Compute Bias statistics in METplus on the zonal and meridional mean data

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Sub-Issues

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• Define new grid class to store semi-structured grid information (e.g. lat or lon vs level or time) MET#1954
• Compute RMSE, statistics in MET
• Create Plots for the Stratosphere Diagnostics METplotpy#170

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

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