Caribbean Seafloor Salinity (pss)

Salinity is the quantity of dissolved salt in water. Marine life have a limited range of salinity that they can live in. Open ocean seawater typically has a salinity of 32 to 37. Temperature and salinity characteristics help determine origin of water masses.Source: Marine Conservation Institute (MCI)Citation: Boyer TP, Levitus S, Garcia HE, Locamini RA, Stephens C, et al. (2005) Objective analyses of annual, seasonal, and monthly temperature and salinity for the World Ocean on a 0.25° grid. International Journal of Climatology 25: 931–945.The Marine Conservation Institute used this dataset as an input to a predictive habitat model documented in the publication Global Habitat Suitability for Framework-Forming Cold-Water Corals.

Data and Resources

Field Value
dcat_issued 2020-03-19T21:18:34.000Z
dcat_modified 2020-03-19T21:18:35.000Z
dcat_publisher_name Caribbean GeoPortal
guid https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=9933d9d30e864592887f2e7124ce9c0d
Tags
  • esri_marine
  • esri_oceans
  • landscape
  • oceans
  • oceans2
isopen False
metadata_created 2025-09-18T19:30:43.386785
metadata_modified 2025-09-19T18:15:51.327085
notes <div><span style='color:rgb(77, 77, 77);'>Salinity is the quantity of dissolved salt in water. Marine life have a limited range of salinity that they can live in. Open ocean seawater typically has a salinity of 32 to 37. Temperature and salinity characteristics help determine origin of water masses.</span><br /></div><div><span style='color:rgb(77, 77, 77);'><br /></span></div><div><div style='margin:0px; padding:0px; color:rgb(77, 77, 77);'><span style=''><b>Source:</b> </span><span style='color:rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family:Verdana; font-size:13px;'>Marine Conservation Institute (MCI)</span></div><div style='margin:0px; padding:0px; color:rgb(77, 77, 77);'><b>Citation:</b> Boyer TP, Levitus S, Garcia HE, Locamini RA, Stephens C, et al. (2005) Objective analyses of annual, seasonal, and monthly temperature and salinity for the World Ocean on a 0.25° grid. International Journal of Climatology 25: 931–945.</div></div><div style='margin:0px; padding:0px; color:rgb(77, 77, 77);'><br /></div><div style='margin:0px; padding:0px; color:rgb(77, 77, 77);'>The <a href='https://www.marine-conservation.org/' rel='nofollow ugc' target='_blank'>Marine Conservation Institute</a> used this dataset as an input to a predictive habitat model documented in the publication <a href='https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0018483' rel='nofollow ugc' target='_blank'>Global Habitat Suitability for Framework-Forming Cold-Water Corals</a>.<br /></div>
num_resources 1
num_tags 5
title Caribbean Seafloor Salinity (pss)
url https://www.caribbeangeoportal.com/maps/Caribbean::caribbean-seafloor-salinity-pss