Different sizes of static grid and variables grid

[danielmwatkins]

Hi, I'm looking at using the AWS CESM2 data for research and have been following along with the helpful notebook example [https://ncar.github.io/cesm2-le-aws/kay_et_al_lens2.html](CESM2-LE reproduction of Kay et al. 2015). I ran into an issue trying to use the hybrid levels in the atmospheric temperature data with the reference grid properties from the static grid. The static grid has 30 levels (as seen in the "Read in the Grid Data" in the tutorial), while when you read in the temperature data, it has 32 levels. The difference in the levels grids shows up in the upper atmosphere - it appears that the atmosphere data has the standard CAM6 grid, while the static grid is a slightly coarser grid for the upper atmosphere.

Edit: actually the hyam/hybm data is simply missing from the static grid. Is there a way to access that grid so that the 3D temperature data can be used?