Merge pull request NCAR#27 from NCAR/statChecks

Improvements to scan logic

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Merge branch 'statChecks' as the branch was flown for ACCLIP FFO2

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Trivial format change to test triggering Jenkins build of EOL-Python …

…on MTP commit

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