Colossal changes to ocean circulation have caused the waters of the North Atlantic to become significantly saltier in the ...

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 ...

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 ...