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Parameter: Hycom_Salinity

Dataset: 
Temperature, Salinity, and Chlorophyll - Temporal Series
Parameter: 
salinity
Master parameters information
Short Name:
 sal
Short Description:
 salinity
Official Name:
 sal
No Data Value:
Description:
 

Salinity: The amount (mass or quantity of matter) of salt per amount (volume or mass) of a body of water.

Dataset-parameters information
Supplied Name: 
Hycom_Salinity
Supplied Units: 
PPT
Datatype: 
Float
Conversion Necessary: 
no
No Data Value: 
nd
Description: 

Salinity data was obtained from a numeric ocean model: the 1/12 Global Hybrid Coordinate Ocean Model (HYCOM; https://www.hycom.org/data/glbu0pt08/expt-91pt2) at 12:00:00 UTC on the day of collections.