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MITgcm salinity units

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MITgcm_ocean units
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Discussion today at standup that there are converters that we do not have in DART (collaborators - I am not sure who) that output PSU (g/g). This is a pain, but so as to not break their code, namelist option for ROMS_rutgers & MITgcm to have model_interpolate give MSU or PSU for salinity.

Punting on MITgcm ocean since it has a converter in the model directory: https://github.com/NCAR/DART/blob/main/models/MITgcm_ocean/create_ocean_obs.f90
and with observation converter in this model module: https://github.com/NCAR/DART/blob/main/models/MITgcm_ocean/dart_MITocean_mod.f90
seems to be hfradar. Will move this MITgcm units to another issue

Originally posted by @hkershaw-brown in #1003

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First confirm whether this issue still covers MITgcm ocean work, since the body says that work will move to another issue. If it remains in scope, read models/MITgcm_ocean/create_ocean_obs.f90 and models/MITgcm_ocean/dart_MITocean_mod.f90, then trace the model_interpolate namelist handling. Done should be an agreed MSU/PSU behavior for the applicable converter.

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