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This issue arose during the METplus NOAA telecon on 6/13/2022. @LoganDawson-NOAA requested that we add two new conversion functions to MET's default ConfigConstants file:

 M_to_KFT(x) = x * 3.28084 * 0.001;
KM_to_KFT(x) = x * 3280.84 * 0.001;

He references these when doing verification of echo tops, and having them be defined by default is more convenient than hard-coding the functions or re-defining them in each METplus configuration file.

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Please fix in both the develop and main_v10.1 branches so that they'd be included in any future bugfix releases.

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