Subcommittee on Seawater SCSW

A subcommittee on seawater was established in 2008/9 to address a global need to support the understanding and standardization of thermodynamic properties for physical oceanography. IAPWS members subsequently developed the first fully consistent thermodynamic equation of state for seawater.

Working Group officers

• Chair: Alberto Giuliano Albo, a.albo@inrim.it, Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica
• Vice-Chair: Rich Pawlowicz,  rich@eos.ubc.ca, University of British Columbia