CANONICAL MARINE PARAMETER
Phosphate
Concentration of dissolved phosphate in seawater.
- Canonical key
phosphate- Parameter family
- Nutrients
- Scientific category
- Biogeochemistry
- Canonical unit
- umol kg-1
- CF standard name / vocabulary
- mole_concentration_of_phosphate_in_sea_water
- Vertical domain
- water column
- Required qualifiers
- basis=mass/volume
- Merge policy
- MERGE
- Mapped sources
- 7
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
- CCHDO / GO-SHIP hydrography CCHDO / GO-SHIP community
- World Ocean Database (WOD) NOAA NCEI / IODE
- Copernicus Marine Global In-Situ Copernicus Marine Service
- GLODAPv3 GLODAP community / NOAA OCADS
- Copernicus Marine satellite observations Copernicus Marine Service
- NOAA CoastWatch NOAA NESDIS / CoastWatch