Of the world’s five ocean basins — Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern and Arctic — the Atlantic has the highest salinity, says the National Weather Service. This is because salinity ...

Earth must have experienced something exceptional 10 million years ago. Our study of rock samples from the floor of the ...

One decade of high-quality satellite salinity observations provide valuable insights into the complex dynamics in the Mid-Atlantic Bight.

Tracking salmon sharks with custom-built sensors is helping researchers study ocean temperatures, salinity shifts, and ...

Important state variables measured for parcels of water in the ocean are therefore temperature, which is related to the heat content, salinity, which is related to the amount of dissolved matter ...

The largest and most expansive ocean is the Pacific Ocean, covering an astonishing ... Seas and oceans have different salinity levels as well. Seas often have higher salinity due to greater ...

2006). (Since the Pacific inflow is fresher than the mean salinity of the Arctic Ocean, it freshens the Arctic. This freshening can be quantified as an equivalent volume of pure freshwater (e.g ...