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<title>WOA13 Salinity (Surface, Summer, 25 km)</title>
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In situ salinity of sea water

Compilation of observed salinity of sea water. All available ocean observation data were quality controlled, correction applied where necessary, and interpolated in the vertical direction to standard depths. In the horizontal direction, “objective mapping” was used to achieve statistically best interpolation to the grid. Salinity is converted to Practical Salinity Scale (1978) hence unitless. Note that most of data were collected in austral summer and seasonally biased.

Zweng, M.M, J.R. Reagan, J.I. Antonov, R.A. Locarnini, A.V. Mishonov, T.P. Boyer, H.E. Garcia, O.K. Baranova, D.R. Johnson, D.Seidov, M.M. Biddle, 2013. World Ocean Atlas 2013, Volume 2: Salinity. S. Levitus, Ed., A. Mishonov Technical Ed.; NOAA Atlas NESDIS 74, 39 pp.

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Download: 18 July 2017

Extracted depth slices from the original .nc file to Geotiffs in EPSG:4326 with gdal_translate. Converted to deflate-compressed GeoTIFFs in EPSG:3031 at 25km resolution with gdal_warp.

Editor
Oceanography
Katsuro Katsumata
k.katsumata@jamstec.go.jp
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