IOC/IODE-SG-USSSAL-I

IODE Steering Group for Underway Sea Surface Salinity Data Pilot Project (SG-GOSUD), First Session, Brest, France, 15-16 November 2001

Author(s) G. Reed, IOC/IODE Secretariat
Summary The IODE Steering Group for Underway Sea Surface Salinity Data Pilot Project was establishedduring IODE-XVI. The objective of the project is to organise surfacesalinity data that are currentlycollected and to work with data collectors to improve data collection to meet the benchmarks of spatialand temporal sampling and data accuracies set out by the Ocean Observations Panel for Climate(OOPC). During its First Session the Steering Group reviewed the current status of collection of in-situsurface salinity data using the thermosalinograph and addressed each of the functions of the datamanagement process for underway sea surface salinity data – Collection, Transfer, Processing,Archiving and Products.
Doc Type Report
Status Published on 20 Jan 2001
Keywords sea surface salinity
This document is in the list(s): IODE Groups of Experts and Steering Group reports

Group(s): IODE
Created at 15:22 on 19 Dec 2006 by Peter Pissierssens
Updated at 16:33 on 05 Jun 2007 by Peter Pissierssens