Dear All,
Below, I have edited the email from Paul Durack. There are a number of
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Dear All,
I think that the reason that we are facing a dilemma is simply because the word
"salinity" now stands for a variety of things. That is, we have not been as
careful with "salinity" as we now realize we should have been over the past 50
or 100 years.
My understanding of oceanographi
Hello Roy,
You make a good point about the pre 1978 data. Perhaps we need yet another
name, such as "Pre78salinity" to indicate that it was probably obtained by
chemical titration. By introducing such a salinity will have the advantage of
reducing the present ambiguity which calls this olde
Dear all,
At the risk of repeating ourselves, because there are now (at least) three
different salinities, it is now ambiguous and confusing to call any salinity
"Salinity". The Announcement of TEOS-10 that is now appearing in all 22
oceanographic journals specifically recommends that the u
A couple of quick comments following on from Jonathan's post.
(1) I know of at least 6 pre-TEOS-10 expressions for density used in models,
with authors like
Fofonoff & Millard,
Cox,
Wright,
Jackett & McDougall,
McDougall et al.
Jackett e
Hello Jonathon,
The use of the word "preformed" in "Preformed Salinity" is the same use as in
"preformed nitrate", NO, and "preformed phosphate" PO. The idea is to recover
the conservative variable that would be present if there were no
biogeochemistry. The methods that we use probably sub
Hello Nan,
You make an excellent point. The version number of the software than
converts Practical Salinity to Absolute Salinity should be included as
metadata. The present version number of the GSW software is version 3.0. The
TEOS-10 Manual says that oceanographers should state the vers
Two replies follow, first to Karl Taylor, then to Roy Lowrie.
Hello Karl,
(1) "potential temperature" is what it always was, namely the temperature
of a seawater parcel after an adiabatic and isohaline change of pressure to p =
0 dbar.
(2) "Conservative Temperature" is proportional to
Dear Nan et al.,
I want to weigh in to this discussion, as chair of SCOR/IAPSO Working Group
127.
In June 2009 the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, which is
comprised of 146 nations, adopted TEOS-10 as the formal definition of seawater
properties (and of ice and of humid air
