3ab1ce7c"
-version = "0.9.24"
+version = "0.9.25"
 weakdeps = ["EnzymeCore", "LinearAlgebra", "SparseArrays"]
 
     [deps.KernelAbstractions.extensions]
@@ -1470,10 +1475,10 @@ version = "2.8.0"
     LDLFactorizations = "40e66cde-538c-5869-a4ad-c39174c6795b"
 
 [[deps.LinearSolve]]
-deps = ["ArrayInterface", "ChainRulesCore", "ConcreteStructs", "CpuId", "DocStringExtensions", "EnumX", "FastLapackInterface", "GPUArraysCore", "InteractiveUtils", "KLU", "Krylov", "LazyArrays", "Libdl", "LinearAlgebra", "MKL_jll", "Markdown", "PrecompileTools", "Preferences", "RecursiveFactorization", "Reexport", "SciMLBase", "SciMLOperators", "Setfield", "SparseArrays", "Sparspak", "StaticArraysCore", "UnPack"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "6b7011b27e35453f68a8f851776271b31fce021c"
+deps = ["ArrayInterface", "ChainRulesCore", "ConcreteStructs", "DocStringExtensions", "EnumX", "FastLapackInterface", "GPUArraysCore", "InteractiveUtils", "KLU", "Krylov", "LazyArrays", "Libdl", "LinearAlgebra", "MKL_jll", "Markdown", "PrecompileTools", "Preferences", "RecursiveFactorization", "Reexport", "SciMLBase", "SciMLOperators", "Setfield", "SparseArrays", "Sparspak", "StaticArraysCore", "UnPack"]
+git-tree-sha1 = "6c5e4555ac2bc449a28604e184f759d18fc08420"
 uuid = "7ed4a6bd-45f5-4d41-b270-4a48e9bafcae"
-version = "2.33.0"
+version = "2.34.0"
 
     [deps.LinearSolve.extensions]
     LinearSolveBandedMatricesExt = "BandedMatrices"
@@ -1579,15 +1584,15 @@ version = "0.5.13"
 
 [[deps.Makie]]
 deps = ["Animations", "Base64", "CRC32c", "ColorBrewer", "ColorSchemes", "ColorTypes", "Colors", "Contour", "Dates", "DelaunayTriangulation", "Distributions", "DocStringExtensions", "Downloads", "FFMPEG_jll", "FileIO", "FilePaths", "FixedPointNumbers", "Format", "FreeType", "FreeTypeAbstraction", "GeometryBasics", "GridLayoutBase", "ImageIO", "InteractiveUtils", "IntervalSets", "Isoband", "KernelDensity", "LaTeXStrings", "LinearAlgebra", "MacroTools", "MakieCore", "Markdown", "MathTeXEngine", "Observables", "OffsetArrays", "Packing", "PlotUtils", "PolygonOps", "PrecompileTools", "Printf", "REPL", "Random", "RelocatableFolders", "Scratch", "ShaderAbstractions", "Showoff", "SignedDistanceFields", "SparseArrays", "Statistics", "StatsBase", "StatsFuns", "StructArrays", "TriplotBase", "UnicodeFun", "Unitful"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "05b01e6cae68aa40f9a64339c54aba2572cce7a7"
+git-tree-sha1 = "204f06860af9008fa08b3a4842f48116e1209a2c"
 uuid = "ee78f7c6-11fb-53f2-987a-cfe4a2b5a57a"
-version = "0.21.7"
+version = "0.21.9"
 
 [[deps.MakieCore]]
 deps = ["ColorTypes", "GeometryBasics", "IntervalSets", "Observables"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "1753d72dcf82beb1c582826d0a51a8253a719613"
+git-tree-sha1 = "b0e2e3473af351011e598f9219afb521121edd2b"
 uuid = "20f20a25-4f0e-4fdf-b5d1-57303727442b"
-version = "0.8.5"
+version = "0.8.6"
 
 [[deps.ManualMemory]]
 git-tree-sha1 = "bcaef4fc7a0cfe2cba636d84cda54b5e4e4ca3cd"
@@ -1674,9 +1679,9 @@ version = "0.3.1"
 
 [[deps.NCDatasets]]
 deps = ["CFTime", "CommonDataModel", "DataStructures", "Dates", "DiskArrays", "NetCDF_jll", "NetworkOptions", "Printf"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "a640912695952b074672edb5f9aaee2f7f9fd59a"
+git-tree-sha1 = "77df6d3708ec0eb3441551e1f20f7503b37c2393"
 uuid = "85f8d34a-cbdd-5861-8df4-14fed0d494ab"
-version = "0.14.4"
+version = "0.14.5"
 
 [[deps.NLSolversBase]]
 deps = ["DiffResults", "Distributed", "FiniteDiff", "ForwardDiff"]
@@ -1703,10 +1708,10 @@ uuid = "77ba4419-2d1f-58cd-9bb1-8ffee604a2e3"
 version = "1.0.2"
 
 [[deps.NetCDF_jll]]
-deps = ["Artifacts", "Blosc_jll", "Bzip2_jll", "HDF5_jll", "JLLWrappers", "LazyArtifacts", "LibCURL_jll", "Libdl", "MPICH_jll", "MPIPreferences", "MPItrampoline_jll", "MicrosoftMPI_jll", "OpenMPI_jll", "TOML", "XML2_jll", "Zlib_jll", "Zstd_jll", "libzip_jll"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "4686378c4ae1d1948cfbe46c002a11a4265dcb07"
+deps = ["Artifacts", "Blosc_jll", "Bzip2_jll", "HDF5_jll", "JLLWrappers", "LibCURL_jll", "Libdl", "OpenMPI_jll", "XML2_jll", "Zlib_jll", "Zstd_jll", "libzip_jll"]
+git-tree-sha1 = "a8af1798e4eb9ff768ce7fdefc0e957097793f15"
 uuid = "7243133f-43d8-5620-bbf4-c2c921802cf3"
-version = "400.902.211+1"
+version = "400.902.209+0"
 
 [[deps.Netpbm]]
 deps = ["FileIO", "ImageCore", "ImageMetadata"]
@@ -1799,10 +1804,10 @@ uuid = "05823500-19ac-5b8b-9628-191a04bc5112"
 version = "0.8.1+2"
 
 [[deps.OpenMPI_jll]]
-deps = ["Artifacts", "CompilerSupportLibraries_jll", "JLLWrappers", "LazyArtifacts", "Libdl", "MPIPreferences", "TOML"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "e25c1778a98e34219a00455d6e4384e017ea9762"
+deps = ["Artifacts", "CompilerSupportLibraries_jll", "Hwloc_jll", "JLLWrappers", "LazyArtifacts", "Libdl", "MPIPreferences", "TOML", "Zlib_jll"]
+git-tree-sha1 = "bfce6d523861a6c562721b262c0d1aaeead2647f"
 uuid = "fe0851c0-eecd-5654-98d4-656369965a5c"
-version = "4.1.6+0"
+version = "5.0.5+0"
 
 [[deps.OpenSSL_jll]]
 deps = ["Artifacts", "JLLWrappers", "Libdl"]
@@ -1817,10 +1822,10 @@ uuid = "efe28fd5-8261-553b-a9e1-b2916fc3738e"
 version = "0.5.5+0"
 
 [[deps.Opus_jll]]
-deps = ["Artifacts", "JLLWrappers", "Libdl", "Pkg"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "51a08fb14ec28da2ec7a927c4337e4332c2a4720"
+deps = ["Artifacts", "JLLWrappers", "Libdl"]
+git-tree-sha1 = "6703a85cb3781bd5909d48730a67205f3f31a575"
 uuid = "91d4177d-7536-5919-b921-800302f37372"
-version = "1.3.2+0"
+version = "1.3.3+0"
 
 [[deps.OrderedCollections]]
 git-tree-sha1 = "dfdf5519f235516220579f949664f1bf44e741c5"
@@ -1870,9 +1875,9 @@ version = "0.5.12"
 
 [[deps.Pango_jll]]
 deps = ["Artifacts", "Cairo_jll", "Fontconfig_jll", "FreeType2_jll", "FriBidi_jll", "Glib_jll", "HarfBuzz_jll", "JLLWrappers", "Libdl"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "9dd97171646850ee607593965ce1f55063d8d3f9"
+git-tree-sha1 = "e127b609fb9ecba6f201ba7ab753d5a605d53801"
 uuid = "36c8627f-9965-5494-a995-c6b170f724f3"
-version = "1.54.0+0"
+version = "1.54.1+0"
 
 [[deps.Parameters]]
 deps = ["OrderedCollections", "UnPack"]
@@ -1973,9 +1978,9 @@ uuid = "92933f4c-e287-5a05-a399-4b506db050ca"
 version = "1.10.2"
 
 [[deps.PtrArrays]]
-git-tree-sha1 = "f011fbb92c4d401059b2212c05c0601b70f8b759"
+git-tree-sha1 = "77a42d78b6a92df47ab37e177b2deac405e1c88f"
 uuid = "43287f4e-b6f4-7ad1-bb20-aadabca52c3d"
-version = "1.2.0"
+version = "1.2.1"
 
 [[deps.QOI]]
 deps = ["ColorTypes", "FileIO", "FixedPointNumbers"]
@@ -1985,9 +1990,15 @@ version = "1.0.0"
 
 [[deps.QuadGK]]
 deps = ["DataStructures", "LinearAlgebra"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "e237232771fdafbae3db5c31275303e056afaa9f"
+git-tree-sha1 = "1d587203cf851a51bf1ea31ad7ff89eff8d625ea"
 uuid = "1fd47b50-473d-5c70-9696-f719f8f3bcdc"
-version = "2.10.1"
+version = "2.11.0"
+
+    [deps.QuadGK.extensions]
+    QuadGKEnzymeExt = "Enzyme"
+
+    [deps.QuadGK.weakdeps]
+    Enzyme = "7da242da-08ed-463a-9acd-ee780be4f1d9"
 
 [[deps.REPL]]
 deps = ["InteractiveUtils", "Markdown", "Sockets", "Unicode"]
@@ -2139,9 +2150,9 @@ version = "0.6.43"
 
 [[deps.SciMLBase]]
 deps = ["ADTypes", "Accessors", "ArrayInterface", "CommonSolve", "ConstructionBase", "Distributed", "DocStringExtensions", "EnumX", "Expronicon", "FunctionWrappersWrappers", "IteratorInterfaceExtensions", "LinearAlgebra", "Logging", "Markdown", "PrecompileTools", "Preferences", "Printf", "RecipesBase", "RecursiveArrayTools", "Reexport", "RuntimeGeneratedFunctions", "SciMLOperators", "SciMLStructures", "StaticArraysCore", "Statistics", "SymbolicIndexingInterface", "Tables"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "7bc708ae6f9cb741f204cb6c9dda176e79fb4260"
+git-tree-sha1 = "68b3101ad9f4b08b29c6ce59e912a411eecb7eb6"
 uuid = "0bca4576-84f4-4d90-8ffe-ffa030f20462"
-version = "2.50.2"
+version = "2.51.4"
 
     [deps.SciMLBase.extensions]
     SciMLBaseChainRulesCoreExt = "ChainRulesCore"
@@ -2163,17 +2174,21 @@ version = "2.50.2"
     Zygote = "e88e6eb3-aa80-5325-afca-941959d7151f"
 
 [[deps.SciMLOperators]]
-deps = ["ArrayInterface", "DocStringExtensions", "LinearAlgebra", "MacroTools", "Setfield", "StaticArraysCore"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "23b02c588ac9a17ecb276cc62ab37f3e4fe37b32"
+deps = ["Accessors", "ArrayInterface", "DocStringExtensions", "LinearAlgebra", "MacroTools"]
+git-tree-sha1 = "e39c5f217f9aca640c8e27ab21acf557a3967db5"
 uuid = "c0aeaf25-5076-4817-a8d5-81caf7dfa961"
-version = "0.3.9"
-weakdeps = ["SparseArrays"]
+version = "0.3.10"
+weakdeps = ["SparseArrays", "StaticArraysCore"]
+
+    [deps.SciMLOperators.extensions]
+    SciMLOperatorsSparseArraysExt = "SparseArrays"
+    SciMLOperatorsStaticArraysCoreExt = "StaticArraysCore"
 
 [[deps.SciMLStructures]]
 deps = ["ArrayInterface"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "20ad3e7c137156c50c93c888d0f2bc5b7883c729"
+git-tree-sha1 = "25514a6f200219cd1073e4ff23a6324e4a7efe64"
 uuid = "53ae85a6-f571-4167-b2af-e1d143709226"
-version = "1.4.2"
+version = "1.5.0"
 
 [[deps.Scratch]]
 deps = ["Dates"]
@@ -2403,9 +2418,9 @@ weakdeps = ["Adapt", "GPUArraysCore", "SparseArrays", "StaticArrays"]
 
 [[deps.StructTypes]]
 deps = ["Dates", "UUIDs"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "ca4bccb03acf9faaf4137a9abc1881ed1841aa70"
+git-tree-sha1 = "159331b30e94d7b11379037feeb9b690950cace8"
 uuid = "856f2bd8-1eba-4b0a-8007-ebc267875bd4"
-version = "1.10.0"
+version = "1.11.0"
 
 [[deps.SuiteSparse]]
 deps = ["Libdl", "LinearAlgebra", "Serialization", "SparseArrays"]
@@ -2711,10 +2726,10 @@ uuid = "a4ae2306-e953-59d6-aa16-d00cac43593b"
 version = "3.9.0+0"
 
 [[deps.libass_jll]]
-deps = ["Artifacts", "Bzip2_jll", "FreeType2_jll", "FriBidi_jll", "HarfBuzz_jll", "JLLWrappers", "Libdl", "Pkg", "Zlib_jll"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "5982a94fcba20f02f42ace44b9894ee2b140fe47"
+deps = ["Artifacts", "Bzip2_jll", "FreeType2_jll", "FriBidi_jll", "HarfBuzz_jll", "JLLWrappers", "Libdl", "Zlib_jll"]
+git-tree-sha1 = "e17c115d55c5fbb7e52ebedb427a0dca79d4484e"
 uuid = "0ac62f75-1d6f-5e53-bd7c-93b484bb37c0"
-version = "0.15.1+0"
+version = "0.15.2+0"
 
 [[deps.libblastrampoline_jll]]
 deps = ["Artifacts", "Libdl"]
@@ -2722,10 +2737,10 @@ uuid = "8e850b90-86db-534c-a0d3-1478176c7d93"
 version = "5.8.0+1"
 
 [[deps.libfdk_aac_jll]]
-deps = ["Artifacts", "JLLWrappers", "Libdl", "Pkg"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "daacc84a041563f965be61859a36e17c4e4fcd55"
+deps = ["Artifacts", "JLLWrappers", "Libdl"]
+git-tree-sha1 = "8a22cf860a7d27e4f3498a0fe0811a7957badb38"
 uuid = "f638f0a6-7fb0-5443-88ba-1cc74229b280"
-version = "2.0.2+0"
+version = "2.0.3+0"
 
 [[deps.libpng_jll]]
 deps = ["Artifacts", "JLLWrappers", "Libdl", "Zlib_jll"]
@@ -2768,13 +2783,13 @@ uuid = "3f19e933-33d8-53b3-aaab-bd5110c3b7a0"
 version = "17.4.0+2"
 
 [[deps.x264_jll]]
-deps = ["Artifacts", "JLLWrappers", "Libdl", "Pkg"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "4fea590b89e6ec504593146bf8b988b2c00922b2"
+deps = ["Artifacts", "JLLWrappers", "Libdl"]
+git-tree-sha1 = "35976a1216d6c066ea32cba2150c4fa682b276fc"
 uuid = "1270edf5-f2f9-52d2-97e9-ab00b5d0237a"
-version = "2021.5.5+0"
+version = "10164.0.0+0"
 
 [[deps.x265_jll]]
-deps = ["Artifacts", "JLLWrappers", "Libdl", "Pkg"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "ee567a171cce03570d77ad3a43e90218e38937a9"
+deps = ["Artifacts", "JLLWrappers", "Libdl"]
+git-tree-sha1 = "dcc541bb19ed5b0ede95581fb2e41ecf179527d2"
 uuid = "dfaa095f-4041-5dcd-9319-2fabd8486b76"
-version = "3.5.0+0"
+version = "3.6.0+0"
diff --git a/examples/Manifest.toml b/examples/Manifest.toml
index ea5357b9484..4a682a41896 100644
--- a/examples/Manifest.toml
+++ b/examples/Manifest.toml
@@ -96,9 +96,9 @@ version = "0.4.0"
 
 [[deps.ArrayInterface]]
 deps = ["Adapt", "LinearAlgebra"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "f54c23a5d304fb87110de62bace7777d59088c34"
+git-tree-sha1 = "3640d077b6dafd64ceb8fd5c1ec76f7ca53bcf76"
 uuid = "4fba245c-0d91-5ea0-9b3e-6abc04ee57a9"
-version = "7.15.0"
+version = "7.16.0"
 
     [deps.ArrayInterface.extensions]
     ArrayInterfaceBandedMatricesExt = "BandedMatrices"
@@ -181,9 +181,9 @@ version = "0.5.0"
 
 [[deps.BandedMatrices]]
 deps = ["ArrayLayouts", "FillArrays", "LinearAlgebra", "PrecompileTools"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "88d4a97082bc70fad702f42302a8bd21079b8963"
+git-tree-sha1 = "dce2e49fc53490efb39161267d74f27be0ae2cee"
 uuid = "aae01518-5342-5314-be14-df237901396f"
-version = "1.7.3"
+version = "1.7.4"
 weakdeps = ["SparseArrays"]
 
     [deps.BandedMatrices.extensions]
@@ -268,9 +268,9 @@ version = "0.9.2+0"
 
 [[deps.CUDA_Runtime_Discovery]]
 deps = ["Libdl"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "f3b237289a5a77c759b2dd5d4c2ff641d67c4030"
+git-tree-sha1 = "33576c7c1b2500f8e7e6baa082e04563203b3a45"
 uuid = "1af6417a-86b4-443c-805f-a4643ffb695f"
-version = "0.3.4"
+version = "0.3.5"
 
 [[deps.CUDA_Runtime_jll]]
 deps = ["Artifacts", "CUDA_Driver_jll", "JLLWrappers", "LazyArtifacts", "Libdl", "TOML"]
@@ -321,7 +321,7 @@ version = "0.5.7"
     Makie = "ee78f7c6-11fb-53f2-987a-cfe4a2b5a57a"
 
 [[deps.ClimaAtmos]]
-deps = ["Adapt", "ArgParse", "ArtifactWrappers", "Artifacts", "AtmosphericProfilesLibrary", "ClimaComms", "ClimaCore", "ClimaDiagnostics", "ClimaParams", "ClimaTimeSteppers", "ClimaUtilities", "CloudMicrophysics", "Dates", "DiffEqBase", "DocStringExtensions", "FastGaussQuadrature", "Insolation", "Interpolations", "IntervalSets", "Krylov", "LazyArtifacts", "LinearAlgebra", "Logging", "NCDatasets", "NVTX", "Pkg", "Printf", "RRTMGP", "Random", "RootSolvers", "SciMLBase", "StaticArrays", "Statistics", "StatsBase", "SurfaceFluxes", "Thermodynamics", "YAML"]
+deps = ["Adapt", "ArgParse", "ArtifactWrappers", "Artifacts", "AtmosphericProfilesLibrary", "ClimaComms", "ClimaCore", "ClimaDiagnostics", "ClimaParams", "ClimaTimeSteppers", "ClimaUtilities", "CloudMicrophysics", "Dates", "DiffEqBase", "FastGaussQuadrature", "Insolation", "Interpolations", "Krylov", "LazyArtifacts", "LinearAlgebra", "Logging", "NCDatasets", "NVTX", "Printf", "RRTMGP", "Random", "RootSolvers", "SciMLBase", "StaticArrays", "Statistics", "StatsBase", "SurfaceFluxes", "Thermodynamics", "YAML"]
 path = ".."
 uuid = "b2c96348-7fb7-4fe0-8da9-78d88439e717"
 version = "0.27.4"
@@ -598,9 +598,9 @@ uuid = "ade2ca70-3891-5945-98fb-dc099432e06a"
 
 [[deps.DelaunayTriangulation]]
 deps = ["AdaptivePredicates", "EnumX", "ExactPredicates", "Random"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "b5f1c6532d2ea71e99b74231b0a3d53fba846ced"
+git-tree-sha1 = "88a2c530da3dd3bf4282267925d2c16c8efcd3fc"
 uuid = "927a84f5-c5f4-47a5-9785-b46e178433df"
-version = "1.1.3"
+version = "1.1.4"
 
 [[deps.DelimitedFiles]]
 deps = ["Mmap"]
@@ -868,9 +868,9 @@ uuid = "7b1f6079-737a-58dc-b8bc-7a2ca5c1b5ee"
 
 [[deps.FillArrays]]
 deps = ["LinearAlgebra"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "fd0002c0b5362d7eb952450ad5eb742443340d6e"
+git-tree-sha1 = "6a70198746448456524cb442b8af316927ff3e1a"
 uuid = "1a297f60-69ca-5386-bcde-b61e274b549b"
-version = "1.12.0"
+version = "1.13.0"
 weakdeps = ["PDMats", "SparseArrays", "Statistics"]
 
     [deps.FillArrays.extensions]
@@ -1066,9 +1066,9 @@ version = "1.0.2"
 
 [[deps.HCubature]]
 deps = ["Combinatorics", "DataStructures", "LinearAlgebra", "QuadGK", "StaticArrays"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "10f37537bbd83e52c63abf6393f209dbd641fedc"
+git-tree-sha1 = "19ef9f0cb324eed957b7fe7257ac84e8ed8a48ec"
 uuid = "19dc6840-f33b-545b-b366-655c7e3ffd49"
-version = "1.6.0"
+version = "1.7.0"
 
 [[deps.HDF5]]
 deps = ["Compat", "HDF5_jll", "Libdl", "MPIPreferences", "Mmap", "Preferences", "Printf", "Random", "Requires", "UUIDs"]
@@ -1185,10 +1185,10 @@ weakdeps = ["ClimaParams"]
     CreateParametersExt = "ClimaParams"
 
 [[deps.IntelOpenMP_jll]]
-deps = ["Artifacts", "JLLWrappers", "Libdl"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "14eb2b542e748570b56446f4c50fbfb2306ebc45"
+deps = ["Artifacts", "JLLWrappers", "LazyArtifacts", "Libdl"]
+git-tree-sha1 = "10bd689145d2c3b2a9844005d01087cc1194e79e"
 uuid = "1d5cc7b8-4909-519e-a0f8-d0f5ad9712d0"
-version = "2024.2.0+0"
+version = "2024.2.1+0"
 
 [[deps.InteractiveUtils]]
 deps = ["Markdown"]
@@ -1275,15 +1275,15 @@ version = "0.9.8"
 
 [[deps.JLD2]]
 deps = ["FileIO", "MacroTools", "Mmap", "OrderedCollections", "PrecompileTools", "Requires", "TranscodingStreams"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "049950edff105ff73918d29dbf109220ff364157"
+git-tree-sha1 = "a0746c21bdc986d0dc293efa6b1faee112c37c28"
 uuid = "033835bb-8acc-5ee8-8aae-3f567f8a3819"
-version = "0.4.52"
+version = "0.4.53"
 
 [[deps.JLLWrappers]]
 deps = ["Artifacts", "Preferences"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "7e5d6779a1e09a36db2a7b6cff50942a0a7d0fca"
+git-tree-sha1 = "f389674c99bfcde17dc57454011aa44d5a260a40"
 uuid = "692b3bcd-3c85-4b1f-b108-f13ce0eb3210"
-version = "1.5.0"
+version = "1.6.0"
 
 [[deps.JSON]]
 deps = ["Dates", "Mmap", "Parsers", "Unicode"]
@@ -1541,10 +1541,10 @@ version = "2.8.0"
     LDLFactorizations = "40e66cde-538c-5869-a4ad-c39174c6795b"
 
 [[deps.LinearSolve]]
-deps = ["ArrayInterface", "ChainRulesCore", "ConcreteStructs", "CpuId", "DocStringExtensions", "EnumX", "FastLapackInterface", "GPUArraysCore", "InteractiveUtils", "KLU", "Krylov", "LazyArrays", "Libdl", "LinearAlgebra", "MKL_jll", "Markdown", "PrecompileTools", "Preferences", "RecursiveFactorization", "Reexport", "SciMLBase", "SciMLOperators", "Setfield", "SparseArrays", "Sparspak", "StaticArraysCore", "UnPack"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "6b7011b27e35453f68a8f851776271b31fce021c"
+deps = ["ArrayInterface", "ChainRulesCore", "ConcreteStructs", "DocStringExtensions", "EnumX", "FastLapackInterface", "GPUArraysCore", "InteractiveUtils", "KLU", "Krylov", "LazyArrays", "Libdl", "LinearAlgebra", "MKL_jll", "Markdown", "PrecompileTools", "Preferences", "RecursiveFactorization", "Reexport", "SciMLBase", "SciMLOperators", "Setfield", "SparseArrays", "Sparspak", "StaticArraysCore", "UnPack"]
+git-tree-sha1 = "6c5e4555ac2bc449a28604e184f759d18fc08420"
 uuid = "7ed4a6bd-45f5-4d41-b270-4a48e9bafcae"
-version = "2.33.0"
+version = "2.34.0"
 
     [deps.LinearSolve.extensions]
     LinearSolveBandedMatricesExt = "BandedMatrices"
@@ -1768,9 +1768,9 @@ weakdeps = ["Adapt", "CUDA"]
 
 [[deps.NCDatasets]]
 deps = ["CFTime", "CommonDataModel", "DataStructures", "Dates", "DiskArrays", "NetCDF_jll", "NetworkOptions", "Printf"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "a640912695952b074672edb5f9aaee2f7f9fd59a"
+git-tree-sha1 = "77df6d3708ec0eb3441551e1f20f7503b37c2393"
 uuid = "85f8d34a-cbdd-5861-8df4-14fed0d494ab"
-version = "0.14.4"
+version = "0.14.5"
 
 [[deps.NCRegressionTests]]
 deps = ["NCDatasets", "OrderedCollections", "PrettyTables", "Test"]
@@ -2119,9 +2119,9 @@ uuid = "92933f4c-e287-5a05-a399-4b506db050ca"
 version = "1.10.2"
 
 [[deps.PtrArrays]]
-git-tree-sha1 = "f011fbb92c4d401059b2212c05c0601b70f8b759"
+git-tree-sha1 = "77a42d78b6a92df47ab37e177b2deac405e1c88f"
 uuid = "43287f4e-b6f4-7ad1-bb20-aadabca52c3d"
-version = "1.2.0"
+version = "1.2.1"
 
 [[deps.QOI]]
 deps = ["ColorTypes", "FileIO", "FixedPointNumbers"]
@@ -2131,9 +2131,15 @@ version = "1.0.0"
 
 [[deps.QuadGK]]
 deps = ["DataStructures", "LinearAlgebra"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "e237232771fdafbae3db5c31275303e056afaa9f"
+git-tree-sha1 = "1d587203cf851a51bf1ea31ad7ff89eff8d625ea"
 uuid = "1fd47b50-473d-5c70-9696-f719f8f3bcdc"
-version = "2.10.1"
+version = "2.11.0"
+
+    [deps.QuadGK.extensions]
+    QuadGKEnzymeExt = "Enzyme"
+
+    [deps.QuadGK.weakdeps]
+    Enzyme = "7da242da-08ed-463a-9acd-ee780be4f1d9"
 
 [[deps.REPL]]
 deps = ["InteractiveUtils", "Markdown", "Sockets", "Unicode"]
@@ -2288,9 +2294,9 @@ version = "0.6.43"
 
 [[deps.SciMLBase]]
 deps = ["ADTypes", "Accessors", "ArrayInterface", "CommonSolve", "ConstructionBase", "Distributed", "DocStringExtensions", "EnumX", "Expronicon", "FunctionWrappersWrappers", "IteratorInterfaceExtensions", "LinearAlgebra", "Logging", "Markdown", "PrecompileTools", "Preferences", "Printf", "RecipesBase", "RecursiveArrayTools", "Reexport", "RuntimeGeneratedFunctions", "SciMLOperators", "SciMLStructures", "StaticArraysCore", "Statistics", "SymbolicIndexingInterface", "Tables"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "92d9aa6fc3c273933c9e55e04868fbe77416ee75"
+git-tree-sha1 = "68b3101ad9f4b08b29c6ce59e912a411eecb7eb6"
 uuid = "0bca4576-84f4-4d90-8ffe-ffa030f20462"
-version = "2.50.5"
+version = "2.51.4"
 
     [deps.SciMLBase.extensions]
     SciMLBaseChainRulesCoreExt = "ChainRulesCore"
@@ -2324,9 +2330,9 @@ weakdeps = ["SparseArrays", "StaticArraysCore"]
 
 [[deps.SciMLStructures]]
 deps = ["ArrayInterface"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "20ad3e7c137156c50c93c888d0f2bc5b7883c729"
+git-tree-sha1 = "25514a6f200219cd1073e4ff23a6324e4a7efe64"
 uuid = "53ae85a6-f571-4167-b2af-e1d143709226"
-version = "1.4.2"
+version = "1.5.0"
 
 [[deps.Scratch]]
 deps = ["Dates"]
diff --git a/examples/hybrid/driver.jl b/examples/hybrid/driver.jl
index 75ba3ffe2a5..8777ee59eaf 100644
--- a/examples/hybrid/driver.jl
+++ b/examples/hybrid/driver.jl
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 # (See also Base.type_limited_string_from_context())
 redirect_stderr(IOContext(stderr, :stacktrace_types_limited => Ref(false)))
 import ClimaComms
-@static pkgversion(ClimaComms) >= v"0.6" && ClimaComms.@import_required_backends
+ClimaComms.@import_required_backends
 import ClimaAtmos as CA
 import Random
 Random.seed!(1234)
diff --git a/perf/Manifest.toml b/perf/Manifest.toml
index 88c49f309ab..a73c580863b 100644
--- a/perf/Manifest.toml
+++ b/perf/Manifest.toml
@@ -96,9 +96,9 @@ version = "0.4.0"
 
 [[deps.ArrayInterface]]
 deps = ["Adapt", "LinearAlgebra"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "f54c23a5d304fb87110de62bace7777d59088c34"
+git-tree-sha1 = "3640d077b6dafd64ceb8fd5c1ec76f7ca53bcf76"
 uuid = "4fba245c-0d91-5ea0-9b3e-6abc04ee57a9"
-version = "7.15.0"
+version = "7.16.0"
 
     [deps.ArrayInterface.extensions]
     ArrayInterfaceBandedMatricesExt = "BandedMatrices"
@@ -181,9 +181,9 @@ version = "0.5.0"
 
 [[deps.BandedMatrices]]
 deps = ["ArrayLayouts", "FillArrays", "LinearAlgebra", "PrecompileTools"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "88d4a97082bc70fad702f42302a8bd21079b8963"
+git-tree-sha1 = "dce2e49fc53490efb39161267d74f27be0ae2cee"
 uuid = "aae01518-5342-5314-be14-df237901396f"
-version = "1.7.3"
+version = "1.7.4"
 weakdeps = ["SparseArrays"]
 
     [deps.BandedMatrices.extensions]
@@ -279,9 +279,9 @@ version = "0.9.2+0"
 
 [[deps.CUDA_Runtime_Discovery]]
 deps = ["Libdl"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "f3b237289a5a77c759b2dd5d4c2ff641d67c4030"
+git-tree-sha1 = "33576c7c1b2500f8e7e6baa082e04563203b3a45"
 uuid = "1af6417a-86b4-443c-805f-a4643ffb695f"
-version = "0.3.4"
+version = "0.3.5"
 
 [[deps.CUDA_Runtime_jll]]
 deps = ["Artifacts", "CUDA_Driver_jll", "JLLWrappers", "LazyArtifacts", "Libdl", "TOML"]
@@ -332,7 +332,7 @@ version = "0.5.6"
     GeoMakie = "db073c08-6b98-4ee5-b6a4-5efafb3259c6"
 
 [[deps.ClimaAtmos]]
-deps = ["Adapt", "ArgParse", "ArtifactWrappers", "Artifacts", "AtmosphericProfilesLibrary", "ClimaComms", "ClimaCore", "ClimaDiagnostics", "ClimaParams", "ClimaTimeSteppers", "ClimaUtilities", "CloudMicrophysics", "Dates", "DiffEqBase", "DocStringExtensions", "FastGaussQuadrature", "Insolation", "Interpolations", "IntervalSets", "Krylov", "LazyArtifacts", "LinearAlgebra", "Logging", "NCDatasets", "NVTX", "Pkg", "Printf", "RRTMGP", "Random", "RootSolvers", "SciMLBase", "StaticArrays", "Statistics", "StatsBase", "SurfaceFluxes", "Thermodynamics", "YAML"]
+deps = ["Adapt", "ArgParse", "ArtifactWrappers", "Artifacts", "AtmosphericProfilesLibrary", "ClimaComms", "ClimaCore", "ClimaDiagnostics", "ClimaParams", "ClimaTimeSteppers", "ClimaUtilities", "CloudMicrophysics", "Dates", "DiffEqBase", "FastGaussQuadrature", "Insolation", "Interpolations", "Krylov", "LazyArtifacts", "LinearAlgebra", "Logging", "NCDatasets", "NVTX", "Printf", "RRTMGP", "Random", "RootSolvers", "SciMLBase", "StaticArrays", "Statistics", "StatsBase", "SurfaceFluxes", "Thermodynamics", "YAML"]
 path = ".."
 uuid = "b2c96348-7fb7-4fe0-8da9-78d88439e717"
 version = "0.27.4"
@@ -434,9 +434,9 @@ version = "0.1.13"
 
 [[deps.CloudMicrophysics]]
 deps = ["ClimaParams", "DocStringExtensions", "ForwardDiff", "HCubature", "LazyArtifacts", "QuadGK", "RootSolvers", "SpecialFunctions", "Thermodynamics"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "5d20d3452be63e6c6da766052ddce072e23b425e"
+git-tree-sha1 = "26ae1a08520651f7de266e6c76c06521ce7c54bb"
 uuid = "6a9e3e04-43cd-43ba-94b9-e8782df3c71b"
-version = "0.22.1"
+version = "0.22.2"
 
     [deps.CloudMicrophysics.extensions]
     EmulatorModelsExt = ["DataFrames", "MLJ"]
@@ -614,9 +614,9 @@ uuid = "ade2ca70-3891-5945-98fb-dc099432e06a"
 
 [[deps.DelaunayTriangulation]]
 deps = ["AdaptivePredicates", "EnumX", "ExactPredicates", "Random"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "b5f1c6532d2ea71e99b74231b0a3d53fba846ced"
+git-tree-sha1 = "88a2c530da3dd3bf4282267925d2c16c8efcd3fc"
 uuid = "927a84f5-c5f4-47a5-9785-b46e178433df"
-version = "1.1.3"
+version = "1.1.4"
 
 [[deps.DelimitedFiles]]
 deps = ["Mmap"]
@@ -660,9 +660,9 @@ version = "6.154.0"
 
 [[deps.DiffEqCallbacks]]
 deps = ["DataStructures", "DiffEqBase", "ForwardDiff", "Functors", "LinearAlgebra", "Markdown", "NonlinearSolve", "Parameters", "RecipesBase", "RecursiveArrayTools", "SciMLBase", "StaticArraysCore"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "befc86364d9b36abc6d874f91ab5d7b4d5e6bb62"
+git-tree-sha1 = "9c802bf34741e2b4942912709321e87b7cbed023"
 uuid = "459566f4-90b8-5000-8ac3-15dfb0a30def"
-version = "3.8.0"
+version = "3.9.0"
 
     [deps.DiffEqCallbacks.weakdeps]
     OrdinaryDiffEq = "1dea7af3-3e70-54e6-95c3-0bf5283fa5ed"
@@ -694,9 +694,9 @@ version = "1.15.1"
 
 [[deps.DifferentiationInterface]]
 deps = ["ADTypes", "Compat", "DocStringExtensions", "FillArrays", "LinearAlgebra", "PackageExtensionCompat", "SparseArrays", "SparseMatrixColorings"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "06955b4e80eff01df10552ccf0226571bde94d49"
+git-tree-sha1 = "e53e4eb7f8e7b25656ea17263b0c22f129091eeb"
 uuid = "a0c0ee7d-e4b9-4e03-894e-1c5f64a51d63"
-version = "0.5.14"
+version = "0.5.15"
 
     [deps.DifferentiationInterface.extensions]
     DifferentiationInterfaceChainRulesCoreExt = "ChainRulesCore"
@@ -740,9 +740,9 @@ uuid = "8ba89e20-285c-5b6f-9357-94700520ee1b"
 
 [[deps.Distributions]]
 deps = ["AliasTables", "FillArrays", "LinearAlgebra", "PDMats", "Printf", "QuadGK", "Random", "SpecialFunctions", "Statistics", "StatsAPI", "StatsBase", "StatsFuns"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "0e0a1264b0942f1f3abb2b30891f2a590cc652ac"
+git-tree-sha1 = "e6c693a0e4394f8fda0e51a5bdf5aef26f8235e9"
 uuid = "31c24e10-a181-5473-b8eb-7969acd0382f"
-version = "0.25.110"
+version = "0.25.111"
 
     [deps.Distributions.extensions]
     DistributionsChainRulesCoreExt = "ChainRulesCore"
@@ -819,15 +819,15 @@ uuid = "6b7a57c9-7cc1-4fdf-b7f5-e857abae3636"
 version = "0.8.5"
 
 [[deps.Extents]]
-git-tree-sha1 = "94997910aca72897524d2237c41eb852153b0f65"
+git-tree-sha1 = "81023caa0021a41712685887db1fc03db26f41f5"
 uuid = "411431e0-e8b7-467b-b5e0-f676ba4f2910"
-version = "0.1.3"
+version = "0.1.4"
 
 [[deps.FFMPEG_jll]]
 deps = ["Artifacts", "Bzip2_jll", "FreeType2_jll", "FriBidi_jll", "JLLWrappers", "LAME_jll", "Libdl", "Ogg_jll", "OpenSSL_jll", "Opus_jll", "PCRE2_jll", "Zlib_jll", "libaom_jll", "libass_jll", "libfdk_aac_jll", "libvorbis_jll", "x264_jll", "x265_jll"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "ab3f7e1819dba9434a3a5126510c8fda3a4e7000"
+git-tree-sha1 = "8cc47f299902e13f90405ddb5bf87e5d474c0d38"
 uuid = "b22a6f82-2f65-5046-a5b2-351ab43fb4e5"
-version = "6.1.1+0"
+version = "6.1.2+0"
 
 [[deps.FFTW]]
 deps = ["AbstractFFTs", "FFTW_jll", "LinearAlgebra", "MKL_jll", "Preferences", "Reexport"]
@@ -883,19 +883,24 @@ uuid = "8fc22ac5-c921-52a6-82fd-178b2807b824"
 version = "0.8.3"
 
 [[deps.FilePathsBase]]
-deps = ["Compat", "Dates", "Mmap", "Printf", "Test", "UUIDs"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "9f00e42f8d99fdde64d40c8ea5d14269a2e2c1aa"
+deps = ["Compat", "Dates"]
+git-tree-sha1 = "7878ff7172a8e6beedd1dea14bd27c3c6340d361"
 uuid = "48062228-2e41-5def-b9a4-89aafe57970f"
-version = "0.9.21"
+version = "0.9.22"
+weakdeps = ["Mmap", "Test"]
+
+    [deps.FilePathsBase.extensions]
+    FilePathsBaseMmapExt = "Mmap"
+    FilePathsBaseTestExt = "Test"
 
 [[deps.FileWatching]]
 uuid = "7b1f6079-737a-58dc-b8bc-7a2ca5c1b5ee"
 
 [[deps.FillArrays]]
 deps = ["LinearAlgebra"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "fd0002c0b5362d7eb952450ad5eb742443340d6e"
+git-tree-sha1 = "6a70198746448456524cb442b8af316927ff3e1a"
 uuid = "1a297f60-69ca-5386-bcde-b61e274b549b"
-version = "1.12.0"
+version = "1.13.0"
 weakdeps = ["PDMats", "SparseArrays", "Statistics"]
 
     [deps.FillArrays.extensions]
@@ -1109,9 +1114,9 @@ version = "1.0.2"
 
 [[deps.HCubature]]
 deps = ["Combinatorics", "DataStructures", "LinearAlgebra", "QuadGK", "StaticArrays"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "10f37537bbd83e52c63abf6393f209dbd641fedc"
+git-tree-sha1 = "19ef9f0cb324eed957b7fe7257ac84e8ed8a48ec"
 uuid = "19dc6840-f33b-545b-b366-655c7e3ffd49"
-version = "1.6.0"
+version = "1.7.0"
 
 [[deps.HDF5]]
 deps = ["Compat", "HDF5_jll", "Libdl", "MPIPreferences", "Mmap", "Preferences", "Printf", "Random", "Requires", "UUIDs"]
@@ -1130,10 +1135,10 @@ uuid = "0234f1f7-429e-5d53-9886-15a909be8d59"
 version = "1.14.3+3"
 
 [[deps.HarfBuzz_jll]]
-deps = ["Artifacts", "Cairo_jll", "Fontconfig_jll", "FreeType2_jll", "Glib_jll", "Graphite2_jll", "JLLWrappers", "Libdl", "Libffi_jll", "Pkg"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "129acf094d168394e80ee1dc4bc06ec835e510a3"
+deps = ["Artifacts", "Cairo_jll", "Fontconfig_jll", "FreeType2_jll", "Glib_jll", "Graphite2_jll", "JLLWrappers", "Libdl", "Libffi_jll"]
+git-tree-sha1 = "401e4f3f30f43af2c8478fc008da50096ea5240f"
 uuid = "2e76f6c2-a576-52d4-95c1-20adfe4de566"
-version = "2.8.1+1"
+version = "8.3.1+0"
 
 [[deps.HostCPUFeatures]]
 deps = ["BitTwiddlingConvenienceFunctions", "IfElse", "Libdl", "Static"]
@@ -1228,10 +1233,10 @@ weakdeps = ["ClimaParams"]
     CreateParametersExt = "ClimaParams"
 
 [[deps.IntelOpenMP_jll]]
-deps = ["Artifacts", "JLLWrappers", "Libdl"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "14eb2b542e748570b56446f4c50fbfb2306ebc45"
+deps = ["Artifacts", "JLLWrappers", "LazyArtifacts", "Libdl"]
+git-tree-sha1 = "10bd689145d2c3b2a9844005d01087cc1194e79e"
 uuid = "1d5cc7b8-4909-519e-a0f8-d0f5ad9712d0"
-version = "2024.2.0+0"
+version = "2024.2.1+0"
 
 [[deps.InteractiveUtils]]
 deps = ["Markdown"]
@@ -1309,16 +1314,16 @@ uuid = "c3a54625-cd67-489e-a8e7-0a5a0ff4e31b"
 version = "0.8.29"
 
 [[deps.JLD2]]
-deps = ["FileIO", "MacroTools", "Mmap", "OrderedCollections", "PrecompileTools", "Reexport", "Requires", "TranscodingStreams", "UUIDs", "Unicode"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "67d4690d32c22e28818a434b293a374cc78473d3"
+deps = ["FileIO", "MacroTools", "Mmap", "OrderedCollections", "PrecompileTools", "Requires", "TranscodingStreams"]
+git-tree-sha1 = "a0746c21bdc986d0dc293efa6b1faee112c37c28"
 uuid = "033835bb-8acc-5ee8-8aae-3f567f8a3819"
-version = "0.4.51"
+version = "0.4.53"
 
 [[deps.JLLWrappers]]
 deps = ["Artifacts", "Preferences"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "7e5d6779a1e09a36db2a7b6cff50942a0a7d0fca"
+git-tree-sha1 = "f389674c99bfcde17dc57454011aa44d5a260a40"
 uuid = "692b3bcd-3c85-4b1f-b108-f13ce0eb3210"
-version = "1.5.0"
+version = "1.6.0"
 
 [[deps.JSON]]
 deps = ["Dates", "Mmap", "Parsers", "Unicode"]
@@ -1340,9 +1345,9 @@ version = "3.0.3+0"
 
 [[deps.JuliaInterpreter]]
 deps = ["CodeTracking", "InteractiveUtils", "Random", "UUIDs"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "7ae67d8567853d367e3463719356b8989e236069"
+git-tree-sha1 = "4b415b6cccb9ab61fec78a621572c82ac7fa5776"
 uuid = "aa1ae85d-cabe-5617-a682-6adf51b2e16a"
-version = "0.9.34"
+version = "0.9.35"
 
 [[deps.JuliaNVTXCallbacks_jll]]
 deps = ["Artifacts", "JLLWrappers", "Libdl", "Pkg"]
@@ -1363,9 +1368,9 @@ version = "0.6.0"
 
 [[deps.KernelAbstractions]]
 deps = ["Adapt", "Atomix", "InteractiveUtils", "MacroTools", "PrecompileTools", "Requires", "StaticArrays", "UUIDs", "UnsafeAtomics", "UnsafeAtomicsLLVM"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "35ceea58aa34ad08b1ae00a52622c62d1cfb8ce2"
+git-tree-sha1 = "cb1cff88ef2f3a157cbad75bbe6b229e1975e498"
 uuid = "63c18a36-062a-441e-b654-da1e3ab1ce7c"
-version = "0.9.24"
+version = "0.9.25"
 weakdeps = ["EnzymeCore", "LinearAlgebra", "SparseArrays"]
 
     [deps.KernelAbstractions.extensions]
@@ -1587,10 +1592,10 @@ version = "2.8.0"
     LDLFactorizations = "40e66cde-538c-5869-a4ad-c39174c6795b"
 
 [[deps.LinearSolve]]
-deps = ["ArrayInterface", "ChainRulesCore", "ConcreteStructs", "CpuId", "DocStringExtensions", "EnumX", "FastLapackInterface", "GPUArraysCore", "InteractiveUtils", "KLU", "Krylov", "LazyArrays", "Libdl", "LinearAlgebra", "MKL_jll", "Markdown", "PrecompileTools", "Preferences", "RecursiveFactorization", "Reexport", "SciMLBase", "SciMLOperators", "Setfield", "SparseArrays", "Sparspak", "StaticArraysCore", "UnPack"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "6b7011b27e35453f68a8f851776271b31fce021c"
+deps = ["ArrayInterface", "ChainRulesCore", "ConcreteStructs", "DocStringExtensions", "EnumX", "FastLapackInterface", "GPUArraysCore", "InteractiveUtils", "KLU", "Krylov", "LazyArrays", "Libdl", "LinearAlgebra", "MKL_jll", "Markdown", "PrecompileTools", "Preferences", "RecursiveFactorization", "Reexport", "SciMLBase", "SciMLOperators", "Setfield", "SparseArrays", "Sparspak", "StaticArraysCore", "UnPack"]
+git-tree-sha1 = "6c5e4555ac2bc449a28604e184f759d18fc08420"
 uuid = "7ed4a6bd-45f5-4d41-b270-4a48e9bafcae"
-version = "2.33.0"
+version = "2.34.0"
 
     [deps.LinearSolve.extensions]
     LinearSolveBandedMatricesExt = "BandedMatrices"
@@ -1684,9 +1689,9 @@ version = "0.4.17"
 
 [[deps.MPI]]
 deps = ["Distributed", "DocStringExtensions", "Libdl", "MPICH_jll", "MPIPreferences", "MPItrampoline_jll", "MicrosoftMPI_jll", "OpenMPI_jll", "PkgVersion", "PrecompileTools", "Requires", "Serialization", "Sockets"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "14cef41baf5b675b192b02a22c710f725ab333a7"
+git-tree-sha1 = "5465632f9dd11aea0d912cb64a6f80640092a33e"
 uuid = "da04e1cc-30fd-572f-bb4f-1f8673147195"
-version = "0.20.20"
+version = "0.20.21"
 
     [deps.MPI.extensions]
     AMDGPUExt = "AMDGPU"
@@ -1814,9 +1819,9 @@ weakdeps = ["Adapt", "CUDA"]
 
 [[deps.NCDatasets]]
 deps = ["CFTime", "CommonDataModel", "DataStructures", "Dates", "DiskArrays", "NetCDF_jll", "NetworkOptions", "Printf"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "a640912695952b074672edb5f9aaee2f7f9fd59a"
+git-tree-sha1 = "77df6d3708ec0eb3441551e1f20f7503b37c2393"
 uuid = "85f8d34a-cbdd-5861-8df4-14fed0d494ab"
-version = "0.14.4"
+version = "0.14.5"
 
 [[deps.NLSolversBase]]
 deps = ["DiffResults", "Distributed", "FiniteDiff", "ForwardDiff"]
@@ -1981,10 +1986,10 @@ version = "1.9.4"
     MathOptInterface = "b8f27783-ece8-5eb3-8dc8-9495eed66fee"
 
 [[deps.Opus_jll]]
-deps = ["Artifacts", "JLLWrappers", "Libdl", "Pkg"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "51a08fb14ec28da2ec7a927c4337e4332c2a4720"
+deps = ["Artifacts", "JLLWrappers", "Libdl"]
+git-tree-sha1 = "6703a85cb3781bd5909d48730a67205f3f31a575"
 uuid = "91d4177d-7536-5919-b921-800302f37372"
-version = "1.3.2+0"
+version = "1.3.3+0"
 
 [[deps.OrderedCollections]]
 git-tree-sha1 = "dfdf5519f235516220579f949664f1bf44e741c5"
@@ -2040,9 +2045,9 @@ version = "0.5.12"
 
 [[deps.Pango_jll]]
 deps = ["Artifacts", "Cairo_jll", "Fontconfig_jll", "FreeType2_jll", "FriBidi_jll", "Glib_jll", "HarfBuzz_jll", "JLLWrappers", "Libdl"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "9dd97171646850ee607593965ce1f55063d8d3f9"
+git-tree-sha1 = "e127b609fb9ecba6f201ba7ab753d5a605d53801"
 uuid = "36c8627f-9965-5494-a995-c6b170f724f3"
-version = "1.54.0+0"
+version = "1.54.1+0"
 
 [[deps.Parameters]]
 deps = ["OrderedCollections", "UnPack"]
@@ -2189,9 +2194,9 @@ uuid = "3349acd9-ac6a-5e09-bcdb-63829b23a429"
 version = "1.0.16"
 
 [[deps.PtrArrays]]
-git-tree-sha1 = "f011fbb92c4d401059b2212c05c0601b70f8b759"
+git-tree-sha1 = "77a42d78b6a92df47ab37e177b2deac405e1c88f"
 uuid = "43287f4e-b6f4-7ad1-bb20-aadabca52c3d"
-version = "1.2.0"
+version = "1.2.1"
 
 [[deps.QOI]]
 deps = ["ColorTypes", "FileIO", "FixedPointNumbers"]
@@ -2201,9 +2206,15 @@ version = "1.0.0"
 
 [[deps.QuadGK]]
 deps = ["DataStructures", "LinearAlgebra"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "e237232771fdafbae3db5c31275303e056afaa9f"
+git-tree-sha1 = "1d587203cf851a51bf1ea31ad7ff89eff8d625ea"
 uuid = "1fd47b50-473d-5c70-9696-f719f8f3bcdc"
-version = "2.10.1"
+version = "2.11.0"
+
+    [deps.QuadGK.extensions]
+    QuadGKEnzymeExt = "Enzyme"
+
+    [deps.QuadGK.weakdeps]
+    Enzyme = "7da242da-08ed-463a-9acd-ee780be4f1d9"
 
 [[deps.REPL]]
 deps = ["InteractiveUtils", "Markdown", "Sockets", "Unicode"]
@@ -2370,9 +2381,9 @@ version = "0.6.43"
 
 [[deps.SciMLBase]]
 deps = ["ADTypes", "Accessors", "ArrayInterface", "CommonSolve", "ConstructionBase", "Distributed", "DocStringExtensions", "EnumX", "Expronicon", "FunctionWrappersWrappers", "IteratorInterfaceExtensions", "LinearAlgebra", "Logging", "Markdown", "PrecompileTools", "Preferences", "Printf", "RecipesBase", "RecursiveArrayTools", "Reexport", "RuntimeGeneratedFunctions", "SciMLOperators", "SciMLStructures", "StaticArraysCore", "Statistics", "SymbolicIndexingInterface", "Tables"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "7bc708ae6f9cb741f204cb6c9dda176e79fb4260"
+git-tree-sha1 = "68b3101ad9f4b08b29c6ce59e912a411eecb7eb6"
 uuid = "0bca4576-84f4-4d90-8ffe-ffa030f20462"
-version = "2.50.2"
+version = "2.51.4"
 
     [deps.SciMLBase.extensions]
     SciMLBaseChainRulesCoreExt = "ChainRulesCore"
@@ -2394,17 +2405,21 @@ version = "2.50.2"
     Zygote = "e88e6eb3-aa80-5325-afca-941959d7151f"
 
 [[deps.SciMLOperators]]
-deps = ["ArrayInterface", "DocStringExtensions", "LinearAlgebra", "MacroTools", "Setfield", "StaticArraysCore"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "23b02c588ac9a17ecb276cc62ab37f3e4fe37b32"
+deps = ["Accessors", "ArrayInterface", "DocStringExtensions", "LinearAlgebra", "MacroTools"]
+git-tree-sha1 = "e39c5f217f9aca640c8e27ab21acf557a3967db5"
 uuid = "c0aeaf25-5076-4817-a8d5-81caf7dfa961"
-version = "0.3.9"
-weakdeps = ["SparseArrays"]
+version = "0.3.10"
+weakdeps = ["SparseArrays", "StaticArraysCore"]
+
+    [deps.SciMLOperators.extensions]
+    SciMLOperatorsSparseArraysExt = "SparseArrays"
+    SciMLOperatorsStaticArraysCoreExt = "StaticArraysCore"
 
 [[deps.SciMLStructures]]
 deps = ["ArrayInterface"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "20ad3e7c137156c50c93c888d0f2bc5b7883c729"
+git-tree-sha1 = "25514a6f200219cd1073e4ff23a6324e4a7efe64"
 uuid = "53ae85a6-f571-4167-b2af-e1d143709226"
-version = "1.4.2"
+version = "1.5.0"
 
 [[deps.Scratch]]
 deps = ["Dates"]
@@ -2972,10 +2987,10 @@ uuid = "a4ae2306-e953-59d6-aa16-d00cac43593b"
 version = "3.9.0+0"
 
 [[deps.libass_jll]]
-deps = ["Artifacts", "Bzip2_jll", "FreeType2_jll", "FriBidi_jll", "HarfBuzz_jll", "JLLWrappers", "Libdl", "Pkg", "Zlib_jll"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "5982a94fcba20f02f42ace44b9894ee2b140fe47"
+deps = ["Artifacts", "Bzip2_jll", "FreeType2_jll", "FriBidi_jll", "HarfBuzz_jll", "JLLWrappers", "Libdl", "Zlib_jll"]
+git-tree-sha1 = "e17c115d55c5fbb7e52ebedb427a0dca79d4484e"
 uuid = "0ac62f75-1d6f-5e53-bd7c-93b484bb37c0"
-version = "0.15.1+0"
+version = "0.15.2+0"
 
 [[deps.libblastrampoline_jll]]
 deps = ["Artifacts", "Libdl"]
@@ -2983,10 +2998,10 @@ uuid = "8e850b90-86db-534c-a0d3-1478176c7d93"
 version = "5.8.0+1"
 
 [[deps.libfdk_aac_jll]]
-deps = ["Artifacts", "JLLWrappers", "Libdl", "Pkg"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "daacc84a041563f965be61859a36e17c4e4fcd55"
+deps = ["Artifacts", "JLLWrappers", "Libdl"]
+git-tree-sha1 = "8a22cf860a7d27e4f3498a0fe0811a7957badb38"
 uuid = "f638f0a6-7fb0-5443-88ba-1cc74229b280"
-version = "2.0.2+0"
+version = "2.0.3+0"
 
 [[deps.libpng_jll]]
 deps = ["Artifacts", "JLLWrappers", "Libdl", "Zlib_jll"]
@@ -3035,13 +3050,13 @@ uuid = "cf2c5f97-e748-59fa-a03f-dda3c62118cb"
 version = "1.0.1+0"
 
 [[deps.x264_jll]]
-deps = ["Artifacts", "JLLWrappers", "Libdl", "Pkg"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "4fea590b89e6ec504593146bf8b988b2c00922b2"
+deps = ["Artifacts", "JLLWrappers", "Libdl"]
+git-tree-sha1 = "35976a1216d6c066ea32cba2150c4fa682b276fc"
 uuid = "1270edf5-f2f9-52d2-97e9-ab00b5d0237a"
-version = "2021.5.5+0"
+version = "10164.0.0+0"
 
 [[deps.x265_jll]]
-deps = ["Artifacts", "JLLWrappers", "Libdl", "Pkg"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "ee567a171cce03570d77ad3a43e90218e38937a9"
+deps = ["Artifacts", "JLLWrappers", "Libdl"]
+git-tree-sha1 = "dcc541bb19ed5b0ede95581fb2e41ecf179527d2"
 uuid = "dfaa095f-4041-5dcd-9319-2fabd8486b76"
-version = "3.5.0+0"
+version = "3.6.0+0"
diff --git a/perf/benchmark.jl b/perf/benchmark.jl
index c1b32abb0c2..f2e309d9d12 100644
--- a/perf/benchmark.jl
+++ b/perf/benchmark.jl
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 redirect_stderr(IOContext(stderr, :stacktrace_types_limited => Ref(false)))
 import Random
 import ClimaComms
-@static pkgversion(ClimaComms) >= v"0.6" && ClimaComms.@import_required_backends
+ClimaComms.@import_required_backends
 Random.seed!(1234)
 import ClimaAtmos as CA
 
diff --git a/perf/benchmark_step.jl b/perf/benchmark_step.jl
index f428011bb18..3fd714cac95 100644
--- a/perf/benchmark_step.jl
+++ b/perf/benchmark_step.jl
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ include(joinpath("perf", "benchmark_step.jl"));
 =#
 redirect_stderr(IOContext(stderr, :stacktrace_types_limited => Ref(false)))
 import ClimaComms
-@static pkgversion(ClimaComms) >= v"0.6" && ClimaComms.@import_required_backends
+ClimaComms.@import_required_backends
 import Random
 Random.seed!(1234)
 import ClimaAtmos as CA
diff --git a/perf/flame.jl b/perf/flame.jl
index 22b62599547..bdb37867fd1 100644
--- a/perf/flame.jl
+++ b/perf/flame.jl
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 redirect_stderr(IOContext(stderr, :stacktrace_types_limited => Ref(false)))
 import ClimaComms
-@static pkgversion(ClimaComms) >= v"0.6" && ClimaComms.@import_required_backends
+ClimaComms.@import_required_backends
 import Random
 Random.seed!(1234)
 import ClimaAtmos as CA
diff --git a/perf/inference_flame_init.jl b/perf/inference_flame_init.jl
index 6c6b9b9adc6..c47cf019787 100644
--- a/perf/inference_flame_init.jl
+++ b/perf/inference_flame_init.jl
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import Random
 Random.seed!(1234)
 import ClimaComms
-@static pkgversion(ClimaComms) >= v"0.6" && ClimaComms.@import_required_backends
+ClimaComms.@import_required_backends
 import ClimaAtmos as CA
 
 include("common.jl")
diff --git a/perf/invalidations.jl b/perf/invalidations.jl
index f40f0917a10..dc1e483df35 100644
--- a/perf/invalidations.jl
+++ b/perf/invalidations.jl
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import ClimaComms
-@static pkgversion(ClimaComms) >= v"0.6" && ClimaComms.@import_required_backends
+ClimaComms.@import_required_backends
 import ClimaAtmos as CA
 redirect_stderr(IOContext(stderr, :stacktrace_types_limited => Ref(false)))
 
diff --git a/perf/jet.jl b/perf/jet.jl
index c68bf3b6971..e201e64c7f8 100644
--- a/perf/jet.jl
+++ b/perf/jet.jl
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ include(joinpath(pkgdir(CA), "perf", "jet.jl"))
 =#
 redirect_stderr(IOContext(stderr, :stacktrace_types_limited => Ref(false)))
 import ClimaComms
-@static pkgversion(ClimaComms) >= v"0.6" && ClimaComms.@import_required_backends
+ClimaComms.@import_required_backends
 import Random
 import HDF5, NCDatasets, CUDA
 Random.seed!(1234)
diff --git a/perf/jet_report_nfailures.jl b/perf/jet_report_nfailures.jl
index 19e6817f972..9c4b6709020 100644
--- a/perf/jet_report_nfailures.jl
+++ b/perf/jet_report_nfailures.jl
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ macro n_failures(ex)
 end
 
 import ClimaComms
-@static pkgversion(ClimaComms) >= v"0.6" && ClimaComms.@import_required_backends
+ClimaComms.@import_required_backends
 import SciMLBase
 import ClimaAtmos as CA
 n = Dict()
diff --git a/perf/jet_test_nfailures.jl b/perf/jet_test_nfailures.jl
index 6dda8af364e..24dcf7a32fa 100644
--- a/perf/jet_test_nfailures.jl
+++ b/perf/jet_test_nfailures.jl
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 redirect_stderr(IOContext(stderr, :stacktrace_types_limited => Ref(false)))
 import ClimaComms
-@static pkgversion(ClimaComms) >= v"0.6" && ClimaComms.@import_required_backends
+ClimaComms.@import_required_backends
 import Random
 Random.seed!(1234)
 import ClimaAtmos as CA
diff --git a/test/Project.toml b/test/Project.toml
index 994d80c8283..6ff05f4fd15 100644
--- a/test/Project.toml
+++ b/test/Project.toml
@@ -3,35 +3,25 @@ Aqua = "4c88cf16-eb10-579e-8560-4a9242c79595"
 ArgParse = "c7e460c6-2fb9-53a9-8c5b-16f535851c63"
 ArtifactWrappers = "a14bc488-3040-4b00-9dc1-f6467924858a"
 AtmosphericProfilesLibrary = "86bc3604-9858-485a-bdbe-831ec50de11d"
-BlockArrays = "8e7c35d0-a365-5155-bbbb-fb81a777f24e"
 CairoMakie = "13f3f980-e62b-5c42-98c6-ff1f3baf88f0"
 ClimaAnalysis = "29b5916a-a76c-4e73-9657-3c8fd22e65e6"
 ClimaAtmos = "b2c96348-7fb7-4fe0-8da9-78d88439e717"
 ClimaComms = "3a4d1b5c-c61d-41fd-a00a-5873ba7a1b0d"
 ClimaCore = "d414da3d-4745-48bb-8d80-42e94e092884"
-ClimaCoreMakie = "908f55d8-4145-4867-9c14-5dad1a479e4d"
-ClimaCorePlots = "cf7c7e5a-b407-4c48-9047-11a94a308626"
-ClimaCoreSpectra = "c2caaa1d-32ae-4754-ba0d-80e7561362e9"
-ClimaCoreTempestRemap = "d934ef94-cdd4-4710-83d6-720549644b70"
-ClimaCoreVTK = "c8b6d40d-e815-466f-95ae-c48aefa668fa"
 ClimaParams = "5c42b081-d73a-476f-9059-fd94b934656c"
 ClimaTimeSteppers = "595c0a79-7f3d-439a-bc5a-b232dc3bde79"
 CloudMicrophysics = "6a9e3e04-43cd-43ba-94b9-e8782df3c71b"
 Colors = "5ae59095-9a9b-59fe-a467-6f913c188581"
 Dates = "ade2ca70-3891-5945-98fb-dc099432e06a"
 DiffEqBase = "2b5f629d-d688-5b77-993f-72d75c75574e"
-DiffEqCallbacks = "459566f4-90b8-5000-8ac3-15dfb0a30def"
-DiffEqNoiseProcess = "77a26b50-5914-5dd7-bc55-306e6241c503"
 Distributions = "31c24e10-a181-5473-b8eb-7969acd0382f"
 DocStringExtensions = "ffbed154-4ef7-542d-bbb7-c09d3a79fcae"
 FastGaussQuadrature = "442a2c76-b920-505d-bb47-c5924d526838"
-ForwardDiff = "f6369f11-7733-5829-9624-2563aa707210"
 Glob = "c27321d9-0574-5035-807b-f59d2c89b15c"
 Insolation = "e98cc03f-d57e-4e3c-b70c-8d51efe9e0d8"
 Interpolations = "a98d9a8b-a2ab-59e6-89dd-64a1c18fca59"
 IntervalSets = "8197267c-284f-5f27-9208-e0e47529a953"
 JLD2 = "033835bb-8acc-5ee8-8aae-3f567f8a3819"
-JSON = "682c06a0-de6a-54ab-a142-c8b1cf79cde6"
 Krylov = "ba0b0d4f-ebba-5204-a429-3ac8c609bfb7"
 LinearAlgebra = "37e2e46d-f89d-539d-b4ee-838fcccc9c8e"
 Logging = "56ddb016-857b-54e1-b83d-db4d58db5568"
@@ -41,12 +31,9 @@ NCRegressionTests = "1789bc09-29e6-4c93-9c75-fe2179693664"
 NVTX = "5da4648a-3479-48b8-97b9-01cb529c0a1f"
 OrderedCollections = "bac558e1-5e72-5ebc-8fee-abe8a469f55d"
 Pkg = "44cfe95a-1eb2-52ea-b672-e2afdf69b78f"
-PoissonRandom = "e409e4f3-bfea-5376-8464-e040bb5c01ab"
 PrettyTables = "08abe8d2-0d0c-5749-adfa-8a2ac140af0d"
 Printf = "de0858da-6303-5e67-8744-51eddeeeb8d7"
 Profile = "9abbd945-dff8-562f-b5e8-e1ebf5ef1b79"
-ProgressLogging = "33c8b6b6-d38a-422a-b730-caa89a2f386c"
-QuadGK = "1fd47b50-473d-5c70-9696-f719f8f3bcdc"
 RRTMGP = "a01a1ee8-cea4-48fc-987c-fc7878d79da1"
 Random = "9a3f8284-a2c9-5f02-9a11-845980a1fd5c"
 RootSolvers = "7181ea78-2dcb-4de3-ab41-2b8ab5a31e74"
@@ -64,23 +51,10 @@ YAML = "ddb6d928-2868-570f-bddf-ab3f9cf99eb6"
 
 [compat]
 Aqua = "0.8"
-BlockArrays = "0.16"
 CairoMakie = "0.10, 0.11"
-ClimaCoreMakie = "0.3, 0.4"
-ClimaCorePlots = "0.2"
-ClimaCoreSpectra = "0.1"
-ClimaCoreTempestRemap = "0.3"
-ClimaCoreVTK = "0.7"
-DiffEqNoiseProcess = "5"
-ForwardDiff = "0.10"
 Glob = "1"
-JSON = "0.21"
 NCRegressionTests = "0.2"
 OrderedCollections = "1.6"
-PoissonRandom = "0.4"
 PrettyTables = "2"
-ProgressLogging = "0.1"
-QuadGK = "2"
 SafeTestsets = "0.1"
-SciMLBase = "1, 2"
 TOML = "1"
diff --git a/test/callbacks.jl b/test/callbacks.jl
index c954938d384..6eb1afa033b 100644
--- a/test/callbacks.jl
+++ b/test/callbacks.jl
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 using Test
 import ClimaComms
-@static pkgversion(ClimaComms) >= v"0.6" && ClimaComms.@import_required_backends
+ClimaComms.@import_required_backends
 import ClimaAtmos as CA
 import SciMLBase as SMB
 
diff --git a/test/config.jl b/test/config.jl
index 08711f099f7..b824d307ac5 100644
--- a/test/config.jl
+++ b/test/config.jl
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 using Test
 import ClimaComms
-@static pkgversion(ClimaComms) >= v"0.6" && ClimaComms.@import_required_backends
+ClimaComms.@import_required_backends
 import ClimaAtmos as CA
 
 include(joinpath("..", "perf", "common.jl"))
diff --git a/test/coupler_compatibility.jl b/test/coupler_compatibility.jl
index f27f2a5c665..c36201caa2d 100644
--- a/test/coupler_compatibility.jl
+++ b/test/coupler_compatibility.jl
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 using Test
 import ClimaComms
-@static pkgversion(ClimaComms) >= v"0.6" && ClimaComms.@import_required_backends
+ClimaComms.@import_required_backends
 import Thermodynamics as TD
 import SurfaceFluxes as SF
 import StaticArrays as SA
diff --git a/test/implicit/debugging_tools.jl b/test/implicit/debugging_tools.jl
index 3ab968b1e6f..f4b6c61b1e2 100644
--- a/test/implicit/debugging_tools.jl
+++ b/test/implicit/debugging_tools.jl
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 using ForwardDiff: Dual
 using ClimaComms
-@static pkgversion(ClimaComms) >= v"0.6" && ClimaComms.@import_required_backends
+ClimaComms.@import_required_backends
 using ClimaCore: Spaces, Fields, Operators, MatrixFields
 
 # TODO: Turn this into a unit test for the implicit solver once the code is more
diff --git a/test/parameterized_tendencies/gravity_wave/non_orographic_gravity_wave/nogw_test_3d.jl b/test/parameterized_tendencies/gravity_wave/non_orographic_gravity_wave/nogw_test_3d.jl
index 42d3829e12a..bee52d3ccd0 100644
--- a/test/parameterized_tendencies/gravity_wave/non_orographic_gravity_wave/nogw_test_3d.jl
+++ b/test/parameterized_tendencies/gravity_wave/non_orographic_gravity_wave/nogw_test_3d.jl
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 using ClimaComms
-@static pkgversion(ClimaComms) >= v"0.6" && ClimaComms.@import_required_backends
+ClimaComms.@import_required_backends
 using NCDatasets
 using Dates
 using Interpolations
diff --git a/test/parameterized_tendencies/gravity_wave/non_orographic_gravity_wave/nogw_test_mima.jl b/test/parameterized_tendencies/gravity_wave/non_orographic_gravity_wave/nogw_test_mima.jl
index d44f92c09b0..24f39cbd9c5 100644
--- a/test/parameterized_tendencies/gravity_wave/non_orographic_gravity_wave/nogw_test_mima.jl
+++ b/test/parameterized_tendencies/gravity_wave/non_orographic_gravity_wave/nogw_test_mima.jl
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 using ClimaComms
-@static pkgversion(ClimaComms) >= v"0.6" && ClimaComms.@import_required_backends
+ClimaComms.@import_required_backends
 using NCDatasets
 using Dates
 using Interpolations
diff --git a/test/parameterized_tendencies/gravity_wave/non_orographic_gravity_wave/nogw_test_single_column.jl b/test/parameterized_tendencies/gravity_wave/non_orographic_gravity_wave/nogw_test_single_column.jl
index e4aab21a262..b419b743da1 100644
--- a/test/parameterized_tendencies/gravity_wave/non_orographic_gravity_wave/nogw_test_single_column.jl
+++ b/test/parameterized_tendencies/gravity_wave/non_orographic_gravity_wave/nogw_test_single_column.jl
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 using ClimaComms
-@static pkgversion(ClimaComms) >= v"0.6" && ClimaComms.@import_required_backends
+ClimaComms.@import_required_backends
 using NCDatasets
 using Dates
 using Interpolations
diff --git a/test/parameterized_tendencies/microphysics/precipitation.jl b/test/parameterized_tendencies/microphysics/precipitation.jl
index 9adb233d088..04c1f9ab927 100644
--- a/test/parameterized_tendencies/microphysics/precipitation.jl
+++ b/test/parameterized_tendencies/microphysics/precipitation.jl
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 using ClimaComms
-@static pkgversion(ClimaComms) >= v"0.6" && ClimaComms.@import_required_backends
+ClimaComms.@import_required_backends
 import ClimaAtmos as CA
 import SurfaceFluxes as SF
 import ClimaAtmos.Parameters as CAP
diff --git a/test/parameterized_tendencies/sponge/rayleigh_sponge.jl b/test/parameterized_tendencies/sponge/rayleigh_sponge.jl
index d0841739616..2e0974253ed 100644
--- a/test/parameterized_tendencies/sponge/rayleigh_sponge.jl
+++ b/test/parameterized_tendencies/sponge/rayleigh_sponge.jl
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 using ClimaComms
-@static pkgversion(ClimaComms) >= v"0.6" && ClimaComms.@import_required_backends
+ClimaComms.@import_required_backends
 import ClimaAtmos as CA
 import SurfaceFluxes as SF
 import ClimaAtmos.Parameters as CAP
diff --git a/test/parameterized_tendencies/sponge/viscous_sponge.jl b/test/parameterized_tendencies/sponge/viscous_sponge.jl
index da4cdf1e677..44956088d9e 100644
--- a/test/parameterized_tendencies/sponge/viscous_sponge.jl
+++ b/test/parameterized_tendencies/sponge/viscous_sponge.jl
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 using ClimaComms
-@static pkgversion(ClimaComms) >= v"0.6" && ClimaComms.@import_required_backends
+ClimaComms.@import_required_backends
 import ClimaAtmos as CA
 import SurfaceFluxes as SF
 import ClimaAtmos.Parameters as CAP
diff --git a/test/rrtmgp_interface.jl b/test/rrtmgp_interface.jl
index f46dbb9984f..9ef8fd6310b 100644
--- a/test/rrtmgp_interface.jl
+++ b/test/rrtmgp_interface.jl
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 using Test
 import ClimaComms
-@static pkgversion(ClimaComms) >= v"0.6" && ClimaComms.@import_required_backends
+ClimaComms.@import_required_backends
 using Random
 Random.seed!(1234)
 import ClimaAtmos as CA
diff --git a/test/solver/model_getters.jl b/test/solver/model_getters.jl
index bb496f125af..fb9b0e37da7 100644
--- a/test/solver/model_getters.jl
+++ b/test/solver/model_getters.jl
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 using ClimaComms
-@static pkgversion(ClimaComms) >= v"0.6" && ClimaComms.@import_required_backends
+ClimaComms.@import_required_backends
 import ClimaAtmos as CA
 
 @testset "Model config" begin
diff --git a/test/topography.jl b/test/topography.jl
index 2dcbe653ba6..a99e83dc411 100644
--- a/test/topography.jl
+++ b/test/topography.jl
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 using Test
 using ClimaComms
-@static pkgversion(ClimaComms) >= v"0.6" && ClimaComms.@import_required_backends
+ClimaComms.@import_required_backends
 using Random
 import ClimaAtmos as CA
 Random.seed!(1234)
diff --git a/test/utilities.jl b/test/utilities.jl
index 4d1b35bbc21..57bc7ae07be 100644
--- a/test/utilities.jl
+++ b/test/utilities.jl
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 using Test
 using ClimaComms
-@static pkgversion(ClimaComms) >= v"0.6" && ClimaComms.@import_required_backends
+ClimaComms.@import_required_backends
 using Random
 Random.seed!(1234)
 import ClimaAtmos as CA