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Add salinity measurements to Drifters - #408
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| | **ARGO_FLOAT** | TEMPERATURE | Sea Water Potential Temperature | °C | Physical | | ||
| | | SALINITY | Sea Water Salinity | psu | Physical | | ||
| | **DRIFTER** | TEMPERATURE | Sea Water Potential Temperature | °C | Physical | | ||
| | | SALINITY | Sea Water Salinity | psu | Physical | |
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Hmm, we might need to consider the units here. psu is old and deprecated - the "correct" uint is g/kg (or unites) now. But what does copernicusmarine provide?
| description=("Sensors fitted to the drifter. Supported: TEMPERATURE. "), | ||
| default_factory=lambda: [ | ||
| SensorConfig(sensor_type=SensorType.TEMPERATURE), | ||
| SensorConfig(sensor_type=SensorType.SALINITY), |
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So salinity sampling is default always on for drifters? Do we really want that? is that authentic?
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@erikvansebille, following your review, I have updated this PR to add a salinity sensor to the Drifters, but as an optional sensor which is not on by default, using the same approach as for the BGC Argo floats (i.e. #414). Re: the psu units, I've checked the Copernicus docs and they are still providing psu. What do you think? |
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Looks good, happy to be merged!
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This PR adds salinity as a measurement to the Drifter instrument, which is a requested feature (see #312 ).
Closes #312