Mdeshotel 9712 forcing input mod1

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This is the first incremental PR for the refactoring of ForcingInput class.

Additions

Removals

Changes

-add type hints
-establish a more pythonic/traditional init method.
-move static dictionaries to consts.py
-rename variables

Testing

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Notes

Todos

Checklist

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Testing checklist

Target Environment support

• Linux