Dear Nan

> I wish my CF email archive went back a little further, because there's
> nothing (since 2004) that I can find that explains the rationale for
> this unit. It certainly *looks* like a compromise between a unit for a
> non-dimensional variable and PPT 

I think it is, but I can't remember the discussion, or whether there is a good
reason not to define a dimensionless unit psu=0.001 (but perhaps that has been
argued against already in the recent exchange of emails).

Best wishes

Jonathan
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