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World Ocean Atlas 2005 Masks

Additional information also available from WOA05 documentation.
For any questions about WOA05 product, please e-mail OCLhelp desk.

basin.msk - basin mask used in the objective analysis
landsea.msk - bottom depth assigned to each one-degree
   latitude by one-degree longitude square
mixnumber.msk - mixing number (values -2 through 2). If basins are not the same,
   the sum of the mixing numbers must be > 0


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