Historical Sea Surface Salinity data in the Southern Ocean

Sea Surface Salinity Sea Surface Temperature

These data have been collected in the Southern Ocean between Tasmania and Antarctica from 1993 to 2002 with a thermosalinograph on board L’Astrolabe and validated by the national Sea Surface Salinity Observation Service (SSS-OS) at the Laboratoire d'Etudes en Geophysique et Oceanographie Spatiale (LEGOS), Toulouse, France. The SURVOSTRAL project (https://www.legos.omp.eu/survostral/) is an international collaboration between France (IPEV, LEGOS), Australia (CSIRO) and the US (Scripps, NOAA).

Data and resources

FJYC

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FJYC all Years

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SURVOSTRAL web site

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SURVOSTRAL set of cruises

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Additional information

Temporal extent	1993-01-01 – 2002-12-31
Date (publication)	2010-06-01
Status	onGoing
Update frequency	annually
Metadata language	en
License	SSS data policy, https://sss.sedoo.fr/data-policy/
Source metadata	ISO 19115 XML
Last updated	2026-11-04
Created	2026-11-04
API	package_show