Catalogue PIGMA
Sea Surface Salinity data from Voluntary Observing Ships Network
Sea Surface Salinity (SSS) is an essential climate variable that requires long term in situ observation. The French SSS Observation Service (SSS-OS) manages a network of Voluntary Observing Ships equipped with thermosalinographs (TSG) since 2002. The network is global though more concentrated in the tropical Pacific and North Atlantic oceanic basins. The acquisition system is autonomous with real time transmission and is regularly serviced at harbor calls. The high resolution data retrieved from the acquisition system during ship calls is processed through a dedicated software (freely available) for attribution of data quality flags by visual inspection, and correction of TSG time series by comparison with climatology, onboard daily water samples and collocated Argo data. Details can be found in the reference below. The validated delayed time data collected from TSG, together with some bucket samples mostly collected before 2002, are made available for educational and research purposes through an interactive web interface.
Simple
- Date (Publication)
- 2002-01-01
- Identifier
- http://dx.doi.org/ / 10.6096/SSS-LEGOS
- Credit
- SNO SSS
- Status
- On going On going
Author
IMAGO, Brest, FranceCentre IRD de Nouméa, Nouvelle-Calédonie, FranceIRD, France
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David Varillon
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Annually Annually
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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- Oceanographic geographical features
- Centre de données ODATIS
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- CDS-OMP
- ODATIS aggregation parameters and Essential Variable names
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- Salinity
- Sea temperature
- Type de jeux de donnée ODATIS
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- /Observational data/in-situ
- Services Nationaux d'Observation
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- SNO-SSS
- GCMD Keywords, version 8.1
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- SALINITY
- DENSITY
- SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE
- GCMD Keywords, version 8.1
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- OCEAN
- VERTICAL LOCATION > SEA SURFACE
- GCMD Keywords, version 8.1
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- SHIPS
- Use limitation
- SSS data policy, https://sss.sedoo.fr/data-policy/
- Use limitation
- The data are provided without any warranty for any non-profit educational and research purposes.
- Other constraints
- No access conditions apply
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Topic category
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- Oceans
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- Begin date
- 1993-07-01
- End date
- 2025-03-05
- Reference system identifier
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WGS84
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EPSG:4326
- Distribution format
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ASCII
()
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NetCDF
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3
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ASCII
()
- Description
- Download all data archive
- Description
- Download all good/probably good data archive
- OnLine resource
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SNO SSS / Data Delivery / Delayed Mode Data
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WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
)
SNO SSS / Data Delivery / Delayed Mode Data
- OnLine resource
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SNO SSS / Data Delivery / Research Products
(
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
)
SNO SSS / Data Delivery / Research Products
- OnLine resource
- http://dx.doi.org/10.6096/SSS-LEGOS ( DOI )
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset Dataset
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2002-01-01
- Explanation
- NA
- Pass
- Yes
- Statement
- Data produced by the SNO SSS.
- File identifier
- acbe0443-19c1-5fa6-e309-50e6fdf732f3 XML
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Character set
- UTF-8 UTF8
- Date stamp
- 2025-12-02T12:00:01.106+01:00
Overviews
Spatial extent
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E
W
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Associated resources
Not available