# gsw_SS0

    Standard Ocean Reference Salinity

## Contents

- USAGE:
- DESCRIPTION:
- OUTPUT:
- EXAMPLE:
- AUTHOR:
- VERSION NUMBER:
- REFERENCE:

## USAGE:

    SS0 = gsw_SS0

## DESCRIPTION:

    SSO is the Standard Ocean Reference Salinity (35.16504 g/kg).

    SSO is the best estimate of the Absolute Salinity of Standard Seawater
    When the seawater sample has a Practical Salinity, SP, of 35
    (Millero et al., 2008), and this number is a fundmental part of the
    TEOS-10 definition of seawater.

## OUTPUT:

    SS0  =  Standard Ocean Reference Salinity.                      [ g/kg ]

## EXAMPLE:

    SS0 = gsw_SS0

    SS0 =

      35.16504

## AUTHOR:

    Trevor McDougall and Paul Barker          [ help@teos-10.org ]

## VERSION NUMBER:

    3.02 (17th November, 2012)

## REFERENCE:

    IOC, SCOR and IAPSO, 2010: The international thermodynamic equation of
      seawater - 2010: Calculation and use of thermodynamic properties.
      Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, Manuals and Guides No. 56,
      UNESCO (English), 196 pp.  Available from the TEOS-10 web site.
       See appendices A.3, A.5 and Table D.4 of this TEOS-10 Manual.

    Millero, F. J., R. Feistel, D. G. Wright, and T. J. McDougall, 2008:
      The composition of Standard Seawater and the definition of the
      Reference-Composition Salinity Scale, Deep-Sea Res. I, 55, 50-72.
       See Table 4 and section 5 of this paper.

    The software is available from http://www.TEOS-10.org