1.  summary:                0.1tripole region mask

2.  created by:             Mathew Maltrud, LANL
 
3.  date and time:          Jan 22, 2008

4.  created on:             coyote (LANL)
 
5.  dataset format:         ieeei4
 
6.  endian:                 big

7.  archival copy location:
     /CCSM/inputdata/ocn/pop/tx0.1v2/grid/region_mask_20080122.ieeei4
     /CCSM/inputdata/ocn/pop/tx0.1v2/grid/region_mask_20080122.readme
 
8.  creation details:
    used iTed (topography editor), a modified version of the remove_lakes program
    and a merge program for creating this.  used the gx1v5 region mask as a guide.

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    Note: This region mask file is identical to the one used
    by John Dennis on atlas called "region_mask_0.1global_20080122.i4"
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9.  derived from:
 
10. code, scripts, namelists, etc, used to create this file: