SE.OF Oceanographic observations — Salt content

Purpose: Assimilate and validate models used in SMHI’s activities such as the NEMO-Nordic marine circulation model.

Unit: PSU

Characteristics: The salinity of the water, measured once per hour. Collected from ships (Ferrybox systems), lightships and a number of buoys.

Design: Date, time, value, quality and depth of measurement.

Quality codes: Green (G) = Verified and accepted values. Yellow (Y) = Coarsely controlled values, suspicious or aggregated values. Orange (O) = Uncontrolled values

Limits: 0-40 PSU.

For more info see:
https://www.smhi.se/kunskapsbanken/oceanografi/ytvattentemperatur-i-havet-1.6001
https://www.smhi.se/kunskapsbanken/fyrskepp-1.15269

Delivery: Data is delivered in two different ways
1. Via a user interface where measurement series can be downloaded for one station at a time
Data can be downloaded for the last hour, last day or full time series except the last day(historical reviewed)
2. Via a machine-machine solution (Atom flow rate). Where the same series of measurements as above can be obtained
and also real-time data. These are the last hour’s readings. They can be retrieved for a measuring station
at a time or for all active measuring stations.