ecCodes definition
| Name: | Sea surface salinity | Abbreviation: | sos | Unit: | psu (numeric) | paramId: | 151219 |
| Description: | Sea surface practical salinity. | ||||||
S2S details
| Definition | |
| Validity | daily mean |
| Comment | Daily mean computed from instantaneous values at 0, 6, 12 and 18Z. Land points should be set as missing values. |
WMO GRIB2 definition
| Parameter | ||
|---|---|---|
| Discipline | 10 | oceanographic products |
| Parameter category | 3 | surface properties |
| Parameter number | 3 | practical salinity |
approved by WMO in April 2019 for the next release November 2019
| Level | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Type of first fixed surface | 1 | Ground or water surface | ? maybe 101 Mean sea level ? |
| Scale factor of first fixed surface | all bits to 1 | missing | |
| Scaled value of first fixed surface | all bits to 1 | missing | |
| Type of second fixed surface | all bits to 1 | missing | |
| Scale factor of second fixed surface | all bits to 1 | missing | |
| Scaled value of second fixed surface | all bits to 1 | missing | |