In the Output Metadata for each diagnostics plot, it includes the command line that produce the 3 panel plots. When working with @BunnyVon , we found that to run e3sm_diags with zppy, the path parameters only show strings, instead of full path of the data. This makes reproducing figures less straightforward, one has to locate the data path before re-run. Example command shows below:

e3sm_diags lat_lon_land --no_viewer --reference_data_path 'climo_ref_land' --test_data_path 'climo_test_land' --results_dir 'model_vs_model_1985-2014' --case_id 'model_vs_model' --run_type 'model_vs_model' --sets 'lat_lon_land' --variables 'TLAI' --seasons 'DJF' --regions 'global' --regrid_tool 'esmf' --regrid_method 'conservative' --multiprocessing --num_workers '24' --main_title 'TLAI DJF global' --backend 'mpl' --output_format 'png' --canvas_size_w '1212' --canvas_size_h '1628' --figsize '8.5' '11.0' --dpi '150' --arrows --contour_levels '0' '0.412' '0.823' '1.23' '1.65' '2.06' '2.47' '2.88' '3.29' '3.7' '4.12' '4.53' '4.94' '5.35' '5.76' '6.17' --test_name 'v2.LR.BDRDCO2' --short_test_name 'CO2v2AMIP.BDRD' --test_colormap 'WhiteBlueGreenYellowRed.rgb' --ref_name 'v2.LR.BGC-LNDATM.CONTRL' --reference_colormap 'WhiteBlueGreenYellowRed.rgb' --diff_title 'Difference' --diff_colormap 'BrBG' --granulate 'variables' 'seasons' 'plevs' 'regions' --selectors 'sets' 'seasons'

Ideally, we want e3sm_diags to expose the complete path, or we can implement through zppy.