what is salinity and what affects it?
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How does salinity affect ocean water? Salinity also has an affect on ocean currents. Near Iceland, if the ocean is not salty enough, the water can't get dense enough to sink. Salinity also has an affect on ocean currents. Near Iceland, if the ocean is not salty enough, the water can't get dense enough to sink. As global warming melts ice in places like greenland, the water gets fresher and sinks slower. this could slow or stop the gulfstream, or perhaps just redirect it.
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Salinity Salinity: The term salinity refers to the amount of dissolved salts that are present in water. Sodium and chloride are the predominant ions in seawater, and the concentrations of magnesium, calcium, and sulfate ions are also substantial. Naturally occurring waters vary in salinity from the…
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Salinity Salinity in rivers, lakes, and the ocean is conceptually simple, but technically challenging to define and measure precisely. Conceptually the salinity is the quantity of dissolved salt content of the water.
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Salinity Seawater typically has a salinity of around 35 g/kg, although lower values are typical near coasts where rivers enter the ocean. Rivers and lakes can have a wide range of salinities, from less than 0.01 g/kg to a few g/kg, although there are many places where higher salinities are found.ed colors represent areas of high salinity, while blue shades represent areas of low salinity. It is important to understand salinity, the amount of dissolved salts in water, because it will lead us to better understanding of the water cycle and can lead to improved climate models.
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Changes in Marine Salinity Levels The salinity of oceans, particularly the Atlantic, has changed over the past four decades. When researchers measured the change in salinity levels of a “long transect (50 ° S to 60 ° N) through the western basins of the Atlantic Ocean” (Curry, 2003).
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Changes in Marine Salinity Levels Salinity refers to the dissolved salt content of a body of water. Marine salinity levels are influenced by a number of factors including rainfall, evaporation, inflow of river water, wind, and melting of glaciers. Salinity can have a great impact on the type of organisms that live in a body of water, as examined in the Case Studies section below.
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Seawater Water has great abundance on the Earth, and of that abundance about 97% is sea water. Sea water contains about 3.5% by weight of salt (sodium chloride).The salinity does vary, and the combination of salinity and temperature has a major influence on ocean currents and behavior.eawater of average salinity 35 ppt freezes at -1.94°C (28.5°F). The salinity of the water is measured with a CTD instrument (Conductivity, Temperature, Depth).
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Why Salt is Good for You, But Some Salt is Better Than Others Salinity is a measurement of the saltiness or concentration of salt in water. Ocean water contains many different salts, but the most abundant is sodium chloride, also known as table salt. Sodium chloride makes up 86% of all the ions present in ocean water.alinity is a measurement of the saltiness or concentration of salt in water. Ocean water contains many different salts, but the most abundant is sodium chloride, also known as table salt. Sodium chloride makes up 86% of all the ions present in ocean water.
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Salinity Salinity. Dissolved salts in ocean water make it taste salty. Fresh water has dissolved salts in it too, but not nearly as many as ocean water! These dissolved salts can come from the land, precipitation, or the atmosphere, and are particles that have completely mixed in with the water. Ocean water is about 3.5% salt. That means that if the oceans dried up completely, enough salt would be left behind to build a 180-mile-tall, one-mile-thick wall around the equator! And more than 90 percent of that salt would be sodium chloride, or ordinary table salt. The oceans sure contain a lot of salt.
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American Journal of Botany Salinity reduces substrate water potential, thereby restricting water and nutrient uptake by plants; salinity may also cause ionic imbalance and toxicity.
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- Of these sodium chloride accounts for 77.8%. The presence of salts in ocean water causes salinity, which is known as the salinity of ocean water. Salinity is expressed by the amount of salts dissolved. The technical term for saltiness in the ocean is salinity. In oceanography, it has been traditional to express salinity not as percent, but as parts per thousand (‰), which is approximately grams of salt per kilogram of solution.
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Estuarine Science Salinity can also be measured with a hand held refractometer. A refractometer measures the change of direction or bending of the light as it passes from air to water. Light moves slower in water than air. The more salt in the water, the slower the light moves.
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How Does Salinity Affect the Solubility of Oxygen in Water? Increasing salinity decreases water solubility, such that the oceans can dissolve about 20 percent less oxygen than fresh water of the same temperature. Any other solutes in water tend to decrease the solubility of gases, particularly non-polar gases like oxygen.
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- exists and is an alternate of . An increase in salinity causes a increase in density and conversely, a decrease in salinity causes a decrease in density. The effect is quite linear, though it has a temperature dependence that affects how much the density changes.
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SOIL SALINITY Direct soil salinity damages. Decreased water uptake. High salts concentration results in high osmotic potential of the soil solution, so the plant has to use more energy to absorb water. Under extreme salinity conditions, plants may be unable to absorb water and will wilt, even when the surrounding soil is saturated.
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Seawater Water has great abundance on the Earth, and of that abundance about 97% is sea water. Sea water contains about 3.5% by weight of salt (sodium chloride). The salinity does vary, and the combination of salinity and temperature has a major influence on ocean currents and behavior.he salinity of the water is measured with a CTD instrument (Conductivity, Temperature, Depth). The conductivity is used to calculate the salinity in conjunction with the temperature and depth (pressure) measurements.
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How does salinity affect the density of water? General Answer: An increase in salinity causes a increase in density and conversely, a decrease in salinity causes a decrease in density. The effect is quite linear, though it has a temperature dependence that affects how much the density changes. Specific Answer:
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Salinity Evaporation of ocean water and formation of sea ice both increase the salinity of the ocean. However these salinity raising factors are continually counterbalanced by processes that decrease salinity such as the continuous input of fresh water from rivers, precipitation of rain and snow, and melting of ice.
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Salton Sea and Salinity In this area, salinity is usually associated with the Salton Sea. So what is salinity? The word salinity refers to the presence of salts in waters and soils. It refers to more than just sodium or chloride, the two elements of table salt.
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Threat of Climate Change to the Nile-Lake Victoria Climate change will also have a significant impact on fisheries, affecting both the productivity of fish populations and how they are distributed. Small changes in temperature can dramatically alter water levels, mixing regimes and fish productivity.
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SALINITY, TEMPERATURE & DENSITY Density of seawater is primarily determined by two factors: temperature and salinity. Warmer water is less dense than colder water. Therefore, warm water floats near the surface while cold water will sink toward the bottom. Salinity also affects density. Higher salinity (more salts in the water) leads to higher density. So salty water sinks while fresh water floats at the surface. Anywhere in the ocean where water masses of different salinity and/or different temperature meet, the ocean will be stratified.
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World Ocean Review Water plays a central role in the climate system. Its ­density varies depending on salinity and temperature. Cold, salty water is heavy and sinks to great depths. This ­causes the circulation of millions of cubic metres of water in the ocean.
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WHAT CAUSES SALINITY TO INCREASE OR DECREASE? Answers. Best Answer: Evaporation will increase salinity, the water will evaporate but the salt will remain so the concentration goes up. Ocean water will become less saline near rivers which are adding fresh water to the ocean. Melting glaciers and rainfall will add fresh water also and decrease the salinity.
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Answers to Review Questions • Some of the processes affecting the salinity of seawater are runoff andmelting icebergs, which decrease salinity, and evaporation and theformation of sea ice, which increase salinity. The ocean’s surface water temperature varies with the amount of solarradiation received, which is primarily a function of latitude.
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- the deeper into the ocean you go, the colder the water gets. the water also gets more dense, which means a higher salinity. so in this case, the salinity increases as the temp … erature decreases. but the surface salinity also increases in areas close to the equator (hotter air).