Describe the Enhancement

When preparing training material for the MET-TC tools and also applying it for the unified physics testing and evaluation project, @KathrynNewman found that the TC-RWM tool does not actually perform the steps that the documentation claims it does. Namely, it does not compute and report tangential and radial winds. Looking at the tc_rmw.cc source code, I agree with her.

While the wind_ne_to_ra() function looks like logic for winds, that function is never actually being called! Instead process_fields() just loops over the requested fields but includes no special logic for handling U and V.

Reading this, tc_rmw chapter of the User's Guide, I agree that the functionally does not match the documentation. This needs more work.

This task is enhance the TC-RMW tool to compute and report tangential and radial winds. Listing @KathrynNewman as an assignee so that she can advise on and help test the development.

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2793451 - based on guidance on Kathryn

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