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. R13-08: Release on the IAPWS Formulation 2008 for the Thermodynamic Properties of 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