CANONICAL MARINE PARAMETER
Practical salinity
Practical Salinity Scale 1978 (PSS-78) salinity derived from conductivity ratio; dimensionless although often displayed as PSU.
- Canonical key
practical_salinity- Parameter family
- Salinity
- Scientific category
- Physical ocean
- Canonical unit
- 1e-3 / practical salinity
- CF standard name / vocabulary
- sea_water_practical_salinity
- Vertical domain
- water column/surface
- Required qualifiers
- salinity scale=PSS-78
- Merge policy
- MERGE
- Mapped sources
- 15
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.
- Argo Core Argo Data Management Team / GDACs
- Deep Argo Argo Data Management Team / GDACs
- NOAA National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) NOAA NDBC
- GTMBA: TAO/TRITON + PIRATA + RAMA NOAA PMEL and international partners
- OceanSITES OceanSITES / GDACs
- CCHDO / GO-SHIP hydrography CCHDO / GO-SHIP community
- World Ocean Database (WOD) NOAA NCEI / IODE
- Global Temperature-Salinity Profile Programme (GTSPP) WMO/IOC / NOAA NCEI / DFO Canada
- Copernicus Marine Global In-Situ Copernicus Marine Service
- IOOS National Glider DAC U.S. IOOS / NOAA
- MEOP-CTD / MEOP-SMS / MEOP-TDR MEOP consortium
- SOCAT Surface Ocean CO2 Atlas community
- GLODAPv3 GLODAP community / NOAA OCADS
- SeaBASS NASA Ocean Biology Processing Group
- NOAA CoastWatch NOAA NESDIS / CoastWatch