CANONICAL MARINE PARAMETER
Observation depth
Vertical distance of the observation below the sea surface. It describes where the sample or measurement was taken, not the bottom depth.
- Canonical key
sample_depth- Parameter family
- Vertical coordinate
- Scientific category
- Physical ocean
- Canonical unit
- m
- CF standard name / vocabulary
- depth
- Vertical domain
- water column
- Required qualifiers
- positive direction; vertical datum/reference
- Merge policy
- MERGE
- Mapped sources
- 10
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
- 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
- SOCAT Surface Ocean CO2 Atlas community
- SeaBASS NASA Ocean Biology Processing Group
- OBIS Ocean Biodiversity Information System / IOC
- PANGAEA Alfred Wegener Institute / MARUM
- NOAA CoastWatch NOAA NESDIS / CoastWatch