CANONICAL MARINE PARAMETER
Sea-surface salinity
Salinity of the ocean's near-surface layer. Preserve whether it is in-situ practical salinity or a satellite retrieval and its effective sampling depth.
- Canonical key
sea_surface_salinity- Parameter family
- Salinity
- Scientific category
- Physical ocean
- Canonical unit
- 1e-3 / g kg-1
- CF standard name / vocabulary
- sea_surface_salinity
- Vertical domain
- surface
- Required qualifiers
- salinity scale; retrieval type; measurement depth
- Merge policy
- CONDITIONAL
- Mapped sources
- 6
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.
- GTMBA: TAO/TRITON + PIRATA + RAMA NOAA PMEL and international partners
- OceanSITES OceanSITES / GDACs
- Copernicus Marine Global In-Situ Copernicus Marine Service
- NASA PO.DAAC NASA JPL / EOSDIS
- Copernicus Marine satellite observations Copernicus Marine Service
- NOAA CoastWatch NOAA NESDIS / CoastWatch