Description: Mean salinity CARS 2009
Short Name: mean-salinity_cars2009a
Metadata contact organization: CMAR
Organisation role: processor
Metadata date: 2010-07
Reference date: 2009
Resource constraints:
Licence notes: acknowledge cars as source-data contributor
Type: Environmental (gridded) 0.01 degree (~1km)
Classification: Marine ⇒ Chemistry
Units: PSU
Data language: eng
Scope:
Notes: CARS2009 covers the full global oceans, but includes only temperature and salinity fields - it does not yet include nutrient maps. It was based on World Ocean Database 2005 (WOD05) [July 2008 Update], surface-pressure-corrected Argo global archives to May 2009, WOCE Global Hydrographic Program (v3.0), and many other datasets available up to 2008. Occasional Updates section below for history of sub-version releases.
Keywords: CARS, marine
More information: http://www.marine.csiro.au/~dunn/cars2009/#refs
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