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Figure 1: Depth distributions of seafloor area, ocean volume, the number of model grid points, and observational hydrographic sampling, shown as a cumulative percentage from the bottom upward.

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  1. Sorbonne Universités (Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris 6)-CNRS-IRD-MNHN, LOCEAN Laboratory, Paris, F-75005, France

    Casimir de Lavergne, Gurvan Madec & Xavier Capet

  2. Ifremer, Univ. Brest, CNRS, IRD, Laboratoire d'Océanographie Physique et Spatiale (LOPS), IUEM, Plouzané, F-29280, France

    Guillaume Maze

  3. Department of Meteorology (MISU), Stockholm University, Stockholm, 106 91, Sweden

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de Lavergne, C., Madec, G., Capet, X. et al. Getting to the bottom of the ocean. Nature Geosci 9, 857–858 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2850

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