Add support for explicitly setting file list file paths in wrappers that support multiple input files

[hertneky]

Describe the Enhancement

Support the use of file_lists in the METplus wrappers for MET tools that already have that functionality. MET tools that currently accept a file_list as input look to be: ensemble_stat, grid_diag, gsidens2orank, MTD, rmw_analysis, series_analysis, tc_rmw.

Depending on the tool, users should be able to specify either a single file_list and/or a fcst_/obs_file_list to be used within the METplus configuration file . For example the MET MTD tool has either option:

Usage: mtd
-fcst file_1 ... file_n | file_list
-obs file_1 ... file_n | file_list
-single file_1 ... file_n | file_list

This functionality will allow users to run over a specified set of cases that may not be at continuous time intervals. When a file list is provided, the time controls in the configuration would presumably be ignored.

Highest Priority:
series_analysis - file_list overrides timing control
mtd - file_list overrides timing controls
tc_rmw and rmw_analysis - file_list just passes in data - need to check if it overrides timing controls
ensemble_stat - file_list is used to define members of ensemble - will still need timing controls

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4.1.0-beta5

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2700042

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[TaraJensen]

series_analysis
-fcst file_1 ... file_n | fcst_file_list
-obs file_1 ... file_n | obs_file_list
[-both file_1 ... file_n | both_file_list]

tc_rmw
-data file_1 ... file_n | data_file_list

[hertneky]

@georgemccabe I tested this enhanced functionality with the series-analysis tool and it worked and provided identical results to using the timing info from the conf.