Slot: salinity

Salinity is the total concentration of all dissolved salts in a water sample. While salinity can be measured by a complete chemical analysis, this method is difficult and time consuming. More often, it is instead derived from the conductivity measurement. This is known as practical salinity. These derivations compare the specific conductance of the sample to a salinity standard such as seawater

URI: mixs.vocab:salinity

Domain and Range

None -> _OPT String

Parents

• is_a: environment field

Children

Used by

• MicrobialMatBiofilm
• MiscellaneousNaturalOrArtificialEnvironment
• Sediment
• Water

Other properties

Aliases:		salinity
Mappings:		MIXS:0000183
Comments:		Expected value: measurement value
		Preferred unit: practical salinity unit, percentage
		Occurrence: 1
		Position: 1
		This field is used in: 4 packages: microbial mat_biofilm, miscellaneous natural or artificial environment, sediment, water
Examples:		Example(value='25 practical salinity unit', description=None)