Describe the Enhancement

Issue dtcenter/MET#2231 and pull request dtcenter/MET#2723 adds support for reading unstructured grid information from NetCDF input files. Three new configuration options are added to both the Point-Stat and Grid-Stat default configuration files. This issue is to enhance those wrappers to add support for them.

• ugrid_max_distance_km = 30;
• ugrid_user_map_config: to override metadata settings (dimension and variable names)
• ugrid_coordinates_file: to specify the static metadata file (for MPAS)

I note that these new config options were NOT documented well in the MET User's Guide.

Issue dtcenter/MET#2748 requests that @hsoh-u add documentation about these options and support @georgemccabe in updating METplus wrappers to set them.

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4 hours?

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Ideally do this during the METplus-6.0.0-beta3 development cycle.

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2770043

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  Recommend @georgemccabe doing the work and asking @jvigh to review the resulting PR.

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