Performance Verification Statement for the Greenspan EC3000 Conductivity Sensor. ...

• Main Authors: Gilbert, S., Gundersen, K., Johengen, T., McKissack, T., McIntyre, M., Pinchuk, A., Purcell, H., Robertson, C., Schar, D., Smith, G.J., Tamburri, M., Wells, D.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Alliance for Coastal Technologies (ACT) 2008
• Subjects: Physical Oceanography; Arctic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.25607/obp-324; https://www.oceanbestpractices.net/handle/11329/767

Instrument performance verification is necessary so that effective existing technologies can be recognized, and so that promising new technologies can become available to support coastal science, resource management, and ocean observing systems. The Alliance for Coastal Technologies (ACT) has therefore completed an evaluation of commercially available in situ salinity sensors. While the sensors evaluated have many potential applications, the focus of this Performance Verification was on nearshore moored and profiled deployments and at a performance resolution of between 0.1 – 0.01 salinity units. In this Verification Statement, we present the performance results of the Greenspan EC3000 conductivity sensor evaluated in the laboratory and under diverse environmental conditions in moored and profiling field tests. A total of one laboratory site and five different field sites were used for testing, including tropical coral reef, high turbidity estuary, sub-tropical and sub-arctic coastal ocean, and freshwater ...