Added input file sorting to many diagnostic to make output exactly reproducible

[schlunma]

Description

The exact output of many diagnostics depends on the order in which input files are read, which can vary between runs (e.g., 1D netcdf files with dataset coordinate whose order depends on the order of the input files). This makes the output non-reproducible and lets tools to check differences between the output fail (see #2704).

This PR adds sorting to many of these diagnostics to make them reproducible.

• Related to Recipe running results for v2.6.0rc3 and v2.6.0rc4 #2704

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[schlunma]

@sloosvel I will run all affected recipes overnight and post the output here so you can add these results to the table of recipes. That way we can also use these new runs as references and hopefully get less differences from the comparison tool in the future (together with #2709).

[schlunma]

All recipes ran successful and the output ran fine.

@sloosvel could you please copy the output from here (/scratch/b/b309141/recipe_testing) to the results page mentioned here and have a brief look at this PR?

Thanks!!!

[sloosvel]

Thanks for re-running the recipes! I uploaded them to the results page, will regenerate the index.html now. Even though the comparison with 2.5 will still have differences because it was not sorted, the next comparison with respect to 2.6 should pass the tests for these diagnostics

[schlunma]

Cheers, thanks Saskia!!