CANONICAL MARINE PARAMETER
Water depth / bottom depth
Vertical distance from the sea surface or reference datum to the seafloor at the observation location.
- Canonical key
bottom_depth- Parameter family
- Bathymetry
- Scientific category
- Bathymetry
- Canonical unit
- m
- CF standard name / vocabulary
- sea_floor_depth_below_sea_surface
- Vertical domain
- seafloor
- Required qualifiers
- vertical datum/reference
- Merge policy
- MERGE
- Mapped sources
- 6
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
- GLODAPv3 GLODAP community / NOAA OCADS
- SeaBASS NASA Ocean Biology Processing Group
- GEBCO GEBCO / Seabed 2030
- NOAA CoastWatch NOAA NESDIS / CoastWatch