Register: Observed variable - measurand (ocean)
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URI: http://codes.wmo.int/wmdr/ObservedVariableOcean
Observed variable - measurand (ocean)
Contents
Name | Notation | Description | Types | Status |
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Bathymetry | 13 | Bathymetry | Concept | stable |
Pressure | 18 | Pressure (depth) measured by CTD. | Concept | stable |
Ocean current direction | 62 | Direction of ocean motion measured at various depth levels | Concept | stable |
Ocean current speed | 63 | Velocity of ocean motion measured at various depth levels | Concept | stable |
Ocean dynamic topography (ODT) | 64 | Deviation of sea level from the geoid caused by ocean current... | Concept | stable |
Surface currents | 65 | Ocean Vector motion measured at or near the surface (at state... | Concept | stable |
Dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) | 67 | The cumulated concentration of inorganic carbon species (diss... | Concept | stable |
Dissolved organic carbon | 68 | Concentration of dissolved organic carbon | Concept | stable |
Dissolved organic nitrogen | 69 | Concentration of dissolved organic nitrogen | Concept | stable |
Diffuse attenuation coefficient (DAC), turbidity | 70 | Indicator of water turbidity and vertical processes in the oc... | Concept | stable |
Chlorophyll a concentration | 71 | Concentration of chlorophyll-a pigment in the surface water [... | Concept | stable |
Ocean suspended sediments concentration | 72 | Variable extracted from ocean colour observation. Indicative ... | Concept | stable |
Oil spill cover | 73 | Fraction of an ocean area polluted by hydrocarbons released f... | Concept | stable |
Primary production | 74 | Production of organic matter by 'phytoplankton', microscopic ... | Concept | stable |
Sea surface mass flux | 75 | Sea surface mass flux | Concept | stable |
Ocean Surface heat flux | 76 | The exchange of heat, per unit area, crossing the surface be... | Concept | stable |
Sea surface height anomaly (SSHA) | 77 | Sea surface height anomaly | Concept | stable |
Total alkalinity (TA) | 78 | The amount of acid necessary to titrate all weak bases in sea... | Concept | stable |
pH | 79 | Negative decimal logarithm of the hydrogen ion concentration ... | Concept | stable |
SiO3= (metasilicate) | 82 | Concentration of dissolved metasilicate | Concept | stable |
O2-Ar ratio | 85 | Ratio of O2/Ar concentrations | Concept | stable |
Ocean subsurface dissolved oxygen concentration | 86 | Concentration of dissolved oxygen | Concept | stable |
Dissolved oxygen | 87 | Concentration of dissolved oxygen (O2) in the water column | Concept | stable |
Water-leaving spectral radiance | 89 | Upward spectral radiance from the ocean surface, i.e. amount ... | Concept | stable |
C2H6S (dimethylsulfide, DMS) | 90 | Concentration of DMS | Concept | stable |
Subsurface salinity | 91 | Salinity of seawater | Concept | stable |
Sea surface salinity | 92 | Salinity of sea water in the surface layer (upper ~1 m if obs... | Concept | stable |
Subsurface temperature | 94 | Seawater temperature measured with depth (degrees celsius/kel... | Concept | stable |
Sea surface temperature | 95 | Temperature of the sea water at surface. The 'bulk' temperatu... | Concept | stable |
Coastal sea level (tide) | 96 | Deviation of sea level from local references in coastal zones... | Concept | stable |
Dominant wave direction | 98 | One feature of the ocean wave spectrum. It is the direction o... | Concept | stable |
Dominant wave period | 99 | The period of the most energetic wave in the ocean wave spect... | Concept | stable |
Significant wave height | 100 | Average amplitude of the highest 33 out of 100 waves | Concept | stable |
Wave 1D energy frequency spectrum | 101 | 1D variable colloquially referred to as wave spectrum. Descri... | Concept | stable |
Wave directional energy frequency spectrum | 102 | 2D variable colloquially referred to as wave spectrum. Descri... | Concept | stable |
Wind stress | 103 | The shear force per unit area exerted by wind blowing over th... | Concept | stable |
NO2- (nitrite) | 311 | Nitrite concentration in sea water. | Concept | stable |
NO3- (nitrate) | 312 | Nitrate concentration in sea water. | Concept | stable |
PO4= (phosphate) | 399 | Phosphate concentration in sea water. | Concept | stable |
Total organic phosphorus | 400 | Concentration of dissolved organic phosphorous | Concept | stable |
Sea-ice cover | 401 | Fraction of an ocean area where ice is present | Concept | stable |
Sea-ice elevation | 402 | Elevation of the surface of the sea-ice sheet above sea level | Concept | stable |
Sea-ice motion | 403 | Sea-ice motion | Concept | stable |
Sea-ice surface characteristics | 404 | Sea-ice surface characteristics (albedo, meltpond, dust, snow... | Concept | stable |
Sea-ice surface temperature | 405 | Temperature of the surface of sea-ice | Concept | stable |
Sea-ice thickness | 406 | Thickness of the ice sheet. It is related to sea-ice elevatio... | Concept | stable |
Sea-ice type | 407 | Variable convolving several factors (age, roughness, density,... | Concept | stable |
Transmissivity | 408 | Measure of the light that passes through the water in relatio... | Concept | stable |
pO2 | 549 | partial pressure of O2 | Concept | stable |
Conductivity | 731 | Conductivity measured by CTD or MicroCAT | Concept | stable |
Density | 732 | Density measured by CTD | Concept | stable |
Zooplankton (size and/or development stage) | 733 | Aggregate of animal or animal-like organisms in plankton, as ... | Concept | stable |
pCO2 | 735 | Partial pressure of CO2 | Concept | stable |
pCO2 air-sea flux | 736 | Flux of CO2 from the ocean into the atmosphere | Concept | stable |
Fluorescence (DOM) | 739 | Flurometric coloured dissolved Organic matter concentration | Concept | stable |
Mean dynamic topography (MDT) | 740 | Time-mean (over a prescribed time period) of the sea surface ... | Concept | stable |
Mean sea surface (MSS) | 741 | Time-averaged height (over a prescribed time period) of the o... | Concept | stable |
Sea surface height (SSH, OST) | 742 | Height of the sea surface with respect to the reference ellip... | Concept | stable |
Wave height | 743 | Average of height (trough to crest) of the waves sampled over... | Concept | stable |
Wave period | 744 | The time required for two successive wave crests to pass a fi... | Concept | stable |
Directional waves | 745 | Waves measured in X,Y,Z directions | Concept | stable |
Tides | 10080 | Periodic change of sea height caused by the gravitational for... | Concept | stable |
N2, Ar | 12244 | Concentration of dissolved N2 and Ar | Concept | stable |
Zooplankton biomass and diversity | 12245 | Biomass expressed as weight by volume; and diversity of bioma... | Concept | stable |
Ocean subsurface tracers | 12246 | Concentration of trace molecules such as tritium and CFCs | Concept | stable |