New variable - Nitrous oxide

[champikagallage]

Initial request

We are requesting to add the new variable Nitrous oxide which is part of ESAC-Ocean requirement in the RRR process.

Amendment details

Name: Nitrous oxide
Definition: Nitrous oxide concentration in sea water.

Requestor(s)

ESAC-Ocean

Stakeholder(s)

GOOS, OCG and OceanOPS

Applications or Systems

• OSCAR/Surface
• OSCAR/requirements
• Radar/DB
• OceanOPS
• WHOS
• WDQMS
• GBON Compliance Monitor
• Other

Expected impact of change

LOW

Collaborators

No response

References

GCOS 245 (https://library.wmo.int/idurl/4/58111)

Comments

The definition in GCOS 245 for nitrous oxide is slightly adopted to conform to the WIGOS entries for Nitrate and Phosphate.

Publication(s)

Manual on Codes (WMO-No. 306), Volume I.3, WMO Codes Registry - WMDR

Validation

No response

[amilan17]

https://github.com/wmo-i/mtt-wigosmd/wiki/Meeting.2025.02.20 notes:
Joerg noted that it is straight forward to add this to the Ocean variables and reusing the definitions