1.8 CF Standard Names: Sea Water Sigma Theta (sea_water_sigma_theta)

Record Label : sea_water_sigma_theta

Record Title : Sea Water Sigma Theta

CF Standard Name : sea_water_sigma_theta

Record Description : Sigma-theta of sea water is the potential density (i.e. the density when moved adiabatically to a reference pressure) of water having the same temperature and salinity, minus 1000 kg m-3. Note that sea water sigma is not the same quantity as the dimensionless ocean sigma coordinate (see Appendix D of the CF convention), for which there is another standard name. To specify the reference pressure to which the quantity applies, provide a scalar coordinate variable with standard name reference_pressure.

Canonical Units : kg m-3