Reorder make_plots for EDMFSpherePlots and make comparison plot column widths equal

.buildkite/ci_driver.jl

@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@
 # (See also Base.type_limited_string_from_context())
 redirect_stderr(IOContext(stderr, :stacktrace_types_limited => Ref(false)))
 # PrecompileCI is a local package that forces commonly used methods to be precompiled,
-# allowing them to be reused between Julia sessions. 
-# To load in the precompiled methods, run `using PrecompileCI` before loading ClimaAtmos. 
+# allowing them to be reused between Julia sessions.
+# To load in the precompiled methods, run `using PrecompileCI` before loading ClimaAtmos.
 # To see what methods are precompiled, open julia: `julia --project=.buildkite/PrecompileCI`
 # and run `using PrecompileTools; PrecompileTools.verbose[] = true; include(".buildkite/PrecompileCI/src/PrecompileCI.jl")`
 using PrecompileCI

post_processing/ci_plots.jl

@@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ function make_plots_generic(
                 normalized_path =
                     lpad(path, LABEL_LENGTH + 1, " ")[(end - LABEL_LENGTH):end]
 
-                CairoMakie.Label(fig[0, col], path)
+                CairoMakie.Label(fig[0, col], normalized_path)
             end
         end
         return fig
@@ -1606,25 +1606,20 @@ function make_plots(::EDMFSpherePlots, output_paths::Vector{<:AbstractString})
 
     short_name_tuples = pair_edmf_names(short_names)
 
-    # The hierarchy is:
-    # - A vector looping over variables
-    #     - Containing, a vector looping over latitudes
-    #     - Containing, tuples with one or two variables
-    #   - Repeated for each simdir
-    # All of this is flattened out to be a vector of tuples (with the two gridmean/updraft
-    # variables)
+    # Create a flat sequence of variable groups iterating over variable,
+    # latitude, and simulation directory
     var_groups_zt = vcat(
-        map_comparison(simdirs, short_name_tuples) do simdir, name_tuple
-            return [
-                (
+        [
+            map_comparison(simdirs, latitudes) do simdir, lat
+                return (
                     slice(
                         get(simdir; short_name, reduction, period),
                         lon = 0.0,
                         lat = lat,
                     ) for short_name in name_tuple
-                ) for lat in latitudes
-            ]
-        end...,
+                )
+            end for name_tuple in short_name_tuples
+        ]...,
     )
 
     var_groups_z = [