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Describe the Enhancement

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/d1/projects/MET/MET_regression/develop/NB20220112/MET-develop-ref/met/share/met/../../bin/pb2nc
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-v 3

The below debug message is repeated a lot:

DEBUG 3:
DEBUG 3: process_pbfile() -> Skip the derived variables because of not requested (0).
DEBUG 3:

Time Estimate

4 hours

Sub-Issues

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Relevant Deadlines

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Funding Source

2793541

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Define Related Issue(s)

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• METplus, MET, METdatadb, METviewer, METexpress, METcalcpy, METplotpy

Enhancement Checklist

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• Complete the issue definition above, including the Time Estimate and Funding Source.
• Fork this repository or create a branch of develop.
  Branch name: feature_<Issue Number>_<Description>
• Complete the development and test your changes.
• Add/update log messages for easier debugging.
• Add/update unit tests.
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