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Hello,
I would like to request the following project keyword. Please let me know if any other information is needed. Thanks!
-Celia Ou

Short name: OSST
Long name: NASA Ocean Salinity Science Team

Description:
Ocean salinity is an essential climate variable within the global climate observing system, and plays important roles in ocean physics and biogeochemistry, climate variability, and water cycle. The main goal of the NASA Ocean Salinity Science Team (OSST) is to understand the roles of ocean salinity within the Earth system. In addition to conducting the related ocean salinity science investigations, NASA OSST also retrieves and improves sea surface salinity (SSS) measurements from NASA’s Aquarius and Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) satellites, and develops concepts for next-generation salinity satellites to improve global SSS measurements. NASA in-situ salinity field campaigns are part of the NASA OSST effort to use satellite and in-situ SSS measurements to enhance the knowledge of salinity processes.

References:
https://salinity.oceansciences.org/home.htm
https://science.jpl.nasa.gov/projects/nasa-ocean-salinity-science-team-project/

Thank You for your keyword request. We will review it and let you know when it is complete.

@PODAAC - celiaoued The new project keyword has been added; please review:
OSST > NASA Ocean Salinity Science Team: https://cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/kms/concept/b88cab65-69ab-494c-90d0-191779f17dcd?format=rdf&version=draft

Thank you, I'd like to make a small edit - adding "the" in the first sentence of the definition, to become:

Ocean salinity is an essential climate variable within the global climate observing system, and plays important roles in ocean physics and biogeochemistry, climate variability, and the water cycle. The main goal of the NASA Ocean Salinity Science Team (OSST) is to understand the roles of ocean salinity within the Earth system. In addition to conducting the related ocean salinity science investigations, NASA OSST also retrieves and improves sea surface salinity (SSS) measurements from NASA’s Aquarius and Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) satellites, and develops concepts for next-generation salinity satellites to improve global SSS measurements. NASA in-situ salinity field campaigns are part of the NASA OSST effort to use satellite and in-situ SSS measurements to enhance the knowledge of salinity processes.

Thank you for letting me know. The keyword definition has been updated.