Skip to main content

Search from vocabulary

Content language

Concept information

Preferred term

halosteric_change_in_sea_surface_height  

Definition

  • "Sea surface height" is a time-varying quantity. The halosteric change in sea surface height is the change in height that a water column of standard practical salinity S=35.0 would undergo when its salinity is changed to the observed value. The sum of the quantities with standard names thermosteric_change_in_sea_surface_height and halosteric_change_in_sea_surface_height is the total steric change in the water column height, which has the standard name of steric_change_in_sea_surface_height.

Note

  • Mapping to be determined

URI

https://vocab.met.no/CFSTDN/halosteric_change_in_sea_surface_height

Download this concept: