Attempt at unsupported conservative 3D mesh regridding

[sadielbartholomew]

Not something I've seen locally or can as yet recreate there, but as appearing on a CI job, there appears to be somewhere in the logic whereby an attempt is made to do 3D (mesh) regridding via a conservative method, which causes the whole Python process (test suite run) to abort from some sort of uncaught C++ exception.

3D conservative regridding is forbidden because it is not supported by ESMF, even though we have guards against this, e.g:

cf-python/cf/regrid/regrid.py

Lines 1465 to 1466 in c906bb0

	if conservative_regridding(method):
	raise ValueError(f"Can't do {method} 3-d spherical regridding")

That said, that catch is for the spherical regridding case, not Cartesian regridding which is what the error seems to be pointing to, so that's where I will be looking in terms of where the unwanted attempt might be emerging.

Under investigation. It is hard to debug when I can't recreate it, but I will see what I can deduce.

Error

From CI job log:

test_Field_regridc_3d_field (test_regrid.RegridTest.test_Field_regridc_3d_field)
3-d Cartesian regridding with Field destination grid. ... libc++abi: terminating due to uncaught exception of type ESMCI::Ex: /Users/runner/miniforge3/conda-bld/esmf_1767773758689/work/src/Infrastructure/Mesh/src/Regridding/ESMCI_Interp.C, line:1470:Meshes with parametric dim == 3 and spatial dim == 3 not supported for 2nd order conservative regridding
Fatal Python error: Aborted

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