AUTHORIZATION TO USE AND DISTRIBUTE
I hereby agree to the following terms governing the use and redistribution of 
the Geolocated Information Processing System (GeoIPS(R)) software release 
originally written and developed by the Naval Research Laboratory Marine 
Meteorology Division.

To the extent that a federal employee is an author of a portion of this 
software or a derivative work thereof, no copyright is claimed by the United 
States Government, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy ("GOVERNMENT") 
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acknowledgment: "This work uses the GeoIPS(R) software package written and 
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