Describe the Enhancement

We've been revamping the TC-Gen tool in several ways for the MET 10.0.0 release. The updates include an overhaul to the matching logic, a new gridded NetCDF output file, and a new genesis matched pair (GENMPR) output line type. During the development process, we realized that adding 3 more configuration file options for TC-Gen would be very useful:

init_inc = [ ]; // Strings in YYYYMMDD[_HH[MMSS]] format
init_exc = [ ]; // Strings in YYYYMMDD[_HH[MMSS]] format
basin_mask = [ ]; // Strings with basin_name values

The first 2 options explicitly specify which model initialization times should be included or excluded from the processing logic. If the inclusion list is non-empty, only those times explicitly listed will be included. If the exclusion list is non-empty, any initialization times listed will be excluded.
The basin_mask entry is an array of strings of basin name values. They should match the basin_name variable values defined in met/data/tc_data/basin_global_tenth_degree.nc. If multiple basins are listed, their union will be used. If both vx_mask and basin_mask are specified, their intersection will be used.

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7790901

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