CANONICAL MARINE PARAMETER
Potential density
Density a seawater parcel would have if moved adiabatically to a specified reference pressure.
- Canonical key
potential_density- Parameter family
- Water properties
- Scientific category
- Physical ocean
- Canonical unit
- kg m-3
- CF standard name / vocabulary
- sea_water_potential_density
- Vertical domain
- water column
- Required qualifiers
- reference_pressure
- Merge policy
- DO_NOT_MERGE_WITH_IN_SITU_DENSITY
- 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