text: TEOS-10 was developed by the [https://scor-int.org/ SCOR(Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research)]/IAPSO(International Association for the Physical Sciences of the Oceans) Working Group 127  which was chaired by Trevor McDougall. It has been approved as the official description of the thermodynamic properties of seawater, humid air and ice in 2009 by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) and in 2011 by the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG).