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 ...

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

Far from being uniform everywhere, ocean water is a patchwork ... this charting of temperature-salinity led to the discovery ...

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 ...

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 ...