Historical Sea Surface Salinity data in the Tropical Oceans

This compilation of Sea Surface Salinity data collected in the three tropical oceans (30°N–30°S) is derived mainly from 13 trans-oceanic Voluntary Observing Ships tracks and from 35 TAO/TRITON and 13 PIRATA mooring sites. Details about validation procedures can be found in the reference publication.

Citation proposal
Thierry Delcroix (LEGOS, Université de Toulouse, FranceIRD, France) (2006) . Historical Sea Surface Salinity data in the Tropical Oceans. https://services.mspdata.eu:/geonetwork/srv/api/records/78792fca-9489-d58a-83ab-999e30cb4d59

Date ( Publication ): 2006-11-07

Identifier

http://dx.doi.org/

10.6096/HIST-SSS-LEGOS

Credit: SNO SSS

Status: On going On going

Author

LEGOS, Université de Toulouse, FranceIRD, France - Thierry Delcroix

contributor

LEGOS

contributor

Universite de Toulouse

contributor

CNES

contributor

CNRS

contributor

IRD

contributor

UPS

Maintenance and update frequency: Annually Annually

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ( Theme )

Oceanographic geographical features

Centre de données ODATIS ( Theme )

CDS-IS-OMP

Thèmatiques ODATIS ( Theme )

Value-added products

Variables ODATIS ( Theme )

/Physical Oceanography/Salinity
,
/Physical Oceanography/Temperature

Type de jeux de donnée ODATIS ( Theme )

/In-situ observations/Networks

GCMD Keywords, version 8.1 ( Theme )

SALINITY
,
DENSITY
,
SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE

GCMD Keywords, version 8.1 ( Theme )

OCEAN
,
VERTICAL LOCATION > SEA SURFACE

GCMD Keywords, version 8.1 ( Theme )

SHIPS

Use limitation: SSS data policy, https://www7.obs-mip.fr/sss/data-policy/

Use limitation: Publications using these data should acknowledge the SSS-OS (1) and cite the following reference: Delcroix, T., M. McPhaden, A. Dessier, and Y. Gouriou, 2005. Time and space scales for sea surface salinity in the tropical oceans. Deep Sea. Res., 52/5, 787-813, doi: 10.1016/j.dsr.2004.11.012. Copies should be sent to the contact email ( sss-contact@legos.obs-mip.fr ) to help us pursue and improve this Service. (1) The suggested sentence is: "Sea surface salinity data derived from ship and mooring measurements were collected, validated, archived, and made freely available by the French Sea Surface Salinity Observation Service ( http://www.legos.obs-mip.fr/observations/sss/ ).