The initial release relied on running FRE-NC tools via python subprocesses to generate both the horizontal grid and bathymetry. This works fine on small test domains, but breaks down for larger domains and requires the manual execution of these f90 scripts in interactive jobs
I've replaced these tools with python (via xESMF)
This means that FRE-NC tools are no longer used for any computationally expensive tasks, making the pipeline more scalable.