CANONICAL MARINE PARAMETER
Conservative temperature
TEOS-10 temperature variable designed to represent seawater heat content more accurately than potential temperature.
- Canonical key
conservative_temperature- Parameter family
- Temperature
- Scientific category
- Physical ocean
- Canonical unit
- degree_C
- CF standard name / vocabulary
- sea_water_conservative_temperature
- Vertical domain
- water column
- Required qualifiers
- TEOS-10
- Merge policy
- DO_NOT_MERGE_WITH_IN_SITU_TEMP
- 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