CANONICAL MARINE PARAMETER
Sea-water conductivity
Electrical conductivity of seawater, used with temperature and pressure to derive practical salinity.
- Canonical key
electrical_conductivity- Parameter family
- Water properties
- Scientific category
- Physical ocean
- Canonical unit
- S m-1 / source unit
- CF standard name / vocabulary
- sea_water_electrical_conductivity
- Vertical domain
- water column
- Required qualifiers
- temperature/pressure context
- Merge policy
- MERGE
- Mapped sources
- 5
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.
- NOAA National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) NOAA NDBC
- OceanSITES OceanSITES / GDACs
- Copernicus Marine Global In-Situ Copernicus Marine Service
- SeaBASS NASA Ocean Biology Processing Group
- NOAA CoastWatch NOAA NESDIS / CoastWatch