GRASP Salinity charts - Permanent Commission of the South Pacific
Original (non-English) name
GRASP Cartas de Salinidad - Comisión Permanente del Pacífico Sur
Acronym
GRASP Salinity charts - CPPS
Citation
Abstract
Salinity data were provided by NOMADS (NOAA Operational Model Archive and Distribution System), which starts from a project data set based on real-time web services and access format independently retrospectively to climate data. and model time.
The Oceanographic Institute of the Ecuadorian Navy post-processes the data provided by NOMADS from a network of established data servers and with emerging technologies to access and integrate model and other data stored in geographically distributed repositories in heterogeneous formats. Data availability in the NOMADS framework includes NCEP gridded output numerical weather prediction (NWP) model input, Global Climate Models (GCM), and GFDL simulations. As a GRASP contribution to the CPPS, the Salinity Chart is the product of the average of the daily data grouped by 7 days with the domain of the Southeast Pacific, considering a week of analysis from Monday to Sunday.
The salinity chart shows the Salinity in the Ocean, that is, the concentration of dissolved salts in the ocean water, it is also formally defined as a quotient of conductivities and is, therefore, dimensionless.
The most abundant salt is sodium chloride, which accounts for most of the salt dissolved in the sea, but there are a large number of other ions that occur in lower concentrations but are very significant for the sustenance of life in the sea. It is generally accepted that, although the total value of salinity varies from one zone to another, the relative proportions between these ions remain practically constant.