Name	Notation	Description	Types	Status
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