Describe the Enhancement

The issue dtcenter/MET#2654 and pull request dtcenter/MET#2846 updated the ASCII2NC tool to add support for -valid_beg and -valid_end command line options to support filtering the input point observations by their valid time. These command line options already exist in PB2NC, a similar point pre-processing tool.

This issue is to enhance the ASCII2NC wrapper to support the setting of these command line options in a way that is consistent with how they're supported for PB2NC.

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4 hours?

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split between Dynamic drought veg (2785031) and the UAlbany (7750034) projects

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