IOOS Core Variables
The 34 IOOS Core Variables: Ocean observing measurements required to detect and predict changes in the ocean.
Physics
- Bathymetry
- Bottom character
- Currents
- Heat flux
- Ice distribution
- Salinity
- Sea level
- Surface waves
- Stream flow
- Temperature
- Wind speed and direction
Biogeochemistry
- Acidity
- Colored dissolved organic matter
- Contaminants
- Dissolved nutrients
- Dissolved oxygen
- Ocean color
- Optical properties
- Pathogens
- Partial pressures of CO2
- Total suspended matter
Biology and Ecosystems
- Biological vital rates
- Coral species and abundance
- Fish species and abundance
- Invertebrate species and abundance
- Marine mammal species and abundance
- Microbial species, abundance, and activity
- Nekton diet
- Phytoplankton species and abundance
- Sea birds species and abundance
- Sea turtles species and abundance
- Submerged aquatic vegetation species and abundance
- Sound
- Zooplankton species and abundance