CANONICAL MARINE PARAMETER
Absolute salinity
TEOS-10 mass fraction of dissolved material in seawater, expressed as grams of solute per kilogram of seawater.
- Canonical key
absolute_salinity- Parameter family
- Salinity
- Scientific category
- Physical ocean
- Canonical unit
- g kg-1
- CF standard name / vocabulary
- sea_water_absolute_salinity
- Vertical domain
- water column
- Required qualifiers
- TEOS-10
- Merge policy
- DO_NOT_MERGE_WITH_PRACTICAL_SALINITY
- Mapped sources
- 4
Marine observation sources
The following registered sources have indexed metadata mappings for this parameter. Consult the registry details for each mapping's verification and review status.
- OceanSITES OceanSITES / GDACs
- Copernicus Marine Global In-Situ Copernicus Marine Service
- PANGAEA Alfred Wegener Institute / MARUM
- NOAA CoastWatch NOAA NESDIS / CoastWatch