Questions tagged [salinity]
Questions referring to the amount of salt in a body of water such as oceans.
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Are there any saltwater rivers on Earth?
I'm curious if there are any saltwater rivers on Earth. These would presumably arise if a saltwater lake had a river outlet to the ocean.
However, all the saltwater lakes I looked at (Caspian Sea, ...
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Differences between TEOS-10 and EOS-80 for salinity
In 2009, the oceanographic community decided to adopt the Thermodynamic Equation Of Seawater - 2010 (www.teos-10.org) as the standard to calculate the properties of seawater. As part of that, they ...
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Before the artificial changes of the Aral Sea, what was its average depth and salinity?
The Aral Sea was a major lake of the USSR until it suffered artificial changes, which began sometime no later than the 1960s.
I am unfortunately not sure when major artificial changes began. ...
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