How NASA spotted El Niño changing the saltiness of coastal waters
New findings have revealed a coastal realm highly sensitive to changes in runoff and rainfall on land.
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Apr 3, 2024
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News tagged with sea surface salinity
Coral reveals changes of Kuroshio current into South China Sea via Luzon Strait
The Kuroshio Current enters the South China Sea via the Luzon Strait and exerts significant effects on circulation and water mass properties of this marine basin. However, limited by the few on-site observations, multi-decadal ...
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Feb 28, 2023
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Machine learning approach to reconstructing high-resolution ocean subsurface salinity dataset
As a key parameter of sea water, salinity plays a vital role in regulating ocean density, stratification, and circulation. It also indicates the coupling between ocean, atmosphere, and land through water cycle. Gridded ocean ...
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Dec 5, 2022
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Salt more important than cold polar temperatures in sea ice formation
When polar seas freeze and ice forms, it is not only due to cold air chilling the surface of the water. Even more important is that warm water is prevented from rising to the surface from the depths of the ocean, due to the ...
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Nov 16, 2022
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Saltier seas mean heavy summer rains for US Midwest
Farmers and city managers across the Midwest need to know how heavy summer rains will be to plan planting, fertilizer application and floodwater management, but predicting extreme rain events is difficult, especially months ...
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Jul 7, 2022
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Global warming accelerates the water cycle, with relevant climatic consequences
Researchers at the Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC) in Barcelona have found that global warming is accelerating the water cycle, which could have significant consequences on the global climate system, according to ...
Environment
Apr 29, 2022
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New maps of salinity reveal the impact of climate variability on oceans
Since the saltiness of ocean surface waters is a key variable in the climate system, understanding how this changes is important to understanding climate change. Thanks to ESA's Climate Change Initiative, scientists now have ...
Environment
Dec 2, 2019
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Largest sea-surface salinity dataset to date helps researchers map salty waters
The length and precision with which climate scientists can track the salinity, or saltiness, of the oceans is set to improve dramatically according to researchers working as part of ESA's Climate Change Initiative.
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May 15, 2019
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What could cause the Mississippi Bight to become hypoxic?
Coastal regions with low dissolved oxygen (known as hypoxia) can lead to poor water quality and harm regional fisheries. These areas of low dissolved oxygen are expanding and expected to continue growing in coming years due ...
Environment
Nov 8, 2018
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Coral skeletons act as archive of desert conditions from Little Ice Age
The Sahara and Arabian deserts did not cool as much as the rest of the Northern Hemisphere during the Little Ice Age, but in fact were drier 200 years ago than they are today, according to a new study.
Earth Sciences
Sep 19, 2018
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