initial commit new code for extreme values study, scaling up assessment part 5

running assessment overall for region 23

overall assessment 1996-2014 for region 5 using stage 8 master script

running master script stage 6 with updated assessment part2 and fig fix for NEX

debugging assessment part2 related to figures count and shapefile plotting

adding additional arguments to run stage 8 from shell

debugging call to assessment part2 in stage 8

making stage 8 callable from the shell

initial commit stage 8 master script

assessment part3, solving figures count and clean up