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Reporting Salinity
• O
utput, report and archive Practical Salinity
• Practical Salinity Scale 1978 (App-Note 14)
– Adopted by UNESCO in January 1980 in effort to obtain a uniform
repeatable salinity based upon electrical conductivity, temperature
(IPTS-68) and pressure measurements.
– All instruments delivered by Sea-Bird since February 1982 have
been supplied with calibration data based upon this standard
• Absolute Salinity 2010 (App-Note 90)
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p://www.marine.csiro.au/~jackett/TEOS-10/
– Refers to the total mass of dissolved constituents
– Algorithm used to estimate Absolute Salinity in terms of Practical
Salinity, Latitude/Longitude and Pressure
– SBE is developing this capability in software 2012
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