progress towards CLIMATE-259: create branch for refactoring metrics plotting

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CLIMATE-259: add utility class for generating taylor diagrams

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CLIMATE-259: update misc.py to represent parsed subregion data as numpy masked arrays, provide clean message output

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CLIMATE-259: updates to the rcmes_go bottle service to incorporate generation of additional plots

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CLIMATE-259: updates to plots.py to support generation of time series, taylor, subregion, and portrait diagrams

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CLIMATE-259: updates to metrics.py to support generation of time series, taylor, subregion, and portrait diagrams

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CLIMATE-259: updates to the web user interface to support passing information for multiple models/datasets to the back-end services

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propagate resolution of CLIMATE-260 to RefactorPlots branch

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CLIMATE-259: remove debug output dumps from front end ui

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Climate has become a TLP

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