CANONICAL MARINE PARAMETER
Potential temperature
Temperature a seawater parcel would have after being moved adiabatically to a specified reference pressure, usually the sea surface.
- Canonical key
potential_temperature- Parameter family
- Temperature
- Scientific category
- Physical ocean
- Canonical unit
- degree_C
- CF standard name / vocabulary
- sea_water_potential_temperature
- Vertical domain
- water column
- Required qualifiers
- reference_pressure
- 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
- CCHDO / GO-SHIP hydrography CCHDO / GO-SHIP community
- Copernicus Marine Global In-Situ Copernicus Marine Service
- NOAA CoastWatch NOAA NESDIS / CoastWatch