Alternate title

EN4: quality controlled subsurface ocean temperature and salinity profiles and objective analyses

Date

Identifier

Salinity of the water column | Salinity of the water body | Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research | EN4: quality controlled subsurface ocean temperature and salinity profiles and objective analyses

Other citation details

EN.4.2.0

Purpose

HadObs EN4 - In situ ocean temperature and salinity profiles and objective analyses

Status

onGoing On going

Maintenance and update frequency

As needed

Used by challenges

• Atlantic - CH04 - Climate

Environmental matrix

• Marine water

Production mode

• Delayed

Visibility

• Use of open search engines, searching by name either the data provider or the characteristics

Policy visibility

• There is detailed information provided to understand data policy

Readyness

• Format not proprietary and content clearly specified (e.g. autodescriptive like ODV, NetCDF CF) or at least with appropriate document describing the content

Parameter Discovery Vocabulary (P02)

• Salinity of the water column

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

• Oceanographic geographical features

Processing level of characteristics

• High level analyzed

Data delivery mechanisms

• Online downloading services

Parameter Usage Vocabulary (P01)

• Salinity of the water body

Parameter Usage Vocabulary (other)

• CH4_009

Agreed Parameter Groups (P03)

• Water column temperature and salinity

Service extent

• The datasets are referenced in a public national catalogue, in an international catalogue service

Validation

• Draft

Access constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

Restricted

Use limitation

Free of charge for academic institutions and uses

Spatial representation type

vector Vector

Metadata language

Français

Character set

utf8 UTF8

Topic category

• Oceans

Environment description

Salinity to contribute to estimatation of internal energy products. Data are available from 1950 to the present and there are separate files for each month. The option to use the collated profile data set or the optimal analysed gridded data.

Begin date

1900-00-00T00:00:00

Dimension name

Time

Resolution

1  day

Transformation parameter availability

Yes

Checkpoint Availability

Yes

Distribution format

• NetCDF ()

OnLine resource

EN4: quality controlled subsurface ocean temperature and salinity profiles and objective analyses ( WWW:LINK )

OnLine resource

EN4 ( WWW:LINK )

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Statement

http://doi.org/10.1002/2013JC009067

Attribute description

observation

Content type

Physical measurement

Description

multiple

File identifier

8015fa44-f397-4d15-8921-863214dd58a5 XML

Metadata language

English

Character set

UTF8

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Hierarchy level name

Atlantic - CH04 - Climate

Date stamp

2016-11-17T12:33:39Z

Metadata standard name

ISO 19115-3 - Emodnet Checkpoint - Upstream Data

Metadata standard version

1.0